Lets talk about search and the search function on your WordPress blog. Almost all themes you can use will have a search function built in, and it will work well for you 99% of the time.
I was having problems getting the results I thought I should have from the searches that I conducted. With that in mind, I went looking for a new on site search. I came across the google custom search. As with everything else that is Google it works well, and there is a free option for you to use.
The problem is that with the free version Google brands the search box on your website. Not something I was excited about. Also I found the results were not any different than the ones I was getting with the default built in search.
That lead me to think about the way I was searching. I was just asking for a word to be found in a whole lot of words. Is that the right way? Does it matter? How can we as the developers of our WordPress blog help our readers search more effectively?
We all know that part of the core of having good Findability is the ability for your readers to be able to find what they are looking for on your blog in as many ways as you can offer.
This is something I will be looking at for the next couple of posts. I would love to get your thoughts on this and any tips or things you do to help your users use search more effectively.
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