We have one page that I want to add to a collection, or be returned in search results that is not a part of the collections crawl domain.
Example: Our main college website is crawled by Funnelback, but a few pages on our IT website that isn’t crawled really need to show up in search results.
Is this possible?
There are a couple of options.
get the extra domains added to the start urls list and include rules - this will then mean that the crawler fetches pages from that domain for the next crawl and they will be in the search results
just add certain URLs - if you only need a few pages you can explicitly get these added as start urls but don’t add their domains to the include rules (so only the seed urls will be downloaded for those domains). You may need to add the domains of the extra URLs as exclude rules (if the include rules would include the whole site)
Just add the pages as best bets, but they will only appear for the configured queries.
When I try to Customize Best Bets I get an access denied page:
Feature not configured
Your account is not configured to access this feature. Please contact your Funnelback administrator if this is unexpected.
Please get in touch with Funnelback support (email support@funnelback.com) and they will help you get access to this.
I now have access to adding a Best Bet, which I have done. How long does it take to show up in the search? I added one for keyword “course list”, but searching that isn’t showing it in our search results:
https://puc-search.squiz.cloud/s/search.html?query=course+list&collection=puc-search&f.Tabs
Ideas?
Best bets should be visible as soon as you publish them.
I’ve had a look and I think you’ve set up your best bet on the wrong collection - you need to create your best bets on the puc-search collection because that is the collection that you are searching against (indicated by the collection= parameter in your URL)
You can see your best bet if you search against puc-web:
https://puc-search.squiz.cloud/s/search.html?query=course+list&collection=puc-web