Customize Google Adsense for Search To Your Site Background

If you haven't yet tried using Google Adsense for Search to further monetize your website search, you could be leaving a great deal of cash on the table for others to earn.

You can easily implement AdSense for search on your blog or website, by first creating a page for your search results to be displayed and then following these steps:

• First log into your account at https://www.google.com/adsense..
  

• Go to the AdSense Setup tab.
  

• Choose AdSense for search as the product.

• During the first step of the guided setup, scroll down to the More options section and click the radio button marked Open results within my own site.
  

• Enter the URL of the page you created where you'd like search results to appear. You must create this page yourself; it will not be created or displayed automatically on the URL you enter. If you're familiar with relative URLs, you're welcome to enter one instead of the full URL.
  

• Choose any other options for your search box and results.

• Copy the code you generated in the Your search box code box, and paste it into the HTML source of the page where you'd like to display the search box.

• Then, copy the code generated in the box labeled Your search results code, and paste it into the HTML source of the page on which you'd like to display the search results.
  

• Save your web pages and your customized Google AdSense for search is ready for use.

Note: If you are using blogger, you will not be able to implement your search results within your page.

The problem with Google Adsense for Search is that they provide the code in only three colors. White, gray and black. This makes blending the search form in your blog somewhat difficult to impossible.

Some AdSense users tweaked the code to blend the colors with their sites however, this violated Google's terms of service.

Fortunately, things have changed and Google AdSense now offers a better coding option, where their Google logo is replaced by the search button changing to "Google Search".

Now you can use any color background you like, which allows users many additional options to customize Google Adsense for Search to your site background.

Learn more about using Google Search to increase your AdSense earnings here.