How-to guides

Excluding information from crawling and indexing

SiteSeeker normally crawls every web page and document found on a website, starting with the home page of the website.

If there are links to objects on the site that should not be crawled, they can be excluded – we show you how.

Troubleshooting - why are some pages or documents not being indexed?

If some pages or documents have not been indexed, use this troubleshooting guide to identify the problem.

Query Completion in the search box

SiteSeeker can give the user query suggestions right in the search field. The suggestions are based on searches made by other users, ranked by frequency and click-through rate, or by titles from indexed pages.

Query Completion in the search box

SiteSeeker can give the user query suggestions right in the search field. The suggestions are based on searches made by other users, ranked by frequency and click-through rate, or by titles from indexed pages.

Recommendations

SiteSeeker can give recommended hits based on how other users have behaved after performing a search query. You can manage which user behaviour will trigger a recommendation.

Personalisation

SiteSeeker gives you the possibility to customise the search experience for different users. For example, you can use the access control system of your CMS to manage which search results are displayed for a given user.

The SiteSeeker implementation process

The SiteSeeker implementation process ensures an efficient and smooth implementation, and will help you to get the most out of your search solution.

Faceted search

A user's first search query is often of a general nature, and there is a need for help drilling down in the results. Faceted search is a well established design pattern for guiding the user to the results she expects. When used for e-commerce and product catalogues this pattern will give the best conditions for quick and exact search results.

Segmented result list

The visitor's first query is often of a general nature. Segmentation of the result list can be of use for websites where the user can be assumed to search for results of a specific type, since the search result is instantly displayed in a structured way and divided into different segments.

Creating a usable search page

In this document, we have collected inspiration and advice on how to use SiteSeeker's features and options in order to get maximum business value from your search function.

Develop with the SiteSeeker search integration for EPiServer

The Search integration for EPiServer makes it easy and fun to start develop useful and exciting search functionality as a part of an EPiServer website.

Configuring SiteSeeker for EPiServer manually

This tutorial will walk you through the various components needed to setup SiteSeeker integration with EPiServer

How to use and extend page metatags in the SiteSeeker Search Integration for EPiServer

When developing a website with SiteSeeker using SiteSeeker as your search engine, its important that you provide SiteSeeker with as much information as possible. This information can be provided through metatags. When the site is being crawled you want this information to be visible to the crawler, however not visible to the end user of your website.

Configuring SiteSeeker Search Integration Module EPiServer Module Intro

This section will give you a introduction to the SiteSeeker integration module for EPiServer.

Introduction to HTML Helpers Push metadata with Sitemaps

Previously it has only been possible to push metadata with it's associated object, the specific html-page or document.
Beginning with Siteseeker version 6.10.600 it's also possible to deliver all your metadata in your xml sitemap for all your objects - which makes lifes easier.
The technique is an extension of Google Sitemaps

Timeouts in .NET module

Since version 4.2.89.1 of our .NET module it's possible to configure the different sets of timeouts that are used during communication with the SiteSeeker server.

Search query API Popular queries

SiteSeeker allows you to present the most popular search queries on the search page.

Query completion in the search box Integration Module Diagnostics EPiServer CMS Integration Integration Module Exception Logging EPiServer NuGet Installation Guide

You can use NuGet, the package manager built into Visual Studio, to install the integration modules for EPiServer and .NET. If you are using EPiServer, the NuGet installer will also configure your web project so that you can get started with SiteSeeker quickly, and build a great search page.

.Net Integration Module Http Handlers Overriding ResultFacetList