Tag: political dirty tricks


political domain cybersquatting

Political Cybersquatting And Your Campaign

Domain squatting or cybersquatting is the term used for someone who registers a domain that infringes on another’s intellectual property or trademark. Some squatters attempt to sell names back to rightful owners for a profit, while others use the... Read More

Negative Linking Your Political Opponent

One online ‘dirty trick’ that is perfectly acceptable is to link to outside content about your opponent using the opponent’s name as the link text. For example: <a href=”https://www.localnewspaper.com/article/... Read More

6 Political Microsite Ideas

The following is a cross-post from OnlineCandidateResources.com, our memberships site that provides strategies and ideas for online campaigning. Although we discuss political microsites in our training modules, we’re going to go into a little... Read More

The Power To Hold Your Campaign Hostage

We recently heard a story of a small campaign that ran into some serious web problems. First, they spent a lot of money on setting up a campaign website. After paying north of $4000 for the website – they then had to shell out an additional... Read More