Creating a Search Merchandising strategy involves creating and configuring several assets. There are few restrictions placed on the order in which you perform tasks, but you may find it easier to approach them in this order:
An administrator determines the structure for the search configuration tree, which involves deciding how you want to organize your search configurations and search configuration folders, the dimensions and dimension values held by each, and the base search configurations you want to create. This section, Structuring the Search Configuration Tree, contains the information you need to make those decisions.
An administrator creates the search configuration folders, sets up the dimension language and segment values, and selects the properties that can affect result ordering using property prioritization. These tasks are described in the Administering Search Configurations section. Note that you must create search configuration folders before creating search configurations.
A merchandising user creates base search configurations as described in Creating Base Search Configurations.
A merchandiser user specifies the rules and settings used by the base search configurations as described in Defining Search Configurations.
A merchandising user creates search configurations as described in Creating Search Configurations.
A merchandiser user specifies the rules and settings used by the search configurations as described in Defining Search Configurations.
A merchandiser runs sample search tests that list the results that would appear on your Web site if that search configuration were deployed.
