Comments on: How important is search?

By: Weblog Tools Collection » Blog Archive » Lijit: Search Stats for your Blog

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:29:11 +0000

[...] searches with your search items and then, I assume, puts up their own Google Ads in the searches. I happen to think search statistics are very important for a blogger to understand user trends, likes and dislikes. I noticed Lijit for the first time while reading [...]

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Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:25:27 +0000

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By: brVince

brVince — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:31:07 +0000

I do agree with search bar being displayed in the blog. How much more if it is google adsense generated search bar? it speaks about revenue…

By: Monika

Monika — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 09:08:42 +0000

Hi
if it is a *daily news* blog I don’t use search.
But here I use it.

if search is absolut necessary for a blog or a website is direct proportional to the topic of this blog or website.

and sometimes I would like to use the search but I can’t find the form - “simple search” is a wonderful plugin

regards
Monika

By: Dave Forde

Dave Forde — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:54:45 +0000

This would be a great plugin, and you are totally right about the “power of searches.”

By: gustav s

gustav s — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:17:21 +0000

I do agree, searching is very important, for example on my self development blog which slowly keeps growing makes more than sense to look at pages using searches and also more if they will make me some money using adsense

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 18:28:07 +0000

Combined with WP-Zeitgeist and it could get really interesting.

http://www.village-idiot.org/a.....zeitgeist/

That one tracks what searches brought people TO the blog.

By: John P.

John P. — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:07:32 +0000

@arpit....I usually link to my personal wp.com blog rather than the self hosted blog I run.

By: N. Johnson

N. Johnson — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:23:42 +0000

I’m pretty sure nobody uses the search function on my blog; that’s easy to say because I only have 2 regular readers. But this would make a great WordPress plugin, and I can’t wait until (if?) it’s released.

By: Rasmus

Rasmus — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:18:30 +0000

As a bit of a stats freak, I LOVE this idea!

As a professional developer working on maintaining and developing the search function on a large site, I can really see the potential in this functionality.

I’m very much looking forward to the release of this plug-in.

By: Jim Duncan

Jim Duncan — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:16:28 +0000

This would be a great plugin for my blog. Search gives some of the best insight into what readers are looking for, and could help me target my writing to answer those questions.

By: Arpit Jacob

Arpit Jacob — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:12:49 +0000

@john. I guess it depends on your theme I have a very visible and large searchbox on the side bar. by the way your blog’s on wordpress.com they dont allow third party scripts

By: DotSauce Domain Magazine

DotSauce Domain Magazine — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:02:34 +0000

Wow, I removed my search form thinking nobody used it… quite a mistake that was. Thanks for the info.

By: John P.

John P. — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:40:51 +0000

I’m running CrazyEgg right now on a blog and the search box is getting almost no use.

By: Mark Ghosh

Mark Ghosh — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:21:55 +0000

Jean-Paul: These are internal search terms.

By: Jean-Paul Horn

Jean-Paul Horn — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:54:38 +0000

Very interesting indeed. Are these the internal search terms (from the search box) or keywords from the SERPS? I would love something like a landing page for people coming from Google that says: “Oh, it seems you searched for “”, these are our most relevant posts.

By: Pi

Pi — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:26:03 +0000

An interesting and useful plugin if ever there was one, which enhances google analytics in that visitors to the weblog can see what is of interest rather than just the admin. Aren’t these things called ‘clouds’ elsewhere? I think I saw the term on Technorati sometime ago, in which case Hot Clouds might fit, or something which reflects the 24 / 48 hour time span.

By: Arpit Jacob

Arpit Jacob — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:37:47 +0000

Interesting I had Installed CrazyEgg on my blog a month back and I found that people used the search box a lot more than I had imagined. I am sure this would become a very popular plugin