RonPaulCalifornia.com

[Mahkato]

I recently created RonPaulCalifornia.com (http://www.ronpaulcalifornia.com/). It's a wiki, so everyone is free to edit and add links and information as they see fit. It works just like Wikipedia. I hope you find it useful.

[argounova]

I recently created RonPaulCalifornia.com (http://www.ronpaulcalifornia.com/). It's a wiki, so everyone is free to edit and add links and information as they see fit. It works just like Wikipedia. I hope you find it useful.

great job, jonathan!

[Mahkato]

RonPaulCalifornia.com is now incorporated into RonPaulGateway.com (http://www.ronpaulgateway.com/), which consolidates RonPaulCalifornia.com, RonPaulMinnesota.com, and RonPaulWisconsin.com, the three other domains I own. This will make it a lot easier to manage and keep things consistent.

The content for RonPaulCalifornia is pulled directly from RonPaulGateway.com/California, but it is still served from the RonPaulCalifornia domain name (instead of redirecting) so that search engines treat it as a separate site. A Google search for "Ron Paul California" puts ronpaulcalifornia.com in spot 14 (was #5 yesterday; google is weird sometimes). "Ron Paul Minnesota" is in spot 2, and "Ron Paul Wisconsin" is #1.

If anyone wants to help me add more domains to list, PayPal me a few bucks through the ChipIn widget in the left sidebar of the site. It costs me $5.99 per year to add domain names.

[ronpaulblogsdotcom]

If you did these as subdomains you would not have to pay a domain fee. It also might be easier to get search engine rankings as all the sites would be helping each other. The domains would look like:

alabama.ronpaulgateway.com
arkansas.ronpaulgateway.com
.....

You can check with your host as to how many subdomains you get free or you could also do whats called wildcard subdomains which is a bit trickier.

I also have a blog platform setup that does subdomains and I have some other domains if you need some help there, just let me know.

[Paul4Prez]

One of the sites linked to, ronpaulcalifornia.org (http://www.ronpaulcalifornia.org/), says it is available for use by Ron Paul supporters. This might be a good place to coordinate Meetup activities.

[Mahkato]

If you did these as subdomains you would not have to pay a domain fee.

Subdomains are decent, but not as good as the real thing. First, I think Google and the other search engines give more pagerank to a full domain when the search keyword is found in it. Second, it's so much more memorable to tell newcomers at a meetup group (or on the street) to go to "ronpaulcalifornia.com" than try to tell them "okay, go to ronpaul2008.com and then try ronpaul.meetup.com, and then search for this on that and then ..." Giving people a URL with their state in it gives them ownership of it, too, and helps give the impression that this is a local effort, not just some anonymous national campaign. I think it's worth the $7 to register a whole bunch of state domains, but I just don't have the cash at this point. I just picked up ronpaulnewyork.com. Trying to get the more populous states first.