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drdss
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Oct 23, 2003, 8:32 AM
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Hello everyone,
I just purchased the search engine and am not happy with the results that I'm getting. What can I do?
Thanks,
Dean
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Donna
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Oct 23, 2003, 12:11 PM
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Hi Dean!
Thanks for your post. :)
Can you give me more details as to what results you're not happy with? Can you let me know where your site is? What results you're expecting, and what you're getting instead?
Thanks! I look forward to helping you. :)
Donna
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drdss
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Oct 23, 2003, 12:34 PM
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Hi Donna, when I do a search for a specific term, "blue widget," the blue widget page does not come up. I have controlled the keyword parameters where as such title=1 content=2, I don't want the search to go buy keywords or descriptions.
It does not seem to be weighing the relevancy of content? If my blue widget page has approximately 15% of that keyword term in the content and the title, why won't that page come up? This happens with most of the searches?
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Dean
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Donna
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Oct 23, 2003, 4:40 PM
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Hi Dean,
Good to hear from you!
With the keywords weights, the following defaults are:
Document Title 2 points
Meta Keywords 5 points
Meta Description 3 points
Document Body 1 points
This means that the meta keywords has the highest priority, and the body has the lowest priority. The higher the number, the more weight that that field will have to a search query showing up higher. It looks to me like you might have that reversed -- with title & content as the lower ranked items.
Try changing the keyword weighting on title & body up a bit, and see if that changes the results at all. :)
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drdss
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Oct 23, 2003, 5:19 PM
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Hello Donna, still having some troubling results.
I changed those parameters to title=5 body=4 desc=1 keywords=2.
Still no love for what i'm looking for.
Any suggestions?
Cheerio! I Really hope that this can be fixed.
Thanks for your time,
Dean 
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Cliff
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Oct 24, 2003, 3:02 PM
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Hi Dean,
Perhaps it would be a good idea if we take a look at what's going on.
If you could submit your detials through our Support Request, I will get to the bottom of your problem.
Thanks Dean, I hope to hear from you soon 
Regards,
Cliff Stefanuk - Customer Service Manager
support@interactivetools.com
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