More flexibility for promotions
November 22nd, 2011 | Published in Google Custom Search
Custom Search promotions enable you to put relevant information at the top of your search results for specific queries.
Today, we’re announcing several new features to give you more flexibility on how and when to trigger them.
We hope these new features make it easier for you to use promotions on your site. For more details and instructions, please visit our help center. Let us know what you think in our discussion forum.
Posted by: Weiyu Zhu, Software Engineer
Today, we’re announcing several new features to give you more flexibility on how and when to trigger them.
Regular expressions: Use regular expressions instead of verbatim query matches to make it easier to display your promotions for all relevant user queries.
Promotion URL and titles based on the user’s query: Instead of manually adding and maintaining a long list of similarly structured URLs and promotion titles, now you can use the $q variable in your promotion URL or title to replace it with the user’s query.
Enable/disable individual promotions: Manually enable or disable each promotion without affecting the others.
Promotions for Custom Search engines created in AdSense: Promotions now work for these CSEs (though they are still managed via the CSE’s control panel on the Google Custom Search site).
We hope these new features make it easier for you to use promotions on your site. For more details and instructions, please visit our help center. Let us know what you think in our discussion forum.
Posted by: Weiyu Zhu, Software Engineer