Comments on: 7 Reasons Why Obama’s Website Has Many More Visitors Than McCain’s

By: Steve Rickmount

Steve Rickmount — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:26:33 +0000

Here is what I read and agree relating with this topic:
Obama’s site links to mainstream media news stories about his candidacy more frequently than does McCain’s, which tends to bypass the mainstream media and link in its “news” section instead to campaign-generated press releases. That has ebbed somewhat recently, as the site has begun linking to news stories about Palin.

By: Melvin of Joint Pain

Melvin of Joint Pain — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:55:12 +0000

Do you think it was planned rather than a coincidence with regards to blog posts and social media. In a way it shows who McCain was targeting.

By: John Daniel

John Daniel — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:59:01 +0000

I’ve just been to both sites and I’m not sure there is all that much difference in the general content of the sites. I do appreciate the value of the opt-in if your going to try to build a grass roots organization. And Obama does seem to be better at social methods of campaigning. We’ll have to wait and see if it works.

By: CraigC

CraigC — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:08:22 +0000

I couldn’t agree more with this and I think it’s an obvious indication about how well Obama has handled his campaign. His taken full advantage of social networking sites, e-mail registries and text messaging to stay in close contact with this constituents. It’s a whole new way to stump to the masses.

By: Zack

Zack — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:11:33 +0000

G Web is right Obama’s got a better new media marketing team: it just happens to include Facebook founder Chris Hughes. (see http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/technology/07hughes.html)

By: Levi Blackman

Levi Blackman — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:24:46 +0000

Very insightful. I really like how Obama updates the blog so often and allow people to participate so easily. Didn’t see it that way before, but the Obama website is a great SEO success story.

By: Vin Suave

Vin Suave — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:19:43 +0000

Well, it only makes sense that Obama has much higher visitor rates than McCain because he is ahead in the campaigns. The Obama campaign is getting much better sponsors and more support of the people, which equals more visitors. Also, Obama would be the first black president, and so this makes it more interesting for people to visit his campaigns and news.

By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:37:10 +0000

I think the single most important reason is that the demographic is favoring Obama. Youngsters, especially web-savvy ones, are going for Obama (yay!).

Also, Obama seems to have hired a very good team to ensure his web presence - they are embracing social media and other web trends very well.

I'd written a post about similar observations too - Obama's Digg/Twitter accounts are very active, whereas McCain's accounts aren't.

By: G Web

G Web — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:11:55 +0000

Great post. I saw an advert on one of my games for Obama, that is some serious new age thinking. Obama has a better new age marketing team.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:35:45 +0000

I wonder if McCain has been to his own website. While I’m sure Obama doesn’t oversee his website, I’m sure he’s been there to a time or two.

I’ve been to both of their sites. While I understand that most of McCain supporters are fans of print/news/radio media, I think he would outreach to the web more. It’s not like it’s a newfangled invention. I had an email address for over a decade.