Odd search results – SORTED – User’s Errors :)

[marthamarksParticipant]

I’ve noticed on several occasions that a search on my site pulls up odd results. Curious to know if others have seen this too, or if somebody knows why it happens and if there’s something I can do to fix it.

Here are two examples:

1. A search on my site for “Greater Roadrunner” should pull up 6 images. The title and keyword “Greater Roadrunner” are used in all. Click the link below and you’ll see it pulls up just 4 images from my site, but right below that all 6 of my images show up on the global SYS search results. (Plus 2 that aren’t mine, which is fine.)

http://bestnaturestock.com/?s=greater+roadrunner&post_type=image

2. A search on “Northern Goshawk” turns up 1 image from my site, but down below are 2 images (both mine) in the global SYS search.

http://bestnaturestock.com/?s=northern+goshawk&post_type=image

I notice that the images that don’t show up in the “my site” search are vertical images. All the horizontal images show up correctly. Is this just a coincidence, or is it somehow a problem?

[ChristineParticipant]

I have also occasionally noticed that the search results are different
I have just tested with a search for dobermann, my site has 72, global has 71

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[ajtParticipant]

@marthamarks wrote:

I notice that the images that don’t show up in the “my site” search are vertical images. All the horizontal images show up correctly. Is this just a coincidence, or is it somehow a problem?

Your site doesn’t show results with compound keywords. Four images have keyword “Greater Roadrunner” and also separate keywords “greater” and “roadrunner” and these four are visible. Two have only “Greater Roadrunner”.
Do you have pro plugin installed?

[ChristineParticipant]

For an easier one on my site try podenco, 5 and 4

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[ajtParticipant]

@christine wrote:

For an easier one on my site try podenco, 5 and 4

My reply was for Martha, your case can be different 🙂

I tried search for “podenco”, but your wordfence blocks me.
“Your access to this site has been limited” 🙂

[marthamarksParticipant]

@ajt wrote:

Your site doesn’t show results with compound keywords. Four images have keyword “Greater Roadrunner” and also separate keywords “greater” and “roadrunner” and these four are visible. Two have only “Greater Roadrunner”.

Aha! Thanks for that information, ajt. Now I understand. But…wow!!! I thought our sites were able to search for compound keywords. I’ve been using lots of them, including the 2-word Latin names for all the species in my portfolio.

Obviously, this is fixable if I go back through a thousand images and break up the compounds. Yikes!

So, the global search does bring up compounds. That’s good, but… Is it just my site that does this, or all of them? If it’s just mine, is there a way I can set it up to use compounds? Will it always be this way, or is there a chance that someday all our sites could use compounds like the global search does?

Thanks so much for your help, ajt.

[ajtParticipant]

Do you have Symbiostock Pro plugin installed? It allows searching for compound keywords.

[marthamarksParticipant]

@ajt wrote:

Do you have Symbiostock Pro plugin installed? It allows searching for compound keywords.

Yes I do! That’s why I thought I could handle keywords that way.

Do I have to reinstall that after all the WP and SYS upgrades? I haven’t done that, so maybe there’s my problem.

*edit*

Yep, that did the trick! Somehow, my Pro plugin had gotten deactivated. Once I activated it, all 6 of my “greater roadrunner” images turn up in the search results for my site. And so does the Latin term, “Geococcyx californianus”.

Whoppee!! I appreciate simple solutions.

Thanks again, ajt, and also Leo for creating that Pro plugin.

[ChristineParticipant]

I have deleted all the blocks on my site – there are still some being throttled though

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[marthamarksParticipant]

Once Christine’s problem is solved, you moderators can label this thread RESOLVED.

I’m happy! 🙂

[ajtParticipant]

@christine wrote:

For an easier one on my site try podenco, 5 and 4

When keyword “Podenco” was added to this image?
http://kerioakimaging.com/image/two-dogs-chasing-each-other-along-beach-straight-towards-camera/
It is not in keywords list in your symbiostock_image_nfo.csv

[ChristineParticipant]

I added it earlier to the keywords to see if it made a difference. It has been in title and description and keywords as a phrase all along

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[ajtParticipant]

Sy.info finds only whole keywords, so let’s wait for your public image info updated and indexed.

Now dobermann …

This image:
http://kerioakimaging.com/image/close-up-of-dogs-teeth/?r=kerioakimaging.com
doesn’t have “dobermann” in keywords.

[ChristineParticipant]

Thank you – will add User Error to this one 🙂

I did not realise the search was different

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[ajtParticipant]

I was testing partial search (and search only in title/description) in sy.info, but it returned too many odd results 🙂
Maybe finding single words in compound keywords would be useful, I should test it.

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