{"id":22051,"date":"2019-05-21T17:34:28","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T15:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/belvg.com\/blog\/?p=22051"},"modified":"2023-10-31T19:01:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T17:01:09","slug":"how-to-set-up-magento-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belvg.com\/blog\/how-to-set-up-magento-search.html","title":{"rendered":"How to Set up Magento Search? Step-by-step Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Does your store have an onsite search? Do you think it is good? <\/span>For a great many of online enterprise owners and managers, the webstore search is an insignificant element in the shop construction that can exist unattended for a long time.<\/p>\n

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However, the onsite ecommerce search was found to be the preferred strategy for finding an item, and also a method faster than catalog navigation. At the same time, the whopping 70% of ecommerce search solutions are unable to yield relevant results to the customer query. As a result, a significant share of visitors leaves without finding what they wanted to, resulting in loss of profits for the store owners. Apart from this, the search and navigation usability are ranked among the factors, that directly impact website search engine result position.<\/p>\n

If you run your Magento online store, the issues of irrelevant search results or broken onsite search engine will never concern you. Magento ecommerce solution offers a wide range of ecommerce search site functionalities that, if set up correctly and customized to suit the individual parameters of your webstore, will make up a reliable and smart webstore search engine.<\/p>\n

From this comprehensive guide, you will learn how to set up Magento ecommerce website search and what are the best additional Magento tools you can install to enhance your webstore search engine capabilities.<\/p>\n

Table of contents:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Magento category search
\n<\/a>How to configure Magento catalog search
\n<\/a>How to configure Magento search synonyms and misspellings
\n<\/a>Top 5 Magento search extensions<\/a><\/p>\n

Magento Category Search<\/h2>\n

Magento ecommerce platform offers wide search practices and possibilities to both the Magento admin and a customer. I will explore the aspect of Magento catalogue search from the perspective of both roles.<\/p>\n

First, I will identify the client capabilities. A customer can make a catalog search query two ways – using Magento quick query and Magento advanced query.<\/p>\n

Magento Quick Search<\/h3>\n

A quick search in Magento is a search box in the online shop header, where the customers type in the search query. It is up to the customer how to search for the product – enter a product name, brand or an attribute that describe it. The system will put out the list of products that contain matching words for a customer to select from.<\/p>\n

\"quick<\/a><\/p>\n

Magento Advanced Search<\/h3>\n

Advanced search is a full-bodied search form, allowing customers to make a detailed search query. The link to Magento advanced search can be found in the footer of the store.<\/p>\n

The advanced search form consists of fields for multiple parameters, like Product Name, SKU, Description, Short Description, Price, etc.; as a store admin, you can configure the advanced search form and add to it the parameters you need. During the search process, a customer fills in several parameters or all of them and presses the Search button. The system output will contain all the products matching the attributes from your search query. In case there is no matching item in the search results, a customer will be offered to modify their search results.<\/p>\n

\"advanced<\/a><\/p>\n

Magento Popular Search Terms<\/h3>\n

In case your customers are unsure of what they are looking for, it will be really helpful to them to visit the popular search page, where most popular search terms are presented. One can find it in the footer of the main page, near the Advanced Search tab. The larger the size of the search term is, the more popular it is among your customers.<\/p>\n

To enable Magento search terms, follow this course of actions:<\/p>\n

Step #1<\/strong>: navigate to Stores<\/strong> -> Configuration<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Stores<\/a><\/p>\n

Step #2<\/strong>: go to Catalog<\/strong> -> Catalog<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"catalog<\/a><\/p>\n

Step #3<\/strong>: expand the Search Engine Optimization<\/strong> tab.<\/p>\n

\"search<\/a><\/p>\n

Step #4<\/strong>: set Popular Search Terms<\/strong> at Enable<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"popular<\/a><\/p>\n

Step #5<\/strong>: press Save Config<\/strong> button in the upper right corner.<\/p>\n

How to configure Magento catalog search<\/h2>\n

A Magento store admin is able to select a search engine for their webstore: MySQL or Elasticsearch. Each of them has a set of individual configurations and additional features the Magento store manager can perform.<\/p>\n

How to configure MySQL in Magento<\/h3>\n

This is a default Magento search engine, so there is no need to instal MySQL if you choose as a solution. MySQL configuration allows to set up individual search operation behaviours, the query text length and search recommendations display. Apart from this, MySQL contains the EAV Indexer that speeds up indexation and disallows the Magento catalog index to use 3rd party extensions.<\/p>\n

This is a step-by-step instruction on how to perform MySQL setup:<\/p>\n

Step #1<\/strong>: navigate to Stores<\/strong> -> Settings<\/strong> -> Configuration<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"stores<\/a><\/p>\n

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Step #2<\/strong>: expand the Catalog<\/strong> section and select Catalog<\/strong> tab.<\/p>\n

\"catalog<\/a><\/p>\n

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Step #3<\/strong>: expand the Catalog Search<\/strong> section.<\/p>\n

\"catalog<\/a><\/p>\n

Step #4<\/strong>: set up the fields from Catalog Search<\/strong> menu.<\/p>\n

\"catalog<\/a><\/p>\n