Search Checklist
The search checklist contains the tasks that can be performed to customize search. Outside of the basic search setup, most of these are optional, but recommended.
We also recommend reading the Commerce Cloud - Site Search Platform Adoption Playbook, designed to help you serve relevant side search results to increase revenue.
Basic Search Setup
Task | Role |
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Configure the search pipeline and search templates. If you are using SiteGenesis as starting point of your application the search pipeline is already configured. See also Understanding the Search Pipeline and SiteGenesis Application Search Implementation. |
Developer |
Configure Searchable Attributes To find products by an attribute, such as product name, you must make sure that the attribute is indexed and searchable. |
Merchant |
Merchant | |
Developer | |
Merchant | |
Merchant |
Configure How Products Are Found on the Site
Task | Role |
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Merchant | |
Merchant | |
Merchant | |
Merchant | |
Merchant | |
Merchant | |
Merchant | |
Merchant | |
Merchant | |
Merchant |
Configure How Products Are Sorted in the Search Results
Configure How Products Are Found by External Search Engines
Task | Role |
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Create short, meaningful URLs for external search engines to index by assigning a short alias to a long hostname. |
Developer |
Use the URL Rules module to change the URLs for your site and add information that can improve your search rank. |
Merchant |
Generating
Sitemaps
Create sitemaps for external search engines to improve freshness and completeness of data indexed by search engines. |
Developer |
Generating
a Robots.txt File
Add a robots.txt file to control portions of the site you don't want search engines to index. This can include non-html resources that could cause problems with indexing. |
Developer |
Creating URL
Redirects
Add redirects from a legacy platform or redirect from an old Salesforce B2C Commerce category to a new category. |
Merchant |
Improve and Troubleshoot Search
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Merchant | |
Merchant |