John Chow Banned for John Chow on Google
WTF was John Chow banned for selling links, his site is here btw www.johnchow.com just incase you where actually looking for it.
or was he hijacked in the serps, or foul play.. I mean what’s with johnchow.net ?? hmmm
DaveN
Remo 2179 days ago
Looks like a ban,dont know when you picked it up but there has been a huge thread DP for the last few days here
And of course some people using it to promote there blogs here
His site turned into one big PPP so not too surprised
OT – Any word on threadwatch? it cant just be left to close, even if Aaron doesnt want to run it anymore
RogerW 2179 days ago
http://www.golisbon.comHe blogged about it as well ….
http://www.johnchow.com/its-all-about-pushing-the-limit/
Jan 2179 days ago
http://bvwg.actulab.net/Or maybe http://wwww.johnchow.com/ (with the 4 w) is the hijacker
Haentz 2178 days ago
Hm, JC’s blog has been high up on my list og blogs where I wanted to buy reviews… But why would G ban sites that sell paid reviews? I think that most people buy reviews not mainly because of the link-juice factor, but to get links from relevant sites. And that’s what they search engines seem to think as well: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/search-engines-say-ok-to-payperpost-services
But anyway… I might still get my review from JC, because he’s got a massive community of readers, which fit perfectly into my target group
Patrick Altoft 2178 days ago
John Chow sure is popular, I’ve been showing that adwords ad for 4 days and its had 2000 impressions.
Personally I think it was for selling links. A well known link broker also doesn’t rank for their own name anymore.
Michael VanDeMar 2177 days ago
http://www.bettermortgagerefinancing.com/Ok, wait… this is not a ban, I thought you would know that. Doing a site: search on johnchow.com pulls up plenty of results. He tanked last month both for [make money online] and his name [john chow]… but he does still show up in the serps. If you set your results to 100 per page you can see him now, he is currently bouncing between the 40′s to the 80′s for both terms.
I had blogged about it here when it happened, because he had started a new contest at around the same time:
http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2007/06/18/john-chows-latest-contest-may-soon-be-overshadowed/
Martin 2177 days ago
http://www.pacdesco.netYou now rank at no1 for “john chow” Dave! lol, you getting much traffic from it?
CamStudio 2177 days ago
http://www.camstudio.orgAccording to my SERPs, John’s at #9 for “john chow” (without quotes) but it doesn’t look pretty … almost supplemental …
Incidentally, I emailed a certain text link brokerage website what they thought of Google’s recent actions and all they could say was “Selling links is a business, it will always be around – so join up!”
Oh well … that’s alright then …
Michael VanDeMar 2177 days ago
http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/Only on google.co.uk, but, wow… that’s hilarious!
El Culebro 2177 days ago
http://improveyourqualityoflife.blogspot.comI found a great post explaining why john’s site got the kicked down:
http://hamletbatista.com/2007/06/29/john-pushed-googles-limit-and-got-dropped-should-you-push-it-too/
Hamlet Batista 2175 days ago
http://hamletbatista.comThe main problem, IMHO, was the review-for-a-link-back promotion. He was openly requesting link backs with specific anchor text, in exchange for a review. Check http://www.johnchow.com/making-money-reviews-batch-87/
Royan Shaw 2160 days ago
http://www.search4article.com/reviewThe Blogging community has been set alight by the latest happenings in the John Chow saga.
I’m an avid reader of the John Chow dot Com Blog and his monetization strategies are comparable to none.
All that talk about “evil seo strategies” is taking the “piggies to the market,” most of us actually do try them before and after John ever mentioned them.
On the other hand every bit of us hustle and bustle to achieve top SERP especially on Google therefore this so called “banning from the top 10″ serves to benefit a few of us plus one ad there is some gain to be had from profiting from another man’s misfortune.
The next worst case scenario for John Chow dot Com is for Google to lower his PR from a 6 to say a 3 or 4 would dramatically affect his earning potential with the Text-Link-Ads.com service that earns a substantial portion for this blog.
Let’s see Google’s next move in this interesting game of “chess”
Paul 1949 days ago
http://seo-pro.blogspot.comThis banning is because he offered an aggressive link referral scheme when the phrase “make money online” was used as the anchor text pointing to his blog. This is classified as “manipulation of search results” which the big G doesn’t like… Most SEO is manipulation of various different variables to improve rank and so on anyway.
shareyouwaytoearn 1714 days ago
http://shareyouwaytoearn.blogspot.com/Can anyone tell me is this two website operated by the same person?
http://www.johncow.com and http://www.johnchow.com
Tarik Pierce 1530 days ago
http://www.tarikpierce.comKudos to Hamlet for a spot on answer. John used his blog to openly request links with pre-conceived anchor text to increase his presence in Google SERPs. Being big G and all, Google slapped his site with a vengeance, and penalize him to supplement results hell. What will it take to mend the relationship with Google? Perhaps a Google apology letter signed from JC himself.
51 Grand 1527 days ago
http://www.51grand.comIt will be interested to see what happens. Maybe Google will unban Johns site…
Luckily, his blog earnings for 2009 are still climbing : $40,000 per month.