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 Post subject: What if a user doesn't find what they're looking for
PostPosted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 6:03 pm  (#1) 
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1) If a user finds what they're looking for through organic search engine results...Great!
2) If a user somehow finds their way to the forum, and then performs a forum search and finds what they're looking for ... Good!
3) If a user is on the forum, then performs a forum search and doesn't find what they're looking for... Bad!

I am thinking, on how we can improve the forums for future users when we have case #3 above.

So I saved the keywords performed on forum and have a counter that counts how many times those keywords were searched for.

This way users can look at most popular searches and be able to create tutorials/questions/answers tailored to those keywords so that case #3 happens less often and we turn them into case #1 or case #2.

you can view GL's searched keywords here (recorded since Sept 16,2017): https://www.gimplearn.net/searches.php

This will turn searches performed by guests (who might not register just to ask a question) into useful information.

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 Post subject: Re: What if a user doesn't find what they're looking for
PostPosted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 6:35 pm  (#2) 
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This list is viewable by public so anyone can access it.
and write blog posts, forum posts, tutorials about for those keywords anywhere else that they'd like.

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 Post subject: Re: What if a user doesn't find what they're looking for
PostPosted: Sat Sep 16, 2017 9:27 pm  (#3) 
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Just added a column that tells your number of results returned.
And hilighted rows with zero results as those rows are possible candidates to write question/answers/tutorials on.

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