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 hello, fyi your testimonials page is 9 years out of date.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
>> >
>>
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