Sometimes you just gotta love the internet for all the half-witted amusement it conjures up. Take for example the current, Battle of the Bloggers, Showdown of the SEO’s, Fight for the Feed-Readers, Nerd War between Jeremy Schoemaker of (Shoemoney.com) and John Chow of (JohnChow.com). Both are waging a battle to see who can subscribe the most new RSS feed readers in the month of October. Shoemoney is giving away at least $13,000 in prizes to randomly chosen readers in an effort to surpass John Chow, who has put up an array of prizes as well. It appears, at the moment, John Chow has the lead.
Something strikes me as ultimately nerdy that two men in their mid-thirties would engage in such a childish contest but given the history of both bloggers and their guerilla marketing tactics, linkbaiting and blatant self-promotion it’s no suprise that this little contest is having a viral effect and is creating a stir amongst other bloggers who are watching the showdown.
Even though I don’t put much stock in Feedburner stats because they are easily faked I’ll throw my vote in for John Chow because I find his blog very useful on occasion. I’ve not been a fan of Shoemoney’s blog since Jeremy’s most nefarious linkbait Dmoz Extortion and his subsequent lack of following up with adequate proof of his accusation. Not to mention Shoemoney was the creator of the biggest affiliate flop of the year, Auction-Ads.
Cheers,
Dave
on October 22nd, 2007 at 5:38 pm
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on October 23rd, 2007 at 12:52 am
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on October 24th, 2007 at 9:54 am
I didn’t know the shoemoney douche made that dumbass auction-ads!!!!! that program sucked like a nun sucking a bowling ball through a garden hose. It figures that lyposuction phag is the twit who sucked hits off everybody so he could make cash ripping everyone off on CJ affiliate ebay program. Whaty a douchebag. Shoemoney sucks bawlz. John Chow is GOD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
on October 30th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Looks like John Chow has this one in the bag.
@Jared, that was a pretty ruthless comment but I don’t delete comments from my blog.
on December 8th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
Jack
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