If you’ve been following our series of site search tips, you know that each week we reveal a few tips from our latest “Big Book of Site Search Tips” whitepaper (available for free download at usblogsli.wpengine.com/whitepaper/bigbook) in various categories like General, Refinements, Relevance, Reporting, and others. This week we offer a couple tips below related […]
Fast on the heels of our “Big Book of Site Search Tips,” we’ve published another whitepaper about e-commerce site search and how companies can leverage it to improve the way people buy online. This newest paper discusses how site search should act on an e-commerce site much in the same way store clerks guide customers […]
This week we return to the topic of site search tips, and provide a few more tips below from our “Big Book of Site Search Tips” which is available for free download at http://blog.sli-systems.com/whitepaper/bigbook. The tips below focus on Search Page Format & Layout and offer simple ways for you to structure your site search pages […]
This week, our tips are about using Refinements in your site search to improve your visitors’ experience and help them more quickly and easily find what they’re looking for. Refinements are especially useful if there are several pages of search results for a particular keyword, and are a good way to allow searchers to sort […]
This week our site search tips focus on relevance. In a nutshell, if your site search results aren’t relevant – and what’s relevant will vary from person to person – your visitors may very well abandon your site. Find our full list of tips (nearly 80 in all) in our “Big Book of Site Search […]
This week we return to basics with some general tips for how to improve performance of your site search. Both of the tips below are very simple to implement and can increase usage of your site’s search box, which can result in higher conversions, click-throughs and/or content downloads – which is great for lead generation. […]
When people search your site, it’s not enough to just provide a page of results – no matter how relevant the results are (although admittedly, relevance in results does count for a lot). Customers often need added incentive to click a result and make a purchase, and merchandising your site search results pages is a […]
This week we’re offering a couple tips on how to improve relevance of your site search, and also how to leverage data in your site search reports to make improvements. Our own research shows that if people can’t find what they’re looking for on your site within the first few minutes, they’re likely to leave […]
This week’s tips – taken from nearly 80 tips in our “The Big Book of Site Search Tips” – focus on refinements in site search. Refinements refer to the filters or categories you create that allow site visitors to narrow the results of a search, so they only see products that fit certain criteria (e.g. […]
Today we’ll share a few more tips from our new white paper “The Big Book of Site Search Tips” (available for free download). As we mentioned last week, the full paper includes nearly 80 tips and suggestions for ways to make small improvements to your web site search to see big results. Here are a […]