Today I stumbled on a blog called JohnCow.com and was surprised to see the design of the blog because I am daily reader of JohnChow.com and very well familiar with his blog design. It was after some pondering that I found the ‘h’ missing in the domain . It is JohnCow and not the actual JohnChow. And this guy seems to go very well without an H.

You should never judge this domain as spam and I have reasons for that. It took me months to find a good domain name for my blog (nofullstop.com) and this guy must have also done lots of work before JohnCow hit with “this” idea. If I say that he isn’t a spammer then I am not wrong because he has written good posts and his ideas can many times be used for making money online.

He also somehow seems to have some some connection with the web hosting company www.micfo.com which gives away $500 in Mr. John’s contest.
John Cow seems to love the letter ‘o’ and gives extra emphasis to it many times. Like while copying the punch line from the original owner he uses ‘Moooguls’ instead of Mogul . All the menu buttons on the top are in the same order as in the original website. And here too the word “money” is spelled as “mooney”!

In just 2.5 months he has earned around 400 feed subscribers and offers advertising in his blog for half the the price at which it is offered on JohnChow.com. After John Chow was banned by Google this Mr. Cow has his blog listed at number six for the search keyword John Chow in Google search. Traffic traffic traffic!

All in all nice idea to start a blog. Atleast he his getting the recognition to his “good” blog articles by just removing an ‘H’ I am still craving for traffic and feed subscribers just because I am trying to be honest

Currently he seems to run a contest and I am very much sure I do not have any chance of winning it after the kind of article I have written for him but still I will give it a shot. I have already linked to the links the contest requires one to link to and here goes my idea of what I will do with $500 (which gets converted to around Rs20000 here in India)

• First show the money to my parents so that they believe it that yesss! I am not waisting my time at my blog.
• Get a cool new unique blog template.
• Party with friends.
• Give away $100 in a contest in my blog.
• Store the rest. Building my bank balance (And I can actually do all that with $500 once converted to Indian Rupees.)

Long live JohnCow and long live JohnChow.

Here are few domains who are doing actual spam work just because there domains are similar to JohnChow:

• http://www.jhonchow.com/
• http://www.jhoncow.com/

And by the way http://www.jhonchow.net/ and http://www.jhoncow.net/ are still unregistered if someone wants to indulge in spamming.

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I know that most of you delete those spam messages which ask you to buy “Viagra” for a discounted price. But there are many who don’t! And this is enough to make the spam industry give huge profits. Ed– who does not reveal his full name but sometimes goes by SpammerX– says he pulled in US$10,000 to $15,000 a week from email spamming. And here are we the bloggers working hard to find unique content to drive visitors and earn some money by ad clicks. But as everyone knows the wrong path to success is always the most profitable one.

He spent 10 hours a day, seven days a week studying how to send spam and avoid filtering technologies in security software designed to weed out garbage e-mail. Most spam filters are effective 99 percent of the time; he aimed for that remaining window, using tricks such as including slightly different images in his spam, which can fool filters into thinking the e-mail is legitimate.

To track the money, merchants set up a “referral sales page” where spammers can see how much they make from a spam run. Ed would log in frequently, watching the money increase. He was paid into electronic payment transfer accounts, such as e-gold or PayPal, or into his debit card account, which he could cash out in $20 bills.

That became problematic when the cash became voluminous. He says he made $480,000 his last year of spamming. But the lifestyle of being a spammer was taking a toll. In essence, he had no life. And that is true too. Imagine what a spammer will tell his girlfriend about his profession. That he sells Viagra by fooling people?

So Ed got out of the business. He’s written a book, “Inside the Spam Cartel: Trade Secrets from the Dark Side,” which he said has had some take-up in law enforcement circles eager to learn more about the spam business, which he projects will only get worse.

As broadband speeds increase, spammers will increasingly look to market goods by making VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) calls or sending out videos, Ed said. The ultimate unsolvable problem is users, who continue to buy products marketed by spam, making the industry possible.

“I think in 10 years we’ll still get spam,” Ed said. “Be prepared to be bombarded.”

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Not Google But Kevin Ham Owes The Internet

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And here we are, the bloggers, surfing the Internet daily to find stories which can bring in readers so as to gain better ranking. That in order will bring better ad revenue.Huh, this guy Kevin Ham trained as a family doctor, he put off medicine after discovering the riches of the Web. Since 2000 he has quietly cobbled together a portfolio of some 300,000 domains that, combined with several other ventures, generate an estimated $70 million a year in revenue. (Like all his financial details, Ham would neither confirm nor deny this figure.)

When Ham wants a domain, he leans over and quietly instructs an associate to bid on his behalf. He likes wedding names, so his guy lifts the white paddle and snags Weddingcatering.com for $10,000. Greeting.com is not nearly as good as the plural Greetings.com, but Ham grabs it anyway, for $350,000.

Ham is a devout Christian, and he spends $31,000 to add Christianrock.com to his collection, which already includes God.com and Satan.com. When it’s all over, Ham strolls to the table near the exit and writes a check for $650,000. It’s a cheap afternoon.

Read his full story here as I am in NO mood to deliver a short summary of this guys venture who earns via yahoo and Google ads with no real content being delivered. HELL!

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