Following up my previous post on driving traffic to your website from commenting on other bloggers websites, reviewing products is another successful way of making money whilst gathering more visitors. People around the web are constantly looking for reviews and posting a review on your blog is something that people are most likely looking to read.

Making Money
Writing reviews is a perfect way for you to make some money. You can review a product, just say for example your iPod, but you will not receive any money from it because basically we all know that Apple will not be paying us to review their products. If a blogger advertises that they will review a product for a set amount then this is where the advertiser can choose whether they wish to pay for a review. A review of a product will bring that advertiser traffic and hopefully give them a good word for their product.

The Marketplace
Some websites that offer a marketplace are websites like ReviewMe and PayPerPost. They offer a marketplace for advertisers to buy reviews and bloggers to advertise their price for a review.

If You Do Not Have It, Do Not Review It!
A common mistake made by the person writing the review is reviewing the product without even used it or having it. For example if you are reviewing a website, sign-up, use the service and then write a detailed review. Looking at the homepage and writing what you think for a service, just does not do that website justice. The same applies for a product like e.g. a phone. Do not just go from what you see or read, you have to own the product to gain the maximum benefit from using it and giving a thorough review.

Notifying your visitors
You may see dotted around some websites, signs like these?

Successful bloggers like John Chow are able to charge large amounts for a review for someone to review their product as the amount of traffic he received will create wonders for the promotion of the advertiser’s product.

You can advertise that you offer a review service by using the services provided by ReviewMe or PayPerPost, they give you a sense of ‘professionalism’ as these sites are widely used. This will create trust between in the relationship between you and the advertisers. Writing on your website that you offer a review for so and so much and then linking straight to a payment page will not be as effective.

A Few Reviews For Free Maybe?
A good way of driving traffic to your website is reviewing some websites for free, it is sometimes good to write about popular websites, but any website which you would wish to review will bring you traffic. Once you’ve completed the review, you should let the website owner know you have and then hopefully they will post a link to your blog on their website, which then in turn equals more traffic for you!

What Should I Write In My Review?
Readers love to see in depth reviews of a product and what they can expect from that product. You may want to add pictures of the product you are reviewing and maybe a video of you using the product. You have to be honest, if there is something negative, say it! Readers do not want to hear you say how great it is, only to discover you forgot to mention what negative things they experienced. Advertisers will want to hear the negative to, they want to know how they can improve their product. Especially website owners love to hear experiences from their visitors to see how they can improve in the future.

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