How to Create Google Custom Search Engine for Blogger

When we search any thing on internet then we go to Google search before doing anything. Now, a conservative estimate would be that there is no so much internet without Google. Every blogger has a search engine in his blog for his blog post,s searching. There are unless templates for blogger and they have their own custom search engines. These search engines show limited result of search and they are not very good. Google Custom Search Engines (CSE) are very efficient and they show most important posts and data of our blog. CSE increase number of pageviews of your blog because your blog visitor is kept involved in reading more articles of your blog.

Create A Google Custom Search Engine

1. Go to Google Custom Search official page.
2. Click on Create Custom Search Engine Button.

3. Now set your settings as show in below picture.

4. Now click on Next button and choose the style of your custom search engine.You can click on Customize button to change the style and look of your search engine.

5. Now click the next button and then click Look and Feel on the next page.

6. you will see three layout options i.e Full-width, Compact and Two-column. See the picture below.

? If you want to add search box below post then choose Full-width.
? If you want to add your search box on sidebar then choose Compact.
? If you want to display your search box to sidebar and show search results above the post title then choose Two column.

Finally click on Save & Get Code and copy the code which Google will give.

Add Custom Search Engine to Blogger Posts

If you want to add your search engine below post then follow the below method:

1. Go to Blogger --> Template --> Edit Html and check Expand Widgets Elements.
2. Now search the below code

<data:post.body>

3. Now just below it paste the Custom Search Engine copied code(Full-Width)
4. Save your Template and you will see that Custom Search Engine is appearing just below blog posts.

Add Custom Search Engine to Blogger Sidebar

1. Go to Blogger --> Layout --> Add a Gadget(Sidebar), choose HTML Java Script Widget and paste the copied code in it.(Compact or Two Column)
2. Hit save and you have done everything. You will see a Google Custom Search Box to your Blogger Sidebar.

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