Hello,
I have an idea, but it may be too difficult to implement into the Price Tapestry search.
For example, at Amazon--you can rank your results by bestselling and relevance together. With Price Tapestry it may be possible to rank it by 50% popularity and 50% relevance. This would mean a greater chance that the shopper would find what they are looking for.
If this possible, please point me in the correct direction.
Thanks in advance.
Michael
Thanks for the reply.
I'll see if there is anything else I can think of.
Michael
Hello Michael,
As Price Tapestry does not record clicks on a per product basis it would be quite difficult to establish a baseline for popularity (considering that a product is normally available from more than one merchant).
The second issue is that you are limited to the basic ordering capabilities of MySQL. Whilst it is possible to use multiple parameters in the ORDER part of the SQL, you are limited to one parameter and then the other rather than have both parameters work together, as Amazon are able to do.
Cheers,
David.