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