Site Search 360 Pricing, Features, Reviews and Alternatives

Its very cheap compared to the other alternatives out there, and yet it offers the flexibility to tweak searches with xpaths and HTML. There are almost no limits to Your possibilities for creating relevant and sales generating result pages. The guys who runs the customer service listens to Your input and are extremely quick to implement the changes.

The implementation could be made easier for smaller companies with an online website builder and without the nessecary knowhow to implement the javascript.

It's very flexible, reliable and great cost for money but the best of all is the amazing customer support that is responsive, provides guidance and solutions and even effective listens to feedback for product enhancements.

Because we didn't want to use the out-of-the-box look and feel, we had to do a bit more work ourselves. But the API documentation was complete and we were able to do it well, with help when needed.

Thanks so much for the review Beatriz, we really appreciate it!

Look and feel is very customizable, can integrate the search modules with the site's branding. Easy to set up. Option for search results in modal window or separate window. Integration quality and ease is much higher than the now-defunct Google Site Search was. Search available starting at relatively low cost for organizations on a budget.

Ranking of pages seemed all over the map, with less relevant pages often coming up first in results. Seems to be driven by keywords only, not actual relevance. No ability to manually weight certain pages as more likely to appear in search results and rank others as less likely to appear. Could not tell difference between lowest-tier paid plan and the free plan.

I manage sites that feature a great deal of content that is pulled from outside the wordpress database. This means the standard wordpress search (which isn't great as standard), is pretty much unusable. I have just switched to sitesearch360 from another similar product and found setup was easy (although I did set it up first on their site, then had the again in the Wordpress plugin). I like the way the results are displayed and filters can be included if you point to ID's in the code, which may need some template changes. Analytics are good within Sitesearch360's interface and integration with Analytics is simple, unlike our previous installation which I never got to work.

There isn't much to say about what I liked least. Things I did find was setting up on the site wasn't necessary as you then have to run through the same process in Wordpress. Also, if you have multiple installs you need to login via the site project name and not your user email, which caught me a couple of times. Lastly I wish the filters could pick up wordpress tags and categories rather than me having to set up ID's on the site, but really it's not that hard to do.

SiteSearch360 is incredibly powerful and flexible, and is able to handle a ridiculous amount of filtering criteria quickly without breaking a sweat. Pretty much everything I wanted to do I was able to do, and that's saying something, since my site has tens of thousands of pages, and possibly that many different taxonomy entries as well. The ability to search for relevant books by reading level, category, author, etc. all at the same time and in real time is MAGIC compared to the old MYSQL-based search queries we were using.

There are a few small things that the software can't do, such as ordering books in a series numerically in search results. Also, in order to set things up I had to learn how to extract and shorten XPaths, which was a bit of a learning curve. But once I got used to it, I fell in love with the ability to make a data point out of any HTML element via XPaths, so overall I'm still very happy despite the learning curve because of the power I now wield to make ANYTHING into a data point.