Spreading Santorum Website Still Ranking Number One In Google [Political Fail]

Posted: January 4, 2012

It’s official Rick Santorum is now the GOP Presidential front runner, well by a margin of 12 votes out of 120,000 cast in Iowa but none the less he is now the man to beat.

While I could wax and wane all political about the Iowa Caucus the truth is there’s a better story, a story of determination by a single website owner to rise above the GOP contenders and bring the word “Santorum” to the number one page rank on Google and that man has managed to get “SpreadingSantorum.com” ranked above even the official Rick Santorum campaign website.

So what is SpreadingSantorum.com? It’s a website devoted to shooting down Rick Santorum at every turn possible and exposing him as the scum of the earth. While I won’t make any comments on the “truth” found in the site it does show that with a little hard work anyone can rank for popular search terms in Google with the right viral campaign.

We definitely are not the first website to link over to the column, back in September 2011 the site received hundreds of links from bloggers supporting the page, those links in turn resulted in the number one pagerank for SpreadingSantorum, a rank that continues to this day.

I bring up the site now because as my screenshot above shows, the site is being prominently featured next to polling numbers and GOP primary news, a nice juxtaposition for a crudely created website that relentlessly pokes fun at the man they call ‘unelectable.” Heck even Stephen Colbert gave a salute to Spreading Santorum.

Here’s the opening page when you click on the link and visit the domain:

Among the sites Twitter followers is Jeopardy uber-champion Ken Jennings which means the site can’t be all bad right?

It might be a little NSFW so beware before you visit and if you simply can’t help yourself here’s the link: SpreadingSantorum.com.

Are you surprised to learn that the Rick Santorum website hasn’t worked harder to move the page down in the ranking with the help of SEO experts and their conservative blogging community? I’ve seen a lot of persistent top ranking websites in my lifetime but none that have held on like this independent blog.

By James Johnson

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9 Archived Responses to “ Spreading Santorum Website Still Ranking Number One In Google [Political Fail] ”

Leonard Karpinski
Jan 7, 2012

I'll just leave this here.
Robert Abrami
Feb 29, 2012

Just listened to Santorum's speech after losing Michigan and Arizona. He really is Adol;ph Hitler. No kidding and his vision is to punish anyone who does not follow his "way of life" and his anit-homosexual agenda suggests that he's in need of some serious couch time. Of course the Republicans have always been anti-gay although we know that many of gthem are closet cases and lead for the end of the "homosexual agenda" – whatever that is.
But listening to Santorum tonight was really frightening. And his supporters follow like sheep.
I'm 68 years old, gay and love this country and worked from the age of 15. I'm a playwright but spent many years working with substance abusers and feel that we must help to re-elect President Obama and show the Christian (ha) right where they can go. So glad to have found this site.
Cam Brunner
Mar 1, 2012

It will be a dark day for ALL of us if this man wins. It is not just a Republican or church thing; Santorum has frequently stated that he does not believe a "right to privacy" exists under the Constitution, even within marriage. The Republicans running for President also talk about “their” faith. But if you are not of that faith, you may be a danger to the country. This man will be a danger to all of us. We need to start looking at what is best for the country.