Recently, JohnChow.com was banned by Google because of John’s illegal techniques to gain link popularity. The “illegal” clause here refers to Google’s rules, so it is debatable outside of Google’s Search Engine realm whether or not such activities were illegal. John is now urging his readers to tell Google how Google Search is not good, because Google does not index John Chow’s site anymore. Now, what John does not explain to his readers in that post is why Google has removed his site from their search index. That is, in my view, reader manipulation. I am disappointed that a blogger I respect before is doing such a thing, at the expense of his readers.

JohnChow.com is the perfect example for reader manipulation

There will usually always be die hard fans who will support John Chow with anything. However, it is very disturbing that a site which can promote reader appreciation and a feeling of honest online has turned into an advertising portal which gains popularity only because it promises people that they will become popular, sort of like a pyramid scheme. I myself wrote a review regarding John Chow a while back, and at that time I used to like JohnChow.com as it was interesting and had some honest value. Boy, has that changed, and I am sad about it. I used to tell everyone online that John Chow was a great asset to the blogosphere; I am sad that I cannot claim such a thing anymore. Of course, John probably doesn’t care about what I think, since he probably doesn’t even know who I am. Commentors who bring in money are apparently more important to him, and so are people who support any of his illegal activities which hurts other innocent bloggers.

One way John Chow manipulates others is by not telling them the whole story

Instead of saying, even if he had good intentions, something like “I did illegal things and Google found out and I didn’t realize the consequences before, but Google is being too strict and unfair and not listening to me right now“, John is telling his readers “Tell Google how they such because they don’t care and because their search results are biased against me.” That does not make any logical sense to me. Please tell me if it makes any sense to you. Readers on JohnChow.com are being told things without the whole story. Slowly more articles are starting to be published on JohnChow which talk about bad things regarding Google and its Adsense program, something which can be expected from people who want to try to turn the attention and save their own face, because they did bad things and got caught in the act.

Are magazines like BC Magazine supporting John Chow’s illegal activities? Are they supporting him simply because he is making money and because he is Canadian?

I was surprised to read BC Magazine doing an article on John Chow without mentioning any of his illegal activities, something which more people should know because John is proud of such activities, and has yet to provide any single piece of logic and reasoning as to why his activities are not bad. Such articles tend to manipulate readers more, because they are written to promote and glorify bloggers in a certain region, without talking about how such bloggers are now conning people and companies out of money. In the end, BC Magazine appears more of a biased magazine supporting any blogger within BC Canada that makes money, no matter what they do, because of the above facts and reasoning.

I wish BC Magazine could have instead profiled Vivien from Inspiration Bit, also in Canada, though I am guessing talking about someone who publicly proclaims being evil [when actually he is only manipulative and far from real evil] and publishes his blogging income details sells more magazine subscriptions than someone like Vivien who tries to provide more value to others compared to John. Someone needs an editorial and ethical overhaul in their publishing office.

What do you think?

What is your view on this? John Chow told his readers to complain to Google about John Chow’s site not appearing in search results when searching for John Chow. I think the readers should do the following instead:

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