Am I wasting my time with Lijit?
Lijit looks useful. It is a search application installed on this site as a WordPress plug-in. You can see the Lijit search widget about halfway down the sidebar on the right of this screen.
In theory Lijit improves WordPress search and drags in social network content. I've seen no evidence of this.
So far, after a month or so of using the plug-in it's been used a total of 16 times. Over that period there have been more than 5300 visitors to the site, so the strike rate is incredibly low. No-one has clicked the button in past week.
There was a fancy-looking Lijit widget, but this was the slowest-loading part of my site, so I switched back to the plain text version. This may explain why there's so little activity.
I'm going to persevere for a few more weeks, but unless I can find a good reason to stick with Lijit, I'm going to drop the application.
Is there something important about Lijit I'm not getting here?
Update: I've removed Lijit since writing this.
Hi Bill,
We saw your post, and I wanted to let you know that I’m going to send you an email with some additional information. Here at Lijit we strive to provide excellent service and we want to make sure you understand how to best use our search application.
Thank you for your support and patience.
Best,
Jacqueline Malan
Jacqueline Malan
11 Nov 09 at 3:42 am
Hi Bill,
From a Publisher’s stand point, Lijit has moved farther then Google in responding to the Publisher Union’s concern about what % of profit these search companies share with publishers. Neither to date, have been transparent on what their profit is, and the exact % shared.
Barney
Founder, P.U.B.
Publishers Union of Bloggers
Barney Moran
23 Jul 10 at 7:47 am