SharePoint search takes into account keywords in titles, URLS and hyperlinks. In each case the keywords need to be separated by spaces/underscores.
It also favours:
- HTML over documents, PPT over Word, and Word over Excel
- high-level pages
- shorter content pages/documents
These can be changed but it is generally not advised (imagine the manual equivalent of a plumber sucking air through his teeth).
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Hi Karen. Thank you for this, is very useful. I suspect I’m in the same sitation as you regarding SharePoint and the use there-of in a business situation. The IA challenges seem signification – don’t get me started in the info-design/web design aspects of the thing!
Can you elaborate on the “high-level pages”? How is that defined by SharePoint?
regards
Greg Comfort
Christchurch, New Zealand