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Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

lanie — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:33:16 -0000

If it makes money and doesn't scam, How is it giving bad advice. FYI, Internet Marketing is all GAMING !

Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

Norhafidz — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:05:18 -0000

I disagree, I think Chow did a very good job in optimizing his blog and at the same time feed his readers with some valuable information. As we understand, we can't just tell people how to make money, that's not the way. JC will not be around if he tells everything about what he did. But he did share some informational knowledge on his blog.

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Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

Benjamin Kerensa — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:32:29 -0000

John Chow Dot Com is evil blogging at it's best

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Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:27:59 -0000

I spotted this post now only... Really nice write up. In fact, my own blog was started after I started reading John Chow. It is true that of late, he is talking too much about dining, food etc than make money online topics.

Cheers,
Ajith

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Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

Aldo — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:19:56 -0000

Guys why you so concern on JC? what he's doing on his blog certainly not for us to concern, is this a matter of 'JEALOUS' ?

Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

SeanFu — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:40:12 -0000

I have mixed feelings regarding JC. Sometimes he does provide quality information, but it truly does feel like he's trying to squeeze as much as possible out of his site which makes his site feel sort of 'forced' in my opinion. Sort of like, when he reviews things and says they rock, do they really rock? Or is he just telling you what you want to hear because someone is paying him to tell you that?

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Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

poortornado — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:10:41 -0000

It may be hard to swallow, but he is one the of leaders of the monetized blogging world. Everyone can learn some lessons from John Chow, whether they are good or bad is up to you.

Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

Netrepreneur — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:28:21 -0000

John Chow has extremely good information on his blog....yea,I know sometimes he doesn't exactly stay on the marketing subject,but marketing involves what you go through in life,the places you eat,cultural news,etc.

The fact that he commands so much($30k) from monthly ad revenues proves readers like what they find at his blog. I mean c'mon how could he do this if there was nothing valuable?

Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

notjohnchow — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:43:00 -0000

Success is the ultimate measure of a blog. It has been almost a year since this post was published and John Chow is raking in the bucks. I don't think he cares about anything but that.

Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

internetseo — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:14:14 -0000

One thing some of John's detractors seem to be missing is that John probably doesn't care what Google does to him. He has grown through link building, blog connections and word-of-mouth.

Google's arrogance is not going to hurt him or his site. He doesn't need them and as others of us learn from John's example, that should really start to shake up the greed-trust at Google.

The idea of a corporation as greedy as Google pointing the finger and trying to punish John Chow for trying to make a few thousand dollars a month is laughable at best and ominous at worst.

If Google keeps trying to engineer the web with the stick method, they will soon enjoy the same venom that Mr. Softy has been receiving for the last several years.

Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

monchster — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:28:19 -0000

Whether or not we think JC has gone too far or not far enough, I am positive of one thing.... he's determination. He's created buzz, and we continue to talk about it. Heck, he's even in the February edition of the Entrepreneur magazine. The guys must be doing something right.

And in his article he confesses, he makes money blogging about nothing.... his determination has gotten him where he is now.

I can sure learn from that.

Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

Healthy Tips — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:01:42 -0000

Good post.
I first went to John Chow yesterday and liked him... Now im not that sure..

Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

lex g — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 10:15:50 -0000

I think that John is totally in it for the cash. And since he's not making any secret of it I think he should do exactly what he wants to do. Push as hard he can to milk his blog as much as he can .... I have written a post about how he uses his blog's momentum to make loads of money...

You can find it here : http://www.newmediatype.com...

As far as the blog pushing goes : I think almost everybody would do what he is doing if the got the chance ... *almost everybody that is ;)

Lex

Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

krillz — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:29:56 -0000

Finally I found more people that share the same opinion as I regarding john chow.
Right now he's site looks like a Christmas tree, what he is trying to do is ridiculous with all the ad sales etc.

And I have to say that the longer you read john's posts the more you realise that he isn't helping you earn $ of your blog, sure he'll slip in a how-to sometimes explaining things most web developers and webmaster already know.

So it seems that the people left on that site are:
1.Completely new to SEO making money online and are hoping they'll get some good info.
2.The "ass kissers" who practically say and do anything to get mentioned by chow. Maybe they think john will create miracles for them, personally I do not know.

The good followers of his blog, the ones that had something good to say are long gone, and all he has left is people commenting 10 times in a post just to hit the top commentator's list.

It's sad to see, that greed can turn people this way, especially money.
If someone else would turn his blog into a Christmas tree 2 years ago I bet john would have had bad opinion about it.
Money and greed can make people blind, and this will be the fall for him.

Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

andrew wee — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 21:13:38 -0000

This is the thread that won't die, isn't it?

I've been reading up on Internet Marketers who habitually abuse their lists over the last couple of days, by sending out one sales promotion after another, and then follow up sales promotions.

Their unsubscribe rates are naturally high, but the thing is their replenishment rate is even higher. One aspect of the 'game' is that if you've enough backlinks, articles and press releases as well as PPC ads out there, you'll have hapless newbies flowing into your blog or your list.

From there, it's just hammering away at them and even if you get 100 unsubs a day, but 500 new people coming in, then what the hey, right?

I agree it's amoral and there's always the fine line between what's legal and what's moral.

If someone wants to nickel and dime their way to whatever income they want, they're inciting certain consequences and rammifications to their brand.

Maybe they were a political refugee or maybe a boat person, or maybe an illegal border crosser and having coming from an imporvished background of eating bread and water, maybe whatever they're doing now is a reflection of that?

What knows? But regardless, I find that my time is better spend on beating my own path and achieving my own goals.

Just because someone around you is raping and pillaging, doesn't mean it's ok, or that you should do it too.

After all, you have your own brain, don't you?

Use it.

Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

JohnCow — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 14:08:15 -0000

It's really just the strength in numbers that get him where he is now.
I've written a post where I try to explain the concept. (http://www.johncow.com/love...

Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

Stentorized — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 10:43:47 -0000

Well that is JC the mogul dot com
manipulating traffics, links and
rankings to realize what his blog is all about
..which is a plain and simple
money making blog.
If he ask for a beer then
You can not blame him for being as such
because his blog is about how to make
money online...

Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

Iantrepreneur — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:40:13 -0000

wow - that is crazy that john is charging commenters the no follow tag - that is just crazy - its the blogsphere were suppose to fight spam not bloggers!

but I do not know i john too much every since I have started blogging I have been tackbackin to several post of his many times as its pretty popular

Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

webstuffscan — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 07:53:38 -0000

Interesting!

He may loose credibility and regular readers. But that is not the point. He will still get a lot of visitors from various search channels. Hell, in fact even your post is going to give him a lot of traffic.

You should know, more traffic = more money

:-)

Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

cmanlong — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:39:18 -0000

John Chow is at least transparent. He has from the beginning said that he is all about making money from his blog.

It is those people who are sneaky and dishonest that bother me not john chow.

Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

Brian Free — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:55:23 -0000

45n5 comes off sounding like a 4 year old looking up to his hero, John Chow. No original ideas and his argumentative skills are lacking. Boo this man

Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

uway — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:45:14 -0000

John chow is on a rise compared to other high traffic blogs. I don't get it but its what alexa says.
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Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

Business Blogger — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:14:24 -0000

I read John's blog from time to time. I moment you stop getting relevant information is the moment you tend to veer from reading a blog. The thing I noticed in May was that he really stopped doing so many non-relevant reviews. I think he realized that he could drive his audience away by continuing this. So, it showed in his monthly income that took a dive in May.

p.s. What's up with the male enhancement links? Come on, John!

Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

Jim Kukral — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:59:43 -0000

The only thing holy about me is my socks. :0 Thanks for your comments.

Re: John Chow Is Killing His Blog By Trying Too Hard To Make Money

45n5 — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 17:55:33 -0000

"give me the respect Iâ€™ve earned from doing this for 10+ years now"

sorry your holiness, I'll take my conversation elsewhere, ye old wise men have fun conversing. l8r