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Most of the reasons for being deindexed is just pure speculation.

Google is a successful business. Why would they shoot themselves in the foot and deindex other businesses that help them further?

They'd only do it, if its going to have a bad impact on them. The quality is so bad, the association is going to have a negative impact in the eyes of the visitor. Or there is something in the site that may lead to legal disputes.

I just personally do not feel that John is a liar, but each to their own.

I'm actually genuinely interested to know what makes you feel so convinced he is lying?

It's good to be skeptical about a lot of things, but outright refusal to believe something is another thing altogether - especially if you're prepared to accuse someone outright of making up false claims or lies.

I'm not trying to start a my word against your word argument here, and I have no incentive to defend Johns/XFactors method, but I will say this:

I'm seeing good success in following many of his strategies. I don't follow them to the tee anymore (although I did for a time), but it worked when I did, and it worked when I didn't.

His theme outline works well for attracting clicks. I deviated from it at first and my CTR was around 5%. After making a theme more like the one he presented, my CTR went well into double figures.

If he simply made that theme up and has never really made any money with Adsense whilst using it, how would he know it works so well?

If he doesn't practice basic SEO (onsite and backlinking) then how would he know it works? And it does work. Even his method of submitting a ton of articles to EZA works well providing they get republished. But it takes you submitting TONs of articles EVERY day to be able to bank on getting a good enough portion of them republished enough for a decent amount of backlinks across a diverse range of IPs/domains.

If you're only submitting an article here or an article there (or sometimes a ton of articles at once), they get overlooked, skipped over, and they don't get republished and you don't get the number of backlinks you need for good rankings.

Are you disputing that it doesn't work? Have you tried it properly or did you try to take shortcuts?

I tried it, and it worked. But it's a lot of work, and I know of easier ways to rank that don't involve writing 25 articles per day. So now I use those, and I see the same results just with a different degree of effort expenditure, and using a different strategy.

Basically, what he teaches does work. It's basic SEO. How can it not?

Again, no-one can prove exactly how much he earns or whether he earns anything at all. But his strategy can and does work.

As does pretty much every other strategy if you follow it consistently enough...

In the end, it just takes work. It's a simple system, but it's not easy. It's not easy because it does involve a lot of work. A lot of writing (even if you're only writing your onsite content and not content/articles for backlinks), and putting in a lot of work before you can even rank well enough to earn money (which might take days, weeks or even months) is not something that most people are accustomed to.

Most people are accustomed to doing a weeks work for a weeks pay. Not a weeks work for a few cents or a dollar (at first). Or a weeks work only to find out the keyword is a dud or the competition is too strong for their liking.

My point is basically that sure, we cannot prove (since we have no evidence) Johns earnings claims are true.

But you cannot feasibly dispute that his overall strategy is sincerely flawed to the point it flat out doesn't work. It does, but most people don't work it properly, nor do they work properly any other strategy they choose.

Most people aren't dedicated enough to make his strategy work since they dont write enough articles. Most people aren't technically clued up enough to be able to effectively deviate from his strategy in parts and still make a success of it neither.

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