Scoreboard Media Group, Internet Audience Development

The following is a sponsored review:

I mentioned before that Aaron Wall of SEOBook and Andy Hagans were collaborating on a new sponsored blogging business, ReviewMe, that solved a lot of the problems I had with PayPerPost.  Well, ReviewMe went live and, so far, I’m really impressed.  Let’s look at how ReviewMe works.

1.  Head over to ReviewMe.  If you are looking to get paid blogging about products, register here.  If you are looking to advertise your product by sponsoring bloggers, head over here.  For the sake of this post, we’ll only go through the process as a blogger (although I do plan to sign on as an Advertiser, too).

2.  From there, you’ll be asked to enter basic information about yourself (Name, Address, PayPal addy, etc) in establishing your ReviewMe account.

3.  Next up is the process of submitting your blog(s).  That’s right, “blogs”.  You can have up to 6 blogs in your ReviewMe account.  The approval process takes into consideration various indicators of your blog’s traffic and quality.  Some of these include Alexa rank and the number of blog subscribers. 

4.  If approved, you will see your blog’s rating and pay rate.  For this blog, I get $30 for every review:

So, for this blog, I’m going to need to do about…umm…oh, 33,334 reviews to make a million dollars with ReviewMe.  I’m not scared.

5.  So how do you get reviews?  ReviewMe’s pool of advertisers will be able to choose bloggers by subject, rating, and price.

It’s as easy as sitting back and waiting for Advertisers to find you.  Granted, you’ll want to be doing everything you can to boost your Alexa ranking, subscribers, etc. in the meantime to increase your payout rate within ReviewMe.

6.  When you do get a review, the rules are pretty simple.  All you need to do is A) make clear to your audience that it is something you are being compensated for and B) throw down 200 words of your best effort.  It should be noted that effort can go however you want it to.  ReviewMe encourages honesty over payolla shilling.  You can get paid for giving a bad review.

So, can you make a million bucks with ReviewMe?  The highest payouts per post right now are $200.  Five thousand of those and you are officially a baller.  If you are popular with advertisers you could probably do one or two a day when ReviewMe’s pool of advertisers is large enough to support that.  Just don’t alienate your subscribers in the process.  They’ll leave you quicker than Britney Spears did her first husband.

It is definitely worth testing in your blog’s monetization mix.  Good luck!