Charles Lau dot Com

I can understand that everybody knows that John Chow no longer ranked for his own name… And it seems like a big news that nobody knows what’s the real reason for that… I just don’t understand why Google is not giving back John Chow his status. Recently, seomoz interviewed Matt Cutts a few questions about links. One of the question asked was about John Chow. Interestingly, Matt Cutts has no answer to that at all even though it is asked in a multiple-choice format. But why is his page rank still so high?

The following is the question

Why was John Chow’s website (johnchow.com) penalized in the Google search results?

A) John engaged in manipulative link acquisition (buying links, affiliate linking, etc)
B) John’s site consistently provided links to paying companies without using nofollow
C) John’s site engaged in other manipulative practices on-page – cloaking, keyword stuffing, etc.
D) He said mean things about Google and we’re soft-shelled here at the ‘plex

No answer provide by Matt

Many people believed John Chow’s site is probably been classified in the bad neighbourhood… That’s probably why in SEOMOZ post, he has only got one nofollow tag which is given to JohnChow.com… The rest were link-loved…

While I still don’t understand why Google don’t wish to reinstate John Chow, I do believe John Chow is really genuine in working very hard for his Make Money Online blog, being a class of his own…