Google Site Search

[Gerry]

Hey Ben,
We recommend against placing it as a slider.
2hrs design, 30 mins programming (2.5hrs total) to place it on the blog pages in the place you mentioned. Let us know if there is any other place you'd like it (will change estimate).

An example site:
http://www.skyrealtyaustin.com/

[Aaron]

Hi Ben,

Are we going ahead with this?

[bnicolas]

yes but

1) I think I'd want it in a location that would be available on every page not just the blog pages if I'm going to go through the expense

2) I need to figure out how much its going to cost me from Google. I think I have >25,000 webpages right now per my google webmasters tools page. I need to work on my sitemap to cut that down. This is actually something I'm going to work on with Morgan when he gets back. It gets really expensive when you have more than 5,000 pages. I'm also not clear if my IDX pages are going to be included or not. the google site says that password protected pages aren't but I do see IDX pages when I search Google so not sure here
http://www.google.com/support/custom...py?topic=11503
I need to figure out how many pages Google is going to consider as included because it determines whether this is going to cost me $100 or $2000 to license the Google technology...

[Aaron]

Alright sounds good - once you have it all sorted out let us know.
As far as the placement of the search box - I figured the way that it is on skyrealty was a great place for it.


Thank you,

[Aaron]

Just following up on this to see if we're going to go ahead with anything here. I think all the estimates are ready .... let us know if you need any further estimates regarding this item.

Thank you,

[bnicolas]

I'm going to move forward with this once my site traffic increases, right now there wouldn't be enough people using it to get any sort of meaningful feedback