links for 2009-01-21

  • Most Internet surfers are constantly subjected to a barrage of promotional messages and advertising. As a basic defense mechanism, they tune out most hype. Perhaps you have to be somewhat crass to get them to your landing page.
  • What I'm going to share with you is a distillation of our hard-earned experience over the course of hundreds of landing page tests. But this isn't an article about "persuasive" copywriting, or powerful magic words to use in your headline.
  • Brian Womack with Bloomberg.com wrote an article on Google closing their doors to their division that places ad space in newspapers.