In the last 24 hours there were more emails to me about the post about John Cow’s Marketing Method then there were comments, so i think this is a valid enough reason to explain just why i do-not like what he tried on his blog.
-First i want to make it clear, i do-not think that the donations from the hacked page was what he was after - AT ALL!
Now this was all a link bait/marketing stunt to get in more links/be blogged about and get a little controversey going on, now the links part he did that very well, hell he even got a link from mine, now he must have got blogged on almost 20 blogs including this other auto blog that fetches all his posts ( i saw him in my trackbacks ).
The reason i posted the post before was because these are the tactics and and methods to get a blog or site more popular the wrong way, i do-not support it one bit, people may have their own opinion some of them think that the blog WAS actually hacked and the money that was lost Mr.John Cow made up for it and some think it was just a “joke”, let me tell you something if you have a good thing going and we all know that he does, would you go around and screw with it? Yea, didn’t think so..
This was all just a sleezy marketing tactic no matter what anyone says to me because i can see all the points here, i don’t see any reason for him to go on and mak
Recently, the author of John Cow posted that it was actually linkbait, here is what he posted in his post..
We really didn’t do it for the $100 or thought it to be linkbait. We just think that it doesn’t have to be the 1st of April to play pranks. And our adorable advertisers needn’t worry, you will all receive your full 31 days obviously.
Now, tell me this, can you actually take advice from someone who would jeopardize his blog’s integrity and credibility for a joke?
And as far as me thinking he is the “scum of the earth” , no you have me all wrong, you have a good thing going with one really bad move that did change your whole established image for me. Personally i don’t even read JohnCow.com i read a thread on dp which made me want to blog this, I do know your popularity was pretty much directly proportional to johnchow’s de-rankings earlier, so i followed threads and posts wherever i saw the title “john cow“.
