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Review of New Paid Reviewing System
By Trevor | November 11, 2006
Note: The following is a paid review.
ReviewMe is a new service that offers bloggers an opportunity to receive paid offers from advertisers to review a Web site on their blog. I decided to give the service a try because there are some clear-cut rules that must be adhered to when a blogger accepts a paid review offer from an advertiser.
For instance, the review must be identified as a paid review. As you may see at the top of this post, there is no confusion that it is a paid review. However, advertisers are told up-front that they may not stipulate that a review be positive. That means that I’m free to review the site honestly and openly criticize a site as I see fit. I don’t see any problem with this kind of service when both of these guidelines are in place.
The real benefit to advertisers for this service is that rather than being placed as an ad on a site, your site will be linked as part of the “normal” content of the blog. That means that your Web site will show up in the RSS feed, for example, and the review of the site will likely be indexed by Google. The review will also contain a link to your site, and the backlink may provide a boost to your own page ranking at Google.
Based upon this site’s Technorati ranking and other criteria, the price that the site is asking for a paid review at Epigenetics News is US$60. The “ranking” of this site will be monitored over time and the price will be adjusted as needed.
ReviewMe will not accept all bloggers that apply, but right now they have set aside $25,000 to give to those that sign up, are accepted, and review their service on their blog. Link
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