Configuring Relevance Settings Through Authoritative Pages

Relevance settings can be managed through the authoritative pages in the SSP. The relationship of individual documents or content items to authoritative pages is defined in terms of click distance. If all other ranking elements are equal, then the more clicks that are required to traverse from the authoritative page to the content item, the less relevant that item is for a given query.

Ask yourself this question when setting authoritative pages: Where do my users go most often to find their information or to start browsing for their information? The answer or answers to that question will be the URLs that you should enter into the authoritative pages input boxes. Figure 12-21 illustrates ...

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