DailyKos tries to Googlebomb GOP candidates

[SGdsn]

Daily Kos: State of the Nation

I guess this is what happens when people have too much time on their hands. DailyKos is trying to sway undecided voters by overloading search-engine results with negative articles about Republican candidates. Here are their instructions:

1. Title damaging in and of itself. Not many people who see the article will actually click through and read it. So, it is critically important that the title itself is damaging to the Republican candidate in some way.

2. Name of candidate in title. In addition to a catchy title, it is key that the name of the candidate appear in the title itself. This will both help the SEO effort, and lead to more people clicking through to the article.

3. From a well-known, non-partisan news source. Time and time again, people have sent me links to progressive blog articles to use in these SEO campaigns. Don’t do that. Just don’t. Find negative articles from as high profile a news organization as possible. When high profile can’t be found, then local news outlets will do just fine. Whatever you find, make sure said new organization at least ostensibly claims to be non-partisan.

4. Already has a high Google ranking. Increasing the visibility of the article will be a lot easier if the article already has a decent Google ranking. For our purposes, top 100 is OK, and top 50 is good. Something already in the top 20, or even the top 10, would be awesome. (Note: make sure you sign out of Google before conducting keyword searches on the candidate’s full name to test the Google ranking of the article).

5. Name of candidate in URL. The SEO effort will be greatly enhanced if the name of the candidate appears in the URL of the article.

6. Keep it short. Try to find shorter articles with the negative hit on the candidate near the top. We don’t want to make people struggle to find the info.

7. Keep it recent. This is the least important criteria, and may actually damage SEO efforts on search engines like Bing. But, Google seems to favor more recent articles, and people looking for candidate information probably do, too. So, try to find as recent an article as possible, given the other criteria.

I guess unemployment rates and the deficit aren't quite bad enough for the fine folks at DailyKos, so they want another few years of Democrats running everything. Makes perfect sense.

Michael Savage was right: liberalism is a mental disorder.

 

[Annie]

It makes me feel bad to see these types of 'tricks', but they are the bread and butter of political operatives in US politics and have been since Adams was elected vice-president.

 

[xotoxi]

It makes me feel bad to see these types of 'tricks', but they are the bread and butter of political operatives in US politics and have been since Adams was elected vice-president.

Exactly!

Kerry Gets Google-Bombed

 

[xotoxi]

Right Wing News (Conservative News and Views)

 

[Modbert]

Put in "Barack Obama is a" in google. Some of the automatic suggestions:

"Muslim, Communist, Mason, liar, moron, socialist, joke, narcissist, loser, traitor, terrorist, fascist, homosexual, lizard, racist, retard, robot, republican, satanist, puppet."

What I get for "George W. Bush is a" in google:

"Idiot"

Other best response I get is best president ever.

So if you're going to complain about googlebombing, I'd suggest you get a better house that's not built out of glass first.

 

[SGdsn]

Somehow I believe if this was Republicans doing it to Democrats, it would get a NYT/AP/MSNBC/HuffPo mention, but since it's the other way around, who cares?

I'm tired of liberals overreacting to shit when they shovel it just as much as anybody else.

And xotoxi, if you're going to mention it happened to Kerry and play tit-for-tat, don't do so in an article that mentions it was done to Bush first.

 

[xotoxi]

Somehow I believe if this was Republicans doing it to Democrats, it would get a NYT/AP/MSNBC/HuffPo mention, but since it's the other way around, who cares?

I'm tired of liberals overreacting to shit when they shovel it just as much as anybody else.

And xotoxi, if you're going to mention it happened to Kerry and play tit-for-tat, don't do so in an article that mentions it was done to Bush first.

It's done to everyone.

And no one cares except for you.

 

[SGdsn]

Somehow I believe if this was Republicans doing it to Democrats, it would get a NYT/AP/MSNBC/HuffPo mention, but since it's the other way around, who cares?

I'm tired of liberals overreacting to shit when they shovel it just as much as anybody else.

And xotoxi, if you're going to mention it happened to Kerry and play tit-for-tat, don't do so in an article that mentions it was done to Bush first.

It's done to everyone.

And no one cares except for you.

Well, me and the NYT. And HuffPo. And Google. And MSNBC. And the AP News wire. And you, for responding to me.

 

[007]

Somehow I believe if this was Republicans doing it to Democrats, it would get a NYT/AP/MSNBC/HuffPo mention, but since it's the other way around, who cares?

I'm tired of liberals overreacting to shit when they shovel it just as much as anybody else.

OOOoooohh.... you nailed it there pard... liberals are EXCEEDINGLY well adept at shoveling the shit. They're the biggest smart asses on every board I've ever been on.

And xotoxi, if you're going to mention it happened to Kerry and play tit-for-tat, don't do so in an article that mentions it was done to Bush first.

xo will tell you he's not a liberal, but if you pay attention to what he says on the board, you will see a significant slant towards liberalism.