JohnChow.com is back on Google Results

Just noticed that JohnChow.com is back on Google search results. As  you probably already know John Chow got his website banned from Google search results since 2007 as he was abusing link selling on his site which is against Google TOS.

In fact you should know that doing paid reviews and sell unreasonable amount of links is not only against Google tos but also unethical from most search engines and RESPECTABLE bloggers eyes!

Back in December 2006 John Chow who is also known as the mogul of the blogging world started an aggressive campaign to sell links. He started making a fortune out of the business and got several penalties from Google on the search results. Some time later his whole domain name was completely banned from Google!

Many people said that it was a right decision from Google. Today a recent tweet from him made me to go for a simple quick google search and heck he was there again! Seems that Google has forgiven Mr Chow for his links bazar scheme he did!

Maybe you are thinking why Google and search engines do not like when someone do too much of paid reviews? Infact when a blog do a paid review, he put links back to the advertiser and most of the time if the advertiser is paying he will want dofollow links!

Dofollow mean that Google will count this link as an additional backlinks for the advertiser’s website and hence increase his value. Now the bad part of it is that if this is allowed then web search results will become a sort of the wealthiest get more importance and the poor never make it. That is if someone has money and buy lots of links he get value and those with normal budgets and who are really working harder miss it all.

To eliminate this situation, Google penalizes websites that do these paid reviews too much. By the way one advice I give you is to never do paid reviews unless you properly disclose that you are doing it for money and also use nofollow links to do it. (If you are thinking of using Text Links Ads then keep the idea off! as even link buyers are getting penalized these days!)

The web should be a place where competence matter most rather than some dumb wealthy kid who just buy everything even if he is the greatest s**ker.

Coming back to John Chow, he has always said he didn’t care a damn whether Google banned him! And I’ll tell you why he said that. Its simply because he is very proud of his 80000+ rss subscribers! So he does not care whether Google promote him or not…but what he forgot was that Google and other search engines were the one to make him popular when he was still a new startup.

The very sad part is when I see new bloggers getting motivated by John Chow! Its the worst thing and idol you can have as if you follow all of John Chow methods, you will for sure make him a better and more popular blogger but at the same time make yourself a stupid another blogger!

So now that Google has put John Chow back on the results, a question arises. Will he start again with his nonsense of ultimate links selling? We’ll see. By the way any fan of John Chow here? I do not really understand how people still read the craps he writes. At the start he was a good blogger but now all that he blogs about is what he is eating, with who he is eating, how his toilet is, which plane he is traveling in…..ohh I assume that’s why he says…he makes money online by telling you how he makes money online… and what you don’t know is that he is only telling you about the final dish and not how to cook it!

Making money in the toilet I guess lol.