Taking the Blog to the Next Level with SiteSeeker

As the avid reader of this blog knows this site isn’t only my personal blog but also my sandbox for testing new things with EPiServer CMS, EPiServer Community, ASP.NET MVC and other great products. It is also an open source project as the source code is available for download and I do my best to make it possible to use it as a template.

Since releasing the current version of the site a few months ago I have been focusing on work, my family and writing blog posts and I have only made minor fixes to the site. Now however its time to take the next major step. Just like I did with EPiServer this summer I recently made a deal with Euroling, the company behind the great search engine SiteSeeker. They generously let me use a hosted version of SiteSeeker and in return I can hopefully provide some inspiration on how to use it to other developers as well as some code that can hopefully be used as a template.

So far I have three ideas about how to use the search engine:

  • Standard search functionality to allow visitors to search on the site
  • A related posts “widget”
  • Detect when a visitor comes from Google and suggest other posts that might also be of interest based on the search query

Any other ideas on how I can use SiteSeeker to make this site better would be much appreciated!

Many thanks to Euroling and also again to EPiServer. I think its really cool and un-bureaucratic that you occasionally allow your products to be used in this way to inspire the developer community (or at least me :-))!

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  1. digitalapple's avatar

    digitalapple 1 years ago

    Nice Tutorial, Thanks. :)

  2. Sofia roma's avatar

    Sofia roma 1 years ago

    First of all, I would like to appreciate the choice of theme that you have chosen for your blog, it looks perfectly wonderful. Now, coming on today's post I must say that you have explained the subject in a concise manner that makes it easily understandable. Thanks for this information.

  3. Capodanno roma's avatar

    Capodanno roma 1 years ago

    I really appreciate your professional approach. These are pieces of very useful information that will be of great use for me in future. Thanks for it.

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    Poker Bankrolls List 10 months ago

    Howdy, I love this project in this page, you are helping web people with great knowledge! This site is very interesting!
    My name is Lucy, I´m from Valência, and I will be a fan of this page, my personal details may not be in the best interest of everyone but I will tell them anyway I like swimming as well as movies, and I also listen a lot Radiohead on my parties, I´m without boyfriend at the moment so male users....just kidding :)! I already tried online dating it didn´t worked out very well....
    I will also apoligize by my writting it is the only way I found to communicate with you guys....
    BYe BYe to you all, See ya

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