{"id":196,"date":"2011-04-07T13:43:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T12:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2011-04-26T12:15:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T11:15:09","slug":"a-real-success-for-the-quinta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"A real success for the Quinta!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; padding: 3px;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinta\/5597318635\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinta\/5597318635\/\">Frank-&amp;-Daniela-7.4.11-9761<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quinta\/\">Paradise in Portugal<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 2px solid #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5306\/5597318635_d59efb61eb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Driving through Cortebrique this morning and someone shouted out to me, &#8220;Congratulations!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;What for?&#8221; I asked.<br \/>\n&#8220;Why, for being #1 on Google of course; didn&#8217;t you know?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;#1 on Google? I had no idea&#8221;, I replied truthfully. Though both Daniela and I work hard to promote the Quinta and countryside tourism in general in this area, I had no idea we&#8217;d apparently been so successful. &#8220;What search terms were you using?&#8221; I asked, intrigued.<br \/>\n&#8220;Quinta Portugal,&#8221; my friend replied, &#8220;and what&#8217;s so clever of you is that &#8220;Quinta&#8221; isn&#8217;t even in the name of your site. You beat all the big boys, all the other tourist sites and even all the &#8220;Quinta for sale&#8221; sites. Very smart. Congratulations! How did you do it?&#8221;<br \/>\nI had to come clean of course and say I didn&#8217;t know; as I say we work hard at our internet presence here, and maybe <a title=\"Birding in Portugal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.birding-in-portugal.com\" target=\"_blank\">our Birding Site<\/a> helps in this respect, but whether I know how it came about or not, it&#8217;s still a huge feather in our cap and we&#8217;re justly proud of ourselves and all of us hope our many friends and volunteers will be too, as it&#8217;s just as much thanks to all of you as to anything we&#8217;ve done.<br \/>\nRight, enough scribbling, I&#8217;m off down to the village to get the bubbly!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank-&amp;-Daniela-7.4.11-9761, originally uploaded by Paradise in Portugal. Driving through Cortebrique this morning and someone shouted out to me, &#8220;Congratulations!&#8221; &#8220;What for?&#8221; I asked. &#8220;Why, for being #1 on Google of course; didn&#8217;t you know?&#8221; &#8220;#1 on Google? I had no idea&#8221;, I replied truthfully. Though both Daniela and I work hard to promote the Quinta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,24,1],"tags":[136,135],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-the-alentejo","category-quinta","category-uncategorized","tag-success","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradise-in-portugal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}