As the "Google" vs "John Chow" battle continues, I thought I would come up with a little SEO experiment of my own to see if I could wade into this battle and secure a high organic listing in Google for the John Chow keyword.
After a recent Google clamp down on link trading, John Chow's site was one of many victims who copped a heavy slap from Google and his site suddently disappeared from Google results when the keyword "John Chow" was searched.
John Chow certainly doesn't need any help from Google. His blog attracts shitloads of users each and every day, so organic search results I'm sure aren't of much concern to John Chow these days. Just like Mark over at 45n5.com always says, build your websites as if Google or the seach engines weren't there! Build relationships with fellow bloggers, build your RSS count and advertise where possible. Dont rely on organic search alone!
The keyword, 'John Chow' doesn't actually get a lot of search volume on Google which was surprising. Funnily enough, when you search 'John Chow' on Google you will see that good ol' Cow (John Cow dot Com) appear in the top spot. Yup, those freaky freaks over at JohnCow.com are holding top spot on the John Chow keyword search. Misunderstood genuis those guys I tell you!
Man, all these Chows and Cow's are making me dizzy. Both JC's too! Scary little religious connections there ..... OOooooooooh!
Anyway, I will see about getting this particular post optimized and target the John Chow keyword to see how far I can climb up the Google results. If my little SEO experiment gets off the ground and I am able to achieve a decent Google search listing (Top 5); I will at offering a link from the specific result - directly to John Chows site - maybe the big JC might give me a bit of linklove in return? (Would be nice to have a chuckle at the manipulated search results at the same time!)
What would be ideal; is if YOU could help out by linking to this post! Using the keyword 'John Chow' as the link! Write up a blog post and link back to this post. Shoot me an email, and I am happy to provide a review for any site posting a back link to this one.
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Back in August I did the same thing although not intentionally. I had done a post debating whether or not to order a blog review by John Chow. This was on August 20. Ten days later on August 30 I blogged about the fact that while doing some searching I found my blog posting from the 20th actually ranked number 6 on the front page of Google for "John Chow."
It was short lived however. Two days later I was nowhere to be found. I guess if I want to rank for John's name I need to blog about him everyday...... not so sure I want to do that....haha. He might think he has a stalker...
Eric aka NoviceSEO
@NoviceSEO
Ahhh I think John Chow has quite a few stalkers. As much as you don't want to keep mentioning old JC - he just keeps coming up! :)
Be interesting to see short term results here anyway.
Throw a backlink my way if you can.
Cheers.
I blogged about this. Lets see how your SEO experiment goes. I did put a link to your site, but the others are funny linking.
Lets see what happens.
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