[Sigia-l] RE: Sigia-l Digest, Vol 1, Issue 1080

[O'Neill, Todd]

Dwayne:

Thanks! Pages aren't db driven, but the concept of indexing some
commented tag is interesting.

And as always, thanks SIG-IA! 

Todd O'Neill     Web Producer     USAA Customer Experience 
210-913-8312     todd.oneill at usaa.com
These opinions mine not those of USAA.
"The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer." Peter
Drucker

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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:47:33 -0700
From: Dwayne King <dking at pinpointlogic.com>
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] RE: Search and "special" keywords
To: sigia l <sigia-l at asis.org>
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Todd,

I've set up quite a few environments like this, but we were identifying 
unique visitors (e.g. a physical mailer with a "reference code" that 
was unique for each flyer. We'd cross-reference with a database -> 
reference code 9J3RED -> Tom Smith). The principal seems the same.

If the pages are database driven, just add a keyword field and search 
on it. Just keep the field fairly short so you can index it to get the 
speed it needs.

If you're using flat files, you could still use the db with page 
references on it.

If you have an existing search vendor, have them create a commented tag 
that they could index.

Tracking would be simple, just trigger an even when a keyword is 
entered, set them up in a session and track away.

Let me know if I'm missing something there.

My 2 cents.


Dwayne