What is the best way to manipulate/influence the search results apart from tags?

Question

Some pages in our Confluence instance are re-created for every meeting, monthly, sometimes weekly.
After one has created a few of these pages, let's say "meeting 04/05", "meeting 05/05" and "meeting 06/05", naturally, the first search for "meeting" result will be "meeting 04/05". For some amount of reasons, people tend to click the first result, then navigate through the page tree to find the most recent meeting site.

Is there a possibility influence the search results? Or to mark some pages as the most "recent/relevant" ones out of a folder?

The expected behaviour is, that the most recent meeting site, the one that people _do_ spend time on, the one that people_actually edit_ is the first search result for "meeting".

Before someone answers "use tags": In our experience, tags do not influence search results enough. Anyway, tag "recent meeting" and remove it from the prior site every week/new page :D  ?

I tagged Jira as well, we experienced this problem with Jira as well.

JP _AC Bielefeld Leader_ · Accepted Answer

HI,

you're totally correct on the usage of tags. Don't use them to influence search, but tag them to have an additional filter option on search as you can search on a set of pages having a common tag.

I use another approach:

* All current / upcoming meetings get a tag "current"

* Use a page properties macro and an embedded table to describe the meeting (Topic, room, date, time, members, status,...)

* Create a page property report on a page with title "Current meetings" & list all current meetings there. Once a meeting is not current anymore remove the tag & create a new page.

If you play around with this feature you'll get the idea. Train your users to search for "current meetings".

Best

JP