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Re:The Art of the Landing Page – Tips for Increasing Convers... by redorb on Saturday July 18, 2009 @06:59PM (#712292)
one of the better reads I've found on landing pages - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/announcing-the-seomoz-landing-pag... and yeah they say they do work like gold I could just never bring myself to be so sleezy

sleezy cause I think the reason they work is that they get you to read for 30 minutes, then you don't want to feel like you are wasting that 30 minutes by not buying.

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Re:The Art of the Landing Page – Tips for Increasing Convers... by jraines on Saturday July 18, 2009 @10:12PM (#712480)
Writing a long-form sales letter that fully and narratively explains the benefits (especially emotional) that will accrue from the purchase and use of the product is not sleazy, it's smart.

Lying about those benefits is sleazy.

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Re:The Art of the Landing Page – Tips for Increasing Convers... by vaksel on Saturday July 18, 2009 @10:54PM (#712518)
a huge portion of those pages is the customer testimonials, all of them are made up on the spot. I'd call that sleazy, wouldn't you?
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Re:The Art of the Landing Page – Tips for Increasing Convers... by jraines on Sunday July 19, 2009 @01:59AM (#712656)
The ones I've read aren't mostly testimonials -- but yes, making testimonials up is sleazy.
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