Chow versus Rowse

I love their blogs for completely different reasons: John chow is in your face and looking to make money, while darren is looking to make money ( but while your not looking ).

But who is the “main man”, who’s going to win the battle? and are they even in a battle?

John Chow has been totally burned by Google although alexa shows that Google has partially forgiven him. I know deep inside although he laughs getting banned by digg and nearly banned by Google he is hurt, or should i say his pocket is hurt. nobody likes to lose money.

Darren Rowse has always been to slow burner in the game, slowly building up his traffic and plodding along. Is he now changing into the new John Chow? His site has moved into marketing and advertising banners in a big way. I always take my time in reading his posts, informative and good on the eye. I have pinged him a few times just to say “hi” and I always get a response.

I have just checked “wayback” on both John Chow and Problogger and they are so different in styles. Again from the outset John has gone for “in your face” viral marketing and Problogger has opted for quality interviews. while John gets the initial spike in traffic, Darren gets a slowburner ( but I sense that more viewers stay loyal with Problogger).