It looks like everyone in blogosphere already knows guy that posted a story about Google Whores that conquered front site of Digg half year ago, and gave him a huge traffic bomb. I’ve promised I will post here a review of his blog, so now I’m gonna do it. With no mercy, because he is gettin’ on my nerves.

I don’t care Johnny’s earnings. He can make thousands of dollars on his blog every month, why not, I don’t mind it. Really, it’s not my business. Probably he is the most snooty blogger of the whole web, but I don’t mind it as well. Am I go to overact? No, I’m definitely not. John Chow has a stinking habit to cross people up with his posts, and that is a overkill. That’s why I’m going to call him a ‘danger dumb‘. With 10,000 page views everyday on statics counter his doings are FAR AWAY from being ok.

If you don’t know how some things work, do not write about these things. Especially, do not try to write as a ‘teacher’. It’s obvious, but our favorite Dot Com Rambler looks like doesn’t know these basic facts shouldn’t happen to a kid. Ok, let’s see what our self-named Dot Com Mogul writes on his blog.

First quote is about buying text links that are worth for SEO. In Johnny’s personal opinion, of course

(…) With the discount, the reviews cost me $105.00 (…) sent me 48 visitors and (…) 15 readers, according to Google Analytics. That makes both blogs extremely expensive from a CPC standpoint (…) I’ve received permanent links on two PR4 blogs (…) I’m sure the long term payoff from the reviews will be worth it.

Two text links on single posts for 105 dollars. Nice deal Johnny, you wasted 105 dollars for 2 links on singe posts, no matter that blogs are having PR4 on homepages. Wanna another example? Now let’s look on a ‘simple Wordpress tip‘…

By default, Wordpress names its URL with a dynamically generated sequential number. The number is placed after the domain name and looks something like http://www.johnchow.com/?p=1508. To Google, this doesn’t mean anything. Google will have to spider my content to figure out what the article is about. Contrast this with http://www.johnchow.com/new-ad-network-auctionads/. With this SEO friendly URL, Google can figure out immediately what the article is about. I have a much better chance of showing up in the search engine results page using a SEO friendly URL than a dynamic one.

Does he believe that Google has a brain like human… or what? He wrote a fiction, and missed the only one REAL advantage of using friendly URLs - your pages are indexed a little bit faster by search engines. In addition, he didn’t write about setting a redirect from all old URLs, so everyone who followed those instructions has lost nice bunch of backlinks, but who matter on that. I’m only SEO, maybe I am wrong. But I’m afraid I am definitely not

And now, my favorite post on John Chow Dot Com blog. It’s called ‘Hiding Affiliate Links For Better SEO‘. That’s really great piece of article, it shows well how to… get banned from Google, permanently. It looks like Johnny has never read about cloaking, so he missed that little ‘unimportant’ information. I don’t mind Johnny’s knowledge, but MAN, there is a real chance that some of his readers followed his ‘gold solution‘ and currently he’s waiting for getting a BAN from the most popular search engine.

Of course there are other examples, I’m afraid they are many in fact, but I don’t want to waste my time on searching, you know. Here is an exemplary ‘Evil Affiliate Marketing Trick Of The day‘, it describes a simple way to… yep, it’s one of the simplest ways to get banned from your affiliate program. Also, Johnny tries to cross people up with Agloco. If you don’t know yet what the heck is AGLOCO, I think you are a lucky one. So please answer a simple question: What are you thinking about when you hear about ‘making money from surfing the internet‘? If you think about money, I’m afraid you are a donkey. And if your answer is ‘about making people wrong‘, you are right. Sadly, Johnny does it with quite good results, so when you will get spammed by all that gonzo AGLOCO fanboys, you know who to thank for. Here is a relevant Johnny’s quote.

I’ve been hearing a lot of talk about AGLOCO being a pyramid scheme and I just have to laugh.

Well, Johnny, it looks like your logic doesn’t work correct, or you are an extremely sassy man.

Unfortunately, his blog has something about 4,000 of RSS subscribers. I think that’s great example of successful throwing the bull with a nice marketing plan. But as you well see, Chow Chows don’t have to blog. They like to misseducate their readers. Permanently, so always watch what are you reading and be warily, coz’ there is always a chance that someone is miseducating.