{"id":1248,"date":"2009-05-28T09:51:04","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T14:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2009-05-28T09:51:04","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T14:51:04","slug":"organic-search-or-paid-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/organic-search-or-paid-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Organic Search or Paid Links?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at a networking lunch yesterday with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blxnetworking.com\/\">Business Leads Exchange Group<\/a>, it&#8217;s a wonderful group that I recommend that you check out if you are near <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburgh.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">The &#8216;Burgh<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been going every month for quite a while now and much of my time is spent catching up with members that I know and finding about what they are doing for their business and how it&#8217;s working (or not). I always like to offer my opinions and advice when I can.<\/p>\n<p>One of my friends asked me a question that I have heard before, &#8220;which works better organic search listings or paid ones?&#8221; I quickly answered that I believe the organic listings are better received.<\/p>\n<p>My friend asked me why and I replied that organic listings are usually free (or less expensive if you are buying SEO services), but even if you leave out the cost factor I believe they are more trusted. Maybe it&#8217;s because you can&#8217;t (easily) buy them.<\/p>\n<p>When he asked me more questions about it, I found myself quoting from a post I read on the Search Insider blog the other day. Rather than me repeating it again I&#8217;ll let you read it for yourself.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/publications\/?fa=Articles.showArticle&amp;art_aid=106547\" target=\"_blank\">A Tale Of Two Houses<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at a networking lunch yesterday with the Business Leads Exchange Group, it&#8217;s a wonderful group that I recommend that you check out if you are near The &#8216;Burgh. I&#8217;ve been going every month for quite a while now and much of my time is spent catching up with members that I know and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[24,11],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions\/1251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}