Google Custom Search and CMSB

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Last Post: May 25, 2009   (RSS)

By NigelGordijk - May 20, 2009

Hi, there.

I've just started working on a client's site, which will have a Google custom search engine on every page. Here's the first page I'm working on: http://www.yallaf1.com/links.php.

The client already has a site on their server, which uses Article Manager that generates pages with a .shtml extension. When I test the search engine on my page it only returns results from the Article Manager site, not my .php CMSB-generated page.

I realise that this might be a Google issue, not one for CMSB, but has anyone else built Google custom search into a CMSB site?
Nigel Gordijk

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Re: [NigelGordijk] Google Custom Search and CMSB

By ross - May 21, 2009

Hi Nigel

Thanks for posting!

The pages should be searchable. I am curious if perhaps you have the CMS Builder stuff happening in a folder you haven't told Google to search.

Another idea would be trying to add:

'useSeoUrls' => false,

to your viewer code. That will make the urls for your pages more seo frieldly. The only thing there is that this setting doesn't work on all servers.

Give it a shot and let me know how you make out :).
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Re: [ross] Google Custom Search and CMSB

By NigelGordijk - May 21, 2009

Hi, Ross.

Thanks for the reply. Please can you tell me where this line of code should go? In the header?

Regards,
Nigel Gordijk

Common Sense Design: User-focused Web design
Tel: 001 519 342 5348 | Web: www.commonsensedesign.net

Re: [NigelGordijk] Google Custom Search and CMSB

By ross - May 22, 2009

Hi Nigel

It goes right up in the viewer code at the top. So like this:

list($tagsRecords, $tagsMetaData) = getRecords(array(
'tableName' => 'tags',
'useSeoUrls' => true,

));

Of course, your code will look a bit different. One other thing is that I gave you slightly wrong code last time. You want to be using 'useSeoUrls' => true.

Does that make more sense? Let me know :).
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Re: [NigelGordijk] Google Custom Search and CMSB

By ross - May 25, 2009

Hi Nigel

That's interesting. Nothing at all seems to happen when I run a search from that page. It is possible that your server doesn't support that setting I got you to change in my last post.

Could you send me FTP details (and a link to this post) through consulting@interactivetools.com?

I'll take a closer look and see if there is anything I can see. Thanks!
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