Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Google Introduces an Improved Sitelinks Search Box inside the Search Results!

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Google today redesigned its sitelinks search box, utilized for seeking inside sites straightforwardly from Google's search results. The organization has made the search box more conspicuous (it is currently over the sitelinks area), and also included backing for Autocomplete and the capability to send the client to the site's own particular search pages.

Google has presented an as good as ever sitelinks search box inside the search results, making it simpler for clients to achieve content on your site straightforwardly through your site-search pages.

Site search choice in search items was included before however today a few changes were made in it like:

·         Search box is above sitelinks
·         Auto-complete feature
·         Option to empower internal site search instead of Google search with this box



The most effective method to Tell Google about Site Search Box for Sitelinks: 
a) Using Action markup schema<div itemscope itemtype=”http://schema.org/WebSite”>
<meta itemprop=”url” content=”https://www.example.com/”/>
<form itemprop=”potentialAction” itemscope itemtype=”http://schema.org/SearchAction”>
<meta itemprop=”target” content=”https://www.example.com/search?q={search_term}”/>
<input itemprop=”query-input” type=”text” name=”search_term” required/>
<input type=”submit”/>
</form>
</div>

b) Using markup in JSON-LD
<script type=”application/ld+json”>
{
“@context”: “http://schema.org”,
“@type”: “WebSite”,
“url”: “https://www.example-petstore.com/”,
“potentialAction”: {
“@type”: “SearchAction”,
“target”: “https://host.example-petstore.com/search?q={search_term}”,
“query-input”: “required name=search_term”
}
}
</script>

Include the anybody above markup your landing page with exact Urls. If you don’t have a site search engine, use Google Custom Search Engine.
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