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John Chow
Personal blog · johnchow.combusinesseconomics
John Chow's personal blog at johnchow.com covers business and economics. Since 2007, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link John Chow's blog as an example of making money from online advertising and affiliate programs, such as Amazon Associates earnings and AdSense and YPN ad rules. One commenter calls it the most annoying blog in its niche.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-08-18
What Hacker News says?
http://www.johnchow.com/ That is the most annoying blog I've come across, in the 'internet marketing' niche. Problogger on the other hand, seems trustworthy, of course its good to be skeptical with such posts.
Comment linking /
on “Lessons I Learned Earning $119,725.45 from Amazon Associates Program”Submitted The Internet's eight biggest Google AdSense publishers as a story · 3 points
HN discussioni said contextual 'text' ads. what i mean is that you can't have adsense and YPN text ads on the same page, and if you have YPN on the same website, it needs to have a different color scheme than the adsense box. http://www.johnchow.com/google-updates-adsense-tos/ http://www.johnchow.com/adsense-intellitxt-together-at-last/
Comment linking /adsense-intellitxt-together-at-last/
on “How many page views does a website need to produce a month before it can get advertisers?”So you've got 2500 unique visitors this month doing 50k page views. general, social network traffic might generate $1-2 cpm so that's $100/month in revenue. if you have a high value niche with targeted, quantifiable traffic you can get that maybe as high as $50/cpm on a well marketed site (read: you have ad sales people or you're cramming the site with ad channels.) This guy http://www.johnchow.com/make-money-on-the…
Comment linking /make-money-on-the-internet-april-2007/
on “How many page views does a website need to produce a month before it can get advertisers?”Well, one instance of this working pretty well is John Chow[0] [0] - http://www.johnchow.com/
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