Political Candidates Need Serious SEO Help

Whether DNC or RNC, Political Candidates need SEO from SEOmoz takes a look at the current political landscape in the search results. What we learned from this article is that the U.S. political candidates need some serious help with SEO and search marketing. For example, John McCain’s web site currently ranks number 68 for a […]

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Whether DNC or RNC, Political Candidates need SEO from SEOmoz takes a look at the current political landscape in the search results. What we learned from this article is that the U.S. political candidates need some serious help with SEO and search marketing.

For example, John McCain’s web site currently ranks number 68 for a search on “John McCain” in Google. Plus none of the candidates rank in the top fifty at Google for keywords like “candidate,” “2008 election,” “united states presidential election,” and “democratic candidates” or “republican candidates.”


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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