Googlebombing CT-Sen

by Tim Tagaris, Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 12:18:21 PM EDT

A few weeks ago Colin McEnroe invited Dan Gerstein and me to discuss blogs, the Internet(s) and our respective campaigns to his class at Trinity College.

Teh Google came up.

I turned to Dan, back to the class and said, "I really don't want to get too deep into this particular strategy ... eh, screw it, there's nothing you'll be able to do to counter the effort."

I then described GooglebombCT, a project we've been working on for a few months now.

Let me tell you, "Joe Lieberman" is a tough nut to crack on Google, but we've come a long way. We've taken links out of nowhere and now dominate the second and third pages of the returns. You think link is tough? Try ten for Joe and ten for Ned.

Anyway. Here's my ask ... I'll include the source code in the first comment. Please embed it into the template of your blogs (side bar or footer are great!). It might look unsightly for two weeks, but here's the vital statistics are far as our race in CT is concerned:

In the days before the August primary, seventy thousand! people visited NedLamont.com via Google. Over 20,000 Googled "Joe Lieberman" inside CT alone.

Joe Lieberman has millions of dollars from those who profit from war, high gas prices and expensive medicine. His 527 friends are free to distort Joe's record (in a positive way) and trash Ned on TV. We'll fight with the tools we have. All of them.

Bombs away!

Tim

Joe Lieberman - "Seasonal Memory Lapses" by Paul Bass (Hartford Courant)
Joe Lieberman - "Truth About Joe"
Joe Lieberman - "Lieberman Wins Republican Friends, Democratic Enemies... (WaPo)
Joe Lieberman - "Joe Lieberman is a Big Oil Republican" (LamontBlog)
Joe Lieberman - "Kerry Calls Lieberman the New Cheney" (ABC)
Joe Lieberman - "Joe Lieberman Doesn't Care About Handicapped People" (Wonkette)
Joe Lieberman - "Joe Lieberman is Running With a Bad Crowd" (Firedoglake)
Joe Lieberman -"116 Reasons Not to Vote for Joe Lieberman"
Joe Lieberman - "How Joe Lieberman Tried to Kill Rock 'N Roll (Huffington Post)"
Ned Lamont - Official Campaign Website
Ned Lamont - Ned Lamont, the Political Entrepreneur
Ned Lamont - "Democrats Back Lamont; Lieberman Files Independent Run" (F0x)
Ned Lamont - Unofficial Ned Lamont Resource
Ned Lamont - Unofficial Lamont Blog
Ned Lamont - "The Democrats Mean Business" (WSJ)
Ned Lamont - "Ned Lamont vs. Joe Lieberman" (The Nation)
Ned Lamont - "Lieberman Loses Debate With Challenger Ned Lamont"
Ned Lamont - "Lamont: Lieberman Sounded Like Cheney"
Ned Lamont - "Lamont Fires Up Naples" (New Haven Independent)

Tags: 2006 Mid-term Elections, CT-Sen, googlebomb, Joe Lieberman, Ned Lamont (all tags)

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Please repond (And Source Code)

Community sites like MyDD carry with them a special weight. Since the original URL is built into reply URLs, each comment replicates the original post ... so if there were 50 comments in this post, it would be like 50 of the original entry replicated. Make sense? Tough to explain. Anyway, here's the source code:

<a href="http://www.courant.com/news/local/northeast/hc-pbass0604.artjun04,0,7611693.column">Joe Lieberman</a> - "Seasonal Memory Lapses" by Paul Bass (Hartford Courant)
<a href="http://www.truthaboutjoe.com">Joe Lieberman</a> - "Truth About Joe"
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/09/AR2005120901934.html">Joe Lieberman</a> - "Lieberman Wins Republican Friends, Democratic Enemies... (WaPo)
<a href="http://lamontblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/joe-lieberman-is-big-oil-republican.html"> Joe Lieberman</a> - "Joe Lieberman is a Big Oil Republican" (LamontBlog)
<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/Politics/story?id=2334709&amp;page=1">Joe Lieberman</a> - "Kerry Calls Lieberman the New Cheney" (ABC)
<a href="http://www.wonkette.com/politics/ned-lamont/joe-lieberman-doesnt-care-about-handicapped-people-201124.php">Joe Lieberman</a> - "Joe Lieberman Doesn't Care About Handicapped People" (Wonkette)
<a href="http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/09/26/joe-lieberman-is-running-with-a-bad-crowd/">Joe Lieberman</a> - "Joe Lieberman is Running With a Bad Crowd" (Firedoglake)
<a href="http://www.myleftnutmeg.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3377Joe">Joe Lieberman -</a> "116 Reasons Not to Vote for Joe Lieberman"
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/howie-klein/how-joe-lieberman-tried-t_b_16505.html">Joe Lieberman</a> - "How Joe Lieberman Tried to Kill Rock 'N Roll (Huffington Post)"<a href="http://lamontblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/joe-lieberman-is-big-oil-republican.html">
</a>

<a href="http://www.nedlamont.com">Ned Lamont</a> - Official Campaign Website
<a href="http://mydd.com/story/2006/2/17/165938/836">Ned Lamont</a> - Ned Lamont, the Political Entrepreneur
<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207516,00.html">Ned Lamont</a> - "Democrats Back Lamont; Lieberman Files Independent Run" (F0x)
<a href="http://www.laresistance.us/blog/ned-lamont-la-resistance-round-up/index.htm">Ned Lamont</a> - Unofficial Ned Lamont Resource
<a href="http://lamontblog.blogspot.com/">Ned Lamont</a> - Unofficial Lamont Blog
<a href="http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008801">Ned Lamont</a> - "The Democrats Mean Business" (WSJ)
<a href="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=68530">Ned Lamont</a> - "Ned Lamont vs. Joe Lieberman" (The Nation)
<a href="http://usliberals.about.com/b/a/257691.htm">Ned Lamont</a> - "Lieberman Loses Debate With Challenger Ned Lamont"
<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2308572">Ned Lamont</a> - "Lamont: Lieberman Sounded Like Cheney"
<a href="http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2006/04/post_155.html">Ned Lamont</a> - "Lamont Fires Up Naples" (New Haven Independent)

by Tim Tagaris 2006-10-26 12:31PM | 0 recs

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This comment makes three!

Make sense ... it's like 3 of the original posts. Three hits total now.

Tim

by Tim Tagaris 2006-10-26 12:31PM | 0 recs

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Joe Lieberman - "Seasonal Memory Lapses" by Paul Bass (Hartford Courant) Joe Lieberman - "Truth About Joe" Joe Lieberman - "Lieberman Wins Republican Friends, Democratic Enemies... (WaPo) Joe Lieberman - "Joe Lieberman is a Big Oil Republican" (LamontBlog) Joe Lieberman - "Kerry Calls Lieberman the New Cheney" (ABC) Joe Lieberman - "Joe Lieberman Doesn't Care About Handicapped People" (Wonkette) Joe Lieberman - "Joe Lieberman is Running With a Bad Crowd" (Firedoglake) Joe Lieberman - "116 Reasons Not to Vote for Joe Lieberman" Joe Lieberman - "How Joe Lieberman Tried to Kill Rock 'N Roll (Huffington Post)" Ned Lamont - Official Campaign Website Ned Lamont - Ned Lamont, the Political Entrepreneur Ned Lamont - "Democrats Back Lamont; Lieberman Files Independent Run" (F0x) Ned Lamont - Unofficial Ned Lamont Resource Ned Lamont - Unofficial Lamont Blog Ned Lamont - "The Democrats Mean Business" (WSJ) Ned Lamont - "Ned Lamont vs. Joe Lieberman" (The Nation) Ned Lamont - "Lieberman Loses Debate With Challenger Ned Lamont" Ned Lamont - "Lamont: Lieberman Sounded Like Cheney" Ned Lamont - "Lamont Fires Up Naples" (New Haven Independent)

by Bob Brigham 2006-10-26 04:25PM | 0 recs

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Re: another

word.

Tim

by Tim Tagaris 2006-10-26 05:05PM | 0 recs

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Re: This comment makes three!

gOOD JOB tIM.

by Pravin 2006-10-27 05:14PM | 0 recs

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One more thing

Ned's campaign is currently the target of the right-wing's googlebomb response. Just sayin. Tim

by Tim Tagaris 2006-10-26 12:38PM | 0 recs

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local blogs

I'd like to reiterate a point I made in another thread.

Imo building an infrastructure of local blogs like SayNotoPombo with consistent articles and coverage on local races is the "win-win" version of this w/o what I see as some of the downsides of investing time and energy in Googlebombing.

ie. Blogs that cover local candidates at their own URL both

a) build items for search engines to link to, and eventually move up the search engine rankings

b) create a context for readers to understand about a candidate and race

Google bombing is more of a one trick pony.

A local blog is the long term investment.

Fwiw, if folks build a nation-wide network of local blogs and we link to each other. (And if blogs with good google page rank link to the smaller blogs...and all important point here.) We will create, with ZERO hanky panky, a nation-wide network that amplifies our local message nationally and gets good Google Rank.

My final thought would be this. With all due respect across the board.

The Google Page Rank of the "Big Blogs" is like their version of Use it or Lose it. Big Blogs have google rank but tend NOT to link to little blogs. They should.

The big blogs should be linking to the local blogs ...agressively. That will boost the local blogs google page rank and naturally create the same effect that the Google Bomb effort is intending to have. Comletely legitimately.

by kid oakland 2006-10-26 01:41PM | 0 recs

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Re: Googlebombing CT-Sen

There is an Article Called 'GOP Joe' that really hits into him

Here is the Link

by Abraham Running For Congress When I Turn 25 2006-10-26 03:19PM | 0 recs

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Re: Googlebombing CT-Sen

Posting it to my lj. Joe Lieberman - "Seasonal Memory Lapses" by Paul Bass (Hartford Courant) is a jerk.

by Alex 2006-10-26 07:19PM | 0 recs

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Lieberman

Here is useful information on the CT Senate race from a local CT web site.

http://hampton.dems.info

by JJonMyDD 2006-10-26 07:27PM | 0 recs

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Re: Lieberman

agreed

by Tim Tagaris 2006-10-27 06:26AM | 0 recs

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Re: Googlebombing CT-Sen

the above comment was designed to get responses to "the google"

by JJonMyDD 2006-10-26 07:32PM | 0 recs

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Re: Googlebombing CT-Sen

Thank you.

Tim

by Tim Tagaris 2006-10-27 06:26AM | 0 recs

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Prioritizing the Articles People Need to See

Ned Lamont - Official Campaign Website
Ned Lamont - Ned Lamont, the Political Entrepreneur
Ned Lamont - "Democrats Back Lamont; Lieberman Files Independent Run" (F0x)
Ned Lamont - Unofficial Ned Lamont Resource
Ned Lamont - Unofficial Lamont Blog
Ned Lamont - "The Democrats Mean Business" (WSJ)
Ned Lamont - "Ned Lamont vs. Joe Lieberman" (The Nation)
Ned Lamont - "Lieberman Loses Debate With Challenger Ned Lamont"
Ned Lamont - "Lamont: Lieberman Sounded Like Cheney"
Ned Lamont - "Lamont Fires Up Naples" (New Haven Independent)

I also liked this one: Joe Lieberman "Our Troops Must Stay" from the Wall Street Journal last year. When I search for Joe Lieberman, that's already number 5 -- wouldn't it be great to have that as 1?

by PeterB 2006-10-26 10:41PM | 0 recs

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Re: Prioritizing the Articles People Need to See

yeah, that one isn't going anywhere.

Tim

by Tim Tagaris 2006-10-27 06:26AM | 0 recs

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Where is the SOB clip?

Remember how we read the moment when Lieberman called Lamont a Son of a Bitch was caught on tape? How come the Lamont campaign hasn't used this incident to score a point against LIeberman?

by Pravin 2006-10-27 06:25AM | 0 recs

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Re: Where is the SOB clip?

Joe lieberman's campaign would only say it was "private conversation"

Tim

by Tim Tagaris 2006-10-27 06:27AM | 0 recs

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Re: Googlebombing CT-Sen

How come no Kos diary, Tim?

by JAmbro 2006-10-27 08:07AM | 0 recs

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Re: Googlebombing CT-Sen

Might do one today.

MyDD seemed like the appropriate place for a first drop though.

Tim

by Tim Tagaris 2006-10-27 09:08AM | 0 recs

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Re: Googlebombing CT-Sen

oh, i was gonna reply to this... but, i forgot what i was gonna say... rats.

by hoose 2006-10-28 03:40PM | 0 recs

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Re: Googlebombing CT-Sen

something about lamont and lieberman...

by hoose 2006-10-28 03:40PM | 0 recs

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Re: Googlebombing CT-Sen

i almost remember...

by hoose 2006-10-28 03:41PM | 0 recs

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Re: Googlebombing CT-Sen

it's right on the tip of my tongue...

by hoose 2006-10-28 03:41PM | 0 recs

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Re: Googlebombing CT-Sen

oh yeah, done!

by hoose 2006-10-28 04:45PM | 0 recs