John Chow - Google penalty, yet still earns 12k for June

InterNet Age — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:37:24 +0000

He is an authority on the web, I mean who has not heard about John Chow.

John Chow - Google penalty, yet still earns 12k for June

MB Web Design — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:12:14 +0000

I’m fairly certain the majority of his traffic came from referrals anyway. Controversy creaes cash, or linkbait at least.

John Chow - Google penalty, yet still earns 12k for June

OOM — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:45:43 +0000

I didn’t know he makes 10k plus a month from his advertising, but it will surely decline (perhaps close to 0) if the other search engines (who do send him traffic) remove him or simply put him backwards. But what exactly did he do to be penalized? Because the logic would say he did something serious if Google bothered to get him penalized, right?

John Chow - Google penalty, yet still earns 12k for June

Seo Advice — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:42:51 +0000

>What were the no-no’s that got him booted??

Specificially?

Probably his campaign that asked people to link back to him with the words make money online, along with his selling of non nofollowed text links in his sidebar, or perhaps it was his pay $10 to have nofollow removed off your comment links and then bragging about how it would help your google rankings.

IOW he said lots of self promotional stuff which sought to game google by leveraging things such as pagerank.

Whilst lots of people may well do all of the above already, they dont shout from the rooftops, “Hey, look what I can do, aren’t I smart”

John Chow - Google penalty, yet still earns 12k for June

car news guy — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:02:34 +0000

Maybe some of those people would end up typing johncow.com by mistake??

John Chow - Google penalty, yet still earns 12k for June

Palm Coast — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:02:08 +0000

Being penalized definitely sucks, it’s happened to me once. I don’t think it’ll affect him much though. How many people wouldn’t just try to enter “johnchow.com” after they can’t find anything in google anyway? I think most would. Plus, he has tons of subscribers, links from other sites, and he’s made a name for himself. Either way, the searcher will click on one of the results and it’ll probably contain a link to Chow’s site regardless.

John Chow - Google penalty, yet still earns 12k for June

car news guy — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:41:37 +0000

What were the no-no’s that got him booted??

John Chow - Google penalty, yet still earns 12k for June

Seo Advice — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 05:02:28 +0000

Hi Bill, thanks for stopping by

Agree totally. Make a kick arse resource that people will use and flock back to. Hats off to Mr Chow in that regard, he;s certainly created a certain someting and a following too. Quite an interesting case study – maybe it’s that little evil icon he uses with gusto