Comments on: Google Finally Catches Up With John Chow Linkback Promotion

By: make money

make money — Fri, 23 May 2008 09:36:55 +0000

That’s good for John Chow for boasting about his money making blog. Hopefully one day everything from the blog got ripped off the surface of the internet loll. Then the era of John Chow is over ha ha

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By: Pete

Pete — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:16:10 +0000

@Everton : That is a good observation; I’ve only been a reader of his site since Nov/Dec 2007, so I didn’t quite catch that yet. Nevertheless, I only wish my website has that kind of loyal readership!

Hey by the way, you guys are doing a great job with Connected Internet. You’ve sure earned me as a loyal reader of yours :)

By: Everton

Everton — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:06:39 +0000

@Pete

I actually disagree. John’s traffic seems to be very constant from month to month, which suggests to me that a lot of his traffic is direct from his loyal readers, rather than from search engines.

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 06:12:30 +0000

Google can penalize John Chow all they want, he seems to be doing well with traffic anyway. He’s shared a lot of good web marketing advice on his blog, and I’m definitely a fan.

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SEO - Backlink Anchor Text Optimization | Monetize Your Blog — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:55:59 +0000

[...] John Chow’s backlink promotion penalty experience has taught us all a lesson. The theory is that Google caught up with John because in his promotion he asked everyone to use the same backlink text – make money online. [...]

By: rob

rob — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:40:46 +0000

It had to happen, you cant brag out loud about manipulating these people and expect to get away with it, especially in the search blogosphere

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:00:11 +0000

Exactly. I think it’s because so many people like me have been saying for ages that TLA is a better revenue earner that AdCents.

Google give off the impression that the crack down on paid links is all about improving the quality of the SERPs. That’s crap. It’s all about removing as many competitors to their advertising program as possible…

By: Everton

Everton — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:32:26 +0000

somebody else mentioned that TLA seem to have been banished by Google-things like that don’t happen by chance. I’m trying to think of what TLA could have done to be singled out by Google, as all the othe text link services are still there….

By: Schewster

Schewster — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:18:23 +0000

He was a little overboard with it me thinks. Basically calling for a google bomb of sorts.

Something similar I noticed along the same lines, I was going to those text-L-Ads guys site and searching on google for their name, they are not there any more. Used to always be there for me to click on. I can always click their paid listing, but after searching on the page, they’re way down at spot 54. Yous think those guys are in problems of sort?

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:57:27 +0000

What you think about new algorithm? It’s correct or bad?

By: Everton

Everton — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:49:33 +0000

hmmm something is definitely going on at google. text link ads aren't even appearing for 'text-link-ads'

By: Patrick Altoft

Patrick Altoft — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:39:03 +0000

I think it was the fact he sells links to unrelated sites that killed him.

Text Link Ads stopped ranking for their own name as well.

By: 3gp

3gp — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:53:38 +0000

I will read it and will let you know.

By: Everton

Everton — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:30:16 +0000

@3gpMy eCPM was the same in June. Adsense falling below 50% was a factor of my traffic falling, and other schemes doing better. I've just published my June report so you can read more there.

By: 3gp

3gp — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 21:59:47 +0000

jhon chow has learned the lesson hard way i think he need to hire some SEO to sort out things. Recent update in google algo or you can update in terms of quality links and penelization towards paid links many people in the industry are hit hard.

If you income is 50% below can you tell me the do you have the same CTR? eCPM is low?

By: Ravi Singh

Ravi Singh — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:19:49 +0000

Ya Sorry … My mistake
Really Sorry .

By: Everton

Everton — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:10:23 +0000

@Ravi

I don’t mind at all, but it’s ‘Everton’ ;-)

By: Yael

Yael — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:11:51 +0000

No doubt he went too far in the linking schemes

By: Zath

Zath — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:09:49 +0000

Well it must be nice not to be too concerned about your Google traffic, but I’m sure he’ll still be raking in the cash regardless, he’s obviously pretty good at what he does.

By: Ravi Singh

Ravi Singh — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:05:21 +0000

Hi Averton i hope that you don’t mind that i have taken your article

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By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:43:27 +0000

Good. I’m glad they’ve caught up with him. I unsubscribed from his nauseating site when he started charging people for removing the nofollow tag from their comments.

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:03:04 +0000

I just did a Google search for John Chow, his site is not there in the first page. This looks like Google has really penalized him.
We cant go against Google as its one of the major traffic site.
Lets see what John Chow does now. :-)

By: horisly

horisly — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:31:03 +0000

i had noticed that from DP forum.

and,30% of my site traffic come from google.
so i will stay on the google side.