“Alexa, is ‘voice search’ the next big thing to consider in digital politics?” Maybe — though I’m a bit skeptical of projections that half of ALL online search queries in the U.S. will be spoken in 2020. Still...
New Epolitics.com contributor Brett Gerstein is the CEO of Fliptide, which helps organizations gain supporters and win campaigns through digital advertising. For those of you who may not have noticed, several weeks ago, Google introduced some pretty...
Regular contributor Laura Packard spotted something noteworthy at the last Republican undercard debate: Rick Santorum invited viewers to Google his name. What? His Permanent Record had been permanently tagged years ago by a well orchestrated...
Another guest article from our friend Laura Packard with PowerThru Consulting! This time she’s talking about Search Engine Optimization, but you can also check out her past Epolitics.com articles. This piece first appeared on the PowerThru...
A fascinating online ad popped up for me* for the first time this weekend: the “Fast Terry” piece to the right. At first I thought it was produced by Republican Ken Cuccinelli’s campaign, since it takes on Democrat Terry McAuliffe...
Do recent changes to Google and Facebook affect political and marketing communicators? Potentially a lot, so let’s take the sites in turn. First Google, which announced today that it’s making major changes to its search algorithms to...
Fascinating article over at Google’s Politics & Elections blog: their analytics team looked at search trends for Occupy Wall Street and compared them with those for the Tea Party, and the results are most interesting. Search interest in...
Big news this morning in the online content and advocacy fields — AOL is buying HuffingtonPost for $315 million, meaning that a site that’s become a prime outpost for liberal-oriented commentary and news is coming coming under the wing...
This one just got nailed down — on March 25th, I’ll be participating in the Search Engine Strategies Conference and Expo in NYC. It’s a five-day event focused on search marketing and search engine optimization, and I’ll be on...
Vikki Porter passed along an article today from Rob Garner at Media Post’s Search Insider which details the results of the company’s recent research into political search trends in the ’08 elections. Below are some high points;...