I heard about John Chow, the most talked about money making blogger, some time back. He started a very aggressive link back campaign in which he gave a link back for every review of his blog when text anchor ‘make money online’ was used. That proved very helpful for him to make him blogging icon and earn score of money. But Google, the big boss in internet search was not happy with these blogging for money strategies. They punished the site by removing from search results.
Chris Hemphill posted this search result from google:
Google’s Webmaster Guidelines tells why is he penalized:
Some SEOs and webmasters engage in the practice of buying and selling links, disregarding the quality of the links, the sources, and the long-term impact it will have on their sites. Buying links in order to improve a site’s ranking is in violation of Google’s webmaster guidelines and can negatively impact a site’s ranking in search results.
John’s blog is a money making blog and it has set a bad example for blogging community. Bloggers should learn from John’s mistake and try to play fair as long term success comes only from genuinely good content.
