21 Oct '12, 2am

Are Romney “Obama” Facebook Ads Dirty Tactics Or Smart Politics?: Mitt Romney backers are buying Facebook Ads, d...

Are Romney “Obama” Facebook Ads Dirty Tactics Or Smart Politics?: Mitt Romney backers are buying Facebook Ads, d...

Mitt Romney backers are buying Facebook Ads, designed to divert clicks from FB users who search for “Obama.” Buying competitors’ brand search keywords is nothing new to online marketers. Decide for yourself if this is smart politics or dirty tactics? Some brands take offense to competitors buying ads on their name keywords and consider it squatting. What do we expect from our presidential candidates? Obama is not buying Facebook searches for Mitt Romney’s name that we can detect. The Facebook “Obama” search ads are well executed. Even start to type “Barack” and the sponsored listing appears. A click leads to the official Romney Facebook page. Romney’s official campaign seems to be buying Twitter searches for “Obama.” It’s possible that a third party, unrelated to the official Romney campaign, is placing the Facebook ads. We are not seeing Romney ads targeted to those searc...

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