Michael Kwan has an article at John Chow dot com about Zorg Links - where you can pay to be included in the index of a site that is famous (PageRank 5) because people have to pay to be included.
HumaneIA is PageRank 4 - should I charge for links on it too? Would anyone buy them? The top ranking link on Zorg-Links currently costs $1460.00 - I am guessing that these are US dollars (which, while a little devalued, are still worth enought that I have to question why someone would pay this much for a link). I could get a link from John Chow himself for the $400.00 it costs for a ReviewMe review, or ten links from less popular bloggers for $200.00. Or buy a heap of domains for $6.95 each and add Blogspot blogs to them, and write a little content for each.
Does Zorg-Links make sense to you? If it does, please explain it to me 
Here’s my answer - and I will share it with the world for free - write truly remarkable content, let people know about it, and people will link to it. It works for me.
Even $400 for a link on john chows site sounds like a lot of money to me! I wonder what it’s really worth, I mean all the “john chow effect” hype aside.
Hi pickles,
thanks for your comment.
I wouldn’t pay that much for a link either - from John or anyone else. Some of John’s ReviewMe reviews are guestblogged now - I wonder if he’ll turn the whole thing over to guestbloggers and just rake in the cash
There was a survey a couple of months back - Lucia showed that most of the sites that received the John Chow Effect folded within six months.
Cheers, Andrew