This just has to be the sleeziest and most low method to make money off of a blog, you have to be really really really low to do this, do keep that in mind.
So heres what happens, the owner of John Cow removed the original homepage and puts up a redirect to another sub-page on the site where he puts up a big image saying “This Blog is Hacked! If We Do Not Receive $100 in 24 hours The Cow Gets Well Done!!!”
And now any regular visitor is free to donate or pay the ransom in this case for the blog to be back up, its like saying “give me your money or i won’t blog anymore!”. As far as i can predict this matter, this will totally ruin John Cow’s credibility.
This is marked as a trend as well, this can be the new wave of marketing where bloggers act like low down crooks to earn that extra buck, webmasters come up with new techniques to make money (no duh) but they also tend to copy what others are doing to earn money at the same time, thats why the ebook niche is so huge, people want to copy others!
