I made a website 8 years ago for a business that was abandoned very early on by lack of time. Last week the first order came in.

Makes me curious, why should organic discovery not be a thing? How should it work?

I get that we don't want to look at promotional messages but do customers want to pay for advertising? I think many would be surprised how expensive it is to buy one customer. Some sectors more absurd than others.

I see lots of ads for things I know cost a tiny fraction of what is asked.

The idea everything is spam seems much to convenient for big business to be a coincidence.

I think we should go back to having a link to our website with each post. That actually makes it worth spending some time helping people.