What if the Ron Paul Fans Became SEO Savvy?

[Vendico]

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-if-the-ron-paul-fans-became-seo-savvy

"If Paul's supporters really were as savvy about viral marketing as they claim to be, they would have long ago discovered the power of anchor text, link bombing and taking over the search results. Imagine - if the thousands of bloggers, hundreds of forums and handful of social networking sites all took it upon themselves to boost Paul's visibility through search engine rankings, they could achieve an effect far greater than the dominance of online polls - they could truly start to influence the campaign by marketing information for their candidate"

[transistor]

RP already owns the internets

[ronpaulblogsdotcom]

Thats an old article and RP has many supporters that are professional SEO people.

[steph3n]

RP already owns the internets

not as good as if we'd make tons of SEO friendly blog posts about the President, who should i vote for? side by side comparisons etc

[ReallyNow]

What other terms/words would we want to optimize for?

Ron Paul goes to official site#1

I guess we could optimize for the term "Who should I vote for in the primaries?"

[Vendico]

or "primaries" or "debate" or "2008" or "iowa"

[hawks4ronpaul]

I thought Google defused the "link bomb."


http://hawks4ronpaul.blogspot.com/

[Dutch]

Maybe we should get some SEO savvy folk to become Ron Paul supporters...

Dutch

[bobmurph]

"best republican"

[DealzOnWheelz]

libertarian
constitution
liberty
freedom
iraq
iran
IRS
income tax
nau
nafta
cafta
wto
social security

this guy I know does SEO
I could try to get in contact with him

[Vendico]

sounds like a plan

[WebFX]

I thought Google defused the "link bomb."

Yep, they did, about 6 months ago.

[DjLoTi]

We don't need to cheat to win. We already own the internet.

[jake]

We don't need to cheat to win. We already own the internet.

SEO doesn't mean cheating - there are lots of way to increase pagerank that are google-friendly.

[Vendico]

Is it cheating? I don't think so.. I think it's using the internet as a tool.

[szczebrzeszyn]

SEO means 'cheating' in most cases. Or rather it means playing around the search engine algorithm. Do you think that without those SEO experts we would have so MUCH junk on the first google pages for almost ANY keyword?
But in this case it was OK (I'm referring to the article) - structuring the document properly or writing a descriptive (and accurate!) title attributes for the links is always a good thing.

[user]

If we did something like this, the media would just report it as "those crazy Ron Paul people, hacking the Internet".

[torchbearer]

I thought we got in trouble for using SEO tactics over the summer... in fact, that is why we stopped.

[szczebrzeszyn]

Really? What troubles?

[torchbearer]

Really? What troubles?

There were some articles that came out... maybe blogs talking about how we were "google bombing". If you did a google news search with ron paul and google bombing (or just bomb), some of the old articles may still come up...

in fact, I think Trevor Lyman is the SEO expert that had taught us what to do...this may be as far back as june or july.

[DjLoTi]

Some of the people who support Ron Paul are seriously some of the most tech-savy in the world.

[Knightskye]

The media already think Ron Paul supporters hack polls and change the results to make it look like Ron wins. I don't think we should add fuel to the fire.

[torchbearer]

The media already think Ron Paul supporters hack polls and change the results to make it look like Ron wins. I don't think we should add fuel to the fire.

That is why we stopped and why the OP article makes no sense.

[torchbearer]

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[Vendico]

I don't think we have to take it as far as the article says. I do think we need to add more keywords to meta tags on our pages.

[Mahkato]

One hour spent talking to your neighbors about Ron Paul is worth far more than one hour updating your meta tags.