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I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit - I always loved the fact that search engines seemed to be one of our last remaining defenses against an onslaught of Flash web designs
Story: McCain's Website Gaffes
This has got to be one of the dumbest articles I've ever read, and that's saying a lot.
I mean c'mon, seriously - golf gear and JavaScript? SearchEngineLand needs to do a lot better than this
Story: McCain's Website Gaffes
The only politics in my criticism is my resentment when the conversation about this country's direction for the next four years gets sidetracked by trite, irrelevant bs that gets blown way out of proportion. Tripe like who's pastor is saying what, or who's site supports JavaScript or links to branded golf accessories.
I'm an Obama supporter, and I still find it self-serving and intellectually dishonest for people to imply that a link on McCain's site means he's fiddling while Rome (er Washington) burned. My opinion would be the same if people tried to accuse Obama of the same thing based on his regular basketball game or the fundraising golf tournaments that are listed on his very site.
Story: McCain's Website Gaffes
Michelle's dead on - why alienate your evangelists and 'repeat customers' in order to sway the minds of people who aren't going to vote for you anyway?
Now that we've had a couple presidential cycles with the internet, i think it's pretty clear that a pattern has emerged where candidate websites are only good for three things - 1) fundraising 2) rallying your base and 3) engage your volunteers. (You could also argue that there is a media outreach component as well)
While in practice, I largely agree with what Eric is saying here, aren't the arguments in this post ultimately self-serving? It seems convenient to me to state 'everything I do' = not spam, while 'everything i don't do' = spam?
Not to mention, isn't the whole idea of topical relevance a bit of a convenient cop-out? After all, there isn't a lot of topical similarity between server architecture and four irons, but I still see IBM commercials on the golf channel
Story: SMO Hits the Links
The post really isn't saying that this campaign is big for SMO at all. It merely points out that it's encouraging to see SMO penetrate (at least anecdotally) an industry where it had never done before and might appear on the surface, to be a poor fit with target demographics.
No one would aregule that the campaign itself was poorly executed, stale, and not as engaging as it could/should have been. Thats why I made many of those same criticisms in my review of the campaign.
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