Keeping track of what your visitors are searching for can provide invaluable feedback about what your visitors are looking for and what they are finding. This information can help you determine if you need to reorganize your site. You may want to keep an eye on "not found" searches to make sure your visitors are finding the information they're looking for.
Additionally, building search reports will use up a small amount of disk space, typically around 30Kb. Because your searches will run slightly slower while compiling the information necessary for the reports, the option is provided to turn off the building of search reports from the Setup Options.
- Top 100 successful search terms
This report lists the most popular words or phrases that have matched documents in the past.
- Top 100 "not found" search terms
This report lists the most popular words or phrases that have not matched any documents in the past.
- Last 100 successful queries
This report lists the most recent searches that have been preformed by your visitors which have returned at least one result. Type specifies whether the search was for any of the words, all of the words, or for an exact phrase.
- Last 100 "not found" queries
This report lists the most recent searches that have been preformed by your visitors which have returned no results. The Categories field lists any categories the search was constrained to, if this field is blank, it means that the search was preformed on the entire site. Search Options gives you een more detail about how the search was preformed. This field shows the "type" of search (any, all, or phrase), and what sections of the pages the search was preformed on (eg. body, keywords).