Impersonate your audience for testing purposes

Learn how to impersonate your audience to test content visibility and troubleshoot inconsistencies in your Hub

What can I use this for?

As you build and launch your Searchie Hub, one of the best ways to test that your Hub content visibility is correctly configured is to impersonate a member of your audience.

Each Audience Profile contains details about that person's access to your Hubs and any Audience Tags they may have. Impersonating them allows you to see the Hub through their eyes.

Step 1 - Access the Audience Profile to impersonate

From the Audience tab in your Searchie account, search for a specific Audience Profile you want to test.

Once found, click the profile from the list and open their Person Details.

Step 2 - Click on the Hub you want to view

Under Hub Access, you'll see the list of Hubs accessible to that person. All you need to do is click the three-dot menu beside the Hub name you wish to impersonate and select Impersonate.

Step 3 - View the Hub as the Audience

Once you've clicked Impersonate, your web browser will open a new tab. In this tab, you will see the Hub as your selected Audience Profile. This is indicated in the blue bar across the top of the window.

NOTE: If you're using Safari

Because your audience-impersonated Hub will appear as a pop-up window from Searchie, you want to make sure that Safari is set up to accept pop-ups from Searchie. Click here for guidance.