{"id":466,"date":"2007-11-01T07:53:51","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T12:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lillicotch.com\/Blog\/2007\/11\/01\/some-random-thoughts-on-a-thursday-2\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T07:53:51","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T12:53:51","slug":"some-random-thoughts-on-a-thursday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/some-random-thoughts-on-a-thursday-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Random Thoughts on a Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to email someone the other day and I got a reply that before my mail would be delivered I had to go to a website and fill out a captcha to prove that I&#8217;m a real human who wants to contact them. I almost left the page, but I filled it out and sent my email.<br \/>\nI think that I would rather deal with 1,000 spams rather than lose a potential customer. You do need to filter email these days, but this is too much. To be in business you need to be easily accessible.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I found a great article that I wanted to write about and link to the other day. I went to the author&#8217;s site and couldn&#8217;t find it. She did have it posted on an article sharing site, but nowhere on her own site. If you want to promote yourself <a href=\"https:\/\/lillicotch.com\/Blog\/2007\/06\/26\/creating-your-own-website-content\/\">put your work on your own site first<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I got an email from another potential customer who said that I couldn&#8217;t help him because he was only interested in promotion in the &#8220;real world&#8221;. I went to his site and saw JavaScript navigation, all of the content on the first page was in pictures (also no alt tags), he had no traffic that I could see and a page rank of &#8220;0&#8221;. No wonder he didn&#8217;t think too much of the &#8220;cyber world&#8221;. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><font color=\"#ffffff\">.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried to email someone the other day and I got a reply that before my mail would be delivered I had to go to a website and fill out a captcha to prove that I&#8217;m a real human who wants to contact them. I almost left the page, but I filled it out 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":[1,2],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466"}],"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=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lillicotch.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}