How To Make Your Blog's Posts Pay

Do you have a blog? Do you write about products and services you use, love or find interesting?

Now, imagine being paid for that.

That's what ReviewMe, the new venture of the guys at Text Link Ads, offers bloggers.

ReviewMe is a marketplace where bloggers and advertisers come together. Unlike conventional ad networks, ReviewMe enables advertisers to ask bloggers to write a review of their products or services and pay a fee according to the blog's popularity. The more popular a blog is, the more it costs buying a review. ReviewMe pays 50% of a blog's review price to bloggers.

Advertisers can browse through blogs in many categories and order a review with just a few clicks.

Right now, technology and web development seem to be the most popular categories, but I guess that's because the geek types were the first to know about the service (I got the word from Patrick Gavin at Text Link Ads), but soon, with more blogs in the system, the marketplace will appeal to more people and types of businesses.

I've seen a few blogs priced at US$250, that means US$125 per post for each blogger, but most seem to be in the US$60 to US$40 range.

Other companies were already running pay per post services but I find some advantages in ReviewMe:

• By asking bloggers to disclose that they are being paid for writing, the market is, or should be, clean of people looking for the quick buck. Most of us wouldn't write about products we don't like. I'm being paid for writing this and I really like the idea.
• ReviewMe is a service backed up by Text Link Ads, a company that many bloggers use and trust. I've been with them most of this year and have had just good experiences.
• Bloggers don't have to write positive reviews to get paid.
• ReviewMe Roy is a really cool-looking guy.

The service was officially launched a couple of days ago and became their first big advertiser, offering up to US$ 25,000 to bloggers writing about them. It seems it worked: the next day Andy Hagan reported the ReviewMe network had a few dozens advertisers ordering reviews and almost a thousand bloggers. Way to go!

Blogs need to have a minimum amount of traffic and subscribers to participate, ReviewMe's application form will tell you right away if you are in or out.

Non English blogs are accepted and payments are made via Paypal.

Once a blogger gets an order for a review he has the option of accepting or discarding it. If accepted he has 48 hours to write it and report it at ReviewMe's site. A reminder email is sent 24 hours later if you haven't completed the process and the reviews must be at least 200 words long.

There you have it. Another way of making money without leaving home and possibly doing something you already did and enjoyed.