if they can’t find it, they can’t buy it – lift conversion with better search
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If They Can’t Find It, They Can’t Buy It – Lift Conversion With Better Search How Web Search Influences Website Expectations. Presented by: Ed Hoffman, VP of Global Sales and Business Development And Richard Sexton, Owner of Carolina Rustica. Site Search Influenced by Web Search. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
If They Can’t Find It, They Can’t Buy It – Lift Conversion With Better Search
How Web Search Influences Website Expectations
Presented by: Ed Hoffman, VP of Global Sales and Business DevelopmentAnd Richard Sexton, Owner of Carolina Rustica
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Evolution of Search
Continued Innovation
Voice Search
Mobile Search
Instant Previews
Google Instant
Optimized Refinements
Realtime Search
Auto Complete
Universal Search
Links to news and articles
Images in Search
Many Consumers Search FIRST
• Consumers use Google or Yahoo or some web search every day – they are used to searching
• They want what they came for, not to be ‘distracted’
• If they can’t find it, they can’t buy it.
• Do you search first?
The Importance Of Site Search
• The most important page on your site is the site search page
• Users often rely on search as their main hunting strategy
• 43% of visitors use the search box• 30% of all activity on websites is search• Visitors who use Site Search convert better than non-
searchers. Why? • Search is a fundamental component of the Web user
experience and is getting more important every year
Understanding Visitors’ Language
• Fast, precise and successful searches increase your customers trust
• A picture is worth a thousand words, and there are probably 1000 different ways to describe any picture.
• Retailers see a huge variety of query terms & phrases.
Effective Site Search
• Relevance is crucial
• An effective search will help visitors
choose to buy
• 73% of people leave a site within
minutes if search is poor
• Watching search behavior helps
merchants understand visitors
• Without effective site search, in short,
merchants lose business
Rich Auto Complete
• Can get straight to
products from the search
box
• 33% of searchers use it
• Conversion rate 2x
• AOV 17% higher
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Facebook Integration
• Trivial inclusion of like button and number of likes.• Query at index time to allow sort by likes.
Using KPI’s to Measure Onsite Success
• Measures that help you understand how you are doing against your objectives.
Coming up
• Social Media Search Results
• Cross-linking site search
• Floating Search Bar
• Click to Call for search results
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