John Chow’s attraction mystifies me ….. there’s mor dot com pho and images of food on his blog than anything else.

Ppl will come to their senses yet.

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John Chow manages to attract people towards his blog. All in all, I can say that he’s a very clever guy.

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You are right with the last paragraph. I have to admit that when I started blogging I usually read his blog, which I found through Google… Some weeks ago, when I noticed that he does not teach you anything good and he only use his popularity to get new referrals and earn thousands of dollars a month just in commissions, I stopped reading it…

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When I first started reading John’s blog, I thought I simply wasn’t absorbing the information offered because my mind isn’t wired that way (all the affiliate marketing and Google juice posts just flew right over my head). But I kept reading at first because so many of my friends insisted that they’d learned a lot from him, and then I continued because I simply like his “voice”. But when it became mostly guest posts? The voice was gone and so was my interest. So I unsubbed. I do follow him on Twitter though, and click over whenever it looks like something that would interest me. Sad to say that they’re always dining photos, or videos of his most recent trip or a house that he’s considering buying.

Now I know why JohnChow gone in Google. So we must learn from his experiences. I am subscribed to his log since last year and I enjoyed some of his post. ‘SOME’ because not all his post are make money online tips but instead lifestyle post which I am not interested.

Most of my traffic were from Google. So I think I must start now to make a backup traffic source.

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I was also subscribed to John Chow’s blog at one time, but like many others, I unsubscribed when I learned that he wasn’t teaching me anything of value. Honestly, I didn’t care where he ate, what he ate or what he bought. Why? Because I didn’t visit his blog for that information. I was lead to believe I’d learn how to make my blog successful through advice that he shared. In other words, I expected to learn a few of his secrets, but instead, I was misled. And correct me if I’m wrong, but from what I have learned, misleading someone is a no, no. In other words, you’re not supposed to say your blog or website will teach you X, but instead it teaches you Y. From everything I’ve learned, you lose visitors and readers this way, and it appears to me as if that’s exactly what John Chow has managed to do over the years: lose his readers because they were misled.

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Hmmmmm, well what I find funny is his tag line -The miscellaneous ramblings of a dot com mogul. I never understood why so many people said that his blog is about making money online. John has stated over and over again that his blog is about telling people how much money he makes from his blog and he wants to be able to see exactly how much money he can make from it.

See, John was very smart in building rank around the term “make money online” simply because there are a lot of searches for that term everyday and in adwords that term is one of the most expensive terms to bid on. In 2007, John had adsense on his site. So by ranking his blog number for for that term “make money online” should of increased his adsense earnings right and if he (and I am sure he did) filtered the type of ads that were placed on his site he would of insured he got paid the max amount. John is a lot smarter then most people give him credit for or think he is so evil.

Getting ranked for a term just means your ranked for that term and should not mean that when people click over to your site that is all they are going to be reading about. Heck, my site ranked number one for the term “half fuel” in broad, exact and phrase match searches, and that rank was out of 70million pages indexed. Does that mean my site should only be about fuel? No, it should just mean to people searching that term I have good rank for that one post.

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Hi Garry,

The very fact that you are writing about him gives credence to his cause. The fact that I am even taking the time to comment on this gives credence to his cause. What can I say? He is a blogging icon. Nothing more, nothing less. He makes more money off his blog anyhow. Its all a game for him and he is pretty good at it…

Cheers,
Jeremy

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Getting into the fight with Google was the best thing that every happened to John Chow. I mean, look, today, a year later, this is still being talked about… talk about publicity…

And Garry, I sent you an email about a week ago that hasn’t been replied to yet, just letting you know like you said to in the contact form

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Very detailed post, Garry. You have researched what a lot of people do not know about. But you know what? He gained all this fame from the failed “Agloco” company that promised to have a Internet-paid surf bar. He was one of the Top 3 referrers on that site and Agloco thanked John by putting up a link to John’s blog. This started ALL the commotion and I believe it is after that, that he started working on his blog. It’s funny how he NEVER talks about Agloco anymore…especially when they were the ones that actually gave him the $30-40,000 he makes now.

-Mike

Ha ! I never knew John was good as such things, and i have this internet marketer who worsjips him, infact he uses his pictures on some of his post and articles on the local tabliods but the scheme did help him and that is what the internet is all about scheme’s its very sad that such things happen and alot of bad Internet marketers are out there doing negative stuffs and not educating you .. ooh well so much for John wish he could come here and defend himself though

It’s funny because I agree with what everyone says about John Chow not really providing any useful information on his blog, yet I still stay subscribed to it. Part of it is simply that I like the food posts and some of his other non-MMO related posts, and that I like his general style.

Frankly, I’ve been interested in people who try to persaude you with flashing things. The first time I went to his site and saw the Lamborghini, I was turned off.

You’ve got to hand it to him, though. People are still writing and posting about him. People are still doing his work for him. Bad publicity is still publicity and probably a bunch of people will now go check out his blog just to see what he is up to.

Count me out. cd :O)

I think his blog is all about “socialization” instead of teaching people how to make money online? Anyway, I thought he is really great when I first started in blogosphere and I didn’t step in his blog after I’d blogged for few months. I learned nothing in his blog.

But his blog is still good in sharing his personal rants. This is the great thing in his blog. This is what I think.

Good post here, you did your research well. Of course I was around to see all of that happening also. This is the first time I have been here, I think you just earned another reader.

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I definitely think his blog has value. It has value in that if you are lucky, someday, you can develop a “cult of personality” if you will.
He is more like a jay Leno than a Suze Orman.

AL

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I used to visit Chow’s blog quite often but then I realized that he doesn’t really teach much of anything, so I rarely go there anymore. I do still stop by every once in a while just to see what he is up to though. Actually, I think I will go there right now since it’s on my mind.

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I’ve only read a few of his posts. There is a difference between teaching and selling. All I ever saw from him was the selling and no real teaching.

41410 readers as I type and he is building his Twitter readership (2853) too.

All I see him doing is pushing, pushing and pushing for more and more subscribers ….. good for his ‘fees’ ….. It’s a pity his subscribers don’t get more advice and less dot com pho!

Garry’s posts far out strip Chow’s content any day.

There is more to be learned from one post here than from a week or more of Chow’s posts.

All I can see developing is John Chow’s bank account and his waist as he subscribes a few more readers.

Well, isn’t that what the Make Money Online niche is all about in the first place?!?!?!

At least, that’s how I see it, nothing more than yanking sheeple away from their real goal while the MMO guys fill their heads with dreamy visions of riches and fortunes.

It’s pretty f’n transparent to me….but then there are a lot of idiots out there too.

I couldn’t bring myself to NOT provide some level of value…I wouldn’t be able to sleep at night knowing I just hosed little Sally Sue with some gimmick.

meh.

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Garry,

Great Post I really enjoyed it.

It seems to me that a lot of “top bloggers” have this Google mentality. Isn’t it Shoe that has the “screw Google” saying. Maybe we should change the old saying to “hell hath no fury like a blogger scorned” because it seems the moment that somebody or some entity does something to harm or at least not benefit a blogger they are off the bandwagon and pushing for other services.

In reality though most cases and situations in which a user gets penalized is because they did something that they weren’t supposed to do like follow general good practices or T.O.S. For example Getting banned from Adsense, penalized by Google, or being removed from a forum.

Much of the problem is that bloggers (in this niche) are still looking for instant results and will do any to achieve them even if they aren’t following good practices.

Adam

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I personally have had no success making money on internet! If anything I have lost alot of money! Consolidating debts right now! I am 61 just waiting it out for social security at 62! I have got burned so many times
even from consulting firms that promised you would recoup in 6 months
but that was just a sales gimmick i guess! Now dont want to refund so went thru BBB and still waiting not sure I will ever get a settlement!

John Chow couldn’t do it by himself could he and to do that one needs traffic of people and philosophy, at least with the Blog. I know the Blog, it’s very busy at times very slow (I can’t say whether due to hundreds visitors opening pages or if it’s cause of the #’s of ads) so I stopped reading his posts. Interesting how he managed to organize charging for the ads that much!