Earlier on my blog, I wrote a post about how to make money online with paid blogging networks. But in today’s post, I’m going to talk about how one can make money online doing paid reviews on their own behalf with its positives and negatives. But to get some paid review opportunities coming your way, you need a blog having some authority, page rank or Alexa rankings and should focus about a particular niche.
Why one need paid reviews
Advertisers need to promote their products and services on the internet. And they find it quite easy and fast promoting their services through blogs by getting some form of paid review on some of leading blogs in their niche. This way advertisers are able to spread some positive words, links and traffic for their websites. And in return, bloggers are able to make some fast money doing little work from their end.
There are lots of people who actually love to check people views and reviews about a particular product or services before buying or subscribing it. And advertisers are able to attract and actually convert these people into their customers by getting some positive reviews and even unbiased reviews from the bloggers about their services. So this way, advertisers are able to get more business and more trust among their website visitors by spending some money on getting paid reviews on top blogs that writes about the services or products they actually deal in.
When advertisers approach bloggers for paid posts on their blogs, they generally ask bloggers to write about their services and ask them to give some keyword based dofollow links for their website home page and internal pages.
How paid reviews benefit bloggers
Sponsored review or paid reviews (get paid to blog) are the easiest and quickest way most bloggers use to make money from their blogs. There are some bloggers who are able to make even thousands of dollars per month through paid reviews only. And the amount of efforts and time needed to complete these paid tasks are very low. There are some bloggers in the money making and blogging niche who actually charge as much as $500 for doing a paid review about a website. But in general, bloggers are able to earn from $10 to $50 on an average from a paid blogging opportunity, they are paid directly from the advertiser for writing paid post on their blogs. And this amount reduces in the range from $5 to $20 or so if you are using paid blogging networks to gets extra money making opportunities.
List of some blogs with their paid review rates
- JohnChow.com – charge $500 for a review
- TylerCruz.com – get paid review for $250
- CourtneyTuttle.com – take $200 per review
- GatherSuccess.com – $200 for a paid post
- Whydowork.com – charge $200 per sponsored review
- Googlelady.com – $200 per paid review
- Solidblogger.com – Charge between $100 to $500
- Xfep.com – $150 USD for Single post
- MoneyMakerInfo – $125 per review post
- ScopeForMoney.com – charges $50 per review
Negative side for bloggers
On some occasions we become so greedy about the money that we start writing about anything that comes our way or when someone offers some good amount of money for a review. In that case, we are taking the risk of losing our royal readers to our blog because we are posting something which is no way in their interest. So our intention should be going paid posts about such services only that fall someway within our blog readers’ interest and kind of websites we generally cover on our blogs.
Another problem that we may face is from Google. If Google feels that we are doing any kind of paid reviews or giving away dofollow links on our blogs to the advertisers website, we are having the risk of getting some kind of penalty from Google. That might come to us in the form of reduction in the page rank or reduction in the organic rankings or removing your blog from Google index. So it is in bloggers interest to include nofollow links to the advertiser website if you are doing paid review for an advertiser website. Another thing that we should do is fully disclose that this is a sponsored or paid review.
But there will be no advertiser who will be willing to pay you any money for giving nofollow and for disclosing it’s a paid review.
Conclusion
You should decide your goals that are attached with your blog before going for a paid review. If your aim is just to make some quick cash from your blog, go ahead with whatever advertiser asks you or you love doing. And in case, you are aiming at building a big business around your blog, skip paid reviews, at least those no way related to your industry.
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This is really a good advice regarding making money with your blog doing paid reviews. You can actually start a separate blog which is purposely just for taking reviews while maintaining your flagship blog.
I remember the days when it was easy to make money blogging! Write some keyword based content, add some affiliate links and a banner and hey presto, money!
It’s a shame products like blogging to the bank bought the idea to the masses ad ruined it for the few (at the time) that were capitalising on it!
Oh well there are plenty of newer methods out there. One I’m doing well with at the moment is http://www.mogulmedia.org
John Chow is a nobody. I am not paying $500 for his stupid review.
Thank u so so much for sharing these, I’ve got several enquiries & I’m in a fix on whether how much $ to charge my advertisers. Now that I’m clearer Thanks again. it really does helps a lot.