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by daremon
6146 days ago
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Nice idea and the implementation seems good. I am tempted to use this on some of my sites. Some questions: a) How does it work? Lets say I have a recipe site and a visitor arrives from Google having searched for "steak". How do you find related articles on my site? b) What if my site isn't indexed? (e.g. new, blocked etc) c) The widget has 8 actions (links/buttons etc). 2 of them point to my site and 6 to yours! I would prefer something like 7 to mine and 1 to yours :) d) Certainly add some options. The "Looking for more on", "Or try a new search" and the 3 related keywords should be optional. e) The 480px is very limiting. I can't put that in a sidebar it has to go to the main area f) The site copy needs a redo. I could not easily grasp what it does, how it works etc. Great work overall - I hope my suggestions are well taken! |
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a) I use the Yahoo BOSS index of your site to find other pages that would fit the search query well.
b) If the site isn't indexed then SearchEkko just doesn't display the widget at all.
c) Haha well it certainly tries to give the site owner front and center real-estate. It also displays up to 4 results, if they're available (not shown in the demo).
d) Excellent points. It's early -- I just wanted to see if there was any demand for the product before I spent too much more time on it.
e) I don't think that it really works very well in a sidebar. It would be hard to display the other hits attractively, and I don't think it as noticeable to the visitor. I played around with it, and 480px seemed as short as I could reasonably go.
f) Good to know. It's something I've been working on, and I'll try to clarify it.
Thanks again!