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“So last week Eric Enge interviewed everybody’s favorite Spam Cop, Matt Cutts (not to be confused with everybody’s favorite Axe Cop), about all sorts of juicy Googleyness. You can read the whole enchilada over at Stone Temple, or view an illustrated version Rand put together (I recommend you do both, it’s really good material).
The interview shed a lot of light but also inspired some confusion and questions, especially about how much of a site Big G will or won’t crawl. If you’ve got a big site, say an e-commerce site with lots of flexible navigation and categorization, this could be a big problem for you. Fear not! This week’s Whiteboard Friday will show you a clean, simple way to allow for both great usability for your visitors and compact, straightforward crawlability for the engines.”
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-friday-faceted-navigation
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Merchants no longer have to wait days or even weeks to have a third party search setup.
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO – August 11, 2010 – Earlier today B7 Interactive, the creators of SearchSpring and a leader in hosted site search, announced the release of their new super fast account creation wizard. Merchants no longer have to wait days or even weeks to have a third party search setup. This new wizard allows merchants to instantly sign up, setup, and deploy improved search functionality without having to have strong technical knowledge. SearchSpring is the first to bring this ease of setup to the third party search market. The intuitive wizard will guide merchants step by step from configuring their feed, to configuring their fields, and designing their search layout look and feel.
A new feature highly anticipated by SearchSpring customers as part of the new wizard is the brand new AJAX technology based search interface. The new search interface includes facet based navigation, AJAX based product comparison, a CSS based templating system, and only requires a single line of HTML to be integrated into a site. The AJAX search also improves performance by allowing customers to use its functionality without having to refresh the page. Within the AJAX search, only the results reload based on what the customer has filtered or sorted by. In addition to performance enhancements, the AJAX search is very sexy in visual appearance.
SearchSpring puts merchants in the driver’s seat of their site’s search feature by giving them control over every aspect of the software, including the ability to customize the look and feel. Fine grained control over field-level configuration options and the ability to manage synonyms and merchandising settings available inside the newly redesigned SearchSpring Management Console. Retailers using SearchSpring aren’t required to submit support tickets for changes they can handle themselves – and a US-based team of rockstar support engineers is available to assist merchants with more complex adjustments.
You can see a live demo of the new AJAX search and the SearchSpring price plans at http://www.searchspring.net .
“The AJAX Search UI brings SearchSpring brings SearchSpring into the Web 2.0 world,” said James Bathgate of B7 Interactive. “It allows our customers to offer a great user experience within their search which will lead to an increased sales conversion percentage. And with pricing starting as low as $99.95, hosted site search is more obtainable than ever before”.
About SearchSpring:
Developed by B7 Interactive and a team of veteran E-Commerce software developers, SearchSpring’s E-Commerce site search and faceted navigation solutions empower online retailers to unleash findability. Delivering the latest in search and AJAX technology, SearchSpring enables merchants to provide a rich and engaging online shopping experience. For more information, visit www.searchspring.net or call 888-643-9043.