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title: Boost search results through properties
slug: cms-12/docs/boost-search-results-through-properties
createdAt: 2026-08-10T15:56:02.000Z
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Optimizely Search & Navigation has default properties, **Title**, **Content**, **Summary**, and **Document content**,  that are automatically mapped to corresponding content properties. Each property has an adjustable weight setting that affects search result rankings. Adjusting the weight setting is called *boosting*.

Boost weight settings if your site has specific and well-defined content types. For example, if your site hosts scientific articles whose summaries are generally well-written and of great importance, increase the **Summary** weight so it has a greater impact on search rank.

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The following procedure shows how to modify weight settings.

1. From the edit view, select **Search & Navigation** > **Configure** > **Boosting**. Default properties are displayed on the left of the screen.
   - **Title** – Content title. For Optimizely Content Management System (CMS) content, it is typically the **Name** if not specified by the developer. For crawled content, it is the `<title>`-tag. For custom types, the title is, by default, the **SearchTitle** property if not specified by the developer.
   - **Content** – Web page content.
   - **Summary** – The introduction, summary, abstract, or similar property type.
   - **Document content** – An asset's content, such as a PDF or Word document.
2. Click a check box to change a property's weight in the **Weight** column.
3. Click **Save.**

Note the following information about changing weight settings.

- To test the impact of property weight changes, click **Preview the boosting effect** from the right side of the **Boosting** view.
- To revert the changes, click **Reset to default values** from the **Boosting** view under the list of properties.
- These settings affect search results for all content types and all languages on all websites in your implementation.

For developer information, see also [Boost search results with weights](docId\:cX_OBfT4KC8a42TOvTrpC).