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John Chow Banned from Google

Evidently, John Chow has been banned by Google. Not only has he lost “make money online”, but he has also lost rank for “John Chow” and “JohnChow.com”.

His fans may continue to follow his advice, but I ask you: Can you afford to be banned by Google, Technorati and Digg?

In his June 28 blog post1 John says:

I am 100% positive that Google will eventually restore my number one ranking for my name.

I guess we’ll all have to wait and see what happens.


1. My inconspicuous link to JohnChow.com will automatically nofollow in 10 days, because blacklisted JohnChow.com using the “NoOldSpamLinks” plugin. Does that make me evil? :)

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2 Responses to “John Chow Banned from Google”

  1. Marguerite Jasmin says:
    July 2, 2007 at 12:12 pm

    My question may seem silly but I was wondering what do you mean by ” John Chow has been banned by Google”. Does that mean that his site will not show up at all as a result of a search on Google or does that simply mean that his page rank has dropped?

  2. Marguerite Jasmin says:
    July 2, 2007 at 12:47 pm

    I wonder how Google manages to do that… I used the BlogFlux page rank checker to check his page rank, it was 4 earlier this morning.

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