There are a lot of publishers out there who make more than a few bucks a day with Adsense these days. If you happen to receive a decent amount of traffic to your blog or portal, there is a good chance that you can use Google Adsense to make money online. Google Custom Search has always been one of the best ways to implement Adsense on content portals and provide more value to your readers. You can also make money from the ads displayed on your website as well.

Google Custom Search was decent before, but the company has introduced a few additional rich features to help you get more out of your custom search snippets. For starters, you now access to more themes to choose from. So you can give your search page a better look and feel.

Rich snippets are another cool feature that allow you to customize the actual Custom Search Element search results with additional relevant content, like thumbnail images and actions. So you can provide even more value to those who are performing a search on your content portal.

All in all, if you own a content portal and haven’t taken time to try Google Custom Search, it’s certainly worth a try. GCS helps your users get more out of their searches on your website, and you make some money on the side. Everybody wins.