Paid Reviews or Paid Posts | Reviewers Get Money | You Get Traffic
Paid reviews are something relatively new for building traffic and getting backlinks. But I think they are a great way to do both. Plus, they are also an opportunity for bloggers to make extra money writing blog posts that review sites, pages, products or services. But for our purposes today, this is about the benefits of buying these reviews, and the service that I use is called Sponsored Reviews.
Sponsored Reviews Paid Posts
Here’s how Sponsored Reviews works:
Actually, the best explanation I’ve seen is the one on their website. It says…[this is] is a blog advertising network that allows you to build links, increase traffic, and improve search engine rankings on your website(s). We have tens of thousands of independent bloggers who will write blog reviews about your site on their blog. Also referred to as Paid Posts, blog reviews are a great way to increase your search engine rankings and traffic.
The most recent time I used this service for a client, I submitted his website to their bloggers. I asked for minimum 200 word blog posts with a link. I got hundreds of quotes running anywhere from $20 for blog posts on PageRank 3 blogs to $5 for blog posts on PageRank zero blogs. I’ve always believed that if I’m going to pay for links, they should be good quality links. So I always buy the $20 dollar paid reviews.
When you consider how hard it is to get a PR 3 link from related content, $20 is a pretty cheap price and worth every penny.
Here’s the link to Sponsored Reviews if you want to check them out.
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3 Comments
April 21st, 2011 at 6:38 am
Wow! It looks like I’ve been far out of the online writing loop. I’d never heard of Sponsored Reviews.
I’m a published author. (I’ve been on Amazon’s Top 10 lists in my niches for many years.) I’ve also written content for websites since the mid-1990s.
Lately, reviews are among my favorite article topics. In many cases, I’ve been happy to write brief product reviews in exchange for free review copies. (Of course, the author/manufacturer has no guarantee that it’ll be a favorable review. My reviews are entirely honest… no exceptions, at any price.)
So, I’m happy to discover a site where I may connect with people who want reviews and might pay a fee as well. I have several websites suited to reviews in particular niches, and I’m always interested in recommending cool, interesting products to my readers.
Mostly, I’m posting this so your readers can better understand how a writer/reviewer thinks.
In a nutshell, good reviewers protect their reputations and their integrity. To write a favorable review with my name on it, and appear at one of my established websites, I have to actually read (or use) the product and truly like it.
That said, I know I’m unusual in that respect. Frankly, if it’s a week when a reviewer is scrambling to pay for a big-ticket home improvement, or if the reviewer has fewer scruples than I do, I suppose you could buy a favorable review.
The long-term cost of the latter can be an unacceptable risk for reviewers. In my case, my sites have high PR because I have many loyal readers. I’ll lose that loyalty (and my PR) if I start recommending products that disappoint my readers.
However, it can also be a risk for the person selling the product. If your product is reviewed on a website that’s clearly posting reviews for pay… well, whether or not Google sees it as a “bad neighborhood,” there is some risk (not necessarily a big risk) that people will remember seeing your product at a spammy website.
That’s my two cents, which may be all they’re worth!
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