How many blogs look like John Chow’s?
Posted on June 8, 2007 by
Adie 
Humor 
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I’ve only just heard of John Chow through purchasing this site and the fantastic viral marketing he has done with the whole “Make Money Online” keyword(s). What I have found aparant is that he has people who obviously love him (maybe too much) and have taken on his whole business model. After scanning around I’ve found a lot of look-a-like John Chow’s.
So…this is the thing. Can anyone tell me how many bloggers have completely copied John Chows blog, marketing, hair cut, clothing etc..etc..
Can you find more? I’m offering a bounty of $50 to someone who can find the most look-a-likes of his blog.
How it works - find the look-a-likes, collect the URL’s and then post them in the comment area of this post. Done. Whoever finds the most WINS It’s that simple. When I post the results, the winner will also receive a review of their site/blog.
Should be easy…right?
Closing date 13th June.
Good luck!
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Here’s one, http://www.andydang.com
Wow, I checked my MyBlogLog and many people came from this site. Thanks Wallet Rehab! I was so surprised because I didn’t know I was so similar to JohnChow. I know I reference him because it’s a good marketing strategy.
I think the most blatant rip off is this:
http://www.andy-coates.com/blog/
People listen to what John says like he is God. I have to admire him, he has all these sheep following every word he says, even though a lot if his ramblings are false and irresponsible (ie. his post on cookie stuffing).
These people “buy him a beer” and even pay for for their comments to be nofollowed. Talk about squeezing every drop of cash out of your blog!
Anyway, great to see you are settling in well. Good luck with NBB, I’m sure you will do great.
To all you john chow haters- the way I see it as a beginner blogger: you can hate the pros or learn from their success, so if you can’t beat them join them. Yeh im prety guilty of copying him but I made my site long before I knew all of these “followers” would be copying him as well. I didn’t think it would turn into an epidemic of copyiong his site lol. http://www.shaunlow.com. I’m so sorry ;) .
I think the lesson to be learned is that you can copy aspects of another’s success but you can’t copy exactly everything they do. I don’t think I’ve seen a successful John Chow copycat.
And we’re not John Chow haters (I like John a lot), we just think the copycats are adorable :)
Haha i know your not john haters i was kidding. but i had to turn myself in lol.
P.S I will be changing my blog over the next week or two so I don’t look like john chow lol .
are we just talking about “LOOKS” or “CONTENT” or a bit of both maybe?
http://www.AskMikeJones.com
http://a2-blog.com/
Found one :)!
Dave, thanks for the encouragement much appreciated!
Mike, “LOOKS” “CONTENT” the lot, if you can find a complete rip-off word for word that would be amazing!
Thanks for the responses so far…
Can I enter my own blog?
Sure :)
My comment didn’t show up, due to too many links. >.
Sorry I couldn’t make any of them links, the comment wouldn’t allow it - so here are myne hopefully link free:
-daxdesai.com
-stephenwelton.com
-hamletbatista.com
-investorblogger.com
-cashquests.com
-dyphan.com
-usmansworld.com
-bobbuskirk.com
-darin.cc
-kennethdreyer.com
-rickyuen.com
-shauncarter.com
-santoshp.com
-trappedbydogma.com/blog
-stronglifts.com
-internetbusinessdaily.net
-kingnomar.com
-qmusings.com
-sitelogic.co.uk
-raghucs.com
-theagcompany.com/blog
-mrgarylee.com
-bitsniff.com/blog
-arghyle.com
-mynewchoice.com
-mubinahmed.com
-ronaldocamacho.com
^^ 27 total
Erik,
Not sure if you forgot your glasses when you visited my blog. If you ever did. Please provide a single visual element in my blog that is remotely similar to one on John’s.
I do nothing like John. We are not even in the same market.
Wow looks like Erik’s in the lead! Also I think it goes without saying but no duplicate links plz people <3
I don’t have any nice list, but I wrote a post about that scammer here. Also I can say he has a great habit to copy other people content and write as his own.
However, I remember the first look like of Matt’s blog :>
http://florchakh.com/2007/04/09/john-chow-chow-online-miseducation-for-megabucks.html
he he! there are some beauties in that lot Erik!
They are all legit right?
This is my favorite: http://www.bobbuskirk.com/
He even stole the car graphic idea. No surprise his top post has a picture of John Chow himself in it.
If there are no duplicates allowed, but he has listed 27, I have to find 28 DIFFERENT ones to win? Just clarifying.
I should have clarified this - no duplicates please. Erik is looking good :)
I’m sure there are still enough out there.
Adding some to my list:
- shaunlow.com
- kennethdreyer.com
- brokeass-student.com
- joefiro.com
- famefire.com
- linkrain.com/articles
- theanand.com/blog
- charleshamel.com
+ my old ones
-daxdesai.com
-stephenwelton.com
-hamletbatista.com
-investorblogger.com
-cashquests.com
-dyphan.com
-usmansworld.com
-bobbuskirk.com
-darin.cc
-kennethdreyer.com
-rickyuen.com
-shauncarter.com
-santoshp.com
-trappedbydogma.com/blog
-stronglifts.com
-internetbusinessdaily.net
-kingnomar.com
-qmusings.com
-sitelogic.co.uk
-raghucs.com
-theagcompany.com/blog
-mrgarylee.com
-bitsniff.com/blog
-arghyle.com
-mynewchoice.com
-mubinahmed.com
-ronaldocamacho.com
= 35 total now.
w00t I made the second list as well, I was afraid I was gonna get cut from the time, but Im glad you let me stay in there coach.
Crap I just noticed a duplicate in my new list, so I only have 34.
Ok, I’m gonna win that competition.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22MistyLook+made+free+by+Web+Hosting+Bluebook%22&btnG=Google+Search
770,000 of results. Bring it, Erik. ]:->
lol nice try
Should the need arise I can develop my own Chow Chow cloning machine! I’m serious! ]:->
John Chow copied my blogs layout, lol.
- http://a2-blog.com
You realize your archives only go back to December of ‘06, yet John has been blogging since December of ‘05?
Lol, I know dude, its something called a joke/sarcasm.
I found one!
http://teachmetomakemoneyonline.com/
To be honest, I have taken some aspects of John Chow’s blog, but my design and content are both original… what I would like to call works of art (ha ha).
Its so simple to find these.. using common sense you can find hundreds. I literally found those first 27 in 5 minutes.
Just think… where would a list of them be?
^^ Hint :P
wow, it looks like there are quite a few
You need to remember, though, that John Chow uses WP-Theme that he didn’t make, and is quite popular…
Adie’s looking for copycats, not just people using the same theme. Rather people using every aspect of John’s business model.
Yip, mine does! I dont see why Dave seems to have it in for me?
http://www.andy-coates.com/blog
I don’t have it in for you :) I just have a problem with people spreading misinformation and bad advice. I know that the responsibility is ultimately with the reader, but use some common sense. If you do not know enough about a topic, don’t write about it as if you do.
Here’s my link for a John Chow wannabe, not that I blame anyone for wanting to be John Chow
http://jakeldaily.com/index.php
whats going on? :o
i dint knew john has so many ‘clones’ :d
by the way, daxdesai.com is using netbusinessblog.com’s feed count number! LOL!
Nope, his feeder links to: feeds.feedburner/daxdesai so NBB and Dax just happen to have the exact same amount of subscribers.. unless he’s doing something even more shady.
@Erik
You are wrong!
the link doesn’t matter! check out the image source. it says “http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/NetBusinessBlog”
here ‘~fc’ is used to show the feed count chicklet. If you are using firefox, you can right click on the chiklet on daxdesai’s blog and click on ‘View Image’ :)
once the image shows up, you can check your browser’s address box! Actually the trick is to display other’s huge feed count numbers to make people believe that the blog is popular, which in turn results in more subscriptions!
Thats so tricky! Wow.. nice find Amit.
He’s absolutely right! It is tricky, but is it John Chow evil?
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http://www.blazed-up.com/
I use the same theme,does that count ;D
I actually make a post about this, or almost about this, a while ago. Seems like everyone thinks or cars as the important part of the blog :) You can read it here, http://www.jakobdk.com/?p=51
I’ll let you know if I find anything.
Recently found this most alike Johnchow layout
http://www.financialfreedomiseasy.com/blog/
Thanks for the link Jin! I have taken my cues from John Chow as I’m just starting out in the blog world, and they always say it is great emulate someone who has been there before to help you learn the ropes.
THE BEST LOOK ALIKE TO JOHN CHOW = http://johnhok.com/
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Nice.
My list is so long that it will not let me comment.
Here is my list: John Chow Clones
Ok, the competition has finished. I will email the winner tomorrow and reveal the results on Friday.
Thanks to everyone who got involved :)
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One thing I have to say… Using the Mistylook theme does not make a site a copycat site. If that is your basis for determination, then its pretty lame.
http://www.johncow.com/ Has to be the most blatant. I wonder if it is not John Chow himself that has put this up.
Why is my blog mentioned here? I’m not trying to copy John. Yeah, I run a blog about how I make money, but I don’t run a blog about how YOU can make money..