Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Hint and Examples of Search Terms to Find Deals

At the end of earlier post of 'First Impression on a Site', I walked away by saying works ahead for me to do to improve users' impression. Since then, as a person who follows up, I have been pondering how do I not making visitors come to keeca and scratch their heads saying 'What the hack is this site for?' I may have to choose to pay for an professional that does Web site assessment to give me some pratical advices. For a little more than a hundreds bucks, it might worth the money, but I'll save it for later. Before then, I decided to DIY and learn from your feedback.

To recall, the comments I got for keeca Deal Search were:

"I don't know what to type for search."
"I am not sure what your site can return."
"How is your site different from Google?"
Thus, on the Deal Search homepage, I made two changes around the deal search box:

First, I added a hint of 'Show savings on:' before the search box. I hope this to give stronger indication to visitors that they can type in terms that they are looking for discounts.

Secondly, I also added examples of what visitors can type as search terms below the search box. For this, I chose "clothes", "old navy", "prada" and "ipod" representing category, store name, brand, and product.



Show savings on:
Deals[?] Web Travel Classifieds Events

E.g. "clothes" or "old navy" or "prada" or "ipod"
While you're here, why don't you leave comments about your first impression of seeing Keeca Deal? I sure will follow up.

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