6 Reasons To Buy Reviews For Advertising
The Benefits of Sponsored Reviews
Traffic
|
Rank
|
Website
|
Price
|
Clicks
|
Words
|
Comments
|
CPC
|
|
1
|
Tyler Cruz |
$120
|
580
|
1,309
|
13
|
20c
|
|
2
|
Jonathan Volk |
$40
|
282
|
493
|
1
|
14c
|
|
3
|
Courtney Tuttle |
$100
|
574
|
713
|
32
|
17c
|
|
4
|
The University Kid |
$55
|
206
|
877
|
18
|
26c
|
|
5
|
Carl Ocab |
$70
|
278
|
691
|
7
|
25c
|
|
6
|
John Cow |
$100
|
334
|
535
|
12
|
29c
|
|
7
|
Internet Babel |
$20
|
25
|
848
|
0
|
80c
|
|
8
|
One Mans Goal |
$40
|
29
|
418
|
6
|
$1.37
|
|
9
|
Infected By Bugs |
$35
|
21
|
660
|
0
|
$1.66
|
|
10
|
The Blog Entrepreneur |
$50
|
14
|
1390
|
4
|
$3.57
|
Here you can see what review brought me what traffic, I typically would say anywhere around 20cent per click would be money well spent. If you were to pay for 125 x 125′s on these websites you would be looking to pay around 50cert per click and if you were to pay Google you would pay around $3.00 per Adword click.
RSS Feed
Getting sign ups to your RSS feed is one of the most important things for a blog because its a long term traffic source. With buying reviews I am usually able to pick up quite a good number of RSS sign ups, they are targeted people I want visiting to my website on a daily basis. So if I buy a review and get 100 visitors, 10 sign up as RSS readers and visited my website twice a week that’s a extra 80 visitors a month on top of the 100 visitors.
Search Engine Rankings
Every time I buy a review my rankings go up, so as well as getting traffic from the website that reviewed me, I get traffic from search engines as well. I notice a great improvements seeing first page on terms such as Making Money Online, Young Entrepreneurs, Creating a Business, Creating a Website and Looking for investment. The more reviews I have the better rankings I can get.
Newsletter Subscribers
I have a area at the top of most pages on the main website for visitors to join my mailing list and get a free eBook on how to make money online. Typically I get around 20 signs a day, but when I get a review I can see as many as 50 to 70 sign ups for 2 days.
Life Time Back Links
I never tell reviewer what back links to use and what anchor text to use so it looks legitimate to search engines, because of this I get a vast amount of keywords for my website and typically all related to make money and young entrepreneurs.
Brand Exposure
Nearly everyone in the Make Money Online niche knows about Retireat21.com and that is because I have purchased reviews on some of the top websites in this niche. Most would know I have bought a lot of reviews and most would be able tell you exactly what my website is about and what it offers.
12 comments so far… Leave a reply
Chetan
May 7, 2008 6:18 pm
Good post, reviews really help in many things! first thing being good buzz around if you have some unique concept with you. Btw you might not have checked my blog for buying a review, if interested, you may check my right sidebar for that(Yeah, i like shameless promotion!)
Darkz.info
May 8, 2008 12:36 pm
nice post.
Felex Tan
May 8, 2008 3:21 pm
It is a good investment to drive long term traffics to our blog.Thanks for sharing.
david cheong
May 9, 2008 6:42 pm
That is a good comparison review and some good ideas for my readers that i can refer to.
Zak Show
May 10, 2008 12:26 am
Well, Bad News : Jonathan Volk raise up the review price to 70$ :( I was planning to go for a review for my blog !
Mauritius
May 15, 2008 10:39 am
Great post indeed :) Till now i've never try with reviews but after seeing your article am convinced that i should try it also.
Mike Michalowicz
May 15, 2008 6:41 pm
I checked out each one of these - I gotta say those are some impressive sites and may just be worth it if you have something good and fitting to promote. Thanks.
Tom - StandOutBlogger.com
May 17, 2008 5:08 pm
Thanks for compiling that list! It is good to see how the reviews compare because there is such a difference.
Shane
May 18, 2008 9:10 am
Have you not posted this before? Well anyway, very good article.
Agent 001
May 18, 2008 6:44 pm
Hello Michael you invested more than 500$ for reviews.You have not told clearly what was the increase of RSS subscribers. If it is more than 500 or 1000 than it good but if not you wasted a lot of money. You should invest some money in SEO and buying web traffics if you have that much money. I know it will work as fine as reviews even better. SEO mostly do good for longer time. I have done some SEO for free and get 2-3 hits daily from search engines. It is good considering my blog is very new and currently have only 30 odd posts.
Michael Dunlop - Retireat21.com : Blogger Interviews
August 25, 2008 11:39 pm
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Otooo
August 26, 2008 9:17 am
Hmm, that's food for thought - although it cost a lot, it certainly has faired you well