If you could bypass the laborious process of doing repetitive search engine optimization work to rank higher in organic search results, would you do it?

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Will people share organic search results or a text ad?

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Buying my way to the top of the organic search results was a theory I had considered for some time, but never quite found the right opportunity to test until recently.

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It delves a little deeper into the whole Google-Twitter-Facebook smackdown wherein Google finds itself fending off allegations that it has gamed its vaunted organic search results in favor of its own socially generated content.

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While Baidu has promised to more clearly differentiate organic and paid search results for a long time, it has still failed to do so.

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So monetized response is happening on the paid results, even though the bulk of the traffic is in organic search.

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Previously, it was easy for sites to see not only the traffic they received from organic searches, but also the search terms a user entered and, in some cases, the position in the search results where their site was listed.

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