No More Incumbents Blog

We are making progress here at NoMoreIncumbents.org.

We launched a very successful feedback survey yesterday, and we had a new writer sign-up to write for us covering the state of Missouri. our columns covering New Hampshire and New Jersey are both doing very well and we are making very significant progress building up our sites within the search engines.

One of our goals is to make it to the top 10 anytime someone does a search with the word incumbent in the keyword mix. That is a tall order and it’s not going to happen overnight, but I am pleasantly surprised at how quickly we are moving up!

Even more importantly the number of our readers is increasing week after week. I need to do more work to make it easier for our readers to subscribe to our columns and to our newsletters. We have a lot to do and a lot of ground to cover. There are so many details that I have to keep up with as we prepare to launch this site that I need to go buy more computer memory for my computer.

Seriously we are making very good progress, and one of the things that is going to make us very successful is the power of the blogosphere. We have contacts with a literal army of bloggers. We have the ability to reach out to over 10,000 bloggers and growing on any single day of the week.

Furthermore any one of those bloggers has the power to reach out to us. The 2004 presidential campaign helped to identify the potential power of bloggers in politics. That potential has barely been tapped by any political party today. We are definitely going to tap the potential and use it to its maximum.

We are going to leverage the voice of tens of thousands of bloggers by the time the 2008 election rolls around to help get our message out, to promote candidates running against incumbents, and to work towards the day when politics aren’t so corrupt that we need NoMoreIncumbents.org.

Everyone has to start somewhere. NoMoreIncumbents.org is just a few weeks old, but we have a great deal of potential. Over the next few months and years, I will be spending a great deal of time promoting our site and the work of our writers for each state so that we can deliver our anti-incumbent message.

More importantly we will create an organization capable of empowering people to get information on incumbents so that they can make their own decisions about whether or not they should support a re-election or take an anti incumbent stance.

In the age of the internet its important to pay attention to the keywords and this means that we will be working to insure that are message is readily available in Google.

Already when someone searches on the keyword of No More Incumbents, this blog comes up at the top of the list. Similarly, searches for the keywords No Incumbents puts us in the 5th position on Google, and even for the generic word that represents the nemesis of a free democracy, the word Incumbents puts us in 63rd position in Google.

We will do many things to strengthen our site and each of the individual blogs for the fifty states. We have started and this will improve over time so that we can be effective in our campaign to prevent Incumbent elections from succeeding.