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This article posits two theories. He is incompetent in setting up his website or he faked oppression. Does the author really think this guy set up his own domai

This article posits two theories. He is incompetent in setting up his website or he faked oppression. Does the author really think this guy set up his own domain, built his own website, and went back in July and edited the HTML himself to not be indexed? Is it possible there's a third option that the person he hired is either malicious or incompetent? The tone of this article is cheap and overall it's terrible clickbait. The point of it is to either anger one side for clicks[0] or seek nods from the other. I don't know anything about this guy or his politics, but if we are judging people's ability to run a government office by their web development skills, let's do a full review. With that said, this guy was either screwed by his technical team, or is quick to stir the pot without checking-- and is equally guilty of the same pathetic attempts at emotional manipulation used in the article. Maybe both. [0] Or, option two is that the guy who might soon be in charge of Arizona state elections is so incompetent and so stupid that he accidentally blocked Google from searching his website:

karaterobot 4y ago
> The tone of this article is cheap and overall it's terrible clickbait. Agreed, and what's worse to me is that it's all entirely speculative. The author didn't do any original research to, I dunno, email the guy's campaign about his website and ask if he made it? Having not done any research that didn't involve reading Twitter, he decided it was okay to write an article about it, and just pad that article out with wild-ass guesses and invective.
KingOfCoders 4y ago
You assume the "noindex" was a mistake, it wasn't.
- batch12 4y ago
  I assumed nothing. I added another, more plausible, cause for this. You assume a lot in an authoritative tone. Point me to the evidence you've found to make this definitive statement.
  - KingOfCoders 4y ago
    People don't usually set the noindex tag. The tag was deliberatly set by someone. It's not a cryptic tag where one has to wonder "does this flag turn A on or A off". It's not confusing and clearly says "noindex". In the world where SEO is king, tools don't default to "noindex". Especially when later on the candidate was checking for SEO.
    - batch12 4y ago
      Right. I said that in my comment when referencing incompetence. The part I am calling into question is the claim that the politician did it.
judge2020 4y ago
> and went back in July and edited the HTML himself to not be indexed? The HTML shows he uses All In One SEO, so chances are there's a "ask search engines not to index this page/site" setting in the extension. I haven't actually checked, though.

karaterobot 4y ago

> The tone of this article is cheap and overall it's terrible clickbait. Agreed, and what's worse to me is that it's all entirely speculative. The author didn't do any original research to, I dunno, email the guy's campaign about his website and ask if he made it? Having not done any research that didn't involve reading Twitter, he decided it was okay to write an article about it, and just pad that article out with wild-ass guesses and invective.

KingOfCoders 4y ago

You assume the "noindex" was a mistake, it wasn't.

batch12 4y ago
I assumed nothing. I added another, more plausible, cause for this. You assume a lot in an authoritative tone. Point me to the evidence you've found to make this definitive statement.
- KingOfCoders 4y ago
  People don't usually set the noindex tag. The tag was deliberatly set by someone. It's not a cryptic tag where one has to wonder "does this flag turn A on or A off". It's not confusing and clearly says "noindex". In the world where SEO is king, tools don't default to "noindex". Especially when later on the candidate was checking for SEO.
  - batch12 4y ago
    Right. I said that in my comment when referencing incompetence. The part I am calling into question is the claim that the politician did it.

judge2020 4y ago

> and went back in July and edited the HTML himself to not be indexed? The HTML shows he uses All In One SEO, so chances are there's a "ask search engines not to index this page/site" setting in the extension. I haven't actually checked, though.