News and Updates

One of the best parts about subscribing to Slickstream is the wealth of data available in your analytics portal. It features content insights, clickthrough data, search queries, recommendation pairs, individual widget usage, and much more. To be honest, we know it can be a little overwhelming!

That's why I wanted to take some time today to outline some of the best ways our publishers use Slickstream insights to grow their sites, and to show off some of the information you may not have realized was there. Let's dive in:

Over the last few recent product releases, we've introduced a wide variety of brand new themes and templates that Slickstream subscribers can use to enhance the look and feel of their sites. These range from larger, photo-oriented cards to simple text-only lists, and can be fully configured in the customer portal. Read on for more details.

Slickstream includes "two-dimensional search" ("2D") and "progressive search". These search capabilities make it easy for your visitors to identify the content they're looking for. Explanations of how things work are below. 

Your site search matters. It's a critical part of the way your visitors interact with your site, and it's something we take extremely seriously at Slickstream. Check out the capabilities that our search function offers. 

Part of Slickstream's "secret sauce" is our ability to integrate our engagement suite into websites without anything more than an embed code added by the publisher. We handle the work so that our features get added into the site beautifully and seamlessly.

Until now, though, if a publisher wants changes to the configuration of engagement suite widgets on their site, they would need to contact us. For example, if the publisher decided that they wanted to switch to a "grid layout" for their search results, we would need to make that change for them.

Here at Slickstream, we offer you a lot of options to increase your on-site engagement. Our search, discovery, and engagement tools are designed to blend seamlessly with your website, and to help users intuitively find more of your content. But how can you tell if they're working? That's where our analytics come in.

Here at Slickstream, we have two top priorities that guide everything we do:

1. Creating a better user experience for your website's visitors
2. Increasing the actual engagement on your site

The first point is easy to see, and our feedback from happy customers speaks for itself. But measuring increased engagement is a little trickier, which is why we were so happy when our friends at Pinch of Yum volunteered to open up their site for some thorough testing.

Well the results are in, and we're absolutely thrilled. We'll dive into the details below, but here's the short version: in one week of analysis, our Engagement Suite increased total clicks 17.6%, led to 489 additional hours of on-site activity, and raised pageviews and revenue 2.2%!

Let's dive into the details below.