Comments on: $750 for a Review?

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:48:27 +0000

It is the highest badge you can use without getting your account customized.

I’ll probably take it down in a few weeks.

By: Jez

Jez — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:56:06 +0000

Hi Steve,

You finally got round to posting on this then :-)

I have only done a couple of PPP’s and dont think I will be doing more.

As you say they are either trashy or asking for PR7 +, and not much in between.

ReveiwMe is better, you get a better flat fee, although they take a big slice.

I have often wondered why people use ReveiewMe, when they could just use it to identify blogs and contact them directly…

I think I would use PPP to buy backlinks in the future, but writing a review for $6.50 (which a lot of them are) is plain silly.

I dont know why you have the $750 reveiw me badge up though, just to grab attention??

Jez

By: James Britton

James Britton — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:15:03 +0000

Someone may be just crazy enough to do it, or like Andy said you may be approached directly for a better deal. Not a bad little scheme Steve :)

By: KellyCho

KellyCho — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:57:40 +0000

That’s really honorable, I like that!
I was recently introduced to PPP and signed on as my initial reaction was “That’s a pretty good idea!” but when I started thinking about it, I came to the same conclusion as you… you’re pretty much selling out your readers. All of my posts are about things I’m interested in and hopefully what my readers are also interested in so it would be really hard for me to put up a post about a product or site I don’t really care about except for how much they’re paying me to post it.

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:54:00 +0000

I agree! 50% is a big cut and I won’t be surprised if the advertisers directly approach their targeted blog for advertising.

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By: Ryan J. Parker

Ryan J. Parker — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:55:23 +0000

$750 … what a steal! ;)

By: lyndonmaxewell

lyndonmaxewell — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:00:48 +0000

I guess that the large cut is befitting for the blogs on the smaller end, not the higher end ones. 50% is actually too much of a cut for them. IF I were an advertiser, and I see what I like on ReviewMe, I would definitely approached the blogger or site directly by email instead, as I know I may be able to cut a better deal with th person. What do you think, since we know how the system works?