John Chow Dot Com has fast become one of my favourite blog reads in the morning, and his blog is the subject of the first of my Featured Bloggers series.

John Chow is a self-titled Dot Com mogul, and uses this blog as a repository of his ‘miscellaneous ramblings’. This means that you get treated to daily posts on subjects as diverse as how to increase traffic to your blog, to pictures of him lining up a putt behind (a wax) Tiger Woods, to his experiences at CES 2007.

The blog is full of useful tips for your own blog, ranging from technical to ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’, and I have utilised several of them to good effect, both here and on my Thermal blog - a recent success there being the ‘Top Commentators’ plugin, which appears to have sent people into a frenzy of commenting!

The blog itself is a very clean, easy to read WP template, with a great photo of one of Johns cars across the top. A clear, well set-out sidebar makes navigation easy, and you soon find yourself clicking on ‘just one more post’ thanks to the good use of plugins and links. I shall definitely install the ‘related posts’ plugin here, as soon as their server is up again. John has stated that English is not his first language - this is incredible when you read the blog, and proof if you needed it, that correct spelling & grammar are essential to a successful blog. John’s writing style is very chatty and warm, and you get the impression he is talking to YOU, not just to hear the sound of his own voice.

John started out in the Dot Com world 8 years ago with a site called The TechZone, which now achieves something in the order of 200,000 page views per day. This, together with his updates on blog income show John is a man to listen to.

Should you read John Chow Dot Com? Only if you want to learn something, and share in the enjoyment he gets out of it. Definitely one to subscribe to.

A little disclosure: John has offered some link love to anyone reviewing his blog - while that will be nice, I’d have written this anyway, as part of my series on the featured bloggers blogroll. Still, heres another blogging lesson-never say no the chance of a good link!