{"id":472,"date":"2006-10-06T18:03:02","date_gmt":"2006-10-07T01:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antone.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/2006\/10\/06\/strange-laws-ban-cross-promotion\/"},"modified":"2006-10-06T18:03:02","modified_gmt":"2006-10-07T01:03:02","slug":"strange-laws-ban-cross-promotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/strange-laws-ban-cross-promotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange laws ban cross promotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my brothers and I are opening a new website, <a href=\"http:\/\/FreeHomeShop.com\/\">Free Home Shop<\/a>, to the public tomorrow. A few weeks ago, while looking for good places on my other sites to link to it from, I asked another brother if we could link from his title insurance website. His response surprised me--title insuance companies are banned by law (at least in Utah) from advertising for, or getting advertising from, companies that generate title business (eg. real estate, mortgage, and such businesses).<\/p>\n<p>I can only imagine that the purpose of such laws is to protect customers from getting locked into a particular title company if they get their mortgage from a particular broker, etc. But as an internet guy myself, cross promotion between complimentary products is such a natural thing to me that the ban seems absurd.<\/p>\n<p>So we settled for a link from one of my brother's other sites (he's a lawyer too).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my brothers and I are opening a new website, Free Home Shop, to the public tomorrow. A few weeks ago, while looking for good places on my other sites to link to it from, I asked another brother if we could link from his title insurance website. His response surprised me--title insuance companies...<br \/>[<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/strange-laws-ban-cross-promotion\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}