Comments on: 5 reasons why you should do paid reviews

By: Hugo Santos

Hugo Santos — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:22:47 +0000

well, PPP requires that you disclose that it is a paid review, but you do not need to disclose in post or use a badge. just do a site wide disclosure like i do and you will be fine.

By: Sadek Jake

Sadek Jake — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:28:15 +0000

Yeah i liked the post. thanks, i am ito paid reviews too.

but one thing. Since PPP required bloggers to attach a PPP banner to each post, that is how google catches them right? so why do not they stop from asking bloggers to show the banners?

other third party sites do not require you to express that the review is sponsored, so no risk using those.

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By: Hugo Santos

Hugo Santos — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:30:24 +0000

well depends on the type of advertiser. there is the ones that use ppp or advertises that buy it directly. many reviews are made on no follow blogs, so the link juice issue doesn’t exist.

your idea of doing reviews of affiliate products is probably a better way of making money but why not use both?

By: Hugo Santos

Hugo Santos — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:26:07 +0000

well for now i will continue to do paid reviews from those companies. let’s see what happens on the next pr updadte

By: Hugo Santos

Hugo Santos — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:24:01 +0000

even now i get comments on paid reviews i have done. i have just accepted one this weekend

By: Frank C

Frank C — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 02:28:37 +0000

‘Advertisers’ pay for ‘reviews’ for one reason and one reason only, to get Grade A Google Juice from your site. They don’t care that you’re risking your Pagerank and search engine placement for peanuts. All they care about is that in-context link on your home page.

If you want to make money doing reviews, do reviews of affiliate products. Put your links in the review, use a good link building strategy and then you’ll make much more than what a paid review broker will pay you and you won’t put your Google position at risk either.

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By: SEO Bob

SEO Bob — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:12:43 +0000

You make some good points. No doubt the blog trend is helped along by paid reviews.

A compelling reason for me to do it is that it’s paid and that motivates you to write,which grows your blog.

By: Biho

Biho — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:38:44 +0000

I did it, I earned lot of money but my blogs’ PR slammed to zero (especially blogs that joined PPP), I have to buy new high PR domain to be monetized again.

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By: Agent 001

Agent 001 — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:56:45 +0000

Nice points my friend. I specially liked “4. Paid reviews may spark your comments on your blog” . I had never thought like that. I think I should give a try to paid reviews.

By: Hugo Santos

Hugo Santos — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:48:06 +0000

Thanks yan.
Even you don’t feel that you have enough experience you may try taking sponsored posts via third party sites like payperpost. There is no risk on doing that