After weeks of waiting, here’s my guide on Paid Review sites. There’ll be separate reviews for each site so keep posted for the next parts of this guide.

I’ve been an active blogger since 2003 over at Cubeblog, which was suddenly closed without formal notice to all the members. I started my new blog over at Blogger – Just Another Pixel – in 2008 in the hopes of starting to make money online with it.

My first venture in making money online with my blog was with Google Adsense. However, I knew it’ll take me a long time to reach the $100 minimum for cashing out (I already withdrew it over a week ago) that I searched for other ways to make money online with my blog.

I found out about Paid Review sites and I did some research on which ones are worth joining. I get decent amount of traffic to my blog daily and a couple of followers when I started with Paid Review sites. To-date, I’ve earned over $300 from 5 Paid Review sites I’ve joined. Some of them, I just joined a month ago. I even have $100 of pending payments from them to-date.

There are a lot of bloggers I know, mostly stay-at-home moms, who use Paid Review sites as their main source of extra income. Well, you can actually do that, too, but your blog should be of high quality and your posts should really be interesting and well-written to attract high-paying advertisers to sign you up for paid review opportunities with them.

On top of my online money makers’ list are Paid Review sites. And I am highly recommending 4 of them to you. Stay tuned for the next parts of this guide to know

Introduction to Paid Review Sites

What are Paid Review sites exactly? How do they work?

Paid Review sites connect you with advertisers who have their own websites or blogs that feature their products or services they offer, and they wanted to get better Search Engine Results Page (SERP) position to attract more customers to their site. To accomplish this, they need to get more websites or blogs linking to their site so that when someone searches for a certain search string (for example, best anniversary gift ideas, colon cleanse product, etc) on Google or any other search engine, their site can appear on the first few pages of the results. This way, they can beat their competition.

The Paid Review sites I’m featuring on this guide require you to post a text link that would lead anyone who clicks to the advertiser’s website. You must follow the text links required for you to use in your blog post and they should be inserted into a newly published blog post. How to do this, I’ll discuss in the next parts of this guide.

It’s very easy to make money online with Paid Review sites because with a single post, you can earn as much as $5 to even $300, if you’re lucky and if you own a high-quality and high-traffic blog.

The only thing with Paid Review sites is that you need to wait for advertisers to approve your bids OR, depending on the Paid Review site you joined, you’d have to wait for paid post assignments from the admin.

With this guide, I’ll do my best to share with you some things that would help you get started in making money online as a blogger who writes paid reviews. Stay tuned for the next parts of this guide for more details and tips.

Advantages of Paid Reviews/Posts for Bloggers

• Like what I mentioned earlier, you can earn $5 to $300 for a single blog post.
  You can simply incorporate the required text links to any topic you wanted to post. It can be as short as a 100-word blog post, as long as the required text links are there.Most Paid Review sites are not strict with how you incorporate the text links to your blog post as long as it’s there. There are some advertisers, though, that require you to actually review or talk about their site, services or product.
• You have control over when you want to publish your paid post/review as long as it’s before the set deadline.
  Unlike with freelance blog article writing jobs, you don’t have to follow the strict rules of the person who hired you, like you have to be logged on a certain time, etc.
• You can choose which ones to post about. For most Paid Review sites, you have the option to decline a paid review opportunity that was assigned to you or was offered to you by an advertiser. If you think the price is too low, decline it.
• Paid Reviews or Posts also help you build traffic to your blog, believe it or not.
  How? Well, first of all, I want to remind you that the advertisers who paid for your post have the money to spend on promoting their site or product. That means that there’s actually a demand for it. So, if someone searches in Google and uses the search string, which is usually the required text link assigned to you, your blog post will be listed on the results. That means there’ll be people visiting your blog to check what you wrote about.
• In my experience, writing paid posts helped me be a better blogger.
  Sounds cheesy, but, it’s true. I was able to blog about parts of my life or my experiences that I wouldn’t usually write about. And this resulted to more people leaving comments on my posts because there are others who can relate to my story.When I started blogging, I was focused more on getting traffic to my blog by posting about the latest news or buzz on the web. I almost forgot that I was supposed to blog for me, not for others. I still enjoy sharing my knowledge to the world through my tutorials and sharing of my discoveries, but I also enjoy talking about my life in an attempt to inspire other people.Because of the variety of text links and advertisers out there, I got the chance to talk about our garden, my acne-free skin (LOL), and a lot of other topics that I haven’t really thought about blogging.

Disadvantages of Paid Reviews/Posts for Bloggers

Of course, if there are advantages, there are also disadvantages in writing or posting paid reviews on your blog. That’s why you have to be careful and take note of these. I’ll also share some tips based on my experience so you can still maintain your blog readership or for you to minimize the effects of these disadvantages to you and your blog.

• If most of your visitors are bloggers like you, most probably they are very familiar with Paid Review sites, too. Most of them might even be members of your Paid Review sites. Therefore, they know which of your posts were paid for by advertisers, even when you don’t disclose it. Some of them might be disappointed or turned off by that fact. So, it’s up to you if you want to continue writing paid posts or not and risk losing valuable readers, or if you can work around it.
• As what I’ve pointed out on the first one, there might be readers of your blog that will be turned off by you writing paid posts. They might think that your paid posts are of less value to them since you’re not being completely honest with your posts.To avoid this, make sure that you only accept Paid Review/Post opps that are related to your blog and that don’t require you to review a product or website that’s not close to what you usually write about.
  However, if you’re writing for a Paid Review site that require you to finish all the assigned paid post opps, then, simply write about anything casual or informal where you can easily insert or include the link to the advertiser’s website. This would prevent you from lying or coming up with a fake story about someone or something just to accomplish what was required of you.In connection with this, you have to make sure that you also include a Disclaimer or Disclosure  statement on your blog where you explain that you accept paid reviews or paid posts opportunities, but that you won’t compromise your integrity by writing about something that you don’t personally believe in or understand. You can use DisclosurePolicy.org‘s services to generate your own Disclosure statement. However, I suggest you write your own or edit it to make it sound like you’re the one who actually wrote it.
• If you do not control the amount of paid posts you publish, eventually, you would really lose blog readers and traffic, thus, you would end up with fewer or even zero paid opportunities in the future.This is why you have to be careful that the percentage of your paid posts won’t be way higher than your unpaid ones. OR, if you can’t really avoid it, then, make sure that you make your posts valuable or interesting.

At the next part of this guide, I’ll share with you a couple of paid reviews/posts that I’ve published in the past so you can see how I was able to incorporate the required text links to my blog posts without compromising my integrity as a blogger.

If you have questions or clarifications, feel free to post them here.

Stay tuned for:
Part II – Tips for More Opportunities & Fast Approval of Posts
Part III – Tips on Getting your Blog Approved
Part IV – Reviews of my Highly Recommended Paid Review Sites

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