BillUCF (I hope this is not in bad taste, if so I appologize)

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The purpose of this type marketing or political messaging is not to go to the biggest places with the most influence but rather to seem grass-roots (although 2+2 is a heavily trafficed forum).

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Does this heavy traffic have any weight on search engine returns? I know there's been a lot of discussion/controversy about sites coming up with subtle ways of "rigging" their content to reflect "signal return" (or whatever it's called) in a way that gets queries directed to them.