John Chow is now 301′ing Google bot to a Google compliant johnchow.ca domain. Johnchow.com will still remain up and sell text links ads and paid posts but johnchow.ca will be fully 100% Google compliant John tells me.
The site is already ranking very well for some of John’s old terms.
Pretty smart compromise for both Google and John.
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July 15, 2009 at 8:45 am
I’ve read and seen some of Johns articles and videos, they are enlightening. What is this all about (.com .ca), can someone sum it up in a nutshell?
July 11, 2009 at 7:24 am
Been reading JC for a while-He has great ideas and so do his commentators
July 9, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Honestly I never heard about John Chow.
I try to search him on google, looks like he’s a net celebrity
July 6, 2009 at 5:00 am
So confused web surfers may be asking: How Now Jon Chow ?
July 6, 2009 at 4:58 am
I wonder what Mr Chow thinks of Israeli food like the types available at Yisraeli.com …….
July 3, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Not a big fan of John, but smart move.
June 28, 2009 at 11:45 pm
That is an extremely smart move by John. Though I personally have always felt that John’s blog is a bit too much stacked with ads and affiliate products and you loose the reading interest in it, it is commendable at the amount that he is able to generate from his blog alone.
Good move John and all the best.
June 30, 2009 at 1:51 am
After all its all about making money Kumar. In spite of ADS and Affiliate products being offered on John’s blog, on weekly basis around new 3k to 5k readers are growing, Isn’t it Amazing ??
June 28, 2009 at 8:46 am
When we are all slave to the dollar, we will do what it takes to get paid. Sometimes we have to bend over to get paid. Some call these skills to pay the bills? I call it bending over and Google doesn’t like dirty butts. So, I think Mr. Chow may have just ate a turd sandwich. He does get a lot of trafffic without eating turds…..
Moe Bedard
June 26, 2009 at 2:27 pm
I watched John’s video about his business model and his back end revenue. I’m just getting a list going on my site – the timing of his video and the information within was a real encouragement. I’m sure I remember you speaking about email lists as well. Getting excited about building my list. John seems to me like a pretty likeable guy??
June 26, 2009 at 8:32 am
this guy is doing a great job so anyone that things the opposite is because is jealous of him, so my friend congratulations and keep doing it
June 26, 2009 at 12:31 am
i think john’s doing it for google andf agree with their TOS…!
June 25, 2009 at 10:02 pm
This just goes to show how much BS Chow spouts to build up his readership. It also highlights the ignorance of his audience.
For a long time Chow told everyone he didn’t care about Google. He told everyone they should be the same. Everyone said, “Wow, John, great post.”
Now he’s changed his tune and everyone will pat him on the back again.
June 25, 2009 at 8:48 pm
What was he doing before that was against the TOS on johnchow.com?
June 25, 2009 at 10:06 pm
selling links, paid posts without nofollow
June 25, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Thanks!
June 25, 2009 at 3:51 pm
The Superman shirt one would be best if the image was of your babysitter/nanny in a shoemoney shirt. That would rock and everyone would love to carry her around in their wallet.
June 25, 2009 at 11:32 am
That’s really smart of John. Glad to read this here, was wondering whats with that .ca blog.
June 25, 2009 at 11:22 am
John finally bent over lol lol.. yay lol
June 25, 2009 at 8:57 am
Finally i am Happy John has started following Google Terms. Sooner or later every one has to follow google there is no doubt about that shoe. In between i head that you are talking with Google about john chow dot com what happened to that ?? I am still failed to understand why John can not follow all google rules on his dot com blog ???
Guys any Idea ??
June 25, 2009 at 8:07 am
Honestly speaking if this is for google only than its clearly mentioned that John wants to take one step forward towards google.
This can be good and bad as well.
June 25, 2009 at 7:45 am
Hmmm, he still has miles to go in the PageRank stakes though, as John Chow .ca only shows a PR2. It will come though.
June 25, 2009 at 6:33 am
Wow….he uses that way? Sleek trick!
June 25, 2009 at 4:25 am
Can’t imagine why John needs Google anyway, with all that traffic…
Sorry, forgot to add great post! Can’t wait to see your next post!
June 25, 2009 at 3:25 am
Can’t imagine why John needs Google anyway, with all that traffic…
June 25, 2009 at 2:05 am
He’s now getting a duplicate content penalty.
June 25, 2009 at 12:44 am
Somehow I don’t think Google will like this for long. Especially while he’s still openly flaunting their guidelines on his .com site and only redirects the Gbot.
I would think this would be considered cloaking which Google frowns upon.
June 26, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Hey Ben – yes it will be quite interesting to see how this plays out. I’ll be watching pretty closely. If his .com is out of the index (or is it just hidden) will it be a duplicate? maybe not – maybe he expressly asked that the .com be completely removed so that he can start over. Perhaps he spoke with them in advance to find a best solution??
June 24, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Great works! I wish I could follow what he has done for success. Everyone has an opportunity as long as he/she can see and try to catch it.
June 24, 2009 at 9:04 pm
That is actually some great news for JohnChow. Its rather smart. Wonder why he didn’t do this ahead of time?
June 24, 2009 at 9:02 pm
He’s lucky to be ranking for the new domain so quickly.
June 24, 2009 at 7:36 pm
good news for him
June 24, 2009 at 4:15 pm
I guess he is not an example anymore afterall.
Oh well, gotta give things up after you run out of ideas to get traffic.
June 24, 2009 at 3:36 pm
John Chow re-follows me on Twitter once a week. I can only assume he’s trying to get me to follow him. What a complete NOOB!
It’s always fun to see the power Google has over people who abuse the system.
June 24, 2009 at 3:28 pm
I noticed John’s .ca domain in the Google search results this week. Very smart idea.
Not that he really needs Google anyway with all his traffic, but it never hurts.
June 24, 2009 at 3:28 pm
john’s a good guy. even his banning was a notch on the SEO belt for many to learn from. welcome back John.
June 24, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Well about time they compromise maybe google will take a step back from cracking the whip on everyone.
June 24, 2009 at 3:13 pm
another amazing post
June 24, 2009 at 3:12 pm
cloaking is against the guidlines
June 24, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Clever stuff. John always have something new up his sleeve.
June 24, 2009 at 3:02 pm
I think John Chow’s audience is already saturated.
I guess the site is only fueled by new make money wannabe trickling in.
June 24, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Anything to rank well in google for that boost in traffic.
June 24, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Oh come on shoe. Deleting comments? seriously? I didn’t even say anything incendiary.
Here’s what I said –
“Compromise? More like John Chow had his ass handed to him by Google and he finally caved in.”
June 24, 2009 at 8:15 pm
LOL! Epic comment!
June 24, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Btw, did anyone get Week 5 of the Shoemoney course? I thought they would be emailed out every monday…
June 24, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Love the disclaimer. I thought this was going to be like the Disa 301 post at first read. You know like Chastity Bono 301 redirecting to Chaz.
Soggy Dave
June 24, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Compromise? It’s clear that John Chow had his ass handed to him by Google and he finally caved in. Lol.
June 24, 2009 at 2:28 pm
so now that retard is cloaking…i’m sure that’ll go over well with google…
cue all the retards to say OMG JOHN CHOW U R SO EVIL LOLLL
June 24, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Yeah and sounds like he is cheating his text link advertisers too. If that is the case why not use nofollow instead of making them believe the links are there. Plus he 301s to a geo targeted domain. And if that new domain was not indexed before: SANDBOX!!!!!
June 24, 2009 at 2:27 pm
looks like the same content just missing some links…wonder how he won’t get bit by the duplicate content thing…
and that sucks that you have to crowd out each post with that stupid disclaimer
June 24, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Theres an interesting post on SEOMoz.org that says that geotargeting with the same content wont get you a duplicate content penalty ( http://www.seomoz.org/blog/new-info-from-google-and-yahoo-tilts-the-geotargeting-balance )
June 25, 2009 at 10:15 am
Wow that is pretty awesome news if it’s actually right. By the way SEOmoz will not bluff just like that..huh
June 24, 2009 at 2:26 pm
sellout
He should have done this a long time ago. No, he doesn’t need google, but it is a nice bonus.
June 24, 2009 at 1:40 pm
What kind of things has he changed on the .ca site compared to his .com site?
June 24, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Wow! Never thought that was going to happen. You gotta do what you gotta do though.