Being a Developer Makes You Valuable. Learning How to Market Makes You Dangerous

Re:Being a Developer Makes You Valuable. Learning How to Mar... by patio11 on Thursday July 26, 2012 @04:14PM (#4298387)

There are many people in the world who a) don't even know what a landing page is, b) hypothetically, if they knew they were at a landing page, would not be able to tell if it was programatically generated and c) if they knew it was programatically generated, still would not care. All they knew is the Googles had the exact answer to their question. Thanks Googles!

More broadly, "My behavior is not a good proxy for the behavior of all people everywhere." and "I may be smarter than substantially everyone in my industry but that is not the way I should bet." are two lessons to learn early and well.

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Re:Being a Developer Makes You Valuable. Learning How to Mar... by thenomad on Friday July 27, 2012 @05:14PM (#4303613)

I don't suppose we could persuade you to link one or two of those programatically generated LPs, could we? I'd be really interested to see how you're doing what you're doing.

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Re:Being a Developer Makes You Valuable. Learning How to Mar... by bmelton on Thursday July 26, 2012 @05:16PM (#4298788)

Heh. To the contrary, I was betting that if my simple-old self saw what was up, then so would everyone.

Thanks for the head's up though. I'm still all for the careful crafting of landing pages, but at least I know I wouldn't be wasting my time to script out a bunch to at least put up until / unless they can be replaced or upgraded.

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Re:Being a Developer Makes You Valuable. Learning How to Mar... by beneth on Thursday July 26, 2012 @08:59PM (#4299480)

I would advise a mix of both strategies. Auto-generated content can allow you to test a large number of keywords/niches, and you can go to town creating better versions by hand once something has proven itself to actually be worth the effort.

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