John Chow Selling Links - Banned From Google
So it is almost midnight, and I just finished John Chows, "Make Money Online With John Chow". This is John Chows, how to book he released, which consists of some of his more notable blog posts on how to, you guessed it, make money online. The e-book is free, and I printed it out with my unlimited paper quota at work. The 59 pages include blogging tips, wordpress tips, affiliate tips, and anything you can think of that has to do with making money from blogs.
One affiliate John Chow rants and raves about is TextLinkAds, a company that sells targeted ads on a site, for the purpose of ranking well in search engines. As posted on Pronet Advertising, Why John Chow gets owned by Google, John Chow has evidently asked bloggers to link to his blog with the phrase, "make money online", a ploy to manipulate search results. However, in Google's algorithm, it checks the text of every link to make sure that it was naturally made, and not posted by a spammer. Google's algorithm must have mistaken John Chow's ploy to rank for the term "make money online" as a way to manipulate Google's algorithm, and thus getting banned from Google Search results, even if you search the exact domain name, Google Search [John Chow], it still doesn't show up.
When coming up with ideas for sites, I always take into perspective how search engines will play into the site. Look at the tremendous success wikipedia is having, due to it's high traffic from it's Google search results. One of the main benefits of having a blog, and using blogging software is that it is optimized for search engines right out of the box. I wonder how long it will take John Chow to reclaim and get his site unblocked from the Google bots. Any how, good luck with your blog John Chow, we are all rooting for you to fail!
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Comments
Sapikk posted on 04/16/2009 @ 9:20:09 am
I really sad when JC was banned by google.. JC's blog is one of my favorite blog.. :(
Rara posted on 05/11/2010 @ 2:53:03 am
I like John Chow...