OK--this is finally ready. After my internet went out this morning and I had to relocate to a nearby café, after my mouse went out and I had to fix it, after I crashed last night and finally took a good night's sleep instead of continuing to work, after being called unscrupulous for doing this--whatever. Maybe I don't have the endurance I need to run campaigns like this. Maybe I don't have the manners to be a good online citizen--it doesn't matter. If Democrats win this election, and search engine optimization plays any role, I will feel good about doing this. And no one called right-wing bloggers "unscrupulous" when they did this to John Kerry in 2004. They opened the pandora's box on this one, and they can ram their criticisms for me taking it up a notch upward and to the left.
In a separate diary, I have added the plain text format of the Google Bomb. All you need to do on your blog is to copy and past
what you see there. You don't have to do it everyday. You don't even have to do it more than once (but feel free). All you need to do is copy and paste the code from the diary on your blog. When you discuss any of these races in the future, please, use the same embedded hyperlink when reprinting the Republican's name. Then, I suppose, we will see what happens. I'll try and take care of the ads today and tomorrow.
I did my best to come up with this list. You guys were an unbelievable help. I am sorry if I left out one of your favorite candidate, but to tell you the truth this shouldn't be my job anyway. Every campaign should be engaged in search engine optimization on their own. They can find out more on how to do just that by checking out the New Politics Institute, and their excellent
"new tools" campaign. They even have an article on
using search engines. If this got some press to teach campaigns that they need to focus on this in 2008, then all the better.
I probably should have done this four weeks ago when I first suggested the idea. I hope it still works. With a lot of effort over the next five days, we should be able to have these results in the top five or six for these candidates within the next week. Even it doesn't work, I can't imagine it will hurt. At the very least, it is a nice list of articles to use in each of the campaigns. Talk about a great oppo dump! The list is in the extended entry:
