Overview
A web site search engine is specific to your web site only. If your web site contains pages of quality content, you can setup a search engine where your visitors can search for content that's only available on your web site. Your web site's search engine uses a simple text box that you can place anywhere on your web site using the code highlighted in Step 4 below. Your visitors can enter a keyword or keywords and click on the Search button to retrieve all related information available on your web site. The results are displayed according to what the search engine finds on your web site.
You can also change the "look and feel" of your web site's search engine results. To do this, follow the instructions in the Edit Search Results Template document.
NOTE: There are other scripts available that you can automatically install to enhance your web site's functionality.
Steps
- Highlight and copy the all the code displayed between the open tag as shown below.
Our example domain http://www.cpx3demo.com (highlighted above) is specific to our account. Your domain name should be used and will be pre-populated by the system.
NOTE: You can customize the look and feel of the search text box to your specific needs.
- Insert the code anywhere on your web site within the open tag and close tag.
- Click on the Go Back link.
- Next, click on the Rebuild Search Index link under the Entropy Search category.
This should be done periodically as your web site's content may change.
- You should see the following output after your web site's search index has been rebuilt.
Scanning Web Area:
Loading Files:
[1% Complete]
[101% Complete]
Building Index (this could take a while):
All Done
NOTE: If you have a large web site, it may take a few minutes to complete the search index rebuild.