Why John Chow is a popular yet poor linker ?

If you don’t know John Chow - He’s one of the most popular blogger who writes about making money online, posts yummy pictures of dishes he had the other day at the restaurant, posts pictures of those snazzy cars and yet somehow manages to boast of a fat check he made that month end with his experiments with money making tools online.

He’s been running a Link back offer quite recently by which you can get a free PR4 link as well as some traffic if you review his blog and tag him with “Make Money Online” anchor text.

A bit of history here - John Chow had been running an IM Ad campaign on popular blogs like Problogger.net using Google AdWords and I’ve been doing the same thing on Labnol as well. Legend has it that i had copied his idea.

Well, as for me, the PR 4 thing was not at all attractive, what was actually attractive is that Traffic he would give me if he had reciprocated my link. So i did a quick review here on March 21. Before the post, i had infact checked out some already linked posts on his website so that i made no mistake. Since then, I’ve been watching regularly his “Reciprocation Links” - but in vain.

Wonder why John missed my blog linking to him? I see that in the current batches on his site, blogs that have reviewed him after i have is shown up - which leaves me to assume that my link is ignored.

Curious - probably John didn’t like me call him “Evil guy with huge head” - like Mubin did(who is already linked back by John!).

These are the scenarios when the blogosphere get’s rusty with poor linkers and people with no community spirit. Sad.