# SEO - how to get a search bar at google?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/seo-how-to-get-a-search-bar-at-google/80394
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [2월 12, 2018, 6:07오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/seo-how-to-get-a-search-bar-at-google/80394 "2018-02-12T18:07:17Z")
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Hey,
This is the content you see at google when you search at my site (I know you might not understand the text):
This is how it look if you e.g search at “Lægeforeningen”.
How to change the layout at google to e.g include a search bar for my site and nice layout then the “random” text at the moment?
I dont know anything about SEO 😃 Are there anything I can do ?
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For search box you may need to add some code inside `` tag as suggested here [Latest Google Search Documentation Updates | Google Search Central | What's new | Google for Developers](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/sitelinks-searchbox). And I think site links need to be configured via Google Webmaster tools.
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The URL of a search in discourse has the following format:
`https://your.domain.tld/search?q=test`
So I think if you added this to the body of a theme component (the only thing you have to change is your.domain.tld):
```plaintext
```
It could eventually work, bear in mind, that in the end only google is deciding if this will show or not, so you could add this code and it would do nothing.
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It definitely sounds like a pretty cool feature for public sites, but I’d just like to caution that it would look weird on private ones. My preference would be to have it off by default, or have the ability to turn it off for private sites.
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AFAICT, the sitelinks generally display in the SERPs when the search terms are more “general”.
For example a search for “Discourse meta” shows sitelinks. But a search for “discourse seo search bar google” will not have them under the link to this topic, nor under the same Discourse meta link after it that had them for the more general search.
Kind of like “give me the table of contents” vs “give me this page”
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I dunno we already have this
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Are people _really_ going to be searching for the name of the site? That seems like a rare edge condition to me, not something we want to add permanent markup for.
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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> Are people really going to be searching for the name of the site? That seems like a rare edge condition to me, not something we want to add permanent markup for.
Yes, people do this all the time. They do it because they don’t know what a URL is or how to create a bookmark – it’s simply their way to open any website.
This is somewhat sad, but surprisingly true :sadpanda:
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I think this is a really good addition and unique point of difference. It highlights the site in search results, it stands more a chance of being used than being absent considering seems like a trivial update to make.
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이 문제를 조사하던 중 Google의 Rich Results Test([https://search.google.com/test/rich-results](https://search.google.com/test/rich-results))를 알게 되었습니다. 몇 개의 Discourse URL을 이 테스트 도구에 넣어보니, 모두 [Joffrey의 위 답변](https://meta.discourse.org/t/seo-how-to-get-a-search-bar-at-google/80394/3?u=jon_m)에서 언급된 결과들이 표시되는 것 같았습니다.
경우에 따라 다를 수 있지만, 제 조사 결과를 공유해 봅니다.
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