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How to implement Sitelinks Search Box

Sitelinks Search box serves navigational queries – searching brand name or typing the the URL of the website and then browsing inside in detail. As an example, a user who wants to search an image of Sydney Opera House in Flickr, first type ‘Flickr’ in google, follow the website from Search Results and then do a more detailed research for the image.
Sitelinks search box helps users to access the destination site search within Google SERP. That means, the user skips the step of navigating to the destination website for query search. See below
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The user types Flickr in Google Search
Search Box appears in SERP. The query is typed ie ‘Sydney Opera House’ (as in the above example) and the Flickr page for relevant images is displayed.
Google uses different factors to make the sitelinks search box displayed for navigational searches. The feature is enabled for most websites that have working search engine function. However, not all websites will have this set up despite having the site search active.
No worries! This feature can be enabled by properly marking up your pages. Before getting started, make sure your website is compliant with the following guidelines.

Verify

Set a preferred canonical URL for your domain’s homepage using the rel=”canonical” link element on all variants of the homepage. This helps Google Search choose the correct URL for your markup.
No changes to robots.txt are necessary for Sitelinks search box to work correctly. Continue to follow our Webmaster Guidelines on this topic.

Make sure that your server supports UTF-8 character encoding.

Refer: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/structured-data/slsb-overview

Get Started

Mark up your homepage using schema.org. It is not necessary to put the markup on all the pages of your website. You can either use JSON-LD or micro-data, though the former is recommended.

Script and schema microdata table

Sitelinks search box specification

Refer: http://schema.org/WebSite

Example

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "http://schema.org",
"@type": "WebSite",
"url": "http://nacinternetmarketing.com/",
"potentialAction": {
"@type": "SearchAction",
"target": "http://nacinternetmarketing.com/search/{search_key}",
"query-input": "required name=search_key"
}
}
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