xt site search
Site search on Google
Add block - Utilities - Utilities - Site search
A Google site search block
The results are displayed on Google not on your site
The only parameter is for the search button text
There are two css classes you can use to style the search form plus two standard xtgem template classes
/* Outer holder div*/
.sitesearch { }
/* Input field*/
.sitesearch_phrase { }
These standard template classes are also used
/*input span wrapper*/
.xt_input { }
/*submit button*/
.xt_button { }
Html code
<xt:sitesearch search_phrase="Search my site" />
Google is not instant or simple
There will not be much to find until Google discovers and crawls your site
This can take up to 3 months or even longer after you create your site and pages !
There are some steps you can take to try and speed up this process
- Register with Google webmaster tools
Google WebMasters
- Add your site
Add your site to your account
- Verify your site
The HTML file verification option will NOT work on xtgem use the alternative meta tag option
- Google Addurl
Google addurl
- Sitemaps
Beginners can just skip this
XtGem no longer creates automatic sitemaps if you want one you will have to create it yourself
Raw xml on xtgem is treated just like html and gets ads etc so if you want to submit a sitemap you will also need to compress it on a pc or online service using .gz compression and submit it as sitemap.xml.gz
Google accepts compressed sitemaps
You will need to create your own robots.txt to point to it
Sitemap: http://YOUR_SITE.xtgem.com/sitemap.xml.gz
NOTE
Google likes sensible meaningful page titles fancy js page title scripts or non standard characters in the title can harm your sites SEO
Page meta description is important Get it right and keep it short and relevant to the pages content
Google claims that the keywords meta tag is not used
If you do use this don't flood it with hundreds of spam keywords keep them relevent
There are a whole load of other tools and information on the Google webmasters site