Adding Bing to your website

To make your site absolutely the best it can be, you need to have a great search facility to allow your visitors to drill down to the content they need. Now you can add a Bing search box to your site (just like the one over to the right).

Bing is the search engine from Microsoft, and it just keeps getting better and better, crisp results, cool features and a high pace of development makes it a growing choice amongst web users.

To install a Bing search box is really easy – there are only 4 steps to search perfection:

1. Visit Bing Box – part of the services provided by Bing – and click ‘get started’ on the advanced search box option.
2. Enter your site details and the URL of the site(s) you want search – it can be up to 10 – then click ‘next’.
3. Edit the language and dimensions of the search results – the click ‘next’ – you may need to tinker with the width of the search box, and any colour requirements you have to blend in with the theme of your site.
4. Copy the code snippet to where you want the search box to appear – I used a WordPress text widget which allowed me to paste the code internally and edit the title – so the search box now sits in the sidebar of my blog.

A very cool and tidy integration – and lets your readers get the maximum out of your site.

How else should site owners be pimping their web pages?