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In need of a bit of help here…In the search area, do I leave the default as - /search?q={search_term_string}", or do I need to put a search keyword in there somewhere?

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You need the ‘SearchAction’ parameter only if you page supports a site search function.

As per Google " Sitelinks search queries send the user to the search results page for your site or app, so you need a functioning search engine to power this feature. "

In theory you need to have a wixLocation.query function running on your page’s onReady function which will grab the search term from the URL and run a filter/search according to it.

For example Pinterest’s Structured Data is this:

<script type="application/ld+json">
    {
        "@context": "http://schema.org",
        "@type": "WebSite",
        "url": "https://www.pinterest.com/",
        "potentialAction": {
             "@type": "SearchAction",
             "target": "https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q={searchbox_target}&referrer=sitelinks_searchbox", //note this line
             "query-input": "required name=searchbox_target"
        }
    }
    </script>

If you see above you will notice that Pinterest’s search results page is https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins and they have a search engine on their page which takes the parameter after ?q= and shows the relevant pins

This means if you go to this URL https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=cats you will see a lot of cat images.

If you do have a search engine on your page then leave it as it is and have the page pull out the query parameter (q) else remove that part from your markup

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Thank you Shan, you have explained it thoroughly.