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Search - Searching with the term "education" should provide the Learning Resources page a result #10

Closed RobinaSanderson closed 7 years ago

RobinaSanderson commented 7 years ago

As a teacher I want to be able to find the Learning resources page when I search on "Education" or variants So that I can find the materials I need using terms with which I am familiar

Not sure how this could be done. Can we tag the page with descriptors or do we have to use the terms in the text on the page?

RobinaSanderson commented 7 years ago

Hi @matthewandrews - is this something we can easily do?

matthewandrews commented 7 years ago

The most effective way would be to rename the page to "Education Resources".

Failing that, a sentence at the top of the page describing its role in education would do something. Visible text in general is much better than hidden tags.

RobinaSanderson commented 7 years ago

Righto - so I want to update the introductory paragraph to include the term "education" when I have the page in edit mode I can't see this text. In view mode: image

In edit mode: image Help, please! :-)

matthewandrews commented 7 years ago

That text, below the title and above the main editable block, is called an "excerpt".

You can edit that in the "Excerpt" editing field, below the main editable block.

If you don't see "Excerpt", go to "Screen Options" at the top of the page and check Excerpt.

RobinaSanderson commented 7 years ago

Thank you. I've updated the text. Search using "Education resources" or "Educational resources" finds the page, but it still slips down the rankings for "Education". @HannahScott1 do you feel this is sufficient for the refresh?

matthewandrews commented 7 years ago

I think Taryn knows her user base better than anyone else here, and if she says "education" is the key word, we should really rename the page title. The current site has "Education resources".

RobinaSanderson commented 7 years ago

OK Matt, I take your point. @aatteia was the decision to rename based on feedback from the User Experience Testing or was it to keep the terminology consistent with "Learn about the ALA"? If it was the latter, I think we should probably go back the "Education Resources".

aatteia commented 7 years ago

Let's revert to Education Resources then. I have feedback from the user testing specifically around Education Resources not being representative of the user guides and how they are used. However, as Taryn has requested that we split the user guides from Education resources post launch, so I am happy with this.

matthewandrews commented 7 years ago

OK, that change is now done and released.

matthewandrews commented 7 years ago

@RobinaSanderson are searches producing the desired result now?

RobinaSanderson commented 7 years ago

Searching on "Education" doesn't produce educational resources in the first page of results.

Searching on "educational resources" or "education resources" provides the site page in the first 2 results.

Searching on "education material" doesn't produce the page in first page of results.

Searching on "educational material" provides a link to the educational resources for primary children http://www.ala.org.au/blogs-news/education-blogs-news/ala-educational-resources-for-primary-school-classes/ but not the Education Resources page.

I know this doesn't match the term, but searching on "Classroom tools" produces:

So it looks like an exact term match or "Educational" and "resources" will find it, but variants won't. Let's go with this for now and think about how we can make it easier to find in bigger redesign of the site.

RobinaSanderson commented 7 years ago

Checked with Taryn, she is happy with this for now.