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Lijit has some tricks up its sleeve for bloggers

Posted by Steven Hodson in Tuesday, June 17th 2008      

I first signed up for Lijit some time ago and then during a theme change or two I forgot to add the sidebar search widget they offer bloggers. The recently I got re-aquatinted with the service and have had a few email conversations with Micah Baldwin from Lijit. It was through those conversations that I have learned of some really cool stuff that Lijit has planned for rollout over the next little while.

One of the things which I am currently testing here at WinExtra is their Lightbox Search Results display when you enter search term in their widget; which you will find in the sidebar area. The graphic below shows what I am referring to:

Lijit Search Results

As you can see the Lijit results page is overlaid on top of your own page; which can still be scrolled. When you select one of the results from what is available that page will be displayed in your browser and the Lijit display goes away.

In addition to this you also have access to a full range of stats on your Lijit page itself

Lijit Stats

All your stats pages can be either public or private and give you a full range of information to see how traffic is getting to your blog. Along with that most of what you can see on your stats pages like the visitor maps and popular posts are available via your widget page on Lijit where you can select from a wide variety of sidebar goodies.

I also learned while talking with Micah that Lijit has some really interesting things they are working on and being tested with a small set of bloggers. While I can’t say much about them at this point I know that when Lijit makes them available they will be a big benefit for bloggers at all levels – not just the big boys.

As soon as I can pass on more definite information about this I will but in the meantime if you haven’t given Lijit a try before now might be a good time to drop by their site and sign up.



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    Beyond consideration of functionality is the critical sanctity of Publishers private statistics. We at P.U.B. consider the safety of the information any app or widget(s) may be gathering, unbeknownst to the unwitting Publisher who installs them. It’s about transparency, not ‘whats up its sleeve’ when it comes to how money is being made and what the Publisher’s share is.

    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 get this response from Lijit Networks 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.

    Will publish these results to keep the community of Blog Publishers informed on this critical component of Widgets on our Blogs.


    Sincerely,

    Barney Moran for P.U.B.

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