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Who is John Chow? John Chow is canadian guy who has his own blog “JohnChow.com” which i will be reviewing in my article. John is also the owner of one of the largest hardware tech sites on the net, The TechZone. Being a regular reader of his blog and willing to profit from his linkback offer, i have decided to review his blog.

JohnChow.com, the blog ranked 528 on Technorati with more than 1693 blogs linked to it! John Chow is a reference in terms of blogging. Throughout several years he has been able to create an enormous community around his blog simply by creating an interactive regularly updated blog that targets a large range of people. John Chow’s blog compared to other blogs, is not on a precise subject. The information on his blog is of great quality and can cover various topics from online marketing, making money online, to his personal holidays/visits or technical news! All in all even though you might find one day an article that you do not like as the topic does not interest you, you are sure to find on the next day an outstanding article that you will basically adore!
Another good point about John’s blog, is that he updates it daily. He actually spends 2 hours a day for his blog. You might think that at this rythm, the quality of his posts will decrease, but with John, all posts are always outstanding. No wonder his blog is so successful!

The best thing about John’s blog is that he has been able to create a huge interactive community around his blog. Simply look at the number of RSS feedburn readers he has, its over 2000! This is really oustanding considering he has no fix topic for his blog. The key to is success is to have created a platform which is well designed and uses many wordpress widgets in order to make it user friendy. The concept is easy, readers leave comments on his blog and this creates a debate around his articles and posts. John also uses RSS feeds, and uses social bookmarking websites such as del.icio.us in order to keep all of his readers upated with his latest articles. Basically a web 2.0 blog!

The only negative points i could find about John’s blog is that he tends to talk slightly too much about how to make money and his personal earnings. Indeed John uses various methods in order to earn money through his blog. He uses contextual ads such as Google Adsense, but has also many affiliate program links. One of his earnings methods i like comes from the ReviewMe website, where people pay John to do a review of their blog. He actually makes above $3000 a month with it. All of this means that John has many ads and affiliates links on his blog, but we forgive him for this as they are well placed and do not disturb our reading. Another reason why we accept John putting ads on his site, is that money earned from it is given to charity organisations! This is very generous from John and we much appreciate his attitude.

To conclude, JohnChow’s blog is for me a reference in terms of blogging, and every one should take example on him! Well done John!