John Chow No Longer a Dot Com Mogul?
Aug 28th, 2007 by Lewis 19 Comments
I read a posting by John Chow earlier this month called Requirements To Be a Dot Com Mogul. He details a list of 7 items that must be met in order to be a Dot Com Mogul (as you may have guessed from the title).
On this list is a very interesting item:
A Google search of your name must be at the #1 spot
On a recent search of the term John Chow I found that the closest entry for the original John Chow is at #19 (page 2) with his MyBlogLog profile.
I’ve read on the site (and on many others) that John was punished by Google for using a linking strategy they didn’t appreciate. I would accept this as an excuse; however, a Dot Com Mogul should know better!
Learn from John
This article he wrote makes me think about all the rules and lists that people write on their blogs everyday. While it’s one thing to create information for people, it’s very different to practice what you preach. If you’re going to use definitive statements like “I will never…” or lists like John’s, you could end up having to backtrack and explain yourself or even lose readers as a result.
John’s Next Step
I think this may just be a case of being a little sure-of-one’s-self. In John’s case, he does have the history and the income/businesses to back up the claim, but I still think you should follow your own rules. I’m going to simply ask that John quietly remove the Ramblings of a Dot Com Mogul tag, until he receives forgiveness from on-high (Google) and gets his name back up top where it should be. Maybe the tag could be replaced with Evil Ramblings of an Online Money Making Star or something like that.
All this being said, for a company who has been the leader in creative business practice, maybe Google should cut a guy a break when he comes up with a great way to spread the news about his site!
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Tags: dot com mogul, john chow, blogging, blog
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Great linkbait post. Informative too. It’ll be interesting to see if John Chow himself stops by your blog!
I’ll know if he changes his tag line! I think ‘Evil Ramblings’ has a nice ring to it…
Hahahah lol………..
He does like to evil sometimes…
Vijay
When you really think about it, those things that he said doesn’t really matter, because people loves him… and he will always be a dotcom mogul in their heart
Outstanding post, goes to show everyone must walk the walk if you talk the talk. Especially the so called stars.
I linked to your post on my blog. John Chow came by and read it. His evilness has gone and changed the rules to be a Dot Com Mogul jusdging from the response to my comment on his blog.
http://www.debohobo.com/2007/09/01/debo-hobo-week-in-review/
Last time we checked, a certain Cow came out on the first spot when you’d look for “john chow”
haha, oh that Cow comes out almost everywhere. Anyway maybe he should just scratch the line where he says “When search your name should be #1″ and be fine, instead of changing the whole line.
Which I think is absolutely hilarious!
I dont think being #1 makes you a dot com mogul so i dunno i think he should remove that bit but he is a mogul makes more in a month than most people do
Well all I can say is, great linkbait
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I think when you’re raking in that much money a month, it really doesn’t matter what people call you or what your title is. He could be “John Chow - The drunkin’ ramblings of a 3 foot, crossed eyed mountain goat” and he’d still be laughing his way to the bank. Mere semantics..
- Raymond (MONEY BLUE BOOK)
Yea hi5!
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Well said. I do like the “smiling his way to the bank” scene
hahahaha. Excellent points. Regardless, Chow is a friggin dotNet mogul. Good post though, you got my attention
It wouldn’t matter what he actually calls himself as others have already said, he’s making all the money he wants and I guess that would be enough
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Hi there,
thanks for sharing your experience related to the “secret” concept of life. I haven’t read the book but has taken a glimpse of the movie trailer. Kind of fascinating concept but then i also found out that there are a lot of people don’t agree with the concept at all. maybe i need to try myself about the concept and then after that only i could give some evaluation on it.
nice post. But it takes time to establish yourself as a internet mogul.So chillax man and enjoy your blogging experience.
I didn’t make the Mogul rules - John Chow did. If you can’t live up to your own rules…