Comments on: Is Your Website Optimized for Holiday Hunters?

By: Reducing Friction in the Sales Process | Get Elastic

Reducing Friction in the Sales Process | Get Elastic — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:49:00 +0000

[...] 2. Difficult to find search boxes [...]

By: Trendspotting: Rich Autocomplete in Site Search | Get Elastic

Trendspotting: Rich Autocomplete in Site Search | Get Elastic — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:23:51 +0000

[...] Now,” “Try Now” and “Get Support.” This really serves the “hunter” customer — the one who knows exactly what they want and doesn’t want to fiddle [...]

By: Optimizing Landing Pages to Match Customer Motivation | Get Elastic

Optimizing Landing Pages to Match Customer Motivation | Get Elastic — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:58:57 +0000

[...] “m” for Motivation discussing optimizing your ecommerce sites for “hunters” on home pages and search and [...]

By: Jason Billingsley

Jason Billingsley — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:23:04 +0000

My issue is with auto-focus. When sites (besides the Google homepage where all you do is search) place your cursor in the search box automatically, it prevents keyboard scrolling. Grr. Find the mouse, click off the search box, resume browsing. Don’t do it!

By: Linda Bustos

Linda Bustos — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:07:49 +0000

@Audio Bible,

I think your search box looks good. I personally prefer boxes without text but I don’t think it’s a major issue. Blinking cursors in the box are more annoying according to some *ahem, Jason*

By: Audio Bible

Audio Bible — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:41:49 +0000

I think my search box is in pretty good shape.

But I have thought of lengthening it a bit and removing the text inside the search box saying ‘enter keyword or phase’. I am not sure this will be more effective or just more tweaking?

Any opinion on this?

By: Pyrmont

Pyrmont — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:03:11 +0000

Have been in discussions with a friend about her e-commerce shop and the ideas and concepts presented here are very helpful. Thank You!

By: Dr. Pete

Dr. Pete — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:53:40 +0000

I really like that analogy of the salesperson out on the floor at a retail store (warning: I may steal it ). If you want to browse and the salesperson is too aggressive, you get turned off, but if you need to talk to someone and there’s no one to be found, you get irritated and leave. Onsite search is a lot like that, and balancing the two kinds of shoppers isn’t easy.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:02:05 +0000

Check out byggmax.se, it’s a hardware retail site. Unfortunately only available in Swedish but still relevant, since it has an extremely direct approach to display its products.