Do it at the day job. (Large independent Office Supplies B2B company.) Want to know not only what people are searching for, but also how long the query took and how many records come back. Currently analysing results where no results come back to improve the results if it is something we sell. (You'd be shocked how many different ways there are to incorrectly spell "scissors.")
On 4/13/05, Will Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all, > > I recently added a simple but very effective feature on my client's site. I > just never thought of doing this but once it hit me, I was like yeah! That'd > be great. And don't expect any rocket science, it's ol' Will here. :) > > She asked about tracking what her users were searching for on the volleyball > clothing site. I immediately thought, tblsearches (let's not go there :)) - > searchID, searchterm, searchdate, etc..etc.. Well it's turned out to be a > VERY good addition. I win for obvious reasons, my client wins because we now > know that we have quite a few shoppers searching for socks. Ok, so they're > also searching for their friends' names, but that's beside the point. lol! > The customer wins because we now know what products they're looking for and > now we'll work on offering them. > > Just thought I'd share that little tidbit with you all because I've never > seen this in the books I've read, nor heard anyone talking about it here in > the forums. I also know some guys that build major e-commerce apps and even > THEY don't do anything like this right now, yet it's so simple! Is it not > standard practice to log all searches to your db? > > Thanks for reading, > Will > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:202672 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
