Thanks for the traffic John Chow. Okay, everyone must wonder what the hell I am talking about. Well, I just wanted to thank John Chow for the traffic he will be sending me ahead of time because I probably won't have the time to thank him later.
This post is kind of a long story but I will try to make it clear, concise, and simple right from the start. I am going to get this blog ranked in the top of Google's search results for the keyword John Chow. There I said it again, John Chow.
I kind of fell onto this idea while doing a linking project in a different post. Read that linking project post here. Anyway, I was trying to break into the Top Commenter's widget on John Chow's blog. I am happy to say that I was successful in getting my link on every page of John Chow's blog for the time being, and in the process closed the window his site was in.
Therefore, I typed John Chow into Google, to find his website John Chow dot com and came upon an article on Dat Money dot com. Here is the link to the John Chow article on Dat Money. Apparently, John Chow and Google are feuding and Google has black listed him as his websites in their index. They did this because they told people not to sell links or try to game google itself and John Chow gave away links from his site for user reviews of John Chow with the anchor text of "make money online".
Now all this happeded way back in 2006, and most of the articles I can find on this all date 2007. So does this mean that anyone with a little SEO sense can take advantage of this and get themselves ranked under the keywords John Chow? How would that be? Well I guess another man's loss is always another man's gain. Right?
I don't expect to be indexed for John Chow right away, or maybe not at all, but will definitely be keeping an eye out for it to happen. And if I do get indexed for John Chow, I will be sure to update this post and let everyone know!
What do think about all this? Please leave a comment and tell me!
5 comments:
good post. I will read the articel and try to get traffic :)
And, regarding your John Chow experiment, it would be silly for people to not comment here knowing that their comment would also be seen by all those people flying in from Google for the keyword John Chow.
Hope this helps! Best wishes,
Sam Freedom
Sam Freedoms Internet Marketing Controversy Blog
But didn't John Chow get axed from the Google SERP's or is he back in now?
Julie, his site did. However, if people search John Chow, they may come across this post.
good luck. by the way I am giving away an iphone and $500 on my blog. http://www.acesblog.com/?p=60
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