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Lately I’ve been using Sponsored Reviews to make money online. I know that before I have talked about cutting out the middle man - and for good reasons. By cutting out the middle man you have to have to follow another site’s rules on the reviews you write while they take a cut of your pay. So instead, you should also offer private advertising opportunities on your blog, and let people pay you directly via Paypal. That way your advertisers save some money and you get 100% of the profits, while setting your own rules and prices.
However, there’s one problem with that. You’re missing the marketplace. Most sites that manage paid reviews have a marketplace so advertisers can find you. By running the advertising privately, you don’t have that exposure. I can’t stress enough that you shouldn’t put all your eggs in one basket, so instead, run your own advertising and sign up on the paid review sites as well.
And in my opinion, Sponsored Reviews is the one to sign up for. They have a wonderful marketplace - the advertisers can find you and you can find potential advertisers as well. Sponsored Reviews has a great system to rate a site’s quality, and you choose your own price. Then you can bid on opportunities to write about.
Even though Sponsored Reviews takes 35% of the cut (which is better than ReviewMe’s 50% share), I still make more off reviews there than I could selling them privately here, even after Sponsored Reviews takes their chunk of the earnings. That’s all thanks to the marketplace, and the way they rank the sites in the system.
And if you manage to have your blog rank five stars - or checkmarks in this case - which is a very easy thing to do, then Ben at Blogging Experiment has shared his way of earning hundreds of extra dollars. It’s bold, but it’s a pretty easy thing to do and could actually turn out making your income rise through the roof without any extra work.
As an added bonus, you could even draw in plenty of traffic for your reviews. After reviewing Credit Karma, I was on the first page of Google for the term for a while, and got a lot of visitors that were trying to read up on their service. If you write an excellent review, it could do well in search engines and bring you tons of traffic in the long-term.
Out of all the paid review sites including PayPerPost, ReviewMe, Smorty, and others, Sponsored Reviews is my favorite. They’ve definitely proven to be the most profitable for me and it looks like my income from them will continue to only go up. I completely recommend them if your income needs a boost, because it’s incredibly easy to make more money than you would otherwise.
You can sign up now if you like, or go ahead and ask any questions you’d like in the comments. I would feel free to help you learn how to maximize your earnings from Sponsored Reviews, or just how to sign up or use the system in general.
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SponsoredReviews is new to me. I do use a few of the other review sites. I currently use PayPerPost but most people there seem to offer less than the minimum so I turn down a lot of offers from there. That’s a bit of a pain.I just started with Smorty in the last few days.I like to call my wife each time I get paid for a review and we use that money to go out on dates, even though we have been married for 25 years. I am a bit of a chef and we eat great meals but periodically we enjoy going to a few high priced restaurants to check out what’s new.
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I’ve been signed up with them a while Here are some?problems I’ve seen?with them.
1. Too many advertisers are looking buy?a PR boost rather than an actual real review. Many of them request that you don’t disclose and, believe me, Google’s army of cappuccino swilling Wii playing young engineers?and their algorithms certainly knows their advertising, ie link buying,?strategy.
2. Doing reviews, even if paid reviews are nofollowed,?will get you Google slapped. That’s why OpTempo’s PR is 0 even though every paid review is nofollowed.
3. Advertisers take their sweet time about approving bids. I’ve had almost 20 review bids?expire.
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I do think their system is good but it does have a few warts.
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I solved the no marketplace problem by creating my own solution for my fellow bloggers. Using 1 Cool File, you can enter your price for the review. I have a field just for that.
It’s a blog directory/marketplace too. You can add your blog for free or pay a small fee to get a few more features. And you can still use the other services if an advertiser insist on it or use my escrow services. Frank: Did you ask for Google to reexamine your blog? Like you said, using nofollow is their way and they should follow their own rules too.I would not take PR reviews anyway. It’s reviews not post I do.
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Thanks for the mention but my blog is Blogging Experiment not Blogging Fingers (although that’s a good blog as well).I couldn’t agree with you more about missing out on the marketplace. I’ve received some reviews via my site but I wouldn’t have made nearly as much without SR. Also, I love the fact that they let you bid on opportunities without having to wait for people to buy from you.
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Paid posts seem like a way to make some good money. But I agree that unless you have a great site to begin with, getting someone to pay for a review is slim to none.
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One thing I wish SR would implement is a minimum payout to bloggers or perhaps I should say raise their current minimum.The lowest I’ve seen advertisers go is $5, but when SR takes their cut, you get about $3.25, I think it is. I don’t know, maybe I’m greedy, but doing a post for that little just doesn’t seem worth it.Nice review, Tay.
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@James Mann,
That’s sweet that you and your wife go on dinner dates with the money sponsored reviews earns you! If you decide to try out SponsoredReviews.com as well, I wish you the best of the luck. It’s proved to be great for me so far.
@Frank C,
I’m sorry to hear about your PageRank problems. If it’s gone unnoticed, Super Blogging was slapped to a PR0 as well. I’ve been debating what to do about it, and my choices are selling everything nofollow and not doing anymore reviews then submitting for reconsideration, or just keep making money. Google has so much power. I agree, SR does have their problems, but what doesn’t? Out of all the paid review sites, it remains my favorite.
@Ben Cook,
Sorry for the mistake, sometimes my brain temporarily stops working altogether! It’s been corrected. As for SR, I love that we can bid on ads as well. That’s how I’ve made most of my money, actually. It’s fantastic.
@Mark,
Thanks! And I agree with you completely. You’re not greedy, $3.25 for a review isn’t quite worth it in my book, not even for smaller sites. While SR doesn’t take as huge of a cut as some, the payout is still pretty low when the offered amount is that low as well.
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I wonder what is the min requirement those companies have for a blog to be accepted into a program. What is it? PR? number of posts? Number of indexed by google pages?Thanks.
@Nikolai,
There’s not really a minimum requirement, but more like a very reasonable set of points your blog must have to be considered quality. They show you the requirements when you sign up, but here are some of them:
Your blog must be at least 3 months old.
Your blog must contain at least 10 non-paid posts.
Your blog must maintain a ratio of 2:1 non-paid to paid content.
And blogs with extremely little traffic or links are rejected.
Those are basically the rules you must maintain to be accepted. There are a few more, but basically apply to the reviews you write, like not rudely insulting advertisers or not writing the reviews you accept, etc.
I think the requirements are very reasonable. Good luck!