Get Paid to Write Blog Review Posts
This is a follow-up post to my recent make money writing product reviews post. If you recall, an excellent way to make money online is to write product reviews and include your affiliate links within the review. This not only informs your readers and allows them to make an informed decision, but it helps you to gain trust and earn extra income.
Taking a different approach to this method is getting paid to write review posts. While the first method involves making money when someone clicks on your affiliate link and buys the product, this method allows you to get paid directly from writing the review.
Here’s what I mean…
Instead of relying on affiliate commissions to make money from your review posts, this way you’ll get paid either before or directly after you write the review. There are people and companies who pay bloggers to write reviews about websites and products.
Another difference is that you’ll only get paid one time, whereas the first method can provide a passive income if you keep building traffic to the posts. Is this good or bad? Well, it depends… mainly on how bad you need the money.
If you want some quick cash, then getting paid to write review posts is pretty easy to do. There are a number of sites that you can sign up with for free that will connect advertisers and bloggers.
Here are a few of them:
Don’t expect to make a huge amount of income with this. If you need a few extra bucks for this or that, then this is certainly a viable option. But, don’t plan on making this your only source of income from blogging or from the internet in general.
From what I’ve seen, if you hope to make a large amount of money from each review post that you write, then you’ll first need to build up your blog’s authority to a pretty high level. Most advertisers aren’t going to pay a whole lot for just a small-time blogger.
There are also certain guidelines that will have to be met when writing the review. Pay close attention to these when you get accepted for the review as you’ll want to follow them carefully.
Also, don’t forget about the big bad FTC and their new “guidelines” as well. You’ll want to state within the review, either beginning or end, that your post IS a review and that you were compensated for it. No need in getting in trouble (with a hefty fine) over a simple oversight while trying to make an honest living.
One last thing…
Be honest in your review. Just like the previous method, it’s always better to be honest, upfront and unbiased about the website/product you’re reviewing. If you’re not, people will see right through it, and you’ll ruin any sense of trust your readers had in you.
This method can be a bit controversial as there are some bloggers that feel you’re “selling out” if you get paid to write review posts.
What do you think?
Would you write a review post on your blog if you were paid for it? Why or why not?
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Twitter: DennisEdell
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Absolutely. I have and will, however I dunno if I’ll ever use those sites to do it.
I prefer the “private” side. Being contacted by product/site owners through my blog asking for reviews…you set your own prices and terms and Google frowns much less if at all like they do with those sites.
.-= Dennis Edell @ Direct Sales Marketing´s last blog ..DEDC Remains DoFollow – BUT… =-.
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Alan Mater
Twitter: AMater
@Dennis Edell @ Direct Sales Marketing,
That would be the ideal way to go about it. Only two of my review posts came in that fashion, but I didn’t get paid to write them. Perhaps someday I’ll be popular.
I have yet to actually write any review posts from these types of sites. Not sure if I will or not. I suppose if I was really desperate for money, then maybe. That’s pushing it, though.
Either way, I’m sure there’s people out there that would see this as a good opportunity to make money online with their blogs.
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Twitter: DennisEdell
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No one will come if you never advertise reviews.
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Alan Mater
Twitter: AMater
@Dennis Edell @ Direct Sales Marketing,
Ahh… aint that the truth.
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Dennis Edell from Direct Sales Marketing
Twitter: DennisEdell
@Alan Mater, Indeed. You’ve prioved that they do find you (cartoons) without promotion, right?
Imagine some promotion, even a little, like maybe just adding it to your advertising page…which I now also don’t see. lol
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Alan Mater
Twitter: AMater
@Dennis Edell @ Direct Sales Marketing, Right, lol.
Guess you didn’t look hard enough.
I do actually have an advertise page (located top-right), and I might just use your suggestion and ad reviews into it. Thanks!
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Dennis Edell from Direct Sales Marketing
Twitter: DennisEdell
@Alan Mater, Top right of what, the homepage? I never see it, sorry. lol
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Alan Mater
Twitter: AMater
@Dennis Edell @ Direct Sales Marketing, Nope… top-right of the blog. Clear at the top of the page where it says “Advertising”… LOL.
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Hi, I never thought about that thanks for sharing with us this idea!
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Alan Mater
Twitter: AMater
@Nick@Online Opportunities, Glad I could help, Nick!
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Twitter: DennisEdell
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The top right is empty white space for me, dunno why.
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Alan Mater
Twitter: AMater
@Dennis Edell @ Direct Sales Marketing,
So… you don’t see the black strip in the banner? I have “Home,” “About Alan” and “Advertise,” all within that black strip on the right.
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Twitter: DennisEdell
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The whole banner, strip and all ends about half way across the RSS box under it…no links
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Alan Mater
Twitter: AMater
@Dennis Edell @ Direct Sales Marketing, That’s very odd. I’m going to send you a picture shortly as to what it should look like.
What browser are you using? Maybe try a different one?
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Twitter: clickonportal
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I think for the most part it’s not really worth the trouble spending time to write for pennies and messing up your blog theme. But, if you’re lucky and someone sees your good review of a product, you might get the REAL offers from then. So it’s good to start with pennies too as you build a name.
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Hi there Alan, I think that joining get paid to blog programs is not really worth it because Uncle G sees it as link selling or am I wrong? By the way first time here and I have a good time reading.
By the way thanks for the commentluv. I took advantage of it and put my keyword. Keep it up mate.
Cheers!
.-= Paid Programs´s last blog ..Get Paid to Blog =-.
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Alan Mater
Twitter: AMater
@Paid Programs,
I really don’t know where things stand regarding paid review posts and the Big G. I can’t imagine it would be much different than selling a link outright on your blog, whether it’s within a post or not. I think some methods of how you go about it are better than others, but I’m not the best person to provide factual information about this.
Glad you’re enjoying your time here, and I hope you stick around!
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Well, my personal favorite is using PayPerPost. I am currently earning $40 a month on there. I know it isn’t much but what can I say – I started about two months ago.
It’s a great way to earn some extra change. I think I want to try ReviewMe though. Is it difficult to get your site accepted there or are there any particular requirements I should know about before applying?
Thanks for this informative article, it really helped me.
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Alan Mater
Twitter: AMater
@Adrianne,
Great to hear. You’re doing well for only starting two months ago. $40 a month is nothing to be ashamed about.
I honestly don’t remember how hard it is to get approved or what requirements there are for ReviewMe. It’s been years ago since I registered with them. I’m sure you won’t have any trouble, though.
Thanks for commenting.
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Twitter: jakewidmer
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Yes I agree that this method can produce decent income but I have always said that if you can write good reviews, then why not make an actual affiliate site and earn passive income! Great post!
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Alan Mater
Twitter: AMater
@The Traffic Bandits Review,
Agreed. For some this may be a viable option if they need some quick cash in their pockets.
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Twitter: dimancheg
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Hi Alan!
I think that review posts for money is not the best way to get closer with your readers. They always feel when it’s rewie for the money.
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Alan Mater
Twitter: AMater
@David@ipad app development,
I would agree. You definitely wouldn’t want to be posting a lot of paid reviews often. Your readers would most likely get annoyed and leave… I know I would. Once in a while might not be bad as long as you have plenty of valuable and useful content in between.
I guess it depends on how bad you need the money?
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David from ipad app development
Twitter: dimancheg
@Alan Mater,
I think it mostly depends on the greed of the author.
If we are talking about the blog, then readers and visitors must be on the first place. And money on the second. It is my personal oppinion.
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I was using paying reviews few times, and I am happy with this texts.
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Lots of bloggers writes product reviews and most of the time I feel that they describe the products and services much better, also, a review is more detailed than a short specification. Besides delivering quality content to the readers the bloggers also get traffic so this is another very important method.
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Alan Mater
Twitter: AMater
@Brian@denver condos,
Exactly. It’s a win-win for the blogger and the reader.
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