I wonder at what point MC Hammer references will leave my mind… This song rocked. ANYWAY….
Lijit – A new search service for bloggers launched last week… But calling it a “search service” really does not do it much justice. Do you remember when you first installed the mybloglog widget then all of a sudden you had all these great quicklook stats when you logged into mybloglog? Thats the warm fuzzy feeling I get when I log into Lijit.
Built in searching within wordpress has been probably one of the worst built in features for some time. Its probably why bloggers have opted to use Google Custom Search. Google Custom Search returns great results but it can be a bit difficult to implement. Well maybe not to implement but to customize and look right. My blog has looked jacked up for a while with GCS. Now Sure you get money if you use Google Custom Search…. I mean I have made a whole 2$ in the last year…..
So I first noticed the widget on copyblogger and problogger’s sites and i went their and made a account. It seriously took less then 1 minute to complete my profile and have the widget running on my site:
So it gives you some of the basic stats we all know and love… like previews and stuff like that but here is what I REALLY like:
(click for full size)
Pretty slick!
If you diggit go sign up for a free lijit account and put it on your site.
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October 16, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Shoe, how come you took the Lijit search down?
September 29, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Wow……………. It’s wonderful !
September 9, 2008 at 10:27 pm
i’m trying it on now on one of my blogs – looks great – thanks
August 27, 2008 at 11:46 am
This is a good tool.
August 3, 2008 at 7:35 am
When I think about MC Hammer, I always think about the running man dance move.
August 3, 2008 at 7:33 am
Of course Google will, there products must always be better.
August 3, 2008 at 7:31 am
Helps spend less time on research to determine what works best.
August 3, 2008 at 7:29 am
Its his business knowing everything on the web, and everyone who is anyone would love their tools to be backed by Jeremy.
August 3, 2008 at 7:26 am
Slow for me, but then I am in Africa with slow bandwidth.
August 1, 2008 at 8:56 pm
If P.U.B. can get a straight answer from Lijit on the revenue sharing and ownership of the Publishers unique stats pulled by Lijit, then the functionality may be worth it.
Barney, P.U.B. Founder
July 30, 2008 at 8:15 pm
i tried installing it in my blog and it didn’t last 5 minutes and the search box is up
July 30, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Yes. The way GCS opens in a new window is annoying.
July 30, 2008 at 5:34 pm
It really depends on the people. There are plenty of people who click on Adsense ads, except the ones in GCS. I’m not really surprised because a lot of people would just rather find what they’re searching for within the site.
July 30, 2008 at 5:32 pm
They stopped? I thought they just made some changes to it.
July 30, 2008 at 5:12 pm
yes that is sure, there is no other way as I think to make money throught this method!
July 30, 2008 at 5:10 pm
I made much more with my adsense for search feature, It’s about 20% from my full adsense revenue. More than $1k in a year
July 30, 2008 at 12:56 pm
I am going to try it myself, too
July 30, 2008 at 9:58 am
I joined, but never ended up implementing it. Just was taking too long to join.
July 30, 2008 at 9:57 am
btw… I LOVE that it loads in same window.
July 30, 2008 at 9:56 am
I wonder if there is revenue sharing as well.
July 30, 2008 at 9:10 am
google has custom home search and you can track what is being searched via analytics just have to turn on track site search in the profile. BUT might have to test ligit out looks more color fl than analytics
July 30, 2008 at 6:23 am
I think managers of Google is constantly looking for an opportunity to improve the search engine. They can use it very quickly.
July 30, 2008 at 6:13 am
Yes, I agree with that comment.
July 30, 2008 at 5:41 am
Hammer is a has-been. no fun intended.
July 30, 2008 at 5:34 am
I’m liking this in general, but I wish there was a way to exclude my own traffic from the stats… am I missing something? I really dig the ‘re-search’ functionality too. Took me awhile to get my head around what it does (should have just enabled it!)… my only complaint is that it shows duplicate results in the ‘My Blog’ and ‘My Content’ areas.
July 30, 2008 at 5:23 am
Cool, thanks for the link!
July 30, 2008 at 5:22 am
Ditto. I also installed this to try it out on my own blog and don’t see any problems at all with load times.
July 30, 2008 at 2:44 am
Pretty interesting.im gonna try it:)
July 30, 2008 at 1:38 am
Didn’t realise you could change the style of the widget, thats another nice feature, mind you I like the default style so will stick with that.
July 30, 2008 at 1:37 am
It is nice to see superior offerings to Google’s, ain’t it?
July 30, 2008 at 1:35 am
I like the cloud feature, and Lijit in general. Hats off to you guys for spotting the gap and creating a really awesome product to compete in it. Good luck for the future, may you grow from strength to strength.
July 30, 2008 at 1:35 am
My blog is on blogspot, I’ll try it later and see if works. Like Melvin says, its only a small snippet of code so I see no reason why it shouldnt work.
July 30, 2008 at 1:29 am
Hence some of the nice prizes we’ve seen on Shoemoney. This is definitely one of the factors.
July 30, 2008 at 1:21 am
I would love to see Jeremy’s RSS feed, email inbox and list of blogs that he frequents. The answers lie in there somewhere, methinks.
July 30, 2008 at 1:16 am
The earnings are actually quite ridiculous. Definitely not worth the paper it is printed on.
July 30, 2008 at 12:56 am
Takes a while to load for me as well, but then I am half a continent away!
July 30, 2008 at 12:54 am
Hey.. could you fix the viewing your site on the iphone ? It comes up completely blank. Just disable the shitty plug-in you use to make the blog iphone themed, prefer to view the full site rather than the gimped version.
July 30, 2008 at 12:48 am
i do think so… all you’ll put is a small snippet of code….
July 30, 2008 at 12:46 am
just wonder how much traffic i could get from this site i gget linked,…
July 29, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Shoe! Just signed up with Lijit, very easy! Thank you for the tip, you are always helping make our sites and blogs more powerful. Of course I included your site on my blogroll on all of my sites…Respectfully, Nicholas
July 29, 2008 at 11:11 pm
so you just made 6.5k
doesn’t look like sponsored
July 29, 2008 at 10:46 pm
I ran into them at Blogworld last year and then installed on the old site. They also contacted me – good follow-up.
July 29, 2008 at 10:03 pm
a lot of these companies seek out good people like shoe that would do a simple writeup or he pays attention to press/news releases
July 29, 2008 at 8:26 pm
yeah it save you to add icons all over your blog for your youtube / twitter / digg / linkedin / etc ..
July 29, 2008 at 8:24 pm
i think you can edit the css they offer 3 options , dident try the css but i dont think you can remove the logo well you can but i dont know if it will be functional .
July 29, 2008 at 8:23 pm
the re-search is off at shoemoney , i tested it on my site and it look nice , well it make the life easier for those who dident find what they are searching for .
July 29, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Great Shoe… Now I have the song BLASTING in my head. It’s going to be a long night!
July 29, 2008 at 8:17 pm
This is great timing. I discovered this yesterday when I was searching for a few things on your site. This is going on my list to add to my sites. The pop out is pretty cool looking and with the ability to make mods, I can further customize it to my sites.
July 29, 2008 at 8:15 pm
ligit must be overloaded or something because it says:
“http://laberintosocial.com does not appear to be a valid URL. Please try again.”
and my thang is running just fine!!!!
oh the anxiety of it all…
July 29, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Didn’t Google stop that program recently?
July 29, 2008 at 8:12 pm
I missed that feature. Thanks for pointing it out.
July 29, 2008 at 8:10 pm
The cloud feature is a good way to know what topics are hot so you can write about them more often. Very nice.
July 29, 2008 at 8:08 pm
I would like to know how it does it too. A kinda what tools does Shoe use to learn about tools.
July 29, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Thanks for the script info. I used it quite a bit yesterday and didn’t have any loading issues. Interesting.
July 29, 2008 at 8:04 pm
I used it yesterday and didn’t have any problems with it loading.
July 29, 2008 at 6:44 pm
does this work on a blogspot blog?
July 29, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Yuck, I too had to go through that recently, finally cleaned everything out and it works great, I recommend the free AVG anti virus, worked WAAAYYY better than the paid Norton.
Thanks for the head up Shoe, this widget looks great!
July 29, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Geiger pretty much has it spot on. USing the popular search cloud does highlight what readers are looking for. It’s a value add to the blogger who gets added traffic (easier to click than type) as well as the readers that get a visual cue as to, possibly some of the most important topics of the site.
Re-search, also drives traffic around and keeps people from going back to Google. Without looking, I’m not sure if Jeremy has re-search enabled here (it can be turned on or off). There’s a lot of value add for the blogger.
not to mention we’re testing an ad platform which will allow bloggers to make additional money from revenue share (contrary to what Jeremy says, search advertising does have high value!
) and control their own inventory. Win, win, win.
July 29, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Many people like the widget styling and many people don’t. We make it possible to Style your own widget, if you so choose and a lot of people do that. Myself included. Glad you like the style though.
July 29, 2008 at 5:05 pm
How much money can you earn using google search revenue?
July 29, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Perhaps Google will add these features to custom search in the future.
July 29, 2008 at 4:08 pm
me too… it loads pretty well
July 29, 2008 at 4:07 pm
this one worths a look i think….
July 29, 2008 at 3:44 pm
This is some great stuff… using it now! Thanks!
July 29, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Nice one. This is definitely better than GCS. I love that it gives you statistics.
July 29, 2008 at 3:24 pm
I did it but had trouble uploading it. I am not very techy so i am sure that is the problem. Reading over it the features it is pretty cool.
July 29, 2008 at 2:49 pm
I honestly do not know what I have made from it…. its not that much.
July 29, 2008 at 2:47 pm
I don’t know of anybody who has made significant money from the search network.
July 29, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Fast and accurate results as well as search statistics. The search cloud widget will help promote the posts that most people want to see the most. What’s the added value of information?
July 29, 2008 at 2:44 pm
I believe they make their money from ads by yahoo on the sidebar of the search and google search revenue
July 29, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Yeah, it seems like Lijit is simply doing a good job with their product. What do they get out of it though?
July 29, 2008 at 2:34 pm
This looks much better than the GCS that’s for sure.
July 29, 2008 at 2:28 pm
I agree- do these great tools / ideas just fall in his lap or does he actively search for them- and how does he find the time for it!!
July 29, 2008 at 2:28 pm
You only earned $2 with Google custom search in the last year? Are you talking about when people click on other ads doing a search on your site through Google. I thought you would have made a bit more than that.
July 29, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Wow- have to check this feature out! Thanks!
July 29, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Wow, super easy! Great tool I’m going to have to try out…and amazing stats! I love it- thanks for the heads up!
July 29, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Oh ok wait a sec, you can get it to search more than just your webiste; i.e. also your flickr photos, del.icio.us bookmarks, etc.. Now that’s much more useful!
July 29, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Seems pretty basic, I didn’t know this hadn’t been done before.
July 29, 2008 at 1:56 pm
haha you guys give me to much credit… hey i like that
July 29, 2008 at 1:43 pm
That is pretty slick. Google will get there eventually.
July 29, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Geez shoe, what is up with all these sponsored posts lately?
July 29, 2008 at 1:20 pm
looks good
i will try out on my blog
July 29, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I was wondering what that was when you switched.. thanks for the heads up.
July 29, 2008 at 11:48 am
Pretty advanced searching stats it has. I think I’ll try it out
July 29, 2008 at 11:48 am
loads nice and fast for me.
July 29, 2008 at 11:45 am
This looks neat – I much prefer the style of the search box to googles custom search. looks very easy to setup as well. If you go to the Lijit homepage they have a “who is being searched now” box – I’ve just seen Shoemoney scroll past!
July 29, 2008 at 11:23 am
hey this is something new, I will have a look. But first I need to get rid the 22 infection on my pc.
July 29, 2008 at 11:17 am
looks cool saw this a few days back….funky stuff !
July 29, 2008 at 11:12 am
Pretty cool. Have to check it out!
July 29, 2008 at 11:06 am
What’s the added value to have Lijit ?
July 29, 2008 at 11:02 am
Oh, also you might add the Popular search cloud to the widget from within your Lijit admin. That’s going to drive additional traffic as well. Cheers!
July 29, 2008 at 11:01 am
Thanks for the write-up, Jeremy. It’s encouraging to see folks like you and Copyblogger using the service and happy about the increases in traffic. As always, looking forward to working with you and making it better. Happy, also, to talk to any of your audience about it and answer questions.
You rock, dude.
July 29, 2008 at 10:56 am
I actually first noticed this service on your blog. I went and checked it out, but just did not have enough time to to implement it yet.
Man I don’t know were you get the time to make money and keep this in touch with whats going on in the industry.
July 29, 2008 at 10:49 am
awesome feature that actually searches well, I am going to have to get rid of the google custom search and make $8 somewhere else.
July 29, 2008 at 10:48 am
The pop out is just a javascript plugin that anyone can install (search for “Orangoo Labs – GreyBox”)
i agree with AffiliateSupportTeam , it takes time to load …
July 29, 2008 at 10:47 am
Funny you mention this because I just put the lijit widget on my new design im finishing up about an hour ago. The only thing I want to change though is having the lijit icon beside the search not below, but I may just leave it i’m not sure yet.
July 29, 2008 at 10:44 am
It’s pretty slick, but it takes a while to load though..
July 29, 2008 at 10:44 am
I like how it pops out as well. The results page looks the same, I think they should tweak it out a bit to make it look as friendly as the pop up does. I’ll be looking into this.
July 29, 2008 at 10:35 am
This is pretty cool functionality from the user perspective as well. I particularly like how the results pop up in an overlay. Do you get a share of the ad revenue from searches with this service?
July 29, 2008 at 10:25 am
lol
i can see some of my searches “server” !!
November 12, 2008 at 4:11 pm
It’s pretty cool…I’m using it.