John Chow runs a website called JohnChow.com. There he writes about making money online. He also has a system in place, providing if you write a review of the site, and link to his site with the anchor text “make money online” he will give you a link back in a post. What does this do you ask? Other than feeding a monster that is already huge, and giving back crumbs to the bloggers who made it possible, this gives him a content-relevent text link, and boosts his search engine ranking for the term. Want to see for yourself? Regardless of how unorganized, ugly, and lame his site looks, it’s filled with some decent content. Let’s be honest, he’s a pretty smart guy, or at least he looks like it. So John, if you’re reading this, I’d like to give you some advice, not on building a huge blog, or making money online, you seem to have all of that figured out. Here is my advice on creating a great user experience for your readers. You do care about that too don’t you? Redesign your blog, without the car pictures please, you’re wasting space. People have to scroll down to get to the content. Maybe make the layout wider, so it’s not so cramped. Give it some room to breathe. Stop it with all the integrated and intrusive ads, I know you wont, because it’s probably making you a shit-ton of money. Seriously, your content is good, but I can’t read it without wanting to pry my eyes out with a spoon. Besides all of that, your layout is boring. throw some bold colors in there, I’m sure you’re a pretty bold guy, why not let your site reflect that? One more thing.. how about a logo? You’re getting pretty big, so you might want to go ahead and develop yourself as a brand, I think a logo is essential to that. I know what your asking yourself right now, and that’s “Where can I get all of this done?!” Well John, it just so happens that we’re for hire. I can’t wait to hear back from you, but not as much as I can’t wait for the link from your site for this review!