Why Does Everyone Like John Chow?

It never fails to amaze me how many people like blogs like John Chow dot com, I mean even the title would make me want to leave the site immediately,
“I make money by telling other people how much money I make online”

That just sounds bigheaded to me. I’ve read a lot of the posts on there, and a lot of them seem like complete crap to me, and the website employs some of the most annoying advertising methods I have ever seen.

I mean, peel back ads, and that annoying header thing, trying to pretend to look like MS IE, it just really pisses me off.

Admittedly, I think (a long time ago) he posted some interesting stuff, but recently (last 6 months) I’ve seen very little that has been of interest to me.

Even Google seems pissed at John Chow. He wen’t from PR6 right down to PR2, and I understand that he has lost a lot of his SERPS, by trying to hard to make money, and it’s killing his blog.

Update: He has lost his SERPS, he doesn’t even rank for John Chow any more :P link

So, he might be a .com mogul, but it seems that he is losing his reputation (and search engine placements) bit by bit.

However, there is always JohnCow.com , a similar sort of website without so much of the “I make money from YOU!” crap, (that’s the feeling I get from JohnChow)

Never mind, eh? He’s right enough already…