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Our emphasis on practical experimentation means we're always discovering ways to create better online experience. This section of our site is about sharing our learnings.

Using faceted search to sift through soil products

Posted on July 29th, 2009 by Hurol Inan [No Comments]

Overview

Camden Soil Mix provides products and services to customers in horticulture, agriculture, viticulture, civil works and commercial landscaping; as well as services in earth management to local councils.

Customers rely on the diverse range of sustainable, organic products on offer, and need the ability to find the right product to suit their growing or landscaping application.

Following acquisition by WSN Environmental Solutions, the business undertook a market analysis and segmentation project and, from this, developed a focused strategy to engage key categories of customers. They sought to re-design the website with these customers top of mind – so that each market segment could find what they were looking for quickly and easily.

Bienalto was engaged to devise the new site. The resulting architecture – which utilises faceted search on the Wordpress platform – intuitively guides customers to the products they seek; whilst remaining supportive of WSN’s design aesthetic and sustainability focus.

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Does your site need a search engine?

Posted on November 6th, 2008 by Hurol Inan [3 Comments]

When was the last time you were frustrated by a poorly performing site search function? Chances are, it wasn’t too long ago.

There’s a prevailing attitude amongst web users out there: site search doesn’t work. It’s not surprising, given the common practice of ‘let’s chuck a search engine on our site’ without planning how it should work.

If it doesn’t work, then why bother? Why should you include site search, when it requires a reasonable investment to implement and maintain? Read More

Using site search analysis in integrated marketing

Posted on April 17th, 2008 by Hurol Inan [No Comments]

Two years ago, in my book Search Analytics, I said that “the quality of onsite search is poor and the idea that it can be studied to optimise websites is yet to reach critical mass acceptance.”

I lamented the fact that site search was a vastly neglected – yet eminently useful – tool on company websites.

So what’s changed in two years?

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