WEBMASTERS READ: Why our petitions don't do so well.

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...other relatively trivial ones, I decided to get the ones that have help the top slots for a long time (since I've been watching) at petitiononline and look up what web pages were linking directly to them on Google:


Persian Gulf to Remain Persian:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&safe=off&c2coff=1&as_qdr=all&q=persian+geographic+petition&btnG=Search

The Marine Shooting:
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.petitiononline.com%2Fas123%2Fpetition.html&num=10&hl=en&c2coff=1&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=lang_en&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=off
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&safe=off&c2coff=1&as_qdr=all&q=marine+insurgent+petition&btnG=Search

Against Muslim Defamation:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&safe=off&c2coff=1&as_qdr=all&q=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.petitiononline.com%2Fiecrc786%2Fpetition.html&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=iecrc786+petition&btnG=Google+Search

Continuation of hunting:
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=tallyh0+petition&num=10&hl=en&c2coff=1&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=lang_en&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=off

Now let's take a look at our older one, which did OK for a while:
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=link%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.petitiononline.com%2Fuselect%2Fpetition.html&num=10&hl=en&c2coff=1&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=lang_en&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=off
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&safe=off&c2coff=1&as_qdr=all&q=uselect+petition&btnG=Search


Just from glossing I'm noticing two things:

1) Petitions that persist have real estate on front pages of organizations or news articles, and they are relatively prominantly placed. Even small organizations may be able to help.

2) Petitions that persist have news stories about the petition, not just comments in other stories like oh, btw, sign this petition.

3) Our older petition has pretty much neither -- references to it are crammed into spools that have long since scrolled off front pages, blog comments, and tiny little areas in sidebars.

IMO, the webmasters on our side need to be aware that if we want our petitions to succeed, it is up to them to give them real estate.

Perhaps if we reach out to some of the less frequently updated election fraud sites, and ask them to do an update with a story about our petitions, we could give ours a much needed boost.

Anyone else have any comments/ideas?

(P.S. more on petitions if you follow my sig link -- a list of many prior to Nov 2 and some that were started after Nov 2, and some from 2000.)