How to Add Google Custom Search to Your Website

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Google Custom Search allows you to create a personalized search engine for your website. It helps users find what they are looking for quickly and easily. While it does not directly impact Google rankings, it can improve user experience by providing more relevant results, this may lead to increased user engagement, reduced bounce rates and improve overall site performance which may indirectly enhance SEO. If you want to add google custom search to your website but you’re not sure how to do it, this tutorial is for you. In this blog post I show you how to add google custom search to your website.

Follow these steps to add google search to your WordPress website.

Creating Google Custom Search

  1. Visit the following Link

https://programmablesearchengine.google.com

and Login with your google account

  • Click on get Started as bellow
programmable search engine
  • After clicking on Get Started Button the following Page will appear here click on add button as shown bellow
google search

After clicking on Add Button the following “create a new search engine page” page will appear, here enter the necessary details about your website as I have and click on create button.

create a new search engine

After clicking on Create button the following success page will appear

google custom search code

Click the preview button to check if your custom Google search is working properly.

google custom search results page

To customize google custom search click on the customize button.

Add Google Custom Search Box in Your website

  1. To use the provided code directly on your website, copy it and go to your WordPress admin dashboard. Create a new page, then paste the copied code into a custom HTML block where you want the Google Custom Search to appear.
adding google custom search code your website page
  • After publishing the page or previewing the page
google custom search added to WordPress website page
  • When you type something in the search box and click the search button, the results will be displayed on a new page as shown bellow.
google custom search results page on your website

Click this link If you want learn in detail about google custom search customization

I hope this tutorial helps you to add google search to your WordPress website. If you have any question, suggestion or feedback feel free to contact us using the information provided on our contact us page.

Thank You.

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