Hello guys .. I wanna know if its against google policy if in my downloads page after my free programs offered I am alowed to invite my guests if they dont find what are looking for to use search option . sorry if here or in tos its something about this but i didnt find . Thanks
play, Welcome to DP. AFA adsearch is concerned you can ask/invite the visitors to use it. But further asking/instructing them to click the ads on search result page is definetly against the TOS.
That's right, you can direct people to your search page, but you can't prefill the search box with anything -- visitors have to type their search queries directly into the box.
Yup. You can ask them to search. But not to click on the ads on the result page. And do not change the appearance of the search box on your own, definitely against the TOS!
Show them the cheats ,somewhere on your site. http://www.google.com/help/cheatsheet.html You wont even have to ask them to search
Actually I got this idea just today. I dont have enough pages on my site ..thus it wont make much sense on my site. But if somebody would just place a "Hints to Help you Search Better" link below the search box, I am sure his number of searches would go up. Some people may actually try out all the cheats. As the cost of search cannot exceed income from adsense for search, I think its a risk worth taking.