Google recently slapped PayPerPost bloggers with a PageRank of zero. It may had scared you of doing paid reviews or thinking about doing them. Some may disagree but I think it's a good thing for the whole paid review industry(1 Cool File included). Of course, I still feel for PayPerPost bloggers unlike some. If you don't know, I ordered/did many reviews months ago and I can write from the point of view of advertiser, reviewer and reader. First, here are some quick notes about each side: Advertiser When I ordered my first reviews for the MIS specification, I did not know how important was PageRank and so I did not care about backlinks and PR juice. I was a real advertisers seeking real reviews about it and PR or SEO was not my main focus. I was mistakenly using PR as a rating of the number of visitors a blog has. I know better now. Reviewer I don't do paid review much on my blog(only 2 reviews and those were months ago). Plus, I only did them for $5/each and like you can read, it's was not for the money then. The majority of my reviews are not even paid but I did them on my own. If I do have an offer, I would ask to be paid. Reader I prefer when it's mentioned that it is a paid review and I don't mind a blogger doing them. Any way to make money from a blog is good way. I don't like to read negative paid reviews because the blogger don't add nothing to make it better. A review should be constructive(paid or unpaid). If you want to do negative reviews, don't be paid for it. So, why you should do paid reviews? It's simple:
- make money
- discover new products/services for you and your readers
- improve your professional writing skills(French is my first language)
- Did I mentioned to make money? :D
Keywords: Blogging, Money, Ranking, Review