On site Search

Guiding Principles for Search - Listen, Guide & Facilitate

Problem

Customers complain of an overwhelming amount of results for generic queries such as “drills”

Often challenged with finding the right product for their search (I can’t find)

Goals

Increase conversion through search

Solution 1

 

Visual Navigation – In-house built algorithm identifies top categories for each term and picks most relevant image to assist in promoting highly relevant categories

Solution 2

 

Type Ahead – Autosuggest algorithm to recommend top searched queries over the last 13 weeks.  Layered in Relevancy ranking algorithm to determine top products to appear

Results

  • Visual Navigation
    • 10%+ conversion lift MoM
    • Scalable algorithm to 10,000 search terms
  • Type Ahead
    • Increased search conversion by 30% YoY