Industry Buzz

Everyone in the land has been talking about IZEA RealRankâ„¢ lately, hoping that it’s a replacement for PageRank. For those that aren’t familiar with it, IZEA is the parent company of PayPerPost and RealRankâ„¢ is a new system that they have come up with to rank blogs. They say it will make it so they ... [Read more]

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John Chow Gets Google Slapped Again

If any of you have been to JohnChow.com today, you may or may not have noticed that his PageRank dropped to a 5. When I first saw the 5 in the Google Toolbar, I thought it was probably just a fluke. I ran a tool to check his PR in a bunch of different data ... [Read more]

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John Chow In Google’s Penalty Box

If you’ve done a Google search lately for ‘make money online’, you know that John Chow is no longer ranked #1. If you do a search for ‘John Chow’, JohnChow.com doesn’t come up until page 7, at least on the datacenter that’s pulling up at my house. Where is he coming up where you all ... [Read more]

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NetBusinessBlog.com’s Downward Spiral

Three weeks ago the blogosphere was buzzing about NetBusinessBlog.com, the site that Matt Coddington sold to Adrian Cooke for $13,000. I followed the site religiously until Adrian took over, but to be honest it just isn’t the same site anymore. I was really curious about how this site would do after the owner/writer change, so ... [Read more]

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