| Putting a search box on your site which allows visitors to search your
own site is an excellent idea. If your host supports Microsoft Frontpage
extensions, then you can use the built-in search function. If not you can
use a third-party search engine such as the one from Siteminer (which is
excellent).
Unless you are writing a search engine, I would recommend against making
it easy for your visitors to search the web from your site. You've worked
hard to get them to visit you, so why give them a way to go somewhere else?
Especially something like a search engine, which offers many opportunities
for leaving.
If your site is of any size at all, you will need some way to make it
easy for your visitors to find things.
Some sites use a "site map", which is more or less an outline of the
site. I've seen this often with mixed results. If implemented well, it's
great. If not, it's worse than not having anything at all.
A generic search box solves the problem of your visitor wanting to find
something which is not obvious from your navigation menu. So I would recommend
putting one on your site if it is of any size at all.
Visit Allfree.gr and find lots
of search engines for your site.
Most of them for free and very low priced, for more advanced
purposes. |
