John Chow dot Com has reached another first. The blog has been selected as a showcase blog at WordrPess.org. According to WordPress, my blog was selected for the following reason:
John serves as the quintessential example of the financial power of blogging and has made it his job and his hobby to tell others just how to make the most of blogging.
As you no doubt know, WordPress.org is a very BIG site (they are the world’s biggest blogging platform) and the traffic coming from it has been significant. I would like to welcome all the new visitors. Please consider subscribing to my blog and following me on Twitter.
For all my current readers, please go to the WordPress showcase and give my blog five stars!
How To Be a WordPress Showcase Blog
Want to be featured as a WordPress showcase blog? Then go here to submit your site. Submitting your blog is the easy part. The hard part is getting selected for the showcase. Blogs and web sites powered by WordPress that make it into the Showcase are typically doing one or more of the following:
- Using WordPress in a unique or innovative way.
- Attracting tens of thousands of regular readers.
- Being written by someone famous or especially notable in his or her particular field.
- Representing a notable organization, government entity, or corporation as an official blog or web site.
While only a relatively small number of submissions are eventually added to the WordPress Showcase, a number of exceptional sites and blogs are added weekly. Only sites that are added to the Showcase will be notified via email.
You do not need to be the site’s owner to submit the site to the WordPress Showcase. However, if you do not own the site, please note that in your submission. Multiple submissions are welcome and will be considered independently of each other. It is not necessary to suggest tags or a potential description when submitting your site, but doing so can be helpful.
If you think your blog’s got what it takes to make the showcase, then go submit it!
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That’s great John, glad to hear.
I hope someday I’ll see my blog there…
All The Best,
The Moneyac
Congrats John!
monetize monetize monetize
Ha ha ha, while that’s cool, he should monetize with some caution, though. We don’t want what happened to Ask.com to happen to JohnChow.com, do we?
There was a point in 2008 where it was getting to be too much, with paid reviews about sleeping pills and stuff
My blog is definately not ready for the showcase yet
But I am getting a new theme in a few months so it might be ready then
Congrats to you!. keep up the good work John:)
Congrats! I still have yet to find a WP design as efficiently monetized as this one.
I will try my best to get into the WP showcase.
That’s great, John! Your future as a world class blogger keeps getting brighter and brighter! Congrats
Its about time! you have some great articles and a strong following and its paid off. Hopefully I can get there one day!
Congratulations John.
Do you think Wordpress looks specifically at the traffic the Blog receives when selecting a Blog or do you think they look past this and look typically at the aesthetics and material on the blog?
I think they’re looking for people who have taken their platform to a new level, and taken the entire Wordpress community further through Innovation. John has done this through monetization, I’d assume.
Congrats, John. You even qualified for 3 out of the 4 criteria. Well done! Soon, I’ll get there too
I am glad to be one of the quintessential readers and commentators of one of the quintessential blogs,
But seriously, John, you deserve it. Keep up with the good content and I am sure this is just the beginning. Congratulations.
Hi John,
Congratulations on having your blog showcased by wordpress. I really want to get where you are, I have the time but not the money as you featured in your video. Wonderful pictures of you in the park.
Best wishes
Christine
Sooner or later I will get to the tens of readers – what? Tens of THOUSANDS? that might take a while.
I am going to add a Wordpress Showcase – Showdown to my list of goals.
Congratulations by the way. When I first started reading about blogging and making money on line, your name & site was mentioned by far the most – you weren’t hard to find.
Yea.
Shoemoney, John Chow, and Problogger are what I like to consider the “Big Three”.
great news for you john…congratulations, your blog is very populer
Best of luck John, good to see your blog still paving the way out there!
Congratulations John! I would think they’d get a HUGE amount of traffic each day over at Wordpress, so enjoy the influx of new readers.
Bravo!!! I can only imagine how many more readers this is bringing you – from what I can tell, your RSS has increased by a couple thousand!!
Wow, that’s spectacular!
Makes sense though, since the Wordpress crowd are the people are more familiar with RSS feeds and the such.
Wow… 2000+ subscribers in just a few days is awesome.
I’m glad you told us how we can get featured. I have been working hard on my blog! Hope it gets some play!
Congratz on being selected. That is an awesome honor and a great step for your blog. I appreciate the details as to how to get listed and can only hope that some years down the road I will have developed a site worthy of being submitted.
Congrats John! Keep up the Good work
Congratz John! I wonder how many uniques you received since you have been featured ?
I’m wondering the same thing.
Wordpress is featured on various news sites as well all the time, so it must be pretty colossal.
Awesome work! Congrats on the feature
Congratulations! This is great. Keep up the good work. I voted for you!
is there anything that you haven’t won (or recognized for) yet, congrats
Election to become President of the United States, or in John’s case, Prime Minister of Canada.
Well, you need to be American to become President in the States, so Canada it is!
Congrats! I always enjoy reading the articles here and to have recognition, while not the pinnacle of success in my opinion, certainly is a complement to the hard work you do.
You deserve it and I do feel that they should have done it before one year. But its ok … Our own John is now in wordpress showcase. Thats awesome.
Congratulation.
Nice beans John, I just went ahead and voted your site in the showcase. Very good use of the blogging platform indeed.
im amazed it took them this long to figure out the power of the john chow empire
Seems like it was just matter of time before this happened anyways.
Congratulations John!
I gave you five stars! Congrats, John!
I gave him 5 stars as well.. Now his blog is one of the top rated blogs.. Congrats!
Congrats John! Hope all the new readers become long-time fans! Make sure Sally keeps them in check.
Congrats John, hard to believe you’ve not been in their showcase before. Good to see you are still accomplishing new things with your blog.
that’s awesome, good for you john. your blog is definitely one of the best.
Congrats John! Keep it up!
Wow… cool!
Way to go. Your blog deserve it
Congrats John! It’s good to see hard work paying off. I would have assumed your blog would have been showcased a while ago. Your site has been a great help to me thus far and look forward to more great info from you.
Congratulations John! Good work!
Congrats John, this is a nice achievement.
Too bad my http://ww2db.com site, as well as most others in my portfolio, are all self-coded. That gives me 100% flexibility to do whatever I want, but I suppose I lose out on awards like this even if I can (and I do) attract tens of thousands of regular visitors.
But it’s not about me, it’s about you! Congrats once again!
Congrats Sir,
I have already rated you 5 Stars. Way to go!
Given it 5 stars
Congrats on the success John.
I am surprised that it took this long !
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Congrats ,
Thats A really good Thing,
I m Still looking For A good Design,
I think Its What You Do amazing Content With Cool design
Congrats John.
Jon
http://WoodMarvels.com – Create Unique Memories
That’s cool! I’m going to submit two of my sites when I’m ready.
So it’s pretty elitist. I guess that promotes what they want though. Who covers the little guy though?
John, congratulations on your site being added to the Showcase. Thanks for letting others know about the Showcase. It is continuing to grow in terms of traffics and submissions each day!
@ SEO Tips Traffic is not a necessity. We’ve added some very small sites that are doing some very cool things with WordPress. Hopefully, with their addition to the Showcase, they grow quite a bit, but a large amount of traffic or huge number of subscribes is by no means required to have your site added to the Showcase.
@ Jason Sieckmann I don’t know if elitist is a fair label. The purpose of the Showcase is of course to Showcase the best and most notable installations of WordPress. The Showcase has to be selective or it loses its purpose and value.
If anyone has any questions or comments about the Showcase, feel free to let us know!
Thanks for the tips on how to get listed. Also, good luck. Added a 5-star
Congratulations on this proud moment. Hope one day my blog get selected too. But for now this is good inspiration.
Peter Lee
Congo !!
Congo
Seems to me like you just got your last theme a couple of months ago!
Wow, I don’t know if it’s a coincidence or not, but your comment is almost exactly the same as one far above.