A LIST Apart: For People Who Make Websites

No. 292

Discuss: Internal Site Search Analysis: Simple, Effective, Life Altering!

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To my mind it is really time expensive to analyze the users’ behavior and to fix probable weaknesses of the internal search, but nevertheless the results are far better than most people would say. A website can have the greatest structure—but if its search engine gives completely unordered results, the users will not find what they want and finally give up, anyway.

posted at 12:05 pm on September 29, 2009 by patrick_l

2 The Analyze Drop Down

Great article. I can’t reproduce some of the screens though.
Screen shot 8 with 59,980 results at the top is an example.
I can get a ‘dimension:’ with site-search-status as one of the dimensions.
I can’t seem to find the ‘analyze:’ drop down or the search-term-overview variable.
Thanks,
Steve

posted at 02:46 pm on September 30, 2009 by SteveInTheBoro

3 ANALYZING non-ecommerce site?

Maybe I can’t see that drop down because I an not using ecommerce settings in Google Analytics…
Steve

posted at 04:18 pm on September 30, 2009 by SteveInTheBoro

4 Great Keyword Research

I really like your article. It gave me some ideas of how I can improve the websites I design and maintain. Thank you!

posted at 10:23 pm on October 3, 2009 by jacoblouis

5 Nice thinking

I’s a nice and useful way to use Excel for site search analysis, and quite varying from the other methods presented today. I did not believe before that there were so many different techniques for that issue.

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posted at 04:28 am on October 28, 2009 by pasangikchin

6

Really great. The results in that table really show the whole picture :)

posted at 09:26 pm on March 9, 2010 by Dena Tasarım

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A very in-depth discussion! The information you presented is worth a treasure. I will use them in my new e-commerce site.

posted at 10:29 am on June 3, 2011 by soren

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