Update: John Cow sold

Update: Accord­ing to the auc­tion site, it looks like John Cow’s site is sold. 

John Cow, a par­ody of the famous John Chow blog, is sell­ing his blog (via Site­Point) at an (large) price of $25000, with an imme­di­ate pur­chase price of $50000. John Cow, while a par­ody, is still pretty pop­u­lar, so much so that it has become a rival to John Chow. Both are Search Engine Opti­mi­sa­tion experts, but gives a dif­fer­ent view­point on the subject.

What if… you had the money?

Great, if you have about $50000 to spare, you can pop it in and an extremely pop­u­lar blog is your’s. Of course, that is IF you even had $50000 to spare in the first place. John Cow’s blog has an earn­ing poten­tial of thou­sands a month (roughly the same amount a nor­mal job can give), which can eas­ily make up your “invest­ment” after a few years. With such a pop­u­lar blog, you can eas­ily pro­mote other stuff as well with ease.

Sales of such pop­u­lar sites are extremely rare, and the oppor­tu­nity should be seized.

Con­se­quences of takeover

Know­ing that no one can actu­ally replace John Cow’s writ­ing meth­ods, John Cow’s pop­u­lar­ity is bound to fall. How­ever, if the new owner is just as good (or bet­ter) than John Cow, the oppo­site may occur. John Cow, as a rep­utable source of SEO related mate­r­ial, would have to rebuild its rep­u­ta­tion again from scratch after the deal.

In addi­tion, what if the owner decides to develop some­thing totally dif­fer­ent from the orig­i­nal site? Remem­ber­ing once-popular Leap­fish, it’s a pity that it was wasted when it was sold, espe­cially when the new owner redi­rects the online appraisal tool to a real estate site which has totally no rela­tion at all. Traf­fic of Leap­fish undoubtly plum­meted to new lows.

Note: The auc­tion ends in a month’s time. Already there are some bid­ders, so you may want to save up if you really want that blog.

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