Yes. I am basing a site completely on Co-op. It works very well to generate a 30% clicktrough rate for my AdSense ads. You can have a look at it at www.lovesearch.no The site is very simple, but people seems to like it. I am going to build a number of sites based on Co-op, because the consept of being able to hand-pick the sites to seach is fantastic in my opinion.
i was using it for a while but the code was wrong and didnt count the clicks. so i scratched the idea.
Cool.. I heard lot of bad impression about the Google Coop before. Could you explain us what are the good results you've found?
I am using it for www.Kerala-Search.com . A search engine for kerala related sites. So far I am very much impressed with it.
basicus... awesome site dude! can't believe I didn't think of this also. What are you doing for traffic? bondat... things have completely changed since I got some interesting results. Co-op has evolved quite a bit.
Bit confused as I am a bit of a newbie...What is Google Co-Op? Is it just Google for search when it is the only thing you put on a site. Are you allowed to simply put Google for search on a domain and nothing else? Or is this some sort of seperate product that you need to sign up for?
You just need a google Account, signup for coop and you're in. You can have a custom search engine, attached to your AdSense account which can only search on specific domains (e.g.) Just check it out.. worth to take look at it.
Well. I had a bit of luck with it. The domain www.loveseach.no was a part of a classifieds ads network spanning several countries. Then they must have gotten into financial problems, because they did not renew the domain name. So, I grabbed it when I realized that they had listings in both DMoz and several big regional directories. So. the site had some traffic from day one. Also, I have another domain with DMoz listing in another category that I redirected the traffic. As of now, there is around 50 - 100 unique visitors per day. I have also started link building but that will of course take some time. We make around $2 to 5 a day now on this site. Not bad for just grabbing a domain name, throw in Google Co-op and picking what sites to search, eh?
so basically the ads that are displayed on the searches are connected to you adsense account ? IS that how you make money from this thing ?
yes. the ads are connected to the owner's adsense account and it goes into the AdSense for Search part
OK!! I connected my CSE to my adwords account from the control panel, but when I try to submit a channel name it gives me following error Anybody knows what it is ? Has anybody setup the CSE with a specific channel of AdWords for tracking
you can grant access from your AdSense account just go to My Account --> Account Access after that you should be able to create a channel