Rh 2015 & Rh 10 — Search results not prioritizing properly

Question

I created my project in Rh 10 and recently migrated it to Rh 2015. The problem I am describing has been present in both versions in exactly the same way.

I have a topic called "PCAP Files" (pcap_files.htm). I would like it to be the first result when the user searches for "pcap," but it is not: it's always 9th or so, as shown:

I have "pcap" and "pcaps" in the search keyword list for the "PCAP Files" page and no search keywords for PCAP APIs (which is always listed first). Those other topics in between either do not contain "pcap" in the search keyword list, or they do but "pcap" is not in the title, filename, nor TOC entry.

How do I make sure that the "PCAP Files" topic is first or second in the search results?

Captiv8r · Accepted Answer

So it's ranking the pages according to how many times "pcap" appears in the body?

Does the number of "pcap" occurrences in the body outweigh the presence of "pcap" in all these other places?

search-keywords
filename
title
TOC

If that's the case,

The help files need to be altered to reflect this reality.
I need to put "pcap" in the body of that page about a dozen times but hide them under a conditional tag?

Hello again

Unfortunately, I've never read anything official from Adobe on this. What I'm sharing in this thread is simply what I've personally learned by simple experimentation.

So if no topics have pcap and one does, of course it should be the only one found.

If pcap appears 1,000 times in the body text of one topic but appears only ONE time in another topic but it's in a heading, that topic will be listed first.

And what seems to trump all is the existence of the term in a Topic Title. There may be small variations that could occur as "tie breakers". For example, say two topics had a heading with the term in it, I might expect the topic with more occurrences to be given more weight. Or if two topics have the term in a heading but one is a heading 2 while the other is a heading 1, then I would expect the topic with a Heading 1 mention to be given more weight. But I'm not certain about this. Just a hunch on my part.

Listing something but hiding via conditional tag would defeat the purpose as that text would not be present after generation.

So the little Search Keyword field helps in some cases, but isn't the end all solution.

Cheers... Rick

Captiv8r · Answer

Can you elaborate with perhaps a screen shot what you mean when you say: I have "pcap" and "pcaps" in the search keyword list for the "PCAP Files" page

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