So you've gotten your search behaving fairly well overall, and things seem to be humming along great: you've gotten the settings how you like them, your content's using consistent terminology , you've tweaked your search weights a little, and y...
Synonyms are one of the unsung heroes of your knowledge base. You probably don't know they're there, but they can make a huge difference to how you write your content--and how it's indexed. Synonyms' entire purpose is to help your search index wo...
By now, I hope you've picked up on the fact that you don't need to do anything for your content to be indexed for search--it just is. So why do we include search phrases, if we're already indexing the title, permalink, body, PDFs, and meta descript...
The Search Weights controls available in Settings > Search let you set relative weights that will be used by the search ranking algorithm to determine the order of results returned. This lets you dial in your search a bit to fit your content. B...
We automatically index the content in six article fields for search: Title Permalink/URL Body PDFs Meta description Search phrases So the first step to "tuning" your search isn't really about search at all: it's about making sure that your ...
Most search options are controlled in the Settings > Search menu. So this first tip is a fairly straightforward one: take a quick look through the options available here and be sure you're using--or not using!--settings that make sense for your c...
We're often asked how people can optimize--or dial in--their search results. This is a multi-step process. First: we only recommend tweaking your search weights or other settings once you have some concrete, specific examples to test with. Optimiz...