{"id":191,"date":"2008-02-13T06:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=191"},"modified":"2008-02-13T06:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T11:48:00","slug":"website-search-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2008\/02\/13\/website-search-engines\/","title":{"rendered":"Website Search Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the websites we design are large enough that we really need to provide more than a sitemap for readers to be able to find what they want. I have found that FreeFind is a super online search engine that will spider and return content for searches on your own website. What I like most about FreeFind is that for $5 a month for under 250 pages I can skin the search pages to match any site seamlessly.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the point of having a search engine if you are showing ads or showing Google&#8217;s name at the top? On sites I design I like to keep the brand and not showcase another&#8217;s brand. I have reviewed several online website search utilities and have found that I like FreeFind best for my needs.<\/p>\n<p>I use FreeFind on my own website and blog and have implemented it for other sites across the web. I pay $108 per year for FreeFind to spider my blog, PDF files, and all my 488 web pages. When someone enters a search query on my site, they are supplied back pages on a page that looks identical to my website ranking pages in my own site on that topic.<\/p>\n<p>FreeFind is easy to use. You can set spider frequency, upload a custom template, configure results to weight pages as more important, and even block the FreeFind spider from files or directories.<\/p>\n<p>I find FreeFind a good value and perfect for my needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the websites we design are large enough that we really need to provide more than a sitemap for readers to be able to find what they want. I have found that FreeFind is a super online search engine that will spider and return content for searches on your own website. What I like most about FreeFind is that for $5 a month for under 250 pages I can skin the search pages to match any site seamlessly. What&#8217;s the point of having a search engine if you are showing ads or showing Google&#8217;s name at the top? On sites I design I like to keep the brand and not showcase another&#8217;s brand. I have reviewed several online website search utilities and have found that I like FreeFind best for my needs. I use FreeFind on my own website and blog and have implemented it for other sites across the web. I pay $108 per year for FreeFind to spider my blog, PDF files, and all my 488 web pages. When someone enters a search query on my site, they are supplied back pages on a page that looks identical to my website ranking pages in my own site on that topic. FreeFind is easy to use. You can set spider frequency, upload a custom template, configure results to weight pages as more important, and even block the FreeFind spider from files or directories. I find FreeFind a good value and perfect for my needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[357],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}