John Chow Got Bombed By Google

I bet you heard about John Chow, a man that makes 5 figure monthly from blogging. I also bet you read his blog on a daily basis and most of you probably participated in his Review My Blog program. John started the program in hope of growing his traffic, but soon he realized its immense potential and started using it to get a high Google search rank for “make money online”, which is a highly popular search phrase. It didn’t take long before John climbed to the top position and he firmly stayed there, at least until today…

John stayed at the top for quite a while and I was surprised to see him drop to 38-th position over night.

To be make sure this was not a mistake I checked out John’s position on Google UK - 42-nd position and Google CA - 12-th position. Although there may be numerous reasons for this massive drop, the most likely is so called “Google Bombing”. If you don’t know what Google Bombing is, there’s a good explanation on Wikipedia.

Personally, I have nothing against the way John got the 1-st position for the phrase “make money online”. It just demonstrates his influence and indicates that he deserves a high search result position, but it seems Google doesn’t think like me. If this is true, it will be a long time before John Chow dot Com gets his first spot back.

P.S. A while ago John started a contest to win a Microsoft Zune hoping to get the number 1 position for the phrase “make money on the internet”, and he did. Now he ranks 7-th for that phrase.