Beyond the Rhetoric is far from being my primary source of income, but it’s nice to see a steady growth both in terms of traffic and monetization on this site. While automatic and self-serve networks like Adsense, AuctionAds, and PayPerPost have been reasonably successful, my dealings in the marketplace haven’t been quite so hot.
For example, I signed up with AdVolcano to sell ad space on this site and I’ve received limited success, despite some very competitive pricing. The same can be said about ReviewMe, but it seems that things are about to change.
I wrote one review for MEGATechNews (as well as several that have been posted on John Chow dot Com), but I haven’t received another request since. Well, until today (I’ll probably be doing it in a couple of days).
So, I started to wonder where it came from. I haven’t asked the sponsor directly, but when I went over to the ReviewMe site, I saw that I was #1 for “Today’s Best.” According to this list, I’m hot. So hot, that I got one reviewed ordered…. the first of many, right?
Excellent! I was No1 in the hot spot too for a day and got a review out of it. It actually happened after I drew to their attention to the fact that my technorati ranking was listed as being in the 4billion area! Any idea how they choose what’s “hot? I’m assuming they don’t just ask Paris Hilton….
That would only be if it was displaying the blogs that were “hawt”, not “hot”
Thats really great however I wish review me would re-review me! 🙁
Good to know that bloggers are getting paid.
I have just joined as well. The “paid to blog” phenomenon does seem to be controversial, however. Many people think it undermines the whole attraction of blogging (that is, the authenticity). However I think that it’s up the individual blogger to make that call, and if a paid review is disclosed you’re not fooling anyone anyway.
Best of luck with it!
You can still get paid and maintain authenticity. Many times you can get paid to write however and whatever you like about a site/product.
Hi Michael
I would like to order a review from you but my blog is in Chinese 🙁
My Chinese is limited to my name, one to ten, and a small handful of other words so…
Okay, i see.That’s too bad that I couldn’t get your review. But how about revise a post. I’m going to write a post in English, but as you can tell, my English sucks!
What is your price to revise a post about 500 words(I haven’t wrote it yet, but it could be less than 500 words)?
I actually purchased the “review me” through your site because of your writing on JohnChow.com. I missed when you were listed as the “Hot Site” on review me.
It’s a pity you don’t have a donate button! I’d certainly donate to this
superb blog! I guess for now i’ll settle for book-marking
and adding your RSS feed to my Google account. I look forward to new
updates and will share this site with my Facebook group.
Talk soon!
There is a PayPal donate button in the right sidebar, toward the bottom.