John Thomas Jordan is a 17 year old Internet marketer who claims to have been in the game since the age of 14. He created his blog, JTJNet.com back in February to talk about internet marketing and his life. After seven months of blogging, his RSS stands at a very sad two readers. Therefore, Jordan decided to try for the John Chow effect by ordering up this ReviewMe review.
Who Is John Jordan?
Despite being only 17 years old, Jordon seems to have a colorful life. He started his first business at age 11 and by the time he was 13, he was making $1,000 a month. By his 14th birthday he got into some kind of trouble with law. He didn’t go into much detail about that other than say he was handcuffed, beaten with a night stick and taken to jail. He received deferred adjudication and 6 months probation. All because he stayed out past curfew, according to Jordon.
During the 6 months, Jordan stayed inside the house and got hooked on a game called Red Alert 2. That was how he got into Internet marketing.
I loved the game so much I created a website for it and saw what other people were doing and put Google Ads on it. The website made some money around 1.00 a day I was like Man! this is easy. I can just make tons of websites and make alot of the big bucks. So I started building alot of websites and making a lot more money.
I ran into alot of smart people at webmaster forums and picked up alot of ideas and built more ideas off of those. I then started creating business plans, learning PPC advertisement and affiliate marketing exstensively. I learned basic seo and built off of that to dominate with my big money making websites in the SERPS. Met some big Software and Script Marketers started learning the rules and must do’s to those.
The Blog of John Jordan
After reading through all of John Jordon’s blog entries, I can understand why he only has two RSS readers. Jordon is an on again, off again blogger. The first post was back in February 25. All it said was, “Well this is my first post WooHoo! Nothing to it.” The second post didn’t show up until March 14th and that was an “inspired” post.
Jordan did managed to make ten posts in March but the following month he made only two. This was followed by one post each in May and June, then three posts in July. For this month, Jordan didn’t write anything until August 12.
It’s great that Jordan ordered this review to generate some buzz for this blog, but if this on again, off again blogging continues, it won’t matter how big of John Chow Effect he receives. His blog will be back to two readers.
Many of the blog posts have formatting errors. There are line breaks where there shouldn’t be line breaks. This makes the blog very hard to read. It is also difficult to follow what Jordan is trying to say in many of the posts because he can’t seem to compose a sentence properly. Read Google Adwords Tips Part 1 and Part 2 to see what I mean.
Credibility Issues
I have a few credibility issues that bugs me about John Jordan. He claims to know SEO but the blog doesn’t even have SEO friendly URLs. He claims to have many big moneymaking sites but he never made a single post about any of them. He claims he use the domain JTJNet.com because that is the name of his corporation. However, I was unable to find J.T.J. Networks, Inc. registered in the state of Texas. While I am not fully verse in US incorporation laws, I believe one has to be at least 18 before they can be a director of a incorporated company.
Then there is this post about using Credit Cards to buy websites. I am not sure when Jordan form his corporation but the general rule of thumb is a corp must have two years of earning record in order to qualify for a Credit Card. Failing that, a Credit Card can be issue to a corp using the director’s credit history. In this case, the director isn’t 18 yet, so he can’t apply for a credit card. The other issue I had with the post is Jordan made no mention of transferring the credit card debt to a lower interest line of credit after the purchase of the sites. Maybe Jordan is too young to know what a corporate LOC is.
Hopefully, Jordan can address some of these issues in a future blog post. I am certainly willing to give someone the benefit of the doubt but the John Jordan blog leaves me with more questions than answers.
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(12 votes, average: 3.25 out of 5)
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Well, on the upside, the kid has enough guts to cough up $400 for a review, not to mention he DOES have websites.
But bluffing won’t take him very far - he needs to learn, act, and achieve.
This $400 was rather a waste of money. I won’t click on the links out of curiousity!!!
LOL I won’t click on links out of curiosity either. I would imagine some people here might. Now whether or not he has websites or not is yet to be determined. He has a blog for sure but you can get those for a cheap price or free these day
Cheaper than hookers on Hastings St. in Vancouver.
lol how would you know?
Hey hey now, everybody has a shameful past…
Past or present who cares..anyway we know that you know
I’m not clicking either. Perhaps there should be a follow-up. When the blogger feels they have made any nessesary changes and John Chow can do follow-up review for a fee of course, then we can click on the link then.
until then it is nothing more than a linkbait attempt.
I would question a lot of stuff if I were in your shoes too. While I always want to give others the benefit of a doubt, people who make statements like those need to back them up with some evidence. Otherwise all it is, is just hype and bragging (whether the statements are true or not).
Ouch. - $400 well spent? uM, no.
Nice review.
You were right about the line breaks.
They’re everywhere.
Makes it hard to read.
Just a little bit better
Andrew is back up and running,btw.
I think they’re best friends!
Lol, that’s good, it is a little strange that we get 2 similarly crappy reviews in a row.
Nice review, better blog than andrewtalks i guess..
Just about … it’s not exactly prime review me season though at the moment.
Maybe all the people with decent, well written sites don’t need to splurge 400 on a review by the evil one himself?
Who knows.
My thoughts exactly!
That’s why I haven’t ordered one.
I agree, besides I too scared to order a review now
His latest blog post about international CPA is fairly interesting.
I also think I found some of his sites, not sure how busy they are though.
Good on him for walking the walk and laying down $400 for the review though!
Um… his website looks awfully familiar. ShoeMoney anyone?
I was thinking the same thing
I subscribed… just to see how he’ll respond to the review! Can I get a signed copy of Four Hour Workweek if I get another friend to subscribe and double his RSS readers?
You should have returned this kids money. He obviously doesn’t know how to spend $400. I hope he takes your advice, but after reading your review, I am not inclined to even read his blog. I mean what new information on internet marketing is this 17 year old going to offer?
Good point - I think his credibility is shot instantly.
I also think it’s a bit harsh taking the kids cash. Are there any rules about the age of people ordering reviews?
you dont know about that im a 12 years old kid that understands all about SEO and making money online look take this advice from me any person can have a blog and make money online it does not differ
“I have a few creditability issues that bugs me about John Jordan. He claims to know SEO but the blog doesn’t even have SEO friendly URLs. He claims to have many big moneymaking sites but he never made a single post about any of them.”
That is why I don’t trust 99% of the so-called “Internet entrepreneurs” out there. That is what separates the yaro staraks or shoemoneys of the world, who are open about what they do, from everyone else, who seem to never mention their projects.
While I won’t say he is lying, I think it is funny how there are hundreds of teens these days who claim they make thousands of dollars a month and are experts in internet marketing but very few of them are open about their sites.
I love the way on his myspace page he claims he is white hat and black hat seo (”BH and WH Seo” as he worded it). I wonder if he has any clue what a black hat seo is, because nobody who knows what it is wants to label themselves as being that, at least without being hidden behind an alias.
No offense to the guy, but something seriously screams “scam” when I look at the blog. Maybe with some proper formatting and a decent logo it would look a lot better.
Something just smells fishy.
haha yeah, I was looking at that too. I agree!
The $400 at least earned my visit. My first thought is, where the hell he get the “Shoemoney” theme?
I thought the same thing with regard to the Shoemoney theme. I haven’t subscribed but I’ll check back to see if he gets his act together for the blog. Bold move though ordering a $400 review.
Well I can clear up some things regarding US law for incorporation. It is possible he incorporated in another state… most corporations in the US choose to incorporate in the state of Delaware or Nevada for tax reasons. However you are correct that he cannot legally be a director of the corporation. One of my corporations is based in Delaware, another in Michigan.
As for business credit… there is no time requirement before securing a corporate Credit Card or LOC. However, you do have to be at least 18 years old to open an account.
There is no way he could have set up a corporation and used Credit Cards unless he is using his parents information.
He replied to johns review saying he incorporated and got the Credit Cards with his mothers info. If he really has a corporation, it shouldnt be hard to find unless it doesnt exist
John (Jordan),
If you want to increase your feedcount, you need to forward your existing feed to your feedburner feed. There is a wordpress plugin that feedburner has for this.
I got into young internet money as well. In the states, the cops will only beat you with their nightstick if you are a bite out of control.
On a side note, I cut grass when I was 16…. Today, you market products on the internet when your 16….
The only downside of the review is that you told us how old he is….. I’m no longer interested.
At 17 he should have enough energy and motivation to post just about every day. God help him when he gets to my decrepid old age
and everything really does seem like a struggle.
I just found this thread on the CNET Forums about a Jordan/JTJ Online Store scamming people out of money for cell phones.
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-7817_102-0.html?forumID=74&messageID=1976851&threadID=180555
Think this is the same Jordan and JTJ from this post? If so, then I think we know how he makes his money.
It sounds like that cell phone place was in NY, so it’s doubtful but still interesting.
Correction: Its in PA, just checked the BBB http://www.dc.bbb.org/report.html?national=Y&compid=012311370
The one thing the kid has going for him is that he’s still 17 years old . . . . we’ve all been that age before and I’m pretty sure most of us have made a few poor decisions in our life . . . i give the kid credit for trying and if anything, this was a $400 lesson from John Chow on how to improve his website . . . personally, i think that’s a great deal to get some personalized consultation from someone of john’s stature . . .
A lot is two words.
He got my visit… looks like he has a bit to learn (but then again so do I
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I actually got into blogging a few months back myself so put up a simple blog off Blogger.com to test my possibilities. I am currently working on a new platform for my blog and hopefully will order a ReviewMe from John when the site goes live.
Cheers John!
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nice find john…seems that there are more and more bogus blogger who wish to earn big money
including yourself?
After reading your review, I had no inclination to visit his blog. In my opinion he should have made his blog ‘worth reviewing’ before paying you for it. It is just a case of a childhood gone wrong and doing things not fit for your age. He should have concentrated on studies and left working and earning to later in life.
it doesnt mean that if their theme looks similar, it’s a ripped off already. anyone can make a theme similar to another.
anyway, good thing John Jordan is serious to explain some questions.
Hey John - the word you were looking for, I believe, is ‘credibility’ not ‘creditability’
creditablity: the ability to get credit
they just have to know that blogging anything else aside from making money can make them earn money as well.
The kid doesn’t seem to have anything to do with SEO, Affiliate Marketing or anything like this. Maybe he just read your blog and though it must be easy.
The kid needs to go get circumcized!!!
Woah, that’s harsh! Although he does seem a fake, and no one seems to be able to add up his story
I think scammers are starting to u