You’ll notice a new search function over at the top right of the blog.  That’s our spankin new lijit search.  We’re honored that lijit has included us in their “cool stuff” page and wanted to tell you a little bit about lijit, since we don’t have a cool stuff page.

You might have already heard of lijit. As long as I’ve been blogging, they have been known to be “the” search plug-in for blogs.

The default wordpress search is pretty basic.  Type a keyword, find posts with that tag, and then you cayawwwwwwwwwn.  Oh sorry…faded out there for a minute.

Switch to lijit…

lijit will crawl your blog content for you, and provides all the relevant content from your site without having to rely on keywords to find relevant posts.

Do you use twitter? Delicious? Disqus? Well then you’ll love lijit’s next big feature, the content search.  You can add your account from a number of different networks.  Much like your blog posts, lijit will crawl your content for you and users can search through your blog content and your content on other networks, side by side.

Not enough you say?  Well then maybe you’ll be as impressed as I was by the stats that they offer you.

To name a few of the metrics you can track:

• Total searches
• Conversions from view to search
• Keyword search rates
• User Location (using maps)
• Searches that brought readers to your blog
• Exposure statistics

They truly have a great product and a great team to support it.  Any questions I’ve had have been answered promptly and their employees are all very helpful.

If you’re looking for a good search plug-in for your blog, I recommend you go lijit. Go ahead, search our blog and try it out.