SEO For President: We Link You Decide ’08

06/20/2024 11:51 by andrewsho

Like all other years AG (After Google) in 2008 the incoming link to your site will be king, perhaps for the last time if the Google algorithm changes. From my experience optimizing your site’s “onpage” factors and then getting targeted links is still the best way to boost your performance in the search engines.

The Google point of view is that the number of relevant incoming links is a proxy for how popular or relevant your site is. With that in mind I thought it might be interesting to test this theory on the presidential candidates’ performances in the Iowa Caucuses tomorrow. If Google’s algorithm is right then shouldn’t the winning candidates have the most incoming links to their websites?

I used both Google’s and Yahoo’s link: command to find how many links these search engines claimed each candidate site had. These numbers are likely extremely inaccurate so this poll has a margin of error of +-100%.

So both engines point to Obama as the man in ’08 but if I were any of these other candidates I would get my linkbuilding strategy in place asap. If you are one of these candidate’s campaign managers I know a great non-partisan linkbuilder.

Democrats (According to Google)

1. Barack Obama G 91,300

2. John Edwards G 77,800

3. Hillary Clinton G 24,900

4. Dennis Kucinich G 14,500

5. Chris Dodd G 10,900

6. Bill Richardson G 9,650

7. Mike Gravel G 8,450

8. J oe Biden G 7,080

Republicans (According to Google)

1. Ron Paul G 268,000

2. Mike Huckabee G 73,500