Just a question or two to those who have the Google search box on their site. Does it make you much money or do you see it more as a service to your users? I'm just wondering whether I should put it on my site. Will it make me more money or is it just a traffic leak I don't need?
I make a little off of it! It's hit or miss! I can go 3 days in a row with some search activity, then a couple days of no activity... back and forth.. Also, as with the ad units, the CPC on the searches depend on the keywords they are searching for!
I have to pipe in, I created a site where you can have your own home page. Then I put up the search box, and I find if people are really Google Fans, they don't used search boxes, but the tool bar. So, it's a large chunk of page realestate better used for other forms of revenue generation. My 2 cents, tom
If you could get a lot of searches, it actually looks like it would be quite profitable from the eCPM I've seen. But getting hundreds or thousands of searches a day might be difficult. If you are only going to be getting a dozen or so searches a day, it's not worth it.
Adlinks perform better than search. I just remove it and put internal site search instead for a convenience of my visitors