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Windows Live Writer is one of the most popular offline blogging software. This is rather unusual - with the exception of operating systems, most Microsoft products are either useless or have better competitors.

However, Windows Live Writer stands out as an exception. It is used by thousands of bloggers around the world. Being a Microsoft product, it uses the .Net framework cleverly and brings you some superb functionality. Notable features include offline editing and drafting, seamless integration into most blogging softwares (Blogger, WordPress, LiveJournal etc.).

John Chow has been penalised heavily by Google, for link-bombing. He is now far behind the first page for both “John Chow” and “Make Money Online” search terms. There’s also reports that Google will drop his PageRank from the 6 to 4, in the next PR update.

For several months now, John Chow had been aggressively pursuing a linkback campaign, where he would link to any blogger who writes a review of his blog, and links to him with the link text “Make Money Online”.