Review Me!

Its time to try something new! As a lot of you know, I’ve had to buy additional bandwidth several times over the last few months, and I do not have a paying job. To compensate, I’ve started carrying some serious advertising on this site. The Amazon account pays per item sold, and the Google Ads pay per click. At the rate I am going, neither one will buy me a month’s worth of bandwidth for at least a year.

So I was intrigued when I saw Review Me explained over at Neatorama. You may be familiar with the idea of pay-per-post, where advertisers pay bloggers to write about their products. I’ve known some who did this occasionally, but they didn’t stick with it, because they were pressured to write favorable reviews of unfavorable products. Review Me is a new program that does pay-per-post, but does not require favorable reviews. In fact, I am getting paid for this review of the program! I should earn enough to pay for a month’s bandwidth bill. The pay scale corresponds to a blog’s Technorati/Alexa rankings, which may go up or down over time. The only small gripe I have so far is that they don't have a category for humor blogs, so I signed up as an "entertainment" blog, which makes you think of celebrity gossip. Oh well.

From what I’ve read so far about Review Me, its a way to connect advertisers and bloggers. If you want to advertise a product, you sign up with Review Me and you get to pick which blogs will review your product. The price depends on the blog’s ranking, so an advertiser with a limited budget can still participate one way or another. The blogger gets to accept or reject any project offered. I will let you know from time to time how the program is going for me. Meanwhile, if you have a blog, you can sign up to do product review, too! And if you have a product to sell, you should check out what they can offer you. The more blogs that sign up, the more choice an advertiser has. I hope (for my own sake) that it becomes a successful program.

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Comments

[LBB]

Holy cow that sounds cool.

[Mike Ashley]

Sounds like an interesting concept. Good luck with it.

[actor212]

So does the fact that you link to Review Me five or six times mean that you reviewed "Review Me"?

[Miss Cellania]

Excuse me for not being obvious enough. Yes.

[bob]

Great. The blogosphere slides further down the slipper slope of 'advertisement hell.'

As if there aren't enough ads on the internet already.

[Colleen]

I'm registered there as well. What are your throughts on Blogitive at http://www.blogitive.com ? I've be interested in hearing what you think of it. They're really ramping up now and putting the call our for bloggers. If you're not registered, use me as a referral - colleen_cc@yahoo.com