Configuring search ranking of products

agl

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Hello

In our webshop we would like to configure ranking of products within Optimizely Search & Navigation.

Just to be clear about terminology and use case:

By ranking we mean a calculated number that determines the order of products in a search. In our case, we calculate this from different factors such as product data from PIM(Product Information Management), stock, seasonality and potentially market-specific adjustments.
We do not mean boosting, in the campaign or promotional sense, where products are manually pushed higher or lower for marketing purposes.

Our questions are:

Is there a way in Optimizely find to configure this? Now we simply calculate it and perform an orderByDescending when a search is performed.
Is there documentation that describes how Search & Navigation consumes a predefined ranking score versus relying on its default algorithm?

#339939

Aug 12, 2025 12:49

Stefan Holm Olsen

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I am not sure if you already do this. But here is my suggestion.

If you calculate the ranking in PIM, you could store that ranking score as a property on the catalog entries. Then you can order the results by that property.

If you don't call an order method then S&N will use calculated relevance. And that can primarily be manipulated by boosting and applying synonyms.

#339993

Aug 17, 2025 8:12

Quan Mai

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What you can probably "improve" on what you're already doing is to add an extension method to your product model, something like this

public static decimal SearchRanking(this ProductModelContent content)

{

//return your calculation

}

and you don't have to calculate it every time you search.

#340028

Aug 22, 2025 9:44