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Comment by edw519 | Hacker News Reader

Pardon me for the blasphemy, but if I wasn't already following your writing and didn't know better, this whole post would strike me as a little "mail order sleezy".

Instead of spending valuable resources tweaking the wording of your links, why not just channel that same energy into providing excellent content, and let the rest take its course.

That's why I follow you in the first place.

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Tweaking the wording of your links is time well spent. Imagine if the same testing methodology was applied to the Sign Up button on a B2B app. You could drastically increase conversions with just a few small modifications!

Precisely. It's so sad some people focus only on getting traffic to their sites and then don't focus on the conversions. If people focused on conversions and experience more than traffic, the Web would be a lot more pleasant.

There are a lot of good books, good content, good products, good Web sites, good Twitter accounts, good whatever, out there that don't get the attention they deserve. Covering strategies and tactics for getting people engaging with you and your content is not a waste of time.

Adopting strategies like these can result in a higher mean quality of content being popular since smarter, more cynical people can learn marketing isn't all stupid and that the way to defeat the dumbing down of society is to market quality stuff better.

We're just going to have to get you on the Twitter bandwagon, edw519. (grin)

Resistance is futile.

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