The New Personal Finance Blog Search Engine
Author: Nick
Category: Money
Topics: blogging, internet
Thanks to the fine folks at Google, you can now create your own search engines that pull results from sites you pick. So if you wanted to create a search engine that covers all the big green cockroach websites out there, you’d stick big-green-cockroach.com, green-roachies.com, and omg-cockroach-green-wtf.com into your engine and bam!–only results from the green cockroach websites you choose!
Wouldn’t it be nice if someone put together a search engine that generates results exclusively from the personal finance blogosphere? (Yes, that would be nice!)
Well, call me Mr. Nice-Pants, because here it is!
Personal Finance Blog Search Engine
Simply visit that page, enter your personal finance search query, and you’ll get results from all the best personal finance bloggers on the internet. None of that worthless information from so-called “professional finance writers” or “knowledgable sources” or “Pulitzer Prize-winning publications.” Nope, just personal finance bloggy goodness!
But perhaps you don’t like Punny Money and you’d like to do some Personal Finance Blog Searching somewhere else. There are a few ways you can do this:
Visit the Google Custom Search Engine Page
Here’s the Google Custom Search Engine Page for the Personal Finance Blog Search. The URL isn’t anything memorable though, so you’d want to bookmark it.
Include the Search and Results on Your Own Site!
At least 43 times cooler than visiting Google’s site is integrating the Personal Finance Blog Search Engine into your own website. Here’s how you do it.
- You’ll need two pages on your website. Copy and paste the code from this first file on one page (your search query bar page), and copy and paste the code from this other file on the other (your search results page).
- Edit one part of the first file. Change “SEARCH RESULTS PAGE LINK HERE” to the full URL for your search results page (e.g. http://www.example.com/search-results ).
- Put your pages on your site. When you perform a search on the first page, it’ll show you the results on the second!
WordPress users (I’m not sure about other blog platforms) will have to take a couple extra steps to get the in-site search results working. LiewCF has a good explanation of the work you’ll need to do to get the results to display on your WordPress site.
Include the Search on Your Own Site, Show the Results on Google’s
An easier middle ground between the two techniques above is to include the search query box on your own site, but have it display the results on one of Google’s search result pages. The results will be the same, but the query sends your visitors away to another site… something search results would probably do anyway!
To include the search query box on your site, just copy and paste the code from this file right here into any page you wish. You’ll get your search box, and entering a query sends you to a Google page filled with matching personal finance blog results.
Want to Be Included in the Personal Finance Blog Search Engine Results?
Being included in the Personal Finance Blog Search Engine results means that searchers will see your blog before they see, say, CNN Money’s website.
If you’d like your personal finance blog included in the Personal Finance Blog Search Engine, simply comment here. Please include your website URL only in the box which asks for it, not in the body of the comment (or my spam catcher will kill your comment), and ask to be added. Only blogs which are primarily (50% or more) personal finance (including personal debt reduction, personal frugality, and other categories closely linked with personal finance) will be included. If your blog isn’t related to personal finance, it probably wouldn’t come up in the search results even if it were included.
Once I see your comment, I’ll check out your blog and include it in the search results. Then you can post the search query box on your own site if you like and help your visitors find the information they need within the personal finance blogosphere.
Does Punny Money Make Money From This?
Nope. Not a dime. While custom Google search engine creators have the option of running their own advertisements on results pages, I am not using that option since it doesn’t cost me anything to maintain the search engine. If you choose to run your Personal Finance Blog Search Engine queries on Punny Money, your results will also be shown on a Punny Money page which shows some ads of mine and some of Google’s, but you could do the same thing yourself!
So start searchin’ already!
Search Personal Finance Blogs:
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46 Responses »
1.
Steve
October 24th, 2006 at 9:49 pm
That’s pretty snazzy. Thanks for setting this up. Although I think I might wait for the inevitable plugin!
2.
John Wilks
October 24th, 2006 at 10:08 pm
Punny-
I’d love to be added! I’m about 90% personal finance, 10% frugality.
-John Wilks
3.
Nick
October 24th, 2006 at 10:14 pm
John Wilks,
You’re in!
Steve,
Oh man, I guess I better start coding…
4.
Steve
October 24th, 2006 at 10:44 pm
Haha…no, I didn’t mean you, but you gotta figure since this is a Google application someone will make a WordPress plugin for it eventually.
5.
Amateur Investor
October 24th, 2006 at 10:47 pm
Sounds great, I’m pretty new at this, but I would like to be added.
Mike
6.
Stuart
October 25th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
Well done Nick. I’d love to have my site included in your results.
7.
Getting To Enough
October 25th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
Thanks for the thorough introduction to the new Google feature. I’d like to be added to your list.
8.
Jenn @ Frugal Upstate
October 27th, 2006 at 8:29 am
Hey, I’m all frugality, but technically that is a subset of personal finance. Am I important enough to be included????
9.
Nick
October 27th, 2006 at 11:34 am
It wouldn’t be a Personal Finance Blog Search Engine without you, Jenn!
Same goes for everyone else who commented; I’ve added all of you into the engine, so search to your heart’s content!
10.
Andrew
October 27th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
Wow, what a powerful tool for blogs and websites. Thanks for posting about this. Reading over the Google Co-op pages I was amazed at the amount of control they allow users to have. From color schemes to logos webmasters can have a blast with this new program.
11.
Mike
October 30th, 2006 at 2:10 am
Cool. Would like to be added to. Thanks
12.
NCN
November 2nd, 2006 at 4:08 pm
Punny,
Would you add me, too? Thanks!
(3 sites, really,
ncnblog.com
ncnnetwork.com
ncnpodcast.com
Thanks,
NCN
13.
2million
November 3rd, 2006 at 11:21 am
Punny, Could you add mine as well? Thanks.
14.
Binary Dollar
November 3rd, 2006 at 2:42 pm
Me too Nick. Thanks.
15.
Robert
November 7th, 2006 at 12:30 pm
I would love to be added. Thanks!
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Credit Consumer Counseling
July 12th, 2007 at 7:06 am
Good idea. I wonder the websites that you’re pulling can rank well in terms of SEO.
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Jeremy
August 15th, 2007 at 11:21 am
I’d like to be added too. I’m just getting into blogging, and am trying to get the name of my blog out. Its about how to live frugally in college mainly, with some other random stuff about college life.
Thanks!
18.
DebtKid
December 4th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
I’ll throw my hat in the ring! Err…blog I mean.
DebtKid
P.S. I don’t ever wear hats. My ears are off I think, they make me look funny.
19.
Penny Nickel
December 5th, 2007 at 12:01 am
How’d I miss this? I’d love to be added if you don’t mind.
20.
Nick
December 5th, 2007 at 11:34 am
Okay, I’ve added a few new people who have requested inclusion in the last day or two.
21.
glblguy
December 5th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
Hi Nick, please ad me. Kudo’s to LazyMan for making me aware.
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Matt Wolfe
December 5th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
Hey. This is really cool. I just found out about this today over at the MBN forums. Could I be added as well?
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June 19th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
I did not have any search engine.But the search engine referred above is worth having a try.
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June 1st, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Great idea…I did this on my blog to search all member blogs of the Yakezie network
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