Comments on: Alex, I’ll choose 5 reviews for $200 please…

By: munaeem

munaeem — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:17:47 +0000

It’s probably cheaper and more efficient to buy a couple PR4 reviews than hire an SEO expert for a couple of hours for some link building.

Absolutely right.

Very informative post.

By: seo grand

seo grand — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:17:22 +0000

Such posts will possibly affect on Google PR, but will not raise a site in search. Therefore 5 reviews for $200 it’s not cheap

By: Todd Harrison - LA Headshot Photography

Todd Harrison - LA Headshot Photography — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 06:35:23 +0000

I have to agree I think this type of trend will work better and give the blogger some motive to review your site. and you both make some money!

By: Jon Cardozo - how to gain muscle

Jon Cardozo - how to gain muscle — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:34:47 +0000

Things will probably be changing soon. In the long run readers won’t stay around if all they see is reviews. You have to give them a reason to come back.

By: electronic motor scooter

electronic motor scooter — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:50:13 +0000

interesting article..made good reading.!!

By: google assassin

google assassin — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:04:15 +0000

It’s always better when you contact the owner of the blog, most of the times you can get amazing deals. Why go through the middleman after all. Say you want a backlink, just email the owner and either do a links exchange or just buy a link at their blogroll. Works great for me anyway.

By: Hys

Hys — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:25:07 +0000

I think it’s just for the SEO benefit. Readers will see the difference between a real review and a sponsorred one. A while a go we did a test on a blog with payed reviews. We reviewed a product and said it was very bad. Had a good laugh with that one.

By: domeinregistratie

domeinregistratie — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:45:28 +0000

Can not say which one will be more effective from sales point of view. It’s a split decision. Each has it’s own (dis)advantages.

By: CS315 UNAS

CS315 UNAS — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:11:32 +0000

I know this article is a bit old, but I agree with you. This trend certainly can’t last. I can’t argue with bloggers wanting to make some cash, but this is getting kinda silly. In fact, they could probably make more money with a little creativity.

By: g00db0y

g00db0y — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:57:30 +0000

In my opinion, the purpose of blog to exist is to share knowledge and experiences of the blogger, something useful and beneficial. Not just reviews and reviews and reviews…

By: g00db0y

g00db0y — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:23:16 +0000

It’s really distract me from looking as a good blog. Well, it’s ok to advertise but please don’t over do it. It might drive the reader / visitor away instead of catching them.

By: Muhabbet

Muhabbet — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 01:02:45 +0000

interesting article.. Good.

By: Jason Pearson

Jason Pearson — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:42:03 +0000

This post was really informative! Thank you!
I really like your blog and am disappointed to see you haven’t posted since last year. Please keep posting and I will be back!

By: Online Traffic Formula

Online Traffic Formula — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:56:46 +0000

Yeah, I must agree with Jason Pearson. It’s too bad you haven’t posted since. I do anticipate that you would continue posting though!

By: Katir

Katir — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:24:34 +0000

I mean all that seem to matter now in blogging is how to make more money, even if it means paying for reviews.

By: seobrandmedia

seobrandmedia — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:49:39 +0000

“What are your thoughts? Are you making good money through blog reviews? Better yet, for the advertisers, are your sales increasing directly from the reviews, or more from the link-building SEO benefits?”

It benefits you both, it makes you a reliable source of information by reviewing blogs, it also makes you fairly popular. On the SEO part, it also helps in link building.

By: Usernext

Usernext — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:58:09 +0000

yeah you can sure get good money within blog rewievs

By: myLoupe

myLoupe — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:16:12 +0000

I don’t mind sponsored reviews if it’s for a smaller site that really needs the finances, but big sites just shouldn’t do it. I don’t see the point in even having a blog if you’re going to have 80% of it be sponsored reviews like you said. I really don’t even see why companies would pay decent money for someone who mainly does sponsored reviews. People will definitely stop going to the site once they catch on and realize it’s all garbage.

By: Santorin Freak

Santorin Freak — Wed, 21 May 2008 12:51:53 +0000

it is not easy to find a well blog which has intresting themes its a big problem

By: rife machine

rife machine — Sat, 24 May 2008 07:31:14 +0000

Paid reviews are ridiculous - everybody knows what they are and so do the search engines. Expect penalties for them soon. Every tactic that attempts to skirt the system like this is doomed to failure.

By: Instant Messanger

Instant Messanger — Mon, 26 May 2008 10:02:36 +0000

It is annoying you are ridgt. But is a powerful marketing strategy. And a good way to moneterise your blog

By: Funny t shirts

Funny t shirts — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:40:20 +0000

I think Rife Machine is right. I can see some penalty situations arise on them in the future such as page rank drop. Not a big fan of them however, kudos to the blogger who can still make a living today any way they can. And if people still come to the site and want to skip thru the bs to get to the original post then great. Traffic is key.

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İlahi Dinle — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:56:35 +0000

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By: Barter Guru

Barter Guru — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:16:39 +0000

Is there any software that can teach you to link building so we can save money and still have the positive outcome?

By: Adult Ühler

Adult Ühler — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:25:20 +0000

I totally disagree with SEO Grand, I have a friend who offers SEO consulting and all he does is tell client’s how to use Sponsored Reviews and all the clients rank and have been doing so for some time.

By: coloring pages to print

coloring pages to print — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:21:48 +0000

Sponsored reviews aren’t a terrible idea. They are a not-very-good idea, poorly executed. People end up whoring out their reputations (because they’ll say ANYTHING for money) instead of actually trying the product and presenting a review. The former has ZERO value, while the latter could have significant value.

By: Juliet

Juliet — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:48:57 +0000

Hey, great article! Congrats.

By: Michele Antionette

Michele Antionette — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:30:21 +0000

It may not be a perfect situation but it allows everyday people to use their creative juices in a positive way I believe. Plus it allows individuals to make some extra money and still be doing something worth while in the process. These economic times are only going to spur more interest in these types of programs. But that is only my opinion.

Michele

By: bitpazar

bitpazar — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:34:51 +0000

By: Nikki

Nikki — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:52:21 +0000

If you are seeing that many paid posts per unpaid posts then those bloggers are violating the terms of service of the companies that are paying them. They are supposed to have each paid post sandwiched between unpaid posts. Perhaps the unpaid posts are still showing links to the bloggers favorite products and you can’t tell which are paid and which are unpaid?

By: Redfruitoils

Redfruitoils — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:23:51 +0000

To be honest.. paid reviews really make your blog look ugly. Specially when there are people who take every sort of paid review they can, even if it is totally opposite of the niche they write about!

By: entrepreneur blog

entrepreneur blog — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:21:19 +0000

I’ve been through all of this paid posting stuff quite a few times. While it is definitely good for some extra pocket money each month, I would not really recommend you doing it if you had a professional blog targeted at webmasters or something of the sort

By: Dr Saxe

Dr Saxe — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 03:31:10 +0000

Very interesting to read the comments that have come about concerning the issue of blogging for money. I think that any way you can make some money these days, legally of course, is just another way to help make ends meet in these screwed up economic times.