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That’s right, 55% of Americans used the internet to research candidates and issues in the last election.

If you are going to run for any office, from a local school board to President, remember this one thing:
It takes around 12 months to get a decent search engine presence.

the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that 55% of Americans used the internet to not just ceck out a web page but:

• 45 percent of Internet users watched online videos related to politics or the election
• 33 percent of Internet users shared political content with others
• 52 percent of those on a social network used it for political purposes

By the way, it was only 11% in the 2000 elections. What do you think it’ll be by the 2012 elections?

If you have any doubt that a strong internet presence and an engaging website helped Obama secure the Presidency read this quote from the study:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama used the Internet to mobilize an army of volunteers that helped him defeat Republican John McCain in the November 4 election.

Obama supporters tended to be more engaged online than McCain backers, the study found. While 26 percent of Obama supporters active on the Internet posted their own thoughts or other content in an online forum, only 15 percent of McCain-backing Internet users participated, for example.

Still think you can run for office without at least one website?
Well, than keep thinking that, I guess we don’t need leaders who are so out of touch with the populace.

The new Digg Bar seems innocent enough.  But there are things that could be bad for SEO, bad for search engines, bad for searchers and especially bad for website owners.

1. The Digg bar routes all Digg articles and links to the Diggbar URL, thus robbing you of Page rank in an effort to have their Digg article about your page replace your page in the search engine results. It works too!
2. The Digg bar frames your content and presents it as their own to the Search engines and some users are even confused into thinking the content s on digg.com
3. The short url (tiny url), raises duplicate content concerns. Perhaps a mini-flood of it real quick.
4. Digg claims a page view for itself every time a user views any web page with the toolbar active.
5. The Digg bar rewrites all the links on the page it’s displaying into Digg urls thus robbing the user of being able to bookmark your site properly and generally screwing up some web applications.

Expect another article on this subject after this software is tested by our staff. There’s a lot of positives to be found here too.

– TxS

Obama just took the initiative to ask the general public to submit questions to him online, others members of the general public will read the questions and rate them. The President will ask some of the most popular and well rated.
This article resume’s after the video:

This online interaction between President and Citizens is a lot like the traditional means. I don’t why the guy in the interview seems obsessed with marijuana, but he has the point all wrong, in fact he’s proving my point.
Continue reading “Obama knows how to use the internet to talk to people” »

Dream Designs by Texx Smith has launched another Web Design special.
Learn about the Add A Video – $99 special.
Below is an configuration of an advanced video player in wordPress blog:

You just never know where the next big fundraiser is going up on the internet next. One things is for sure, putting more resources into your internet presence is a must just to keep up.

To all local and state level Politicians. It’s time to play catch up or loose it all to new challengers.
Here’s some younger republicans driving home the point that they can and will put more effort into internet marketing so as not to be bested in the future.

One thing they seem to be aware of is that 12-6 months before an election is the time to begin internet marketing in earnest.

Read about the Last big google update in the months right before an election that set this practice as a tradition with google and other search engines. It’s called the Florida Update (ironic name).

Note they are also touting only a few of the successes their opponents have been having by using internet marketing and great web applications to raise funds and get their message to the people. I can’t blame them, I like to talk about the future myself.

If your a local or state level politician in any party here in Florida. You need to contact us today. Why today? It takes time to develop an internet presence using natural search engine results. If you wait until right before an election, you will have to much more money into paid advertising, which people trust less.

There is a growing business practice in my industry that I must reluctantly speak on. With the economy doing so poorly and this practice working so well, it’s becoming more prevalent. Underbidding. There are two types of underbids, Intentional and unintentional. Today I’ll speak on:

Intentionally Underbidding.
This is when a company makes a bid on a project that is less than what they can do it for and less than what they actually intend on charging you.
Continue reading “Beware of the Low Bidders” »