Got a couple of minutes to burn? Want to cost the GOP $$$ ?

[NJmaverick]

Go to google or Yahoo or any other search engine that has sponsors. Put in search terms like "republican", "gop", "rnc", "conservative" or "george bush". Click on all the republican sponsor links. Each click and visit to one of the pro republican web sites will cost them $$$. The amount can be anywhere from $0.50 to $10.00+ per visit.

[stepnw1f]

1. The Other Way Around

At least that has been my understanding of how the ineternet(s) work. Everytime somebody clicks on a link, the web site makes money.....:think:

[NJmaverick]

3. Google and the other search engines make the money

The right wing sites have to pay for each click and visitor going to the site from the search engine.

Another good search term is "conservative"

[firebee]

8. Negative.... This is how it works.

On one hand you have the big portals; such as Yahoo, AOL and Google; which sell advertising space on their websites. These major portals and other various websites charge companies and organizations .10 to .50 cents per click or page view, instead of charging 1000 dollars for a 30 second commercial. It's just a different way of paying for a different advertising medium.

Anyhow, the GOP and other various republican organizations buy advertising space from Google, Yahoo or AOL and pay 10 to 50 cents per click or more. So... Every time you click on one of the republican banners, you're taking money out of the GOP as long as you don't donate or click off to some other website from the Republican website. If you click and go to another website from the Republican website, their's a chance you'll be putting money in the GOP coffer because... as Yahoo and AOL get paid when you click off to the Republican website, the Republican website could get paid when you click off to another website from their website.

So Essentially.... click away, just don't click on anything when you get to the Republican website.

[NJmaverick]

9. That's it exactly

We click and the GOP/Conservatives/rightwingers lose money. :evilgrin:

[Lisabtrucking]

22. I'll be a clicken, lol n/t

[NJmaverick]

23. Good for you

It's almost as good as donating to the Dems.

[dave123williams]

2. Better yet, someone should write a script that does that...

Hammer on those ads all day, thousands of times.

[Massacure]

10. Except that it goes my IP address. 1 IP address = max of 1 click per day.

[NJmaverick]

11. That's not hard to work around

After you make your rounds on Google, Yahoo and MSN then renew your IP address or disconnect and reconnect (which should change it). I have a question, do they count those clicks per search word? The RNC comes up under many different search terms. Do they count the clicks for each word seperately?

[BrotherBuzz]

4. Can I just mail them a brick....postage due...

and call it a day? Hey, I got a huge pile of bricks in the backyard. :)

[Jon8503]

5. It is the other way around. Every time you click on a site you are adding

revenue to their base & bringing in more advertisers.

[NJmaverick]

6. Here this is from Google

For Advertisers: Google AdWords

Reach people when they are actively looking for information about your products and services online, and send targeted visitors directly to what you are offering. With AdWords cost-per-click pricing, it's easy to control costs—and you only pay when people click on your ad.

[NJmaverick]

7. From a Yahoo news article

The ruse has different twists, but the end result is usually the same: Merchants are billed for fruitless traffic generated by someone who repeatedly clicks on an advertiser's Web link with no intention of ever buying anything.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=738&e=1&u=/ap/20050212/ap_on_hi_te/click_fraud

[ArkDem]

12. I wish I was as smart as you.

[NJmaverick]

14. We should also sign up at the RNC site

Get on their mailing list. Let them waste, time and money sending us junk mail.

[ArkDem]

15. I think I'd rather have a life.

[NJmaverick]

16. Ark Dem

What is your problem? There are people that actually take a minute or two to do what ever they can to save this country and the world from the republicans/conservatives. You take this same time to attack democrats and liberals or at least their constructive ideas. Why is that? While one person clicking will not make much of a difference, we have strength of numbers. Hundreds or thousands of people clicking daily could cause a financial drain on the right wing money machine.

[ArkDem]

17. It is a stupid idea. They make money from traffic.

[NJmaverick]

18. Read the posts

To be a SPONSOR at a search engine you have to PAY for each person that clicks on your sponsor links. As long as you don't click on any banner ads at the sight, then it costs them anything from $.10 per click to dollars a click. Read the advertizing info on the search engine sites. Then come back and explain what is stupid; the idea or the comments saying the idea is stupid. Also read this Yahoo news article.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=738&e=1&u=/ap/20050212/ap_on_hi_te/click_fraud

[Jon8503]

19. Ark Dem, you are absolutely correct, if there was someone who

wanted to make money for the Repukes, this is a good way to do it by clicking on their site. Remember DoubleClick, the more you can get people to click on your website and generate traffic, the more advertising and money you get.

If you think about that, that is how the internet works, not the other way around.

[NJmaverick]

20. Jon and Arkansaw

Do either of you have any background web site development or the internet or IT even? I am guessing no. I have had to set up advertizing on search engines. I have developed and published web sites. I have more IT certifications then you can shake a stick at. Plus I have posted references to support what I said. Exactly what qualifies you guys to suggest that opposite would happen? Who exactly do you think pays say the RNC, when you click on their site? How about the republican store, who pays them if you click on their site???? How do you think search engines like Google and Yahoo stay in business? Do you think they PAY people to sponsor them?

[ArkDem]

25. I'm the IT manager of a Fortune 500 company.

30 years experience in the field. So I'd answer YES, sonny.

[rainbow4321]

13. Ken Lay/Google

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2982765


Ken Lay is a 21st century defendant, and he's willing to pay up to 12 cents every time somebody figures that out. Not only is he telling his side of things on his own Web site, but he's paying to make sure major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and AOL list his site first when you search for his name, Enron and related terms.

The former chairman's computer-literate litigation team is making use of "sponsored links," which appear prominently in searches for a word or name in an Internet search engine. It's one of the ways the search engines make money and one of the ways Web sites can be sure they'll be noticed.

The cost for Lay and others depends on two things: how many people actually look at his Web site and how many other sites want to be seen in connection with the same keywords.

Put the search words "Enron scandal" or "Ken Lay," or even this Enron reporter's name, "Mary Flood," into any of the above search engines and one of the first things you will see is www.kenlayinfo.com. If you hit on Lay's Web site from there, then Lay pays between roughly 5 cents and 12 cents.

[NJmaverick]

21. His price is low

I doubt anyone bid against him for those keywords.

[RebelOne]

24. There are programs you can run to steal their bandwidth.m/t