Creating a Feature Page

A Feature Page can be created to stipulate that a specific URL should be displayed at the top of the results of your Funnelback Search Page when Trigger Word terms are present in the search query. For example, you could create a Feature Page so that when a search query is made containing the word about, the About Us page on your site is displayed at the top of the search results.

Example

We want to create a Feature Page on the Funnelback Search Page, so that the search query news will display the Newsletter page of our website at the top of the search results page.

  1. To create this Feature Page, go to the Feature Pages screen of the Funnelback Manager. In the Choose a collection field, select the Collection you have configured for your search page and click Commit. A blank Feature Page will appear in the Edit feature Page field, as shown in the figure below.

    A blank Feature Page
    The blank Feature Page

  2. Click on the edit icon icon to configure the Feature Page - the configuration fields for the Feature Page will appear in the Edit Feature Page section, as shown in the figure below.

    The Feature Page settings in the Edit Feature Page section
    The Feature Page settings in the Edit Feature Page section

    In the Query Type field, select Substring Match and in the Trigger Word field, enter news. This will mean that our Feature Page will be displayed when the term news is used anywhere within the search query (e.g. newsletter, latest news, newsagent, sinews etc).

    In the Page Title field, enter Newsletters and in the Page Description field, enter a description of the page that will be displayed on the search results.

    In the Asset field, select the Newsletters page and click Commit. A list of URLs available for the Newsletters page will be displayed in the URL field. Select the URL to assign to the Feature Page and click Commit. The Newsletters Feature Page will now be listed as Valid in the Edit feature page field, as shown in the figure below.

    The valid Feature Page
      The valid Feature Page

    For more information on the Feature Pages screen, refer to the Funnelback Manager chapter in this manual.
  3. The default layout of the Feature Page on the search results page is shown in the figure below.

    The default layout of the Feature Page on the search results page
    The default layout of the Feature Page on the search results page

    You can format this layout on the Featured Result Format Bodycopy of the Funnelback Search Page. A new layout has been entered into the WYSIWYG Editor, as shown in the figure below.

    The WYSIWYG Editor on the Featured Result Format Bodycopy
    The WYSIWYG Editor on the Featured Result Format Bodycopy

    For more information on the Featured Result Format Bodycopy including a list of keyword replacements available for use, refer to the Featured Result Format Bodycopy section in the Funnelback Search Page chapter in this manual.

    Tip: The %result_featured% keyword replacements required to display the Feature Page results on the search results page. By default, this keyword replacement will appear on the Results Page Layout Bodycopy of the Funnelback Search Page.

The Feature Page will now appear at the top of the search results page for the search query news, as shown in the figure below.

The new layout of the Feature Page on the search results page
The new layout of the Feature Page on the search results page