As a full disclosure Tom, Lijit is a previous client of mine.
The Lijit widget is paid for on its end buy advertising. The reason it
offers up other sites for the serach term is because it will provide
information of the people in your network.
You can configure the search results to default to your own blog initially
and then to your network of friends and their blogs, then to the web etc. I
am curious whether you also waited until the reports are sent out on Sunday
evening. It provides valuable information about what searches brought
people to your site, searches that people made on your site that do not
provide results etc.
The Lijit search function also allows people to get to other related search
results within your site that might also interest them It will increase
your page views from that standpoint. It may be that they can turn off ads
on your search results and they actually have a revenue share from that
end. I'll let them answer your questions directly and I know Tara Anderson
and her staff would be happy to answer all the questions to your
satisfaction. If not let me know and I will help where I can.
Jim Turner
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Tom Dolan <tomjdo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Been looking @ some video blog sites and comparing to the one I'm
> building. I've imported two short videos I made, from YouTube just to
> chk compatibility, etc. They appear in a list format on the Home page/
> Blog and I can add commentary if I choose.... so far so good. But now,
>
> I've been looking at other vid-blogs and some have a Player with
> selections in a list connected to the player either under the Player
> or to the side of the Player. Do you think that's a better format than
> the more traditional 'blog' style where each is listed in its own
> space? I know, content is important, nevertheless, I'd like to give
> the visitor a format that is user friendly but surprise them with the
> content. Opinions pleze.
>
> BTW, Richard Harrington likes lijit. So I checked it out. Thought OK,
> so I installed & configured it as small, non-intrusive, no ads. Kinda
> neat, but the search on my site either had ads, or worse, if the
> subject was not found on my site it offered off-site
> locations...excuuuuse me! I deactivated the plugin, wrote lijit
> support with ??'s and awaiting response.
>
> I don't want ads at least for awhile. So back to WordPress Search for
> now and I'm ok with it. Any experience w/lijit or opinions?
> Inspirational Vid-blogs I should check-out?
>
> Thanx.
>
> Tom Dolan
> tomjdo...@gmail.com <tomjdolan%40gmail.com>
>
>
>
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