Search Results


    Wondering why Google Adsense boxes are showing up on my website search results page?
    Three reasons really…

  • First, Google Custom Search is a great tool and I use Google’s Webmaster Tools to keep up to speed on various website performance & SEO statistics.
  • More interestingly, it allows you to quickly see who is advertising on keywords related to the topic you searched. As this site is primarily comprised of travel related content, that impacts the type of ads being served as well… None of them are sponsored links, so you may be as surprised as me to discover what companies might be showing up from time to time…
  • Yes, Google and I get paid by the advertiser if you click-through on these ads. I can assure you this is a primary reason for including the ads – they only appear on the search results page and I have tried to design the site to reduce the need to use the search widget.