A couple weeks ago, we dug into internal site search & found that in some cases, searches performed by only 10% of the site's total traffic made up nea

Tip #1 - Make sure search boar is visible.

Tip #2 - Use auto-complete, suggestions and create Top 10 Search results content.

Tip #3 - Show most "relevant" results first (see tip #10).

Tip #4 - Deliver results in "local language" i.e. call things the same as your audience.

Tip #5 - Offer multiple ways users can filter results (price, category, best reviewed, most shared).

Tip #6 - Include product reviews, in-stock status and purchasing buttons.

Tip #7: Mine internal search to guide merchandising.

Tip 8: Keep SEO Spiders away from internal search results to avoid duplicate content and no social support problems.

Tip #9: Give customers the ability to save searches to MyProfile.

Tip #10 Use an algorithm to fire search results based on predictive analytics (persona based if possible).

Marty Note
When I was a Director of Ecommerce we used Internal search to help make our aggressive growth goals. I added 7 - 10 because internal search is every ecommerce team's best ally. Internal search is a goldmine of information. Follow these ten tips to mine the gold internal search provides.

Twitter’s memory is about to get a lot better. 

The company announced today that it has indexed all public tweets and will be giving users the ability to search through the full body of Twitter’s roughly half trillion posts.

Twitter’s search has long been incomplete because the company’s engineers focused on sifting through real-time output. The real-time search engine, an inverted index of about a week’s worth of tweets, has been supplemented since 2012 with about 2 billion “top tweets” and in 2013 that link was made more robust.

There is a new invisible giant using 5 "tricks" so the "new seo" is getting harder and harder to see and understand. This Haiku Deck and Curatti blog post is about how to see the invisible giant. How to win hearts and minds online.

Why New SEO So Hard To See
* Google Float & Filter Bubbles.
* Social Media Marketing's Disappearing Act.

* Friends of Friends Marketing.

* Multi-channel Marketing.

* Web's "Fabric" Like Space/Time.

Adding a Curatti blog post at midnight tonight too.

Google plus is one of the most unknown, under-utilized internet marketing tools available on the internet right now. It contains magical powers, like the ability to get your face to appear next to your search result listings in Google Search and the opportunity to network with thousands of like-minded individuals.   Many whisper that Google Plus holds the secret to future Google Search organic rankings.   At the very minimum, Google Plus is a vibrant community full of engaged users that are ready to become a part of your online audience.  It also has so much potential to become intertwined with every aspect of Google’s multiple prominent platforms.

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As it turns out, social media and search go hand-in-hand...

From Facebook and Twitter, to Pinterest and MySpace (yes, it still exists), social media users are often on the search for… something.

For marketers, understanding the searches that lead to improved engagement is critical.

To that end, Azntaiji Multimedia and SocialRadius have produced a new infographic highlighting exactly what so many of us are searching for.