About Google Search

1. Go to cse.google.com and log in with your Google (i.e., gmail) password.
2. Click Add to create a custom search engine.

3. In the Sites to search field, enter the URL for the site where your output will be published. A name for the search engine is automatically added toward the bottom of the page, based on your URL. You can edit the name to something more simple if you want.

   

4. Click Create.
5. On the next page, click Control Panel to retrieve your search engine ID. (You can also use one of the other methods—Get code or Public URL—if you prefer.) Then click Search engine ID.

6. Copy the ID shown in the popup.

   

7. Continue with the following Flare steps to enter the Google search key and generate a sitemap.

1. Return to the HTML5 target (Search tab) in the Flare project.

2. In the Google Search Context Key field, paste the ID that you copied from cse.google.com.

   

3. To assist with indexing, we also recommend that you create a sitemap. So Click Generate Sitemap and enter the same URL that you provided on your Google account page (make sure you include http:.// before the path; also, make sure you end the path with a closing /).

   

4. Click to save your work.
5. Generate the target and upload the output files to your URL.
6. Continue with the following steps to verify your URL.

1. In your browser, open a new tab and go to https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/.
2. Click Add a Property.

3. In the popup, enter the URL for your site, and click Add.

   

   A page opens with steps for verifying your site.

   

4. Complete the steps on the page.
5. After you have successfully verified the site, continue with the following steps to add your sitemap.

1. Either click Continue under the congratulations message, or click Search Console at the top of the browser page.

2. Navigate to Crawl > Sitemaps.

   

3. Click Add/Test Sitemap.

4. In the popup, enter Sitemap.xml.

   

5. Click Submit.

6. Refresh the page to see the results.

   

7. Continue with the following steps to submit the site for indexing.

1. In the Google Search Console, click Fetch as Google.

2. In the text field, enter a page in your output that contains many links. For example, in the Top Navigation and PDF Advanced project template in Flare, the “Home.htm” topic is the landing page and contains links to multiple topics, so in that case you would enter Content/Home.htm in the field.

   

3. Click Fetch and Render.

4. After the status finishes processing, click Request indexing.

   

5. In the popup, click I’m not a robot.
6. Click Crawl this URL and its direct links.
7. Click Go.
8. Continue with the following steps to exclude your TOC from indexing.

By default, Google will index each word it finds on your pages, but there may be some words that you do not want to be indexed. This likely includes your TOC. After all, the words in the TOC will be repeated on most, if not all, of your pages. So it wouldn’t be useful for those words to be included in searches.

1. Go back to the first browser tab for your Google account and click the Advanced tab.

   

2. Click CSE context to expand that section.
3. Click Download (XML). The cse.xml file is added to the Downloads folder on your computer.

4. Edit the downloaded context file cse.xml to add the following attribute: enable_nocontent_tag=“true”. (If you already see this attribute in the file, you do not need to add it.)

   To add the attribute, you can open the file in a text editor such as Notepad++. Then near the top of the file, change:

   <CustomSearchEngine id= “[id]” creator=“[id]”>

   to

   <CustomSearchEngine id= “[id]” creator= “[id]” enable_nocontent_tag=“true”>

   There may be other attributes that are already in the tag as well. Save your changes when finished.

   Example

   Here is an example of an edited cse.xml file:

   

5. On your Google account page, go back to the CSE context section of the Advanced tab, and click Upload XML file.
6. Choose the cse.xml file that you edited.
7. In the popup, click OK to upload the file.
8. Continue with the following steps to customize the appearance of search results.

By default, search results are overlayed on top of your output. You can change this look if you want.

1. Click Look and feel.

2. On the Layout tab, select an option.

   Note: In your Flare output, the results layout that you select may not look precisely the way that Google presents them in the layout thumbnails. It is recommended that you try different layouts and test the output to see which one best meets your needs.

   Tip: To make the search results appear the way that they normally do in Top Navigation output, select Results Only.

   

3. Click Save.

From your account, you can see the progress of your indexed pages.

1. Go back to the second browser tab showing your Google Search Console.
2. Expand Crawl and click Sitemaps.

It might be awhile before you see actual results, so return to this page periodically.