Paid Reviews, Are They Worth It?
Hey guys, Enkay is finally back after being bogged down with school for the past few days. I still have exams coming up but since I get a little time off I figured I would get the ball rolling. So, most of you are familiar with ReviewMe, Sponsored Reviews and PayPerPost. If you are new to blogging then its important to understand how these services work.
How Do These Work?
The basic idea is that you are “paid” or “sponsored” by an advertiser to write a blog post about their product, service or website. Sometimes you may be required to write only about the benefits but other times you can write a full critique. According to me a full critique is the best way to go for an advertiser because they can find out what they are doing right as well as what they are doing wrong so they can improve upon the negatives.
Are They Worth It?
Paid reviews can be a great source of income for your blog and if you remember they contributed a large part of my income during my first couple months blogging however, over time I realized that reviewing products or services that were not related to the theme of my blog were not a good way to keep readers interested. If you ever decide to sign up for ReviewMe, PayPerPost or SponsoredReviews you need to remember that if you are a start up that it may not be the best idea to talk about unrelated topics.
One of the mistakes I made was to accept reviews that were unrelated to the theme of my blog and even though I received payments for these reviews, I was unable to acquire new readers and that wasn’t helping my blog in the long run. So hopefully you can learn from my mistakes and know that reviewing other blogs or products/services related to blogging are probably what will help you the most as you can connect to your readers and give them something they want to read about.
Hopefully you see that being paid for a review is one thing but using that review to your advantage to gain readers is another. Hopefully you will take my advice and if you guys have any questions or need help just leave me a comment and ill get back to you.
Thank you!
I want to thank everyone who supported me during my 3 days of hiatus from blogging due to school work. Thank you to TheKingKongBlog, Adsense Tracker, Simon, RomanDock & Blogging The Movie. Here is a video that will help you relieve your stress in case you are dealing with work-filled days!
they can be good for a newbie blogger as it’s a good source of income and can pay for the domain name and server etc.
Newbie bloggers can’t always receive paid review orders. It can be hard since your blog doesn’t have a lot of benefits that would make an advertiser want to advertise on your blog. Usually this is the case when you start a new blog.
I agree that it’s probably not beneficial to do paid reviews if they don’t fit into your content area. In fact, I recently turned down the first paid review offer I ever received for this very reason!
Enkay, you never told us you were an actor
just playin!
its all good playa!
I have signed up to a couple of paid review websites but have not yet written any. There just havent been any that would fit my blog.
Depends on your definition of Worth It. Last month I made $2,500 on macewan.org from PayPerPost alone. That marked my 3rd month trying to make money from my blog so I guess in that sense makes me a newbie, but I was starting with a PR6 so that gave me a leg up and access to the better opportunities.
Shoutout to simon
thanks for recommending I check this site out.
You definitely have a great site and I have seen your ads on JohnChow and ofcourse JohnCow too. I really appreciate you stopping by! Your blog is definitely worth a lot more than a couple grand.