Lijit - it’s more than just a search!
Did you ever think of your blog’s search form as potential tool to give your presence on Social Media some exposure? To actually go beyond the boundaries of searching within your blog and present interesting matches from your StumbleUpon account or Twitter? Well - with the Web 2.0 expansion at it’s peak - it’s time that you did.
Think all you want - but, here’s the tool which gets the job done - Lijit! Revolutionary search tools and stats for your blog…
To tell you about this awesome service, I’d like to take a real world example. For an instance, think that you’re running a technology blog. You review gadgets and stuff. So, there’s this cool gadget that was released just yesterday. You haven’t had time to take a good look at it and review it yet. But, a visitor comes upon your blog and carries out a search for this cool gadget. True enough., when you haven’t reviewed it yet, your visitor might not end up with a satisfactory outcome.
But, Lijit changes all that. Just imagine that you stumbled an article about that cool gadget? Or dugg it? Well, when your visitor carries out that search with Lijit, he/she might not find an article within your blog that could satisfy his/her purpose; but he/she will find that article you stumbled or dugg.
Now without Lijit, that visitor might have been frustrated with your inability to keep up with the trends (it’s 24 hours gone and you’re a techie.. what do you think?) but with Lijit, you get to recommend some external source to the reader, when the reader is in the need of it.
And that is the wonder of Lijit. You can connect all your social networks into one place, with your blog and let your visitors search all of those sources at the same time. You can use it as a customized search form to search your own blog, or a tool to share what you’ve been up to on Digg, StumbleUpon, Facebook and other social networks.
You can recommend other sources worth reading in your site, or you can let them find out your concise opinion on something by referring them to the tweet that you made about whatever they are searching for on your blog. The registration and configuration process is fairly simple. You just have to pick the social networks of your choice, input their login details, customize their appearance, choose exactly how you want search results to appear, and you’re good to go.
What’s more awesome is that you Lijit can get you pretty detailed stats on what your readers are searching your site for. Keep track of these stats and you will be able to find exactly what your readers are expecting of you.
It’s one awesome web 2.0 wonder I came across in the recent past and if you’re interested in giving it a go - well, it can’t hurt… can it?
Technorati Tags: Lijit, Blog Search, Social Networking Widget, Social Widget, Stats, Statistics
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Nadz, thanks for installing the Lijit widget and for writing about our service. It’s clear that you understand our value and your detailed explanation will help others to understand it as well.
Once you delve deeper into the stats we offer, I’m sure you’ll appreciate them even more. Instead of giving you simple information and numbers, we flesh out your stats by providing you with knowledge about your readers and how to better serve them.
If you (or your readers) have any feedback for us, please send it my way. We love hearing what our publishers have to say. I’m tara [at] lijit [dot] com.
It was a pleasure Tara. Will send feedback on your way.
Cheers!
As a Publisher covering the financial aspect of Blogging, it’s critical you also review the financial motivations of widgets vying for a spot on our blogs. Also, just as, or perhaps more critical then visible function of widgets, is the safety of the private information these widgets may be gathering, unbeknownst to the unwitting Publisher who installs them, about their site.
P.U.B. [Publishers Union of Bloggers] has pending inquires to Widget Providers concerning how they generate their income and what percentage of this income goes to the Blog Publisher making the critical decision to allow a Widget on their site for their readers. In addition we are requesting transparency on the critical issue of how the private statistic from Publishers Blogs are being used, hopefully with the Publisher’s permission!
P.U.B. expects to heard back from Lijit on these financial and private statistics issues from P.U.B’s inquiry we sent to Lijit in mid April 2008. When we do we will let great Blog Publishers like you know their deal. Currently we are also working with Blog Publishers to track performance hit evaluations of Widgets too. Let us know if you have any follow up on any of these important issues for the blog community.
Will publish these results to keep the community of Blog Publishers informed on this critical component of Widgets on our Blogs.
Barney Moran, P.U.B.
I sincerely appreciate your efforts to bring more transparency into the organization behind the publishers. With that being said, as a publisher of Lijit, I don’t get paid anything for the use of Lijit. I only use it because I want to enhance my search stats and have more social media exposure. I accept Lijit as a service and the only motivation behind the integration is the service itself.
I very much appreciate your effort and this is the first time I’ve heard of such an attempt. I have no doubt that many bloggers will adore P.U.B., including this one
Cheers!
Thanks for the great review, Nadeesha. I’d add that not only can you add your social profiles but really… anything that provides an RSS feed as well!
Of course. You’re absolutely right Aaron. I’ve got a few friends who are on my Lijit network with their blogs syndicated into my searches.
this site is cool… so many awesome stuffs to read on!! keep it up!!