What is Lijit?
Lijit is a service that searches your blog, bookmarks, blogroll and more, all from one little box. In return, we provide stats that help you better understand and serve your reader community. For more detail about what Lijit is, please take a read through our About Us page.

Why should I use Lijit? What will it do for me and my readers?
Though Lijit will not make you taller, thinner, smarter, or re-grow hair (...or will it?), it does offer many benefits over traditional search boxes found on blogs. Here's a list of benefits enjoyed by our Lijit users:

• Using Lijit is easy. We try our best to make using Lijit as painless as possible. Our signup process is very automated, and dare we say, kind of fun. We'll discover the places you create content. We'll discover your blogroll. We'll use that to create a search engine for you and automatically keep everything up to date. We only ask of you a few clicks to manage and install your Lijit Search Wijit. We're low-maintenance and low-hassle. Who needs a needy service? Use Lijit. We're not needy.


• People value information more when it comes from a trusted source. That trusted source is YOU, my dear blogger! So, you can sleep better knowing that all of the goodness you've created and collected over time – your blog posts, bookmarks, photos, etc. – which you've now made searchable through Lijit, will give your readers the relevant search results they truly need.


• Search doesn't stop with just you. Lijit also searches your network (i.e. blogroll) and the information those bloggers have created and collected over time too. We make search work just like it does in real life – if you don't have the answer someone needs, you probably know someone in your social network who does – and that's an amazing service to provide to your readers.


• Life is better with stats. Lijit provides great stats to our users about the number of times they've been searched, results that have been clicked, information sources that have provided the most clicked results, blogs that have linked to you, searches that have brought people to your blog, and so on and so forth. Not only is this really interesting info that helps you better know and serve your reader community, it's presented in visually-pleasing bar graphs and pie charts too.


• Promote yourself! When visitors arrive at your blog through a search, they likely have no idea about the other great things you may have written, bookmarked, etc. about their search topic. Lijit's Re-Search feature allows you to share that info with them front and center. Now that they've found you, keep them interested with all of the other great info you have to offer!


• Keep readers on your blog. You want to provide the most relevant possible search results, but you don't necessarily want to send people away from your blog simply to display them. Two of Lijit's three search result display options allow you to display results right on your blog. Impress your readers and amaze your colleagues by displaying results and keeping readers on your blog simultaneously!


• Encourage discovery. Your readers may know you as an expert in rocket science, but do they also know you're interested in European travel and baking cupcakes? You can share all of your interests and expertise with zero effort by displaying the "Surprise me!" button and "Popular Searches" cloud in your Lijit Search Wijit. With a simple click, your readers can discover the wonderful world of YOU.

How much does it cost to use Lijit?
Nothing! Lijit is free for all to use.