Thanks Lijit!
November 26th, 2009 . by Daniel HölblingYou may have seen that I use Lijit to power the on-site search for my blog. Since Lijit by default uses a Google custom search to power this (nothing really wrong with that) I became quite unhappy with the results (Google for some reason doesn’t like to index articles but rather indexes categories 
). Since I didn’t find my own stuff through Google, getting the same bad results through Lijit was quite annoying.
So I tweeted this one day:
Well, took about 45 minutes to receive this:
And this very nice Email alongside:
Well, that was 2 days ago. Search results that I get when using the on-site search are back to what I expect them to be and I’m once again able to find my own stuff.
Thanks Lijit. Great service!
Nice to see such good support!
Nonetheless, I think your problem with Google indexing the category pages might have been caused by your blog configuration – as your category pages contain far more links to your deep content, they look more important – so no-indexing them and giving your posts and pages a higher priority might have solved your problem. There are some good plugins out there to automate this process.
Even if your on-site-search is fixed now, your blogs SEO would definitely profit from this
Yes I know. I already run the All-In-One SEO Pack and it didn't help at all. Fixing the on-site search did the most important thing for me:
Fix my search.
That google is not finding my stuff is very unfortunate and I'll address the problem for sure. But doing SEO is pretty arcane and does not always net the right results. Especially if you don't care at all about that crap (like I do).
I hate doing this, I hate anything that even resembles Blog engine maintenance, so why should I be happy to do SEO
Can't quite understand how this happens if your category-pages are non-indexed. But netherless, knowing where to find good content is still worth more than finding bad one, so seo isn't that important for people who aren't selling stuff online
Daniel, I’m glad we could sort things out for you. Keeping our users satisfied is of utmost priority for us at Lijit and I appreciate the kind post. If you run into any other trouble or have additional questions, you know what to do. I’m tara [at] lijit [dot] com and I’m happy to help!
Daniel, I’m glad we could sort things out for you. Keeping our users satisfied is of utmost priority for us at Lijit and I appreciate the kind post. If you run into any other trouble or have additional questions, you know what to do. I’m tara [at] lijit [dot] com and I’m happy to help!
Daniel, I’m glad we could sort things out for you. Keeping our users satisfied is of utmost priority for us at Lijit and I appreciate the kind post. If you run into any other trouble or have additional questions, you know what to do. I’m tara [at] lijit [dot] com and I’m happy to help!
Daniel, I’m glad we could sort things out for you. Keeping our users satisfied is of utmost priority for us at Lijit and I appreciate the kind post. If you run into any other trouble or have additional questions, you know what to do. I’m tara [at] lijit [dot] com and I’m happy to help!
Daniel, I'm glad we could sort things out for you. Keeping our users satisfied is of utmost priority for us at Lijit and I appreciate the kind post. If you run into any other trouble or have additional questions, you know what to do. I'm tara [at] lijit [dot] com and I'm happy to help!