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In light of the big buzz around the niche of wine blogging, wine marketing and web2.0 savvyness for the Murphy-Goode Wine Country Lifestyle Correspondent position, I present you all with yet another tech simplicity to increase your attractive services in the wine industry–well, for any industry gone online, for that matter!
Intorducing a custom search engine which is so easy to configure while also remains a “low profile search widget” yet helps drastically improve the visitor experience, collects relevant data and presents the publisher (that would be the blogger, you!) with excellent user-related statistics to help improve your own content.
Lijit
Lijit provides an impressive search network creation dashboard where you can define and manage your trusted social networks connections. Basically you are creating your own search engine that searches your blog, bookmarks, photos, blog roll, and more…
But before I write up all about it, let me SHOW you lijit in action — working for the Goode of Murphy:
Don’t you agree: being able to pull in your network to expand search results on your blog is great and an awesome way to increase the power of your network? Social media goes bezeerk with lijit!
I mean, there are lots of bells and whistles, but their big service comes down to this–we can all search each other’s blogs from our own blogs… Awesome!
Did you want to check it out again in action? Try Ed’s Winetonite or Rick’s Back to Bakas. Go on, I dare you!
So if you have your own URL and can put up a lijit search engine, you might find it as awesome as I do! It is a wonderful way to learn more and leverage the power of your networks network.
Now only if the guys at wordpress.com would create a way for the little foot-people of the blog-sphere–I know I would not be the only one here interested in such great services!
Note to Joel: Would this not be an amazing tool to introduce to all your bloggers at the Wine Bloggers’ Conference next month? Just imagine the power you unleash if everyone got into the loop!
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OK, OK, I get it. Sheesh.
😉
Welcome to my humble abode, Joel!
Me thinks you are in such a great position to really profit from ligit and let her kick butt.
Thanks for dropping by…
If you set it up and if you can get the bloggers at the conference excited, I would love to hear how it goes over!
(have another comment to write 😉 )
By the way, a certain Ms Goode uses the generic search engine as well… 😛
I use the generic one solely because I chose the wp.com platform for this gig. Unfortunately lijit is not compatable with this platform.
Everyone with their own URL however could essentially be blasting their networks through the roof with this little widget.
On my German blog is where I would place lijit, that is once I stop neglecting her, poor lady, left stranded while I take my virtual tour of the American wine scene…
There are a few neat and nifty widgets and plugins I would put on my blog if I had the option: lijit, backtype, seesmic… and the list goes on and on… all great for keeping up with your network in one way or another, many working after initial setup on autopilot.
Andy, thanks for the kind words. I replied to your comment on the Wine Tonite post, but will let you know that we are doing all we can to make sure that WordPress.com user will be able to use our service soon. As you know, wordpress.com does not allow for third-party javascript widgets and therefore, you can’t install Lijit. As soon as we can convince them to allow their users to be Lijit, you’ll be among the first to know!
Thanks again for the wonderful explanation of our service and if I can be of any additional help, you can email me here: tara [at] lijit [dot] com.
Tara! Welcome to the Goode Life 😀
You win the first prize for awesome customer service. And I sure bet that you have made Ed a happy man!
And I am proud to let you know that Joel Vincent of Open Wine Consortium and VinTank just installed lijit to his own blog WineLifeToday, so I anticipate a flux of wine bloggers coming your way.
Yes, those guys at wp do an amazing job and offer great resources for free but third-party javascripts need to come. Any idea who I can hit up over there? Who are the influencial people? (Ok, I guess I am the one who can do that research.)
Thank you so much for taking the time to come over and comment here, I really appreciate it. It speaks for the great product you offer at lijit to have such incredible support.