Episerver Search & Navigation

The Episerver Customer-Centric Digital Experience Platform contains many features to support you in your daily work. Depending on how your solution is set up, some features described in this documentation may not be available to you. Contact your system administrator to find out more. See Episerver World for technical information.

Most site visitors abandon a website if they cannot quickly find what they are looking for. With increasing information volumes, menu navigation is no longer sufficient, so search becomes critical for locating information. Episerver Search & Navigation (formerly Episerver Find) adds powerful search functionality to websites. Search encompasses internet search engines (like Bing) and a website's search function.

Search optimization increases the chances of attracting visitors to your website, keeping them there, and getting them to complete an action, such as registering or shopping. This is closely related to search engine optimization (SEOStands for "search engine optimization"; making website content attractive to website visitors and, as a result, achieving high rankings in search results.), often referred to as "the process of improving the visibility of website content in the search results."

Episerver Search & Navigation bases search functionality on visitor search behavior and website statistics. Using this information, you can add automatic landing pages, adaptive navigation, and guided search to increase website traffic and boost conversion rates.

The Episerver Search & Navigation documentation shows search administrators, such as editors and site administrators, how to set up and use Episerver Search & Navigation. It also shows developers how to configure and set up search features.

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Feature summary

With Episerver Search & Navigation, you can develop customized functionality, such as filtering and faceted navigation, based on content properties, such as price or color. Episerver Search & Navigation is based on an index service and interfaces, which can be cloud-based or installed on-premises. Episerver Search & Navigation supports multiple languages.

Episerver Search & Navigation indexes any type of website object, not only web pages. As soon as an author publishes content, Episerver Search & Navigation pushes data to the search engine, making new or updated content available in near real-time.

Features in "standard" Episerver Search & Navigation

Features in Episerver Search & Navigation Connections Edition

Episerver Search & Navigation Connections Edition lets you add connectors, which index external content that is related to but not part of your website. For purchasing information about the Connections Edition, see Order Episerver Search & Navigation. To learn how to use it, see Adding connectors.

See Getting started for logging in, accessing features, and working with the Episerver user interface.

Help in Episerver Search & Navigation

Episerver Search & Navigation's user interface provides onscreen documentation. To access it, click Show Help in the upper right corner.