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How Google Has Been Treating Me Since Unbanning Me

written by John Chow on July 24, 2009

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As many of you know, Google lifted their ban on me about two weeks ago. I thought it might be interesting to show you how Google has been treating me since. I should note that a few of my Internet Marketing friends are concerned over me showing this information because it was revealing too much info that got me into trouble in the first place. However, revealing too much information was also what made me famous. So let the chips fall where they may.

Below is a Google Analytics chart showing traffic sent by the giant search engine from July 1 to 23. As you can see, prior to July 10, Google traffic was pretty much zero. However, it has exploded since then.

Google Traffic

I have stated that Google would only need to send me 2,000 visitors a month in order for me to make up the income lost by the removal of Text Links Ads. As you can see, Google sent more than that within a few days of letting me back into the index. I expect search traffic to continue to increase in the coming weeks and months.

The number 1 search term people used to find John Chow dot Com is, believe it or not, “John Chow”. This should tell you how much sites like johncow and notjohnchow were benefiting for being ranked for my name. Even Shoemoney is upset about it and sent the following Tweet to Google.

@Shoemoney (Jeremy Schoemaker) says:
Google can you ban johnchow.com again… my search traffic for john chow is down 90% =P

Those with a sharp eye may noticed that Google sent me 164 people searching for “Whores” (I’m ranked on page 1 or 2, depending on the data center, for that term). However, those visitors didn’t stay long because I didn’t have the whores they were looking for.

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Some really great tips for writing and selecting keywords in the title and repeating in the body of the work. Much is spoken about great content, but without selective, well researched keywords in the title, along with "73 ways to... real content can beoverlooked by readers. Thanks for reveaing some key tools that can make blogging success a little easier. Errol.

This proves that you can in fact make money without Google. What people should get out of this is that all the hype behind ranking for a couple of keywords is BS. You get traffic by creating content people want, and growing large. The traffic comes from the long tail.

Undeniable you are the real dot com mogul but watch out John i will be next generation of dot com Mogul ! :)

awesome! johncow and notjohnchow must be beathing a big sigh of relief.

Uh... Google also sent 43 people for making money online who stayed still less and bounced out.... you didn't have the making money online they wanted? :P

Teasing.

Congratulations on getting back in with the big G

Congrats on the re-inclusion, good move dumping TLA too. I'm surprised to see that you're not getting more than 1000 visits per day from Google so i'm guessing more and more of your pages will slowly be added to the index over time.

I also suspect that your other sites, in which you showed you can indeed "behave" played a role in the decision to give you another chance. I think Google needs to be credited for being professional here and not holding a grudge, you gave them a lot to chew on for sure :-)

PS, it's also funny to see two different blogspot sites ranking #1 and #2 for "Make Money Online". Maybe blogspot just had a filter removed too, poor carl O just got bumped to #7 after a long run at #1.

I have a sneaky feeling you are starting to wish you made up with Google a while ago. :P

P.S. Glad to see your blog is back up!

Hehe, that's very funny that "whores" is one of your top results. I wonder why that happened?

Wow that's awesome. Already hitting up to 1,000/day from Google. I see your alexa ranking went up as well.

Men that's a nice amount... hope I get there sometime...

John Chow, you are the man... Can you Tell me how you did it. lol

Congrats. You're back on google search again john...

More people are searching for "Make Money Online" than "Whores". :)

What's funny is that 16.5% of those that searched for "Whores" and found your site actually stayed and didn't "bounce", hehe.

This is an amazing story, (this, and the previous post that explains the whole thing), unbelievable!

John,

I am glad to see that Google is sending traffic your way again.

I think that when people search for "John Chow" they should be able to find "John Chow" and not find "Not John Chow" by mistake.

I chose my blog name for fun and not as an attempt to benefit from your demise.

Congrats on your continued success.

I don't think you were ranking number 1 for john chow before this either. It was a post by someone stating 'Why I rank number 1 for john chow'.

Great to see google let you back in John,but the aholes should have never banned you in the first place.

Nice, getting back into Google looks like it's bringing you almost 1,000 people a day so far, I'm sure that's going to increase substantially.

That's a lot of traffic in a short time. I'm sure it'll just going to keep increasing!

John I think the keyword John Chow is quite misleading because many people have searched your name in Google after you got unbanned to see whether your back or not!

No, John Chow has always been the blog's #1 keyword.

So what about 'make money online'?

I think that was number 2.

So, Google shows why it is the boss..!!

Why the bounce rate is so high? Is this normal? John, can you shed some lights and your thoughts on bounce rate?

That is pretty good amount of visitors that you get from Google. Hopefully they will convert good for you. Greg Ellison

How come traffic is sent for the word whore?

A while ago I was checking wonder wheel for make money blogging and it showed something pretty cool.. Talking of LSI, google thinks that John's line 'Don't put all your eggs in the google basket' was related to the keyword 'make money blogging'. It doesn't show the same anymore, but it did around a month ago. lol

ROFL @ whores. I think your post about google whores must be ranking for that. lol!

Your story really supports the idea that we must not violate TOS of the giant search engine in order to be indexed by Google.
Everybody who has violated the TOS must improve their website to conform with Google TOS.
That's what I think. Thanks

Wow, with the Google Powerhouse now sending people your way, I'd love to hear how your overall stats (site visits, optin's, affiliate sales) may have changed/benefited.

Also, you need to affiliate with a porn site so those people WILL get the whores they were looking for.

Looks like they must have made some changes behind the scenes -- my site popped back into their good graces again on July 9th, going from nearly 0% to 30% of my traffic.

It moved to the first page for my keywords a few months after it stated, then soon after was buried in down deep in the index. Been that way for the last few years, but recently Google has been flirting with me, showing favor for a week or two, then reburying me for several weeks. Since July 9 has been my strongest return (usually #4 on keywords), just have to see how long it lasts this time...

Someone must think you are a pimp.Maybe it`s the cars?

Some camaraderie Jeremy. lol. :D

I have been a lurker on your blog for 3 years and glad to see your blog in search results. The whore keyword might upset a few folks looking for whores but it's good to rank well for any highly searchable keyword.

The shoemoney tweet quote is funny. Next month you should do another stat update for all of us. I'm curious to know after 1 month your stat's. Ya will double your stat's from 3 years ago and then some.

So how much will you pay me to write a review John. ;)

Woah google banned you for that long? I had no idea. And once they unbanned you there was over 8,000 visits to your in 13 days. I'm guessing your glad they lifted that ban.

So its safe to say that you will break the $500k this year for sure.

John, congrats again! I can see that your organic traffic is huge and I believe that it will be increasing day by day in coming days. I'm guessing what is your next step to make additional $2k to cover the loss of Text Link Ads? :D

Regards,
Lee

John, imagine promoting adult affiliate programs and leverage ranking for "whores". You'll make huge a killing in commissions :-)

Jeez 3 years on the ban was a pretty tough time!!! No Google traffic at all for 3 years???

I must say , you are a brave man, i guess you know what you are doing. :-)

It seems John, you like playing with fire. Did you look to be banned again, lol.

John chow knows how to get great advaNTAGES OF TROUBLES.

whores? which page contain this keywords?

BTW, what's up with Google's LSI? I'm sure the word whores does not have google or other techy names in it's LSI.

This post just about sums up Googles use (or not) of LSI :- http://www.themakemoneyonline.net/lsi-love-sex-int...

Great traffic. If you can redirect some of it to my blog, that would be cool. Thanks John.