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# Personalized Search

## Overview

If you have personalized search, recommendation strategies can be combined with this search configuration on your site.

The scores from the recommendation strategies in personalization are combined with the relevancy/weighting scores to create an order within the search results. You can also apply a factor of 0.1 to 5 to your personalization scores, giving an additional weight to products from those strategies.\\

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/kibocommerce-59e68a4a/mirjU24xTFSyw6n2/img/personalization-experience-id-expanded-image.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=mirjU24xTFSyw6n2&q=85&s=a3979cf123120a7622ebc1a94ce0f7e1" alt="A zoomed screenshot of the Personalization Experience Identifier portion of Site Search settings" width="1049" height="429" data-path="img/personalization-experience-id-expanded-image.png" />

Add your Experience ID to the Search Configurations in the field shown above. Make sure your Monetate Experience is activated, not paused, when entering the Experience ID into Kibo.

## Creating a Personalized Search Experience

1. On the Personalization platform ([marketer.monetate.net](https://marketer.monetate.net/auth/login/)), access this function by clicking the **EXPERIENCES** tab and then selecting **Web**. <img src="https://mintcdn.com/kibocommerce-59e68a4a/fwXJJzJOp-IYCY1g/img/web-experiences.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=fwXJJzJOp-IYCY1g&q=85&s=c4033874622078291c3e486fe969f0f6" alt="" width="1464" height="160" data-path="img/web-experiences.png" />
2. Click **CREATE EXPERIENCE**.\\
   <img src="https://mintcdn.com/kibocommerce-59e68a4a/5Q3zAz2P5aHMz8ra/img/create-experience.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=5Q3zAz2P5aHMz8ra&q=85&s=9fa49d29a76962d3bd89bd9ce49ee120" alt="Screenshot of the Monetate Web Experiences page with an arrow pointing to the Create Experience button" width="1486" height="211" data-path="img/create-experience.png" />
3. When defining the WHO portion of the experience, click **To serve everyone the same experience**. Select a goal metric and secondary metrics as appropriate to complete this definition.\\
   <img src="https://mintcdn.com/kibocommerce-59e68a4a/Tt_xgrUgWofJH_Sj/img/serve-everyone-same-experience.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=Tt_xgrUgWofJH_Sj&q=85&s=390e4ff491bac672e564d2ddd08a9304" alt="Screenshot of the Monetate web experience settings with an arrow pointing to the 100% Experience option" width="1540" height="680" data-path="img/serve-everyone-same-experience.png" />
4. When defining the WHAT portion of the experience, click **ADD ACTION**.\\
   <img src="https://mintcdn.com/kibocommerce-59e68a4a/GHpjFkqz4nE5iOYS/img/monetate-experience-what-add-action.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=GHpjFkqz4nE5iOYS&q=85&s=7e1c6d5cb2f278c2111a5e79f347ad48" alt="Screenshot of the Monetate web experience setup with an arrow pointing to the Add Action button" width="1279" height="433" data-path="img/monetate-experience-what-add-action.png" />
5. Click the **Site Recommendation** tile.\\
   <img src="https://mintcdn.com/kibocommerce-59e68a4a/GHpjFkqz4nE5iOYS/img/monetate-experience-what-site-rec.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=GHpjFkqz4nE5iOYS&q=85&s=7c98feeb62c614ebbe20a2212041c20c" alt="Screenshot of the Monetate Action Type setup with an arrow pointing to the Site Recommendation option" width="1271" height="450" data-path="img/monetate-experience-what-site-rec.png" />
6. Click the link for **Site Search Recommendations**.\\
   <img src="https://mintcdn.com/kibocommerce-59e68a4a/RFia3SXPeyM44geJ/img/recommendations-template.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=RFia3SXPeyM44geJ&q=85&s=65f41b8f40d90b02569b97216a67acb1" alt="Screenshot of the Monetate Site Recommendations setup with an arrow pointing to the Site Search Recommendations option" width="1466" height="219" data-path="img/recommendations-template.png" />
7. Choose up to four Recommendation Strategies, minimum/maximum items, and optional inputs, then click **CREATE**.\\
   <img src="https://mintcdn.com/kibocommerce-59e68a4a/GHpjFkqz4nE5iOYS/img/monetate-experience-what-search-rec-strategies.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=GHpjFkqz4nE5iOYS&q=85&s=661e90e956a99ea788d9d9838b10d0b8" alt="Screenshot of the Monetate Site Search Recommendations screen with an arrow pointing to the Create button" width="937" height="981" data-path="img/monetate-experience-what-search-rec-strategies.png" />
8. This will bring you back to the experience editor. Click **ACTIVATE** to enable the experience.\\
   <img src="https://mintcdn.com/kibocommerce-59e68a4a/v4PoNWPrY1Z21K53/img/activate-experience.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=v4PoNWPrY1Z21K53&q=85&s=2f2c17c78c1d3fe4fbfa5c64d70736f4" alt="Screenshot of the Monetate experience editor with an arrow pointing to the Activate button" width="1509" height="213" data-path="img/activate-experience.png" />
9. To get the Personalization Experience Identifier, click the experience from the list to load the details.\\
   <img src="https://mintcdn.com/kibocommerce-59e68a4a/11fMEclnoleINoq4/img/experiences-listing-page.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=11fMEclnoleINoq4&q=85&s=201e74526c584b0765e68b37c01ad32e" alt="Screenshot of the Monetate web experiences listing page with an arrow pointing to the first entry" width="1523" height="304" data-path="img/experiences-listing-page.png" />
10. Once the experience details load, the number at the end of the URL is the data you need for the Personalization Experience Identifier within KCCP Search Configurations. Copy this number from the personalization platform and paste it into the field within Search. An example URL and Personalization Experience Identifier is shown here.\\
    <img src="https://mintcdn.com/kibocommerce-59e68a4a/11fMEclnoleINoq4/img/experience-url.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=11fMEclnoleINoq4&q=85&s=27e1017e2bfc1e3228e276a5751f274c" alt="Screenshot of the Monetate experience with a zoomed in portion of the URL and Personalization Experience Identifier" width="1547" height="297" data-path="img/experience-url.png" />
