Cool Blog: JohnChow.com

I'm constantly hearing about people who are able to make enough money from their blogs to become full time bloggers. I've also met (in real life!) someone who is able to pay his rent from the advertising revenue he receives from his site Bristol Lair. But most people who start blogs seem to languish in obscurity. So how can you make money from a blog? Or rather how can you generate enough traffic to get advertising revenue?

John Chow appears to be dominating the blogsphere right now. He has quirky blog about internet advertising and how to make money on line. His regular posts and reviews from high profile sites seem to have manifested a huge following. He thoroughly tests new advertising services and referral systems on his own site before posting indepth reviews. Obviously this kind of real life test drive yields a much more interesting article than a quick review by a magazine editor.

Perhaps one of his most amusing experiments is his quest to gain page rank by using reciprocal linking. Bloggers link to his site using a particular series of words and in return he links back to them. A link from a high traffic page such as his could bump the traffic and the page rank of a smaller blog considerably. In return the number of bloggers linking to him bumped his website onto the first page of a Google search for "The root of all evil" (currently he's 5th place). Now his shrewed marketing mind has decided to begin reciprocal linking on the phrase "make money online" which is a popular Google search. If he can manipulate the Google Page Rank and get on the front page it will be extremely lucrative.

So head over to JohnChow.com to make money online (I'm shameless ;))!

My new ambition in life is to be the first result of a Google search for Andrew Smith. There are lots of us, but I want that first place! So if anyone out there wants to participate in some link karma......