Thanks, will try to make it clearer.
I think the value proposition is this:
1) You can configure it in minutes, whereas it may take a competent developer several hours to set this up on your own servers (possibly $100s in wages = several years subscription).
2) One less worry.
3) If your servers are bogged down, google still gets served the pages quickly (point 2).
4) Bonus metrics.
Re:Ask HN: When to give up?
by marcomassaro on Friday November 22, 2013 @10:44AM
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But what does it do? #2 and #4 don't tell me anything.
You have to solve a customers pain point. What is the problem you're solving?
2 is just a generalization of 1 and 3. To expand on 4, currently I display how many crawler requests were made and the average response time. If I were to further invest, I'd split these metrics by path requested and have it available over any time interval.
Do you have any ideas on what other pain points I could solve with this idea?
Re:Ask HN: When to give up?
by marcomassaro on Friday November 22, 2013 @11:02AM
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But what does it do. Those are features..what is the end benefit a person gets from using your service?
Understood - so I should clearly state that crawlers can't usually see AJAX content and that this will allow them to see and index it, leading to more search engine traffic. I was cautious of spelling out the obvious, I didn't want to insult anyone's intelligence :D
Re:Ask HN: When to give up?
by marcomassaro on Friday November 22, 2013 @11:52AM
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There we go! Its not an insult..some hackers might not even know enough about SEO to understand your service..and even so, I don't think your market is just hackers. I'm a designer and am planning to build a SPA so I'd probably refer one of my developers to your service.
Communicate to visitors how it will help their website (e.g. increased ranking, indexing, etc.)