What can I do with my content?
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I understand that we can’t put ads on our wordpress blogs, I understand that, and to a large extent respect it. But would it be a violation of the ToS to put a google search box on the sidebar of my blog? I know there is a search box widgit, but I would rather use google’s because I can have it search my blog, along with a few of my other feeds.
Thank you.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Are you referring to this Google custom search? http://www.google.com/cse/tools/create_onthefly If so then we cannot access the html in our underlying templates at wordpress.com so this is a no go.
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Also note that configure Google’s Custom Search Engine for AdSense income is a definite no go anyway due to the advertising restrictions. WordPress.com blogs cannot be used to drive income to third part sites http://wordpress.com/tos/
(see section 2 – 5th bullet from top)
http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
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… along with a few of my other feeds
http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/rss-widget/ -
Really? I thought you could put HTML in a widget on the side as well as in the posts, oh well. Thank you anyway.
As for adsence, I believe you are referring to this line: “and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites” would a search box really fall under the category of ‘unwanted’? At least, maybe it’s just me, but when I enter content into a search box, it’s wanted, I don’t generally search for things I don’t want to search for. And my main goal was to be able to easily aggregate all of my content into one search box.
Also, I thought that seeing as the search wouldn’t actually be on the website, it wouldn’t be an advertisement on wordpress.com.
Thank you for the prompt answer.
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The html we can use in posts, pages, or text widgets is limited:
address, a, abbr, acronym, area, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, cite, class, code, col, del, dd, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, img, ins, kbd, li, map, ol, p, pre, q, s, span, strike, strong, sub, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, tr, tt, ul, var
This explains other things we can’t use as well:
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The code you are meant to copy from http://www.google.com/cse/tools/create_onthefly
uses javascript and WordPress will strip it out: it won’t work here.If you want to search your own blog, put this into the Google search box:
SEARCH_TERM_HERE site:http://leifandersen.net/
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