Making Money with your Blog - Paid Reviews
There are several venues that bloggers can pursue to make money by using their blog. Some programs even claim that they can help drive traffic to your blog and help with PageRank. Over the next couple of weeks, I’ll be posting different ways bloggers are making money with their blogs. One of the ways many bloggers are making money with their blogs is through paid reviews.
ReviewMe is one paid review service that allows bloggers to sign up and add up to six blogs to their system. Bloggers set the price for a review on their blog. Advertisers can search through blog listings and purchase blog reviews. Bloggers can either accept or decline the offer. If accepted, the blogger typically has at least 3 days to complete the review. ReviewMe requires disclosure, so on each review there should be a sentence like “This is a sponsored post.”
Another service that is a little different in structure is Sponsored Reviews. Bloggers review advertisers offerings and then place a bid on the project. The advertiser can then either accept, decline or make a counter offer. Advertisers set a price range for bids. The blogger can only bid as much as they have set their maximum for their blog, which Sponsored Reviews will give an estimate. Sponsored Reviews also requires disclosure.
There are many other paid blogging services on the Internet. While some do offer reviews as an option, I will discuss them in under the main topic that they belong in. While some readers accept paid posts as advertising and a way for the blogger to make money, some readers aren’t as forgiving of the intrusion of the paid posts. It’s important when doing a paid review that the content is a nice fit for the subject of your blog.
Paid reviews has its pros and cons. The extra income it can generate is surely appreciated by many but can possibly hurt the integrity of a blog. Be upfront with your readers about paid reviews and give honest reviews of products or services. Up next I’ll tell you about more paid blogging for creating buzz in the blogosphere.
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