Did duplicate content kill John Chow

I reckon John Chow might have got a penalty for having loads of duplicate content. You should see how many issues his site had.

http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/blog/duplicate-content-john-chow/

What do you reckon?

 

no, but its a good link bait, thanks

 

duplicate content only hurts a site if the page linking to them has equal or more linkJuice

 

He still gets loads of traffic, so I don't think that it is hurting him.
Also, you don't know what he has on his .htaccess file. He may be telling bots to ignore some of the duplicate pages.

 

What about the test he was running and using anchor text to his site "make money online" that he made oh so public to everyone. He proved there was a flaw in the google system by doing that test and generated a ton of traffic for doing so. Now that he is banned, he still gets a ton of traffic, he markets himself very well and by being banned he isn't hurting all that much now from the result.

 

i see it on the 6th position on 1th page. pls look http://www.google.com.tr/search?q=J...&rls=org.mozilla:tr:official&client=firefox-a

 

trichnosis, that's johncow.com, not johnchow. Make mooooney lol, that's pretty good.

 

he was bitchslapped by google for trying to beat their algorithm.

If you intend to do anything of link karma, heh, do it under the radar of the big brother.

 

oh yah, you cant even find him using johnchow on the google list now.

 

Very much so. That was one interesting read, I'll admit. I am subscribed to your blog and always look forward to new posts.

 

All the pages I found were indexed in Google so his isn't blocking them.

Any dup content will harm a site. Sometimes it doesn't do much harm, sometimes it does.

I'm not saying the dup content caused his penalty but its worth him fixing it just in case.