Search extras - google people help - and searchhi (search highlighting)

[links found via web-graphics.com] <- Have I mentioned recently how cool I think those people are? They find the neatest stuff!!!

MT-RefSearch will help out your visitors coming in from Google by showing them a listing of what they came to your site searching for. (I’ll get it working here soon if I can - we get a LOT of google searches here!) Apparently this isn’t a new script, but I just found it and think it’s really neato!

Also mentioned in that same post on web-graphics was a javascript that will highlight the search terms on your page: searchhi

12 Responses to “Search extras - google people help - and searchhi (search highlighting)”

  1. Jennifer Says:

    Well, I added the searchhi thing… but it seems to take a long time to load the page from a search now… I may remove it… :-\

    Let’s see what happens witht that MTRef-Search thingy…

  2. Jennifer Says:

    Well… I can’t figure it out - can’t get that mtref search thing to show up…
    Anyone else get this to work?

    (Also - I took down the searchhi thing because the load time was too long)

  3. eliot Says:

    hey jennifer, email or msg me on AIM (”Nick Here”) and i’ll see what i can do to help you out. some things you need to know: my script requires PHP and for MT to be using MySQL.

  4. Jennifer Says:

    Completely bizarre! Must have been whatever google link I was using to get here, but now it’s working… see it in action by going to google - do a search for “scriptygoddess” - and click the link to the main page… (just an FYI - it won’t show up on any of the archives because I don’t have the script in place there)… but maybe that would be useful as well…?

  5. eliot Says:

    i have it on all of my pages so no matter how they come to my site, they’ll get some navigation help.

  6. alba Says:

    eliot, i’m using absolute paths (/home/ericalba/public_html/blah blah…) in my include in the main index and it works. i dropped the same code into the individual archives and i don’t see it working. is it possible it’s conflicting with other php? all i have is textism’s refer script in there.

  7. vent Says:
    help for the wandering googler
    i notice i get a ton of referrals from google. so for a little bit of usability i’ve added Eliot Landrum’s MT-RefSearch which displays, to people who arrive here via

  8. vent Says:
    link-based navigation makes mozilla cool
    thanks to dive into mark’s tip and trotmmetter times’ example this site is enhanced with ‘link-based navigation’ (for mozilla only). you should notice an additional tool bar with arrows and

  9. Outinfive | Playing the odds! Says:
    Google Googles Everywhere!
    I just added some new script to show users coming in from google searches pertanent information. Try doing this search

  10. Matt Says:

    ok so i think this script is great but does not work for all MT Users. Mainly because of the way I am archiving. Using a directory structure to keep category posts separate.

    more of my findings here on my site

  11. Neurotic Fishbowl Says:
    Help for Visitors From Google
    Thanks to the girls (and guys) over at Scripty Goddess, I found this great little tool, MT RefSearch. Basically, by

  12. Promo Says:

    Can this be incorporated into the Google-Ref’s pages? That’s the page that turns up the most in Google, the page with all the google search terms.

    If I could use it to point the searcher to the right post that would be great.