site search RELEVANCE AND PROMOTIONS

SearchStax Studio ensures your users are seeing the most relevant site search results at the right time and place with total control.

Refine your Search with Relevance and Relevance Modeling

Control how site search results are ordered and shown to the user to ensure the right results are shown at the right time and place. Adjust which content shows up near the top of your search results by boosting fields, crafting custom rules, creating promotions and modifying the sort orders.

Out-of-the-Box Relevance Features to Improve Site Search

Stopwords

Use Stopwords to remove the terms that can degrade the keyword search

Synonyms

Add keyword synonyms to link related items

Spell Check

Apply spell check so that misspelled words to affect search results

Use Relevance Modeling to Make Site Search Results Better

Make site search results more relevant by boosting the importance of certain fields to improve search results. SearchStax Studio offers features, such as trigger-based rules, which can perform dynamic action such as field boosting, replacing terms, and selective filtering.

Search Field

Decide which search fields to prioritize for keyword search

Global filters

Add Include and Exclude Filters to place limits on search results

ranking

Boost result items that meet a specific criteria

rules

Modify search results based on defined triggers

Promote Important Content to your Users

Easily curate what your users will see first when searching for specific terms. Promotions allows you to tailor search results so that specific pages are highlighted first for certain search terms. Guarantee your users are seeing the most relevant content for them.

Simple Promotions

Promote specific site search results to the top of the results page based on a defined search term or phrase.

Search Features

Utilize default search or advanced search features to nominate a list of potential promotions. Default search works for most common searches where a keyword or phrase will return a list of matching results. However, if the result list is too long or you know the exact item to be promoted, advanced search allows you to target the item more specifically.

External Promotions

Feature content from other websites or partners, highlight upcoming events or conferences, and cross-promote content from affiliated companies.

Check out these Resources for Relevance and Promotions

Learn more about how to set up Relevance Modeling in SearchStax Studio

Learn more about Promotions in SearchStax Studio

Learn the steps of crafting Relevance Models in this how-to guide

Learn more about External Promotions through our blog post

Frequently Asked Questions
About Relevance and Promotions

A Relevance Model applies Global Filters first, then Ranking, followed by Rules, and finally Promotions.

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