Lijit Helps Your Readers Search Your Online Universe

At the BlogWorld Expo, I had a chance to spend some time talking with Tara Anderson of Lijit. Today, I finally had a chance to explore their product and add it to all my blogs.

Lijit is a personal search engine for all your online sites and profiles. You create the search engine by adding URLs for every site you want to include such as: your blog(s), MySpace, del.icio.us account, Digg account, Flickr, LinkedIn profile, YouTube, Twitter and many more social networking sites.

I was able to create a search engine that includes The Blog Squad's online universe of websites, blogs and other social networking sites. You can also include sites in your network of contacts, if you want.  In our case, we want to keep people in our universe so I would not add any outside sites.  Although, you could probably enter affiliate URLS -- I'll have to test that.

I've installed the HTML code on our blogs (in a TypeList), so when you are looking for content The Blog Squad has created, all the sites and blogs we have will be included in the search and the relevant links will be in the results. You can include web pages in addition to blog posts.

You can use the default search widget or customize it to match your own site.

I love Lijit and it's FREE!

Comments

[Shama Hyder]

Sounds like it could help online marketing efforts in general. Thank you!

[Patsi Krakoff, The Blog Squad]

Great widget, Denise. I tried it out... I asked it to pull up posts on "blog writing". What I got were 10 pages of posts (I think there were some 79 of them!), but they were all on BizTipsBlog, and none were from CoachEzines or BuildaBetterBlog.com.

What am I missing here? I was thinking it would give me all posts related to blog writing on all three of The Blog Squad's blogs...

[Denise aka The Blog Squad]

When you get search results there are 4 tabs to choose from. One is for this blog, the next is for all the content I have gathered, the third is for my network which appears to include blogs I link to and the last is to search the entire web.