Pretty much everyone out there in the blogosphere who has some involvement with anything internet knows about the very successful blogger John Chow. Except GOOGLE!! I searched ‘John Chow blog’, and he was Nowhere to be found! Same results for ‘John Chow’.
My first thought was concern for myself (its all about me!).. the more well known I become in my market, the more other, more successful online marketers will write about me. A search for Andrea Yager brought you here first + some other resources that I was personally responsible for. Now that I am on other peoples lips (and pages).. I will have to work harder to maintain my #1 spot for my name on the Search Engines..
Next thought… was DUH.. John Chow is like a web genius - do you really think searching for his name should show the hilarious John Cow? Google is smarter.. so I suspect some tug of war going on.. and
NOTE TO SELF: Start SEO’ing the Keywords John Chow Making Money Online Blogger since I have a better chance of getting that Organic traffic than he does. Also wonder what John Cow did right in his life to have this twist of fortune.
I finally had a chance to make money doing something I, ahem.. LOVE..
PayPerPost is offering $12 to write a post about Johnny Depp. ANYTHING about him. His new movie is coming out in the theaters, so paying people to write about him.. will certainly get the web buzzing. Gee, as if the web is ever buzzing about anything else.
Well, ignoring the fact that I have not been signed up to PPP long enough to be accepted (about 2 hours lol) and that I am doing this as a gratuitous gesture to the wonder that is JD, here is my part.
What does Johnny Depp have to do with Internet Marketing?
He got his fame by being a controversial character with integrity.
He maintained it by adding value to the users experience.
He is a true Maven in his market, and has even successfully reinvented himself from being a funky volatile punk to a funky loving father. He is an artist to be watched to see what he will do next.
I have no other reasons to be watching him. None Whatsoever. No really.
George (December 25th, 2007 at 2:37 am )
John used some VERY aggresive link building tatics to rank for “make money online” and well… I think I have said enough.
Search for John Chow vs. Google and you can learn more…
Texas Defensive Driving (January 4th, 2008 at 4:08 am )
Call me ignorant - I had no idea who John Chow is. Honestly. Well, now I read about him, and I’m interested to read further
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Andrea (January 4th, 2008 at 5:32 am )
George,
That is pretty uncool of Google, but does show that there is more to it all than just algorithms.. think I will start looking for a friend on the inside
Has John suffered for it?
George (January 7th, 2008 at 12:34 am )
Sorry, for taking so long to get back to you. I don’t think he suffered from it, in fact many blogs made a big deal about it, which I would guess brought him MORE traffic.
Chris Hutcherson (September 19th, 2008 at 5:23 pm )
Yes, it seems that John offended the mighty Google! Did you see him on the Affiliate Challenge? It seems like his personality is to challenge, so he might also have some enemies out there that would sabotage his rankings as well.
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