I think this could make me lots of money but I can't tell if it's against TOS. If you go to my site at http://gimmeaniche.com you'll see I have a search box under where it returns the keyword. I can also make it auto fill in the search box. The idea is that after people grab a niche through my site, they are probably going and googling it anyway. Why not through my search box, right? Now the real issue that I just can't find a definitive answer to in the TOS is when someone clicks the "Gimme a Keyword!" button, am I allowed to automatically fill in the search box with that term? I think this COULD be seen as giving incentive to search, but people already have the incentive. I just want to remove one step. I put the box up yesterday and people are searching with it regularly. Any thoughts? Seems like a murky area.
You must have had a older site to be accepted though? I often place adsense on new sites or sites I flip and never had any problems at all, But the search bar I think would be a border line to be honest
I wasn't accepted at first, but I posted on Googles own AdSense forum making my case and they were actually very helpful and got me set up. They're showing good ads and I'm sending good traffic as I promised. Search bar is borderline. I might ask on their actual forum. Even if I can't auto-set the search bar, It is still there and people are using it. I guess it's more convenient than going to Google and searching. It works because as soon as people find the niche the first thing they want to do is learn what it's all about.
After looking myself, I think you will be ok. You have nothing to say "search here" and you dont have images or anything misleading so............?