Sunday, March 14, 2010

Internal Site Search Analysis : Importance

Of late, Internal Site Search Analysis has been an important key to a Business's overwhelming success story. The quality of Internal Search(IS) algorithm has to be very good for a business to survive. A good quality IS directly scores over the intent of the esteemed customer. If the site's IS is ineffective, we do generally found an increased number of Exits then and there.

Generally, Internal search queries refers to the Customer's needs and requirements at your site.
So, if the IS algorithm is not effective,he/she decides to leave the site, after failing to locate his/her choice of products. IS Analysis helps us to analyze the Customer's intent: whether the site is useful for your esteemed guests or is it that the fall out percentage is way too high.

Proper usage of the IS data should ensure proper page navigation within the website, help the website generate content ideas, the conversion rate shoots up and strategic bid for the Internal Search Keywords in the PPC's.


Nowadays Internal Search data is not too hard to get and analyse owing to the numerous tools available in the market. IS generally constitutes 10% of the total traffic. So if the businesses get into the right form of IS methodology, and the esteemed guests get their desired products, the conversion rate is sure to shoot up.

I will cover the essential metrics to look out for in the IS analysis in my subsequent posts.


1 comment:

  1. Hi Debjit,

    Really insightful post..looking forward to your next post.

    Paul

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