> Organic search and paid search are silo'd.
According to who? Google? Is there any transparency or any way for an outsider to verify that?
According to who? Google? Is there any transparency or any way for an outsider to verify that?
Matt Cutts answers: Do AdWords customers get special treatment in organic search results?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aV5DmL_eog
If there is evidence that Google gives special treatment to Adwords customers in organic search then this could be verified as a lie. As long as this evidence remains nothing more than accusations and suspicions, then I choose to believe Google that there is no teacup orbiting Venus. It seems unlikely, but not impossible. I am willing to sway my view when I get evidence. Till then, I will treat it as a common newbie myth.