Very interesting statistics. I think that we are selling ourselves short by using AFS - but opted to use it because it was the only solution out there that we were able to find.

Since growing, it’s becoming more and more apparent that AFS is chump change.

This is invaluable. I am working on doing this more and more. This alone can really make or break an online marketer.

Ive never used AFS cause I never though it made sense, people dont search on your sites search to find things in google they are looking for things on your site.

Thanks Shoe, I implemented this tip after hearing it once on your radio show (I think) and it’s been awesome. One thing people can do too if they don’t want to implement their own search, is use Google Custom Search and pull the search keyword from Google’s query string. Then you can log searches while still using Googles search w/ adsense.

Sounds very similar to real estate, I guess because it kind of is, in a lot of senses. Interesting stuff, Shoe.

any data you can pull and store yourself is of great value… I personally would only US AFS if i was doing more of an arbi site and want to monetize the most form a visitor.

I have to reread this article. I was blinded by your stats the first time around…

Many organizations are clamming that SEO is the future of internet marketing, Do you think that is true? Could you please at least give me three reason WHY?

Also what does it take for you to reccoment a service or product , Thanks

When you have a huge userbase, those stats are priceless. I think a lot of small time folks use AFS because it’s easy and wouldn’t have enough data to make it worth their while to build track something like that… then again, until you throw it up there you never know.

Great!I never think of this technique.Quite amazing when you want exactly your readers search for and use the priceless search query data for PPC campaign

Most don’t have that kind of data. What about sites with much less?

How much traffic does NextPimp get?

With a few hacks (without modifying the AFS code) its still possible to collect all search data!.

Shoe - I don’t use AFS much as it doesn’t seem worth it. But after reading a lot of your posts, I sometimes think that maybe you could set up in competition with Google, and probably do a better job.

Just one question. Who the hell is “lil wayne”??

Great information here.

Thanks for the screenshot too

i find it amazing that more than a million people searched your site for single characters like “r” or “o” last month.

maybe these people are trying to get a listing of all artists that start with that letter. your results currently don’t do that. hmmmmmm

mmmmmmm, I love data. Can never have too much. $200 a day is enough for most people that they would never mess with it.

Anyone know of a good freeware search program to use for a website? One that keeps a log of searches? Or do I have to pay to have one coded? Thanks

This is definitely something to think about.
Thanks..

I think AdSense for search is good for only big content sites

Sweet new look. Let me know if you need someone to test pages / features for you.

Darn, you blew my whole secret strategy of bidding on single letters, I was killing it by advertising make money online stuff with the letter m, now I’ll probably have to drop down to k to compete

I still don’t think I could have given up $200/day of easy AdSense money.

Even so, some webmasters wouldn’t mind an extra $xxx per month, even if it equaled a few cents per search.

I am not sure how do you sell it to Google.

Wow, yeh that is a good point. But I think maybe this point.. maybe only applies to ‘big’ sites with huge volumes of traffic like nextpimp. I think with adsense you would be selling yourself short, but maybe adsense is best on the way up until you get enough traffic to systimatically analyse large amounts of data for affiliate purposes.

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No sir.. I opted for my own search engine - check it out by clicking on my name :p

Wow I never really thought about it that way…

I recently added an AFS, because the “optimization team” recommended it, but it is displayed only when the user finds nothing with the internal search engine.

Very good write up.

So you opted to go with your own search engine so you could track the search engine data and in turn use it to help with your PPC campaigns for ringtons? (Just trying to clear it up)

What is the deal with this?
http://www.chillingeffects.org/acpa/notice.cgi?NoticeID=2322

Were you sued by Nextel?

Trading $200 from Adsense to try your own thing? Well you must have been making more than $200 elsewhere, cause I personally would have stayed with it, and maybe try some internal advertising on the side.

I can’t believe you got sued by nextel.

That is some interesting data. Something to think about..

You are right dude. I think a better strategy is to first use a PHP script to capture wat the user has entered in the search form, store the data and then redirect the user to google adsense for search . Will that be possible ????????????????

Doesn’t Google give you access to this kinda of thing if you use their search? If they don’t, they should!!

Adsense for search never payed me much so i removed it .But there are few sites like seodigger.com which will manage to show all our google search results to everyone in world which i dont like .

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Yeah i have been searching and going through my stats as well.

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it is indeed very beneficial to find out what our visitors are searching for in order to do a good ppc campaign to bring in correctly visitors. i didnt realize about this. this is nice tips for me. what i’ve been thinking is just to provide a way of search for visitors since i dont provide internal site search myself.

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