ReviewMe Review - Am I Missing Something ?
I've been considering the options i have available to me over the last few days regarding getting my newish blog some good exposure and perhaps some critical feedback. One of the options that's available to me is to have my blog reviewed through a company called ReviewMe
Basically you pay another blogger a set price to make a post on their blog that gives your blog some critical feedback which usually includes what they like and dislike about your blog. Plus they usually give you some advice about how you can improve your blog…
The price your charged depends on a few variables of the blog that's reviewing you like:
1. Pagerank
2. Alexa Rank
3. Traffic
4. Technorati Ranking
While reading some of the rss feeds that i subscribe to on a daily basis i noticed that Kevin Muldoon from Bloggingtips (great blog by the way kevin) has had his blog reviewed by JohnTP Review Of Bloggingtips.com
The price that kevin paid for this review was $250 of which john will get paid a percentage from reviewme. While John gave a great review of BlogggingTips with some good pointers of where Kevin could improve his blog i would question whether kevin would have been better off saving his $250 and getting critical feedback from elsewhere for free!
Here's my point and i invite john and kevin to correct me if i'm wrong…
Wouldn't kevin have been better off going to one of the top internet marketing or blogging forums and asking them for some critical feedback of his blog ? Doing it this way kevin would have been able to get feedback for free and would have got answers from several experts in the blogging community not just one person…
I know kevin will get a quality link from John's pagerank 6 blog but is it really worth $250 ?
I'd love to know what you think and please correct me if i'm completely off the mark with my view…
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Kevin | June 11th, 2007 at 9:52 pm #
Hi John,
It really depends on how you look at it. I was looking for some feedback but that wasnt the main reason. John TP has a lot of subscribers and covers a lot of wordpress users. I am trying to get blog readers so this was a good place to do just that. $250 might sound like a lot but i believe its value for money. Its all relative really - i mean when my blog gets a pagerank i will be charging similar amounts for reviews and will be making money via text link advertising.
kevin
Why paying for a review on JohnTP was worth the money | June 15th, 2007 at 5:31 am #
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