Comments on: Lijit – it’s more than just a search!

By: joshuaongys

joshuaongys — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:07:25 +0000

this site is cool… so many awesome stuffs to read on!! keep it up!!

By: Nadeesha Cabral

Nadeesha Cabral — Sat, 31 May 2008 16:55:57 +0000

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.

By: Nadeesha Cabral

Nadeesha Cabral — Sat, 31 May 2008 16:54:09 +0000

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!

By: Nadeesha Cabral

Nadeesha Cabral — Sat, 31 May 2008 16:47:19 +0000

It was a pleasure Tara. Will send feedback on your way.

Cheers!

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Sat, 31 May 2008 03:09:00 +0000

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!

By: Barney Moran

Barney Moran — Sat, 31 May 2008 02:06:51 +0000

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.

By: Tara Anderson

Tara Anderson — Fri, 30 May 2008 23:05:05 +0000

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.