There is a long break for this make money online blog due to going back to my hometown to celebrate Chinese Ox Year. Recently I received an email from a blog buddy, he asked me a question regarding how to price for a paid review. Since I have never received an offer about writing a paid review, I can just list out some general factors that might affect the price for the paid review.
I need your help at his point though. I received an email from SEO blog review, and I was supposed to quote them my price. Normally, what’s the norm of writing a reivew charge ? What are the factors that have to be considered in pricing?
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How Much To Charge For A Paid Review?
In order to set a reasonable price for a paid review, we have to do a simple survey about our own blogs, we have to check on the statistic and see whether the price that we charged is reasonable. There will be some factors that can bring into consideration in setting up a price :-
1) Traffics
Be make sure you have kept track the statistic for your blog such as numbers of unique visitors and numbers of page views. The more traffics your blog has, the higher advertiser might pay.
2) Any popular keyword that rank in Top 10?
If you have any popular keyword in your niche that you rank in Top 10 in the first page of Google search engine, which mean you might get quite a lot of organic traffics from search engine. Back to #1, the more traffics your blog has, the higher advertiser might pay.
3) Feedburner reader
The more you have, the better it is. The more subscribers you have, which mean you have quite a number of loyal readers follow your blog and most probably the paid review will be viewed by quite a number of people. With that said, you can simply charge in slightly high price.
4) How long the paid review will be last for at the main page?
Some bloggers are very active in writing new post and most probably they will push the older post to second page. If the paid review has been pushed to second page in shortly, advertiser might not pay you in high price because advertiser will only get minimum traffic to view their product.
5) Do advertiser require you to insert any link?
Most of the advertisers will require you to do so. Be make sure it’s “no-follow” attribute or else it can be known as paid post by Google and your pagerank will be penalized by Google. But you can write the post naturally to make it like normal post. To be safe, ask the advertiser whether is it okay to insert a “no-follow” attribute to all the links. Play smart and safe to keep your Pagerank safety.
6) Pagerank
Some advertiser might take it into consideration in pricing the charges for the paid review. Since advertiser require you to insert links that point to their site in the review, they might want to take your Pagerank advantage to improve their Pagerank as well. If you insert “no-follow” attribute, advertiser will get nothing with the Pagerank. If advertiser require you to insert their links with “do-follow” attribute, which mean you have to take the risk that Google penalize your pagerank.
7) Do check out what do other bloggers charge?
You can simply check out what do other bloggers charge for a paid review, I have never write a paid review before. If so, I will prefer to write a honest review with “no-follow” links because I don’t want to take risk with my Pagerank. I lost my Pagerank due to selling text links before and I will never take risk again.
If you have an account in Pay-Per-Post, I would recommend you to have a look on the Opportunity page to check out how much actually advertisers pay for certain requirements. So far I have seen the price range at $5 – $100 for different paid posts.
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All the tips are based on my own experience, even though I have not written any paid review before but I will definitely price it in these ways if I have offer from advertiser in future.
However, I would like to know how you set up a price for a paid review? Do add the list continuosly in the comment if you have additional tips.
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like this post as I started to think of doing PPP. Thanks for the info bro :)
But the problem is my blog is approved, no opportunity given. How to get it de?
Hi Mike,
Are you really thinking to do PPP? That’s mean you don’t want your PR anymore? ;)
You have to search at the Opportunity page, there is few colours, you can take the offer with white in colour 1. :)
But not recommend you to take if you still want your PR. :)
Ic, thanks bro.
I thought some PPP no need to put links de. I saw someone in LYN said some PPP no need link de? he is Lifeplayer.
If the PPP doesn’t require you to insert any link and just write an review about the product, that’s fine. As long as no “do-follow” links are inserted into the article. :)
I’m still waiting to be approved. :(
Make money online not looking very good for me. Only managed 30 sen only after nearly 4 months. LOL.
Nice site design btw KaHoong.
Rgds,
Ulrik
Haha, don’t worry about the earning first. Just build up your content and backlinks. When your search engine ranking is good, traffics and money will follow. :)
Thanks Ulrik, I just changed my themes yesterday. ;)
Between, what are you waiting to be approved?
Thanks for the advice Kahoong. I guess it will take some time to get some decent traffic.
And I meant approval up at ReviewMe. Apparently not enough backlinks lol.
Hi I have been recently approached by a computer laptop and notebook specialist shop online from seoblogreviews to write a review on my music blog. How much shld I charge the blog review price in writing the review for them?
Requirements from them:
The review should contains no less than 350 words.
The content must be unique and original.
The review should contains no less than 3 outgoing links to either the home page or internal pages of the aforementioned site.
The links must contain the anchor text we will provide you.
You are allowed to use the images from the aforementioned site but not textual content.
The review should be published within 2 days of receipt of the money.
I have no idea on the amount of cash I shld charge. Can u help me out?
@AJ,
First of all, congratulation to you that you’re receiving a paid review and making money with it! :D
Between, there is no fixed rate for this kind of paid review, does the shop offer you a rate for it? If the shop doesn’t do it, then you should ask them how much they’re comfortable to pay for the review? Of course, you have to set a rate in your mind, if the price is higher than yours, then just go for it, but if the price is lower than your rate, then you propose your rate to them and see what they say.
From what I can see from your blog, together with the requirements they gave, I would offer them $50-$70 per paid review. Besides this, ask them whether you can insert a “Nofollow” tag for all the outgoing links, else you may take the risk of losing your PR.
So, now you should ask them for their rate first, and propose your rate later if their rate is lower than yours.
Do let me know if you still need my help okay? Good luck AJ! :D