Which Presidential Candidate Do SEOs Prefer?

SEO digest

Today is Election Day in the United States, and, by most accounts, is an exceptionally important and historic one. I thought it would be valuable to get a look at the world of SEOs and how we're generally choosing to cast our ballots. There have been a few endorsements around the tech world:

• Eric Schmidt of Google endorsed Barack Obama
• Tim O'Reilly (of O'Reilly Publishing) endorsed Barack Obama
• Lawrence Lessig, the founder of Creative Commons, endorsed Barack Obama
• Michael Arrington of TechCrunch (during the primaries) endorsed both Barack Obama & John McCain for their respective party nominations
• Marc Andressen, Co-Founder of Netscape & popular Silicon Valley Tech Blogger, endorsed Barack Obama

Although the majority of these broader tech sphere endorsements lean towards Obama, the SEO-specific bloggers have trended in other directions:

• Aaron Wall of SEOBook endorsed neither major party candidate, but professed desire to see Ron Paul in the election
• Quadzilla at SEOBlackhat also rejected major party candidate endorsements
• Brian Provost from Scoreboard Media didn't so much endorse McCain as reject Obama

I'm curious - how are you voting (or how would you vote if you could, for those who are ineligible/overseas)?

 

Which Presidential Candidate do You Prefer? ( surveys)

I'm closing comments on this post for obvious reasons, but if someone wants to submit this to Sphinn and let them deal with it, that's OK by me (sorry Rob & Michelle!) :-)

p.s. I know it's been said before, but for goodness sake, get out and vote! Google Maps has a good system to help you figure out where to do it.

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published @ November 5, 2008