How to Set Magento 2 Search Weight

Search Weight is the tool that supports sellers in allocating a weight for product attributes when they want these attributes to be preferred to appear in search results over other attributes.

For example, two attributes are Color and Brand. The Color with a search weight of 1 and the Brand with a search weight of 2. When the customers search the word “ white”, the result returned would be a list of products with a Color attribute value of “white” and the Brand includes the word “white” doesn’t appear in this result. That means the color attribute has a higher weight than the Brand attribute.

Explore Mageplaza Ajax Search module

Step 1: Access to configuration

From the Admin sidebar, click Store. In the Attributes column, select Product.

Step 2: Specify the attribute to edit

Choose the attribute you want to allocate a weight in the list, click to open this record in edit mode.

Step 3: Configuration

Select Storefront Properties in the ATTRIBUTE INFORMATION column.

To contain the attribute in search queries, click Yes in Use in the Search field.
To install the search weight of the attribute, choose the number from 1 to 10 in the Search weight field. The lowest value is 1 and the highest is 10. If you don’t choose any value, all the attributes have a search weight of 1.

Weight Search

Step 4: Save the changes

Select Save Attribute to complete.

THINGS TO REMEMBER

Priority for attributes is from 1 to 10 and the highest value is 10.
When the product attributes aren’t allocated the weight, the value of search weight is 1.

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