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[carpeperdiem]

Originally Posted by ADDISON

@carpeperdiem: we were not talking about Google's SEO. we talked new features related to CloudSearch. Read again to understand.

A well written product description negates the need for keyword stuffing.
To paraphrase Nikita, "what's good for the customer is what's good for the search".

The GOAL of search (any search, not just search engines), is to deliver RELEVANT results -- in other words, "what is the customer looking for?" - not "what does the merchant want to force down the throat of the customer?"

IF your product has a good description, cloudsearch will find it.

A workaround for content that you want to feature: since CloudSearch indexes static embedded content, a merchant can do targeted search merchandising (we do). If a customer is searching for "something specific", we have a static embedded page for them, 301'd to the product they are looking for. And by using 301, we send the customer directly to the product detail page (or category). CLoudSearch doesn't know that the static page 301s to the product - but it knows the page is "stuffed" with the keywords we want search results to display.

This is VERY different than simply using keywords - since the static page is built for contextual search. Try it!

[RichieRich]

It appears the product title link color is hardcoded to color: rgb(44, 95, 166); which means I cannot match the color to my website, please advise where to change this because the css file does not appear to over-ride it.

[NikitaP]

Originally Posted by RichieRich

It appears the product title link color is hardcoded to color: rgb(44, 95, 166); which means I cannot match the color to my website, please advise where to change this because the css file does not appear to over-ride it.

This style rule is not hard coded, it is a result of color animation applied to links. You can override it, please use this code as an example:

.instant-search-menu dt a,
.instant-search-menu dt a:hover {
  color: red !important;
}

[NikitaP]

By the way, CloudSearch 1.2.0 is now available for X-Cart 4.1.x - 4.3.x. Installation instructions were given in http://forum.x-cart.com/showpost.php?p=357008&postcount=80

[RichieRich]

Do you run the install-cloudsearch.php even if upgrading?

[NikitaP]

Originally Posted by RichieRich

Do you run the install-cloudsearch.php even if upgrading?

An upgrade to 1.2.0 contains some SQL to be run, so in this case, yes. Though you can just run the last line of sql/cloudsearch.sql.

[hu9.com]

How to show/display price based on customer membership?, Now it's showing base price for wholesale/retail customer's.

[NikitaP]

Originally Posted by hu9.com

How to show/display price based on customer membership?, Now it's showing base price for wholesale/retail customer's.

At the moment this functionality is not supported, however this could be solved with the help of custom development.

[hu9.com]

how to hide/disable price then ?

[NikitaP]

Originally Posted by hu9.com

how to hide/disable price then ?

You can add this code to your css:

.instant-search-menu .price {
  display: none;
}