Google and Twitpic, oh my! | The Lijit Product Diaries No. 3
Just because a bunch of us are currently headed to Blog World in Vegas doesn’t mean that we’ve stopped working. In fact, with our most recent release, we’re proud to offer our users more enhanced search results and an easier way of installing Lijit on your blog. That’s right. While it may be hard to believe, we just keep making our search better and better.
Hello Google Gadget!
If you are using Google’s Blogger platform, it is even easier to add Lijit’s search to your site. (And it wasn’t very hard in the first place.) When you are looking in Blogger’s Gadget Gallery, you’ll find that Lijit is now available . You can find us by selecting the “Add a Gadget” link in your blog layout menu, and then searching for “Lijit” in the Gadget Gallery’s search tool.
Once you’ve located the special Lijit gadget, you can easily add our search to your blog even if you don’t already have a Lijit account. It’s easy to create a new account from within the Google gadget without even going to the Lijit site.
If you already have a Lijit account, you can simply enter your Lijit username. Either way, after you’re done with that step, you can decide where you want to put your search (we suggest the top!) and enable our search functionality on your blog within minutes.
If you’ve been looking for a better way to search your Blogspot blog, you now have the power. Give your readers more and do it the easiest way possible.
Twitpic Integration
Another cool piece of yesterday’s release is the ability to bring blog readers even more visual goodness in your search results. If you use Twitpic, it’s now easy to add that account into your Lijit content and have images displayed, similar to what we do with Flickr, on the ‘Content’ tab of your search results.
In order to add Twitpic into your search results, simply log in to Lijit and click on ‘Content’. Underneath the space where you put in your Twitter account, you’ll see an area to put in your Twitpic information. Give us a bit to crawl your pictures and before long, you’ll see Twitpic included as part of your Content search results.
We hope you like our newest enhancements and by all means, we encourage you to share your thoughts. Leave a comment and help us to improve what we’re doing!
**A special shout-out goes to Noah Everett, the brains behind Twitpic.
