Like others, I was also attendee and part of Sitecore community at SUGCON India 2023. It was great pleasure and tons of chat with everyone.
After the 2 days events, I tried to consolidate my notes and thought to share Best first with community. And Product name is Sitecore Search.
Before deep dive into Sitecore Search, I would like to point out few statements from tech communities.
Forrester, "43% of user directly go to Search box, and leads generated 2-3 times more as compare to normal journey".
Sitecore, "Today Search is about more than just entering words into a box and hoping for the right results".
Previously with Sitecore, for search we were using solr/azure/lucene search providers. and with that
Challenge for Content & Marketer, There is lack of tooling for search experience.
Challenge for Developer & IT
- long time to implement
- complex scenario for development
- if any change request, then back to Team again
- Search Expertise required
And on that Sitecore came with SaaS products to resolve above challenges and introduced 2 composable search new products.
- For e-commerce search experience
- Sitecore Discover
- Content Search experience
- Sitecore Search
In this article, I will share detailed key features and benefits of using Sitecore Search.
- Great customer experience
- Personalization - 100% automation [easy to configure by marketers]
- Multiple Index sources, no need to changes existing external search indexing systems
- Marketer Friendly, mean marketer can easily manage search experience without any technical knowledge
- Trunkey setup building fast with simple implementation
- Track Site search performance
- Overall engagement
- Preview Search engagement
- Search Page engagement
- Recommendation engagement
- All tracking data easily to download, sharing, exporting functionality with Marketers
- Pages
- Can have different result pages variants[A/B testing]
- Can play with common widgets across pages
- Can PIN results on particular searched key to show particular item on top
- Can boost items on particular searched key
- Can Personalized as well on particular searched key
- Can burry Current or Blacklist current particular item based on usages
- On Variations, we will be having section to get and modify items under Boost Rules, Burry Rules and Blacklist Rules
- Analytics - to view analytics
- Widget view
- Content by views
- Content by clicks
- Content report by Date Range, devices, Region
- Keyword view
- On searched key, Content report by Date Range, devices, Region
- Clicks, views, unique searches
- How many search results based on searched key
- Null searches
- Biggest gainer and decliners
- Catalog - to add different website as well, to get the results from different sources.
- Administrator tools
Hope this will help to understand better about Sitecore Search.
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