Add a word to the stop list by entering it in the space provided and clicking Add Keyword.

To remove a word from the list, highlight the word by clicking on it, and then click Remove Keyword.

When you publish your store, ShopSite makes a list of any words that appear more than three times in your product information. Often words that occur repeatedly are not distinctive words and are not useful in searches, and may give poor search resuults. Click Show Words to see a list of these words and optionally add them to the Stop List.

Checking this box will allow numbers to be indexed for searches in your store. For example, if you have a product with a description including the phrase "24 carat gold", and you want your customers to be able search for "24", you will need to check this box. If this box is not checked, then searches with a "24" in them (such as "24 carat" or "24 carat gold") will fail because the "24" will not be found in the list of indexed search words.

The search template controls the overall appearance of the search results page

This is used to override a page's default link design, in order to allow a consistent look on the search results pages.

This is used to override a product's default template in order to allow a consistent look on the search results page.

This sets the default display of nonlink text to the color you choose. Be sure to choose a dark color (black is usually best) unless your background is dark, so the text on your site is easy to read.

The entire background of the search results page will be displayed in the color you choose here, unless you select a Background Image, in which case the pattern will appear instead of the color. Be sure to choose a light color for the background, unless you have selected a very light color for your text.

Unvisited links to other pages and sites will appear in the color you select here.

After a customer has clicked on a link and visited the page, the color of the link will change to the color you select here, to let customers keep track of where they've been.

The color selected here will only be visible at the exact moment someone is clicking on the link. Adding a bright color here adds pizzazz.

If you have uploaded an image of a textured background to your media directory, you can use that image as a background for your site. Be careful, though, as the image will tile, meaning that it will appear multiple times as a repeating pattern, so it's a good idea to use images that were designed specifically for backgrounds. See the Image Tool help for more information on selecting an image.

Specify where the product search field should appear on a page. This setting affects every page with a product search field.

Set the number of search results per page. For example, if a search returns 100 results, and the Results per Page field is set to 10, the customer will have access to all 100 results, but will only be able to view 10 at a time on each page.

This will place your store's Page Header & Footer on the search results page.

Product descriptions accompany every product listed on a search results page. This setting allows you to remove all HTML tags from those descriptions. This means, for example, that a word that is italicized in a product description will appear as normal text in the search result page. Checking this box will result in a more uniform looking search result.

Product descriptions accompany every product listed on a search results page. This setting allows you to limit the length of the description, so that the overall search results page does not become exceedingly long.

Check the boxes next to the product fields that you want to have included in the index and searchable by customers.

When you Publish your store, ShopSite creates an index of products for use in searches. As it indexes products, ShopSite stops at predetermined checkpoints and records its progress so that it can pick up where it left off if a "time-out" occurs. This setting tells ShopSite how many products should be indexed between each checkpoint.

When you Publish your store, ShopSite indexes pages for searches. As it indexes pages, ShopSite stops at predetermined checkpoints and record its progress so that it can pick up where it left off if a "time-out" occurs. This setting tells ShopSite how many pages should be indexed between each checkpoint.

Check this box to see a list of keywords while your store is being generated (when you click the Publish tab). Keywords are words that appear more than three times in your store and which may not be beneficial as search terms. If you enable this option, you can add those words to the stop list from the Publish Results screen. If you leave this option disabled, you can view the words and add them to the stop list from the Search Settings screen.

While creating an index of words for product searches, ShopSite keeps track of how many times each word occurs. If a word appears a lot in a search index, searches for that word may return too many results to be very useful. When you publish your store, ShopSite will warn you about words that appear frequently. Enter a number here for how many times a word has to occur before ShopSite warns you about the word.