<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9f7720a0-4546-40a1-aab0-ddab5d1af044/32F8F31C-B8F7-4975-A001-95DFE300668F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/obama-vs-mccain-search-social-scorecard/7983/" href="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/obama-vs-mccain-search-social-scorecard/7983/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.searchenginejournal.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/obama-vs-mccain-search-social-scorecard/7983/"><P><A target="_blank" href="http://adultaddstrengths.com/2008/11/05/obama-vs-mccain-social-media/">Pete Quily</A> has put together a case study on the search and social results of the Barack Obama and John McCain online presence among Google, Google News, Image and Video Search, Technorati, Wordpress and Yahoo along with subscriber numbers from Youtube, Flickr, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and Friend Feed.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/obama-vs-mccain-search-social-scorecard/7983/"><P>Key findings include :</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/obama-vs-mccain-search-social-scorecard/7983/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Obama’s site had over 1 million pages indexed in Google, 5828% more than McCain</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Obama’s site had 25% more pages linking to it than McCain’s</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">McCain has 173% more mentions on Google News</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Obama has 2254% more Twitter Followers</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/obama-vs-mccain-search-social-scorecard/7983/"><P><SPAN id="more-7983"></SPAN> The numbers are pretty interesting and make a good case for the importance of social media marketing not only for Presidential Candidates, but also for business online presence and social media management. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/obama-vs-mccain-search-social-scorecard/7983/"><P>More numbers from <A target="_blank" href="http://adultaddstrengths.com/2008/11/05/obama-vs-mccain-social-media/">Obama Vs. McCain Search Engine and Social Media Showdown</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/obama-vs-mccain-search-social-scorecard/7983/">Maybe next time you pitch social media marketing</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/obama-vs-mccain-search-social-scorecard/7983/">to your CEO, show them</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/obama-vs-mccain-search-social-scorecard/7983/">how a smart Internet marketing campaign led to someone winning the White House</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/32F8F31C-B8F7-4975-A001-95DFE300668F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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