Writing Reviews on This Site
Network March 20th, 2007This blog post is proudly sponsored by: Buying and Selling on eBay.
Now that I have my forum up and running (it’s growing slowly, we’ll see how it does in a week), I have decided to decided that I am going to need to try another slow increase of wealth. I need money to invest in my forum. Other than my studies and my girlfriend, that website is one of the most important things. And yeah, my studies are most important. This blog is zerotomed.com. I want to become a doctor. Anyways…So, I have been trying to figure out what I can do to make some money from this blog in an effort to reinvest it into my forum. And then it dawned on me…
I know that even a lot of personal blogs write a bunch of reviews. I don’t know what kind of reviews I’d write, but even if I could write two or three a week and that’s it, I’d get quite a bit of money. My only worry is that if I do too many of them, I will begin to lose some of my readers. I know that’s a risk, but I really could use the money. I could use it to invest in my websites and I could use it for personal reasons. Anyways…I don’t know if I am going to do it, but I am definitely looking into it. I could really use the money, that much is for sure. Back to work to the forum! Later.
It takes a lot out of me to write these blog posts. Buy me a beer to cool me off!
March 20th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
Just keep your writing as interesting and relevent as possible, especially when doing reviews and it shouldn’t hurt. It’s hard, but just try to keep the flavor in the blog.
March 21st, 2007 at 9:47 am
Yeah, I know. I have to keep it really relevant. I don’t think I’ll write reviews about things that don’t relate to my blog. But, then I may not find very many clients.
March 25th, 2007 at 7:07 am
I did the same Jacob, at 1 day I wrote 7 reviews at once.. A lot of money came in direct via PayPal.
It is a great feeling to see 7 transactions for the same day and the total amount of dollars in your account.
But on the other hand, my readers did not like it. I posted about it, and what my readers thought of it. And none of them liked it..
The came up with suggestions as.. write 1 review and than 2 good informative posts again.
This is a good idea I think. It is easy money, and you should grab it if you need it. Good luck with it
April 5th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
Agreed. Also disclose that it’s a sponsored review when you do it. At the top of the post. You can just change your existing “sponsored by” link (which I’m warming up to, btw) to indicate PayPerPost (or whomever) and the company who is actually paying for the review. Then you’ve covered all your bases.
I’d also go for a pretty low ratio of reviews-to-content. Remember that some of your own content is fluff itself, and only a third of your actual posts are of interest to regular readers. Except your mom, I guess. Nah. Even your mom.
My suggestion? Somewhere between 1:5 and 1:7. But that’s just me.
April 5th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
I don’t know, Johnny. I can understand what you mean by my content being fluff, but that’s what differentiates this blog from other sites. It’s purpose is to document my journey from having nothing to growing to succeed and pay enough for medical school. It’s not a full blow informational blog. Sure, I’ll put up information when I find something to write about, but all in all, the ‘fluff’ is just what the site was designed for.