John Chow Loves Quick Online Tips!
When I visited my blog front page, the top Google Adsense ad unit was staring at me with the title “I Love Quick Online Tips“, as I rubbed my eyes to wipe away any illusions and read further the ad description read “Your blog rocks! Keep up the great work! From John Chow dot com” and the url displayed “www.JohnChow.com”
Obviously it is a Adsense CPM ad and I am flattered. I am sure this ad got quite some clicks due to the sheer surprise value. I am sure regular readers would have clicked through to find who John Chow is. I might have been prompted to click too (against Adsense terms!), but John Chow is well known in the blogosphere and I regularly read his nice articles. Thanks John…
It seems John Chow was inspired by similar advertisements displaying on his blog. His inspiration is here and here.
Update: John Chow loves Darren Rowse too. Darren posts in comments that John has been doing such ads for some months and generating enough reader interest.
Update: When I added a second text adsense unit, found more John Chow love ads.
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Comments
1. Robert | 25/01/07 #
Yea it all started a couple months ago when WebmasterTalk forums did that on his blog. He has blogged about getting a really good response from Steve Pavlina’s forums using this technique.
2. JohnTP | 25/01/07 #
John Chow has been doing this at my blog too for a few days now.
3. Amit Patel | 26/01/07 #
This is link bait, you think he loves you and in return you talk about him and give him backlinks :p
Amit
4. John Chow | 26/01/07 #
I do love these guys! I think they’re great.
5. swordmouth | 3/05/07 #
is this not interesting? no Swords - just blogs!! wow let the war start! I will there in war too, soon!!
SwordMouth!!
6. Jhon hebrink | 28/06/07 #
do you really love him, jhon chow?
7. اغاني | 18/09/07 #
john chow blog is also nice,i think he’s lovely guy,buying ads in other blogs,some people think that he’s getting their visitors,but its paid service,so he just doing something new:)
8. alexander Batista | 1/10/07 #
well i thnk this is a great idea for sure i have to add this to my black hat traffic building ideas at thegeekboys.com
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