John Chow said that he used to recieve 2000 visitors per day from google and after google did something and he is now recieving 1100 pageviews
Well if he is saying he was getting only 150 visitors for "make money online". I wont trust him for that. Look on Wordtracker free tool: 1160 Daily searches for make money online and why on earth someone go to lengths to get high ranking for "make money online" if he is getting only 150 visitors everyday.
Nobody is loosing - but in the long run-- it is Google who will loose. Imagine if successful bloggers like John Chow start doing this and start a movement to IGNORE Google like Open Source Movement against monopolistic Microsoft. I see Google is going too far to dominate WWW and try to impose its rules on how to use the internet. Just read a post here about the battle- http://www.pronetadvertising.com/articles/john-chow-vs-google-guess-whos-winning34383.html
I don't think Google will neccessarily lose anything, but I think John Chow wins. He's getting publicity. I didn't even know who he was before stumbling on this thread. Now I've visited his blog and so forth. He wins.
I'd never heard of John Chow until this thread. I just checked his blog out, and it doesn't strike me as remotely interesting. What's the big deal about?! how come everyones raving about how good his blog is???
Oh, he gives backlinks to anyone who reviews his site. He got what he deserved I'd say! There's too many false reviews based on affiliate links as it is, this isn't too different.
Why? John was very open about selling links. Why should he be allowed to lead a bad example and benefit from it?
haha, you're right. I'm stunned. He's obviously done something very right! Interesting, as it's not a blog I'd normally bookmark, I didn't see any gems of information there, just lots of random crap. Hat's off to the guy though, he must be very clever to get such an income from a blog.
Same here. He's a good linkbuilder (or was a good linkbuilder) and promoter, but his blog has little info or value.
Hmm OK but if someone is searching for 'John Chow' then what should he see in first spot? And what he {searcher} expects from Google?
I know what you're saying, but that is really Google's prerogative. And they have weird ways of picking who should be penalized and who shouldn't.
I think that John make the mistake by asking people to review his site. Basically Google wants natural links to sites especially very competitive keywords. Simply just write quality content and get links naturally will be much better than getting a 1000 links in a week.