About ten days ago, Google revamped
their search within a site feature and renamed it Sitelinks Search.
They also gave webmasters a way to communicate that they have an
internal search that should be used when using the Sitelinks search.
We already discussed some myths around it
but now Google's Mariya Moeva shared some of the more common technical
implementation issues they've seen when webmasters have used the
SearchAction schema markup.
These issues include:
(1) If you
replace the curly braces and all that's inside of it with a search
term, it'll lead to a valid URL on your site. For instance, if your
"target" value is "http://www.example.com/search?q={searchTerm}", please
make sure that "http://www.example.com/search?q=foo" and
"http://www.example.com/search?q=bar" both lead to search result pages
about "foo" and "bar".
(2) The "query-input" field must point to
the string that's inside the curly braces in the "target" field. For
example, if your "target" value is
"http://www.example.com/search?q={searchTerm}", you must use
"searchTerm" as the "name" within "query-input".
Don't make these two basic but common mistakes.
Forum discussion at Google+.
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