Spreading the FUD – Daily Kos Gets in the Act

First there was an attempt by #teapartytracker to haunt patriots on Twitter.. and now this attempt to foul search engines in favor of progressives by smearing Republicans.

This from a missive directly from Kos which details plans to spam the internet with FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) and makes the admission this was done in 2006:

Every time you post a hyperlink anywhere on the Internet–including on message boards and social networking sites–it impacts search engines like Google. Also, one of the most common actions undecided voters take online is to use search engines like Google to find information about candidates. As such, shouldn’t we learn how to post hyperlinks in a way that helps lead to our preferred political outcomes?

With a new campaign from Daily Kos, Grassroots Search Engine Optimization, you can do just that. By learning about the most effective ways to post hyperlinks, Grassroots SEO will help hundreds of thousands of undecided voters read damaging news articles on the Republican candidate for Congress in their district.

It sounds tricky, but it’s pretty easy. To make it work, we just need a few hundred grassroots activists like you to sign up and take part.

In 2006, we used this technique to reach over 700,000 voters in key congressional districts during the last two weeks of the midterms. With the rise of Twitter and Facebook, we can do even better in 2010.

To get started, sign up here. Once you sign up, you will be redirected to a Daily Kos diary that explains the next steps.

Keep fighting,
Chris Bowers
Campaign Director, Daily Kos