What visitors type into your website’s search box is direct customer language. It reveals what they expect to find, and what is missing.
How to collect it
- Enable site search tracking in Google Analytics 4 (enhanced measurement).
- Store platforms often report searches too.
What to look for
- Frequent searches with no results: missing products, pages or synonyms.
- Terms that differ from your naming: customers say “kadhai”, you say “wok”.
- Questions people type.
- Searches that lead to exits.
Turn it into action
- Create pages or categories for repeated searches.
- Add synonyms to site search and product text.
- Add FAQs; expand with our question keyword generator.
- Use the terms in SEO keyword research; combine with our keyword combiner.
Read website search that helps visitors.
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