I recently was going some research and working on some SEO for my site and noticed that John Chow one of the world’s most well know affilate marketers site seems to be penalized by google. John Chow is showing only one index page.
Apparently the speculation for the google penalty is the use of paid links and paid posts which John Chow utilizes. John Chow himself has preached not to put all your eggs in googles basket but no doubt this google penalty has to be hurting him.
So if you purchased a link pointing from JohnChow.com hoping to gain value for your seo you at the moment are not gaining anything since his pages are not indexed.
John Chow is a smart affiliate marketer and no doubt will bounce back from this google penalty but it does go to show you that you really need follow googles webmaster guidelines to avoid such penalties as they will even penalize one of the most popular websites out there.
John is now doing a 301 redirect to JohnChow.ca which is supposedly not selling links and is 100% google compliant but time will tell if this is going to be frown down on by google as well. Maybe John will comment here and let us know what the status is.
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I think its pretty sad that he’s been penalized the way he has, but hes not a newb at this and should bounce back, almost a victim of his own success in this case!
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He’ll bounce back! He’s been around the block and he knows these things happen. Even a newbie like me knows that it’s bound to happen.
On a different note, I’m wondering about what happened to beanrocket. Do you have any idea what happened to them?
John Chow is a big help in sharing his knowledge aobut affiliate marketing and I believe that he can recover soon.
I still don’t understand how google actually uses the information that it gathers to penalize people? I wonder if anyone knows?
I bet all of the people who purchased links from John Chow are pissed! Hopefully he can get out of the hole soon from being penalized by Google.
Hes on page 1 of Google Make Money Online..
I saw in google that john chow blog being indexed and get pagerank 5.
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Dang that stinks!!
It makes you wonder about the methods you use to promote your website. It also makes me hesitant to rely solely on only marketing campaigns only. Imagine if that was you only marketing source and something like this happened?? DANG!!
Nobody can put a good man down!
If he got penalized then for sure he will recover.
I just hope its soon.
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As we can see we can be easily penalized by Google for some SEO practices. This is quite sensitive subject so we need to think twice before we start using some paid services and free techniques as well.
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Google does indeed penalise poeple for some practices which we are even unsure of. Th sandbox is the most populr of them all i must say. I can really understand jon chow’s plight and i hope he recovers from it soon. More on the google sandox is revealed in this SEO product, Google Sniper, by George Brown. Hopefully it will clear some doubts about SEO and google sandbox.
Stuck his head above the parapet, I reckon. A hand ban for a few hundred blogging sites and soon the whole internet quakes with fear.
This happened to him before a few years back too.
It’s just more proof that Google control too much of our online businesses. Who are they to tell us what links we can or can’t have on our site?
It really annoys me that they have become the “cyber police” and we now have to conform to their every whim.
They even frown upon sites having nofollow on links like about pages and archive pages. Why? Those pages don’t offer real content to the user so why do the search engines need to find them?
I love so much about Google, but also hate so much about them too!
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John chow must be laughing all the way to the bank
any publicity is good for business, john is far to experienced to let this setback worry him
Cheers mick
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I’ve got to much respect for John Chow.
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