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I'd say you definitely need a stronger value proposition. I have no idea why I would need this for my app. Communicate to visitors how it will help their websi

I'd say you definitely need a stronger value proposition. I have no idea why I would need this for my app. Communicate to visitors how it will help their website (e.g. increased ranking, indexing, etc.)

ds_ 13y ago
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.
- marcomassaro 13y ago
  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?
  - ds_ 13y ago
    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?
    - marcomassaro 13y ago
      But what does it do. Those are features..what is the end benefit a person gets from using your service?
      - ds_ 13y ago
        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
        marcomassaro 13y ago
        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.

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I'd say you definitely need a stronger value proposition. I have no idea why I would need this for my app. Communicate to visitors how it will help their websi

by marcomassaro 13y ago

ds_ 13y ago
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.
- marcomassaro 13y ago
  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?
  - ds_ 13y ago
    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?
    - marcomassaro 13y ago
      But what does it do. Those are features..what is the end benefit a person gets from using your service?
      - ds_ 13y ago
        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
        marcomassaro 13y ago
        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.