Top of Obama’s to-do list: SEO
The robots.txt file for whitehouse.gov ran to 2377 lines yesterday. As of today it reads:
User-agent: * Disallow: /includes/
I guess Obama is more of a rel=”nofollow” guy 
The Whitehouse Site also got a makeover, one minute after Obama took office. It’s as slick and appealing as the rest of the Obama web team’s output, and I can’t wait to see if their deft hand at webamization filters down to the wider US government over the next four years. It’ll also be interesting to see how Obama’s (hugely successful) use of social networking and other online tools will change political campaigning in future.
Someone needs to sort out a 301 from http://www.whitehouse.gov/news to an equivalent URL on the new site though. Schoolboy error.
David Saunders 1583 days ago
http://www.idoseo.comLet’s hope all President Obama’s new age ? efforts will gain us guys more work – he has proven the power of the social media and blogging
David
US via Devon, UK
Dominic Hodgson 1583 days ago
http://www.thehodge.co.ukI did notice that as soon as he won the election he stopped tweeting (until the other week).
ck 1583 days ago
http://www.homestansted.co.ukhey david, hope your good, thanks for the information we chatted about;
well spotted, i guess a change of leadership, changes all; At least lets hope so.
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Robert 1582 days ago
http://www.propdata.co.za“I guess Obama is more of a rel=”nofollow” guy”
Hahahahahaha… That’s brilliant. But while it’s a nice gesture we all know there are various other ways to block or hide information… or simply delete it.
Great PR stunt however
http://twitter.com/drepsac/statuses/1149164225 1578 days ago
#wotd webamization – giving a (political) website a slick makeover. Seen here http://tinyurl.com/73w923 Will *bamize become a hyped suffix?
Bronson 1577 days ago
Clearly they still have work to do, the site’s only a PR 9. lol!
The new design is quite aesthetically pleasing, but the source code could use some decent formatting.
David Whitehouse 1573 days ago
I’m really impressed by Obama, he’s started up a Whitehouse blog or something like that – I heard.