{"id":1707,"date":"2022-01-07T01:40:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T01:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2022-02-23T09:16:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T09:16:17","slug":"how-to-customize-results-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/concepts\/personalizing-results\/how-to-customize-results-ranking\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuning Results Ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_auto\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_grid cols_1 laptops-cols_inherit tablets-cols_inherit mobiles-cols_1 valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Introduction\"><\/span>Introduction<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a business user you may have the need to promote certain products based on a context or a mandate and position certain results in certain places in the order of appearance. SearchAssist allows you to finetune the search results based on your business priorities, either hide\/unhide, or boost or lower certain results.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Example in an e-commerce scenario, you may have to push marketing offers like combo deals, quantity discounts, time bound offers. SearchAssist allows you to prioritize and position the required results relative to\u00a0 others to get the attention of your customers. You can also choose to hide\/unhide a product page depending on the availability or the lack of that particular item.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also in an enterprise website knowledge search scenario, certain regulatory notification needs to be on the top of all the results of some queries <\/span><b>to ensure proper visibility <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of that regulation which could impact process\u00a0 areas concerned; example COVID protocol from govt in public places.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Results Ranking<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an interactive and visual way to customize ranking order in which search results appear. The SearchAssist platform allows you to fine-tune results using the test-as-you-build feature without the need to deploy the Search Assistant and visualize results. You can both preview and customize the search results as you build.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click the <\/span><b>Test <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0on the upper-right is readily accessible from any page on the SearchAssist platform interface.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Add a result from the repository if missed by the search. See all the customizations performed on search queries on the results ranking page.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To access <\/span><b>Results Ranking<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, take the following steps:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click the Indices tab on the top.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">On the left pane, under the <b>Search Configuration<\/b> section, click <b>Results Ranking<\/b>.<a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/PR_Results_Ranking.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3405 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/PR_Results_Ranking-300x120.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/PR_Results_Ranking-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/PR_Results_Ranking.png 735w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the <\/span><b>Results Ranking<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> page, click <\/span><b>Test <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on the upper-right. You can perform this action from any page on the SearchAssist interface.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A search bar appears where you can type your queries and click <\/span><b>Search<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as configured. For example, let us enter a query \u2018Credit\u2019 and click <\/span><b>Search<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A list of matched pages appears on the <\/span><b>Preview <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tab of the search window.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the search window, click the <\/span><b>Customize <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tab on the top.\u00a0 <a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/PR_Results_Ranking_customize.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3406 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/PR_Results_Ranking_customize.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"735\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/PR_Results_Ranking_customize.png 735w, https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/PR_Results_Ranking_customize-300x102.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the <\/span><b>Customize <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tab, you can find the number of <\/span><b>views <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>clicks <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for the matched pages by clicking the <\/span><b>Query Analytics<a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/PR_Results_Ranking_query.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3407 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/PR_Results_Ranking_query.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/PR_Results_Ranking_query.png 740w, https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/PR_Results_Ranking_query-300x60.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hover over the matched pages and you can perform the following actions by toggle:<a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/PR_boost_hide_unhide.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3409 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/PR_boost_hide_unhide-300x79.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"79\" srcset=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/PR_boost_hide_unhide-300x79.png 300w, https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/PR_boost_hide_unhide.png 723w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/PR_boost_hide_unhide1-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3410 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/PR_boost_hide_unhide1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Hide\/Unhide<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the particular search result<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Pin <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0results in the top\/<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">desired<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> position<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Boost <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0the relevance score<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Lower <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0the relevance score\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In case any search result is missing from the list, you can add using the <\/span><b>+Add from repository <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">link at the bottom. This will allow you to choose based on the type of source.<br \/>\n<\/span>Added results can be to the top position.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3413 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/customize-results-ranking_add-from-repository-1024x426.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/customize-results-ranking_add-from-repository-1024x426.png 1024w, https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/customize-results-ranking_add-from-repository-300x125.png 300w, https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/customize-results-ranking_add-from-repository.png 1905w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/customize-results-ranking_add-from-repository2-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3414 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/customize-results-ranking_add-from-repository2-1-170x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/customize-results-ranking_add-from-repository2-1-170x300.png 170w, https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/customize-results-ranking_add-from-repository2-1.png 395w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After you perform any of the preceding actions on the respective search results, close the search window. The changes are saved automatically. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the Results Ranking page,\u00a0 find the list of search customizations in the left column.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Select any search customization and it displays the search result with the number of customizations on the right column.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you wish to remove any of the search result customizations, hover over the respective search result and click Remove.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0From the upper-right of the search result window, you can<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">launch the search in customize mode using the play icon<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">check the logs<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reset the customization<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Reset_Customization\"><\/span>Reset Customization<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sometimes you may have to undo customizations and revert to the default settings. SearchAssist allows you to reset\u00a0 to the default settings by taking the following steps:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the <\/span><b>Results Ranking<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> page,\u00a0 find the list of search results on the left column.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Select the checkbox of a search result and it displays the search result with the number of customizations on the right column.<\/span><\/span><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/customize-results-ranking_reset-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3412 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/customize-results-ranking_reset-1-300x152.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/customize-results-ranking_reset-1-300x152.png 300w, https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/customize-results-ranking_reset-1.png 982w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click <\/span><b>Reset <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on the top of the page.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the corresponding dialog box, click <\/span><b>Reset<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_auto\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_grid cols_1 laptops-cols_inherit tablets-cols_inherit mobiles-cols_1 valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"w-post-elm post_navigation layout_simple inv_false\"><a class=\"post_navigation-item order_first to_prev\" href=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/invoke-bot-actions\/how-to-do-bot-associated-actions\/\" title=\"Bot-Associated Actions\"><div class=\"post_navigation-item-arrow\"><\/div><div class=\"post_navigation-item-meta\">Previous Post<\/div><div class=\"post_navigation-item-title\"><span>Bot-Associated Actions<\/span><\/div><\/a><a class=\"post_navigation-item order_second to_next\" href=\"https:\/\/multisite.korebots.com\/SearchAssist\/concepts\/personalizing-results\/how-to-define-and-apply-business-rules\/\" title=\"Configuring Business Rules\"><div class=\"post_navigation-item-arrow\"><\/div><div class=\"post_navigation-item-meta\">Next Post<\/div><div class=\"post_navigation-item-title\"><span>Configuring Business Rules<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Introduction As a business user you may have the need to promote certain products based on a context or a mandate and position certain results in certain places in the order of appearance. 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