On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:09 AM, Samer Mansour <[email protected]> wrote: > SourceForge, amazon, CNET and other services allow users to leave reviews > on their own. >
That's a good point. So I wonder if one solution is to keep a page at /about_us/testimonials.html but instead of cherry picking our own user reviews we just link to the SF, Amazon, etc., review pages? -Rob > For now I would scrap that page as its not sustainable to compete with > review tools readily available with 3rd party websites. > > Samer > > > > On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 2:40 PM, V Barnett <[email protected]> wrote: >> > hello, fyi your testimonials page is 9 years out of date. the latest >> ones are from 2004...this does NOT inspire confidence in your products. >> Please fix this. I want to recommend you but can’t with this kind of >> neglect, really. >> > thank you >> > vb lum >> >> We actually do track carefully which pages on the websites are heavily >> visited and keep these pages up to date. >> >> It looks like this particular page has not been updated in 9 years. >> We've had 100's of millions of downloads in that time, 75 million in >> just the last 18 months. I don't think we link to this page in any >> prominent way. Google Analytics reports only 48 visits to that page >> in the last month. (The entire website gets around 20 million page >> views/month). So given these facts I don't think this page has any >> impact at all on user confidence in the product. >> >> So what to do? >> >> 1) Do nothing? >> >> 2) Delete the page? >> >> 3) Update the page? >> >> I'm not sure user testimonials are particularly useful for to have. >> Magazine reviews, awards, etc., have more value than an endorsement >> from an unfamiliar name. We do a good job on the awards page, for >> example. But I won't argue against anyone who thinks otherwise and >> wants to update that page, but my inclination is to simply delete it. >> >> Regards, >> >> -Rob >> >> >> > >> > http://www.openoffice.org/about_us/testimonials.html >> > Testimonials >> > 2004 >> > 2003 >> > 2002 >> > 2001 >> > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
