What do "keywords" do? I expected it to affect search results

[ericbintner]

I'm having a lot of trouble setting up a gig becuase there's only 80 characters allowed in the headline and it appears that's the only place the search looks for matching terms. What I don't understand is what the keywords do? I noticed any word added to the keywords doesn't seems to affect the search bar results? What is their purpose and how can I use them if they do not affect search results?

[ericbintner]

Ok it appears to be working now. I noticed I waited overnight for it to index, but still wasn't returning results with search teams listed in the keyword tags. I changed the keyword tags a few times this morning while testing, and after the last change it started working immediately so I don't think it was an issue of waiting for it to finish indexing.

 

[ericbintner]

I don't understand why Fiverr encourages us to use less words in the title if that's the only place that indexes the gigs. 

[kakoliaktar5659]

If you title and publish the gig in an SEO way then there should be no problem and thus you get good results.

[ericbintner]

This doesn't really answer my question about keywords because it's assumed that keywords are metadata for SEO. Likewise the job description doesn't appear indexed either. I just can't fit the type of work with context in 80 characters. I don't want to create multiple identical gigs with synonyms for titles although that might solve single category problem.

[ericbintner]

I went ahead and filed a bug report.

[ghoshradhe]

2 hours ago, ericbintner said:

I'm having a lot of trouble setting up a gig becuase there's only 80 characters allowed in the headline and it appears that's the only place the search looks for matching terms. What I don't understand is what the keywords do? I noticed any word added to the keywords doesn't seems to affect the search bar results? What is their purpose and how can I use them if they do not affect search results?

Of course, It affects your Gig in search results

[ericbintner]

Just now, ghoshradhe said:

Of course, It affects your Gig in search results

Ok so defiantly a bug then. 

[Kesha]

2 hours ago, ericbintner said:

I'm having a lot of trouble setting up a gig becuase there's only 80 characters allowed in the headline and it appears that's the only place the search looks for matching terms. What I don't understand is what the keywords do? I noticed any word added to the keywords doesn't seems to affect the search bar results? What is their purpose and how can I use them if they do not affect search results?

Hi! Thanks for your question. Our algorithm scans both your headline and your tags to get a good understanding of your gig. You should use the strongest keywords in your gig title and use the tags for more general, less pertinent keywords. 

[ericbintner]

Great, I already filed a bug report. Glad to know it's just not working correctly.