Foreign Perspectives

ReviewMe is one of those paid post sites that gets heavily promoted by the make money online blogs.

Now, the make money online blogs appear to do incredibly well from the posts that ReviewMe offer them with the likes of John Chow quoting figures into the thousands of dollars per month from them. Now, to be fair, you’d expect his blog to do quite well from any payment scheme in that it gets very substantial traffic each month and therefore is a valuable property to advertisers.

For me though, all I could see were a few posts at $5 back in May and nothing more until last week.

Ordinarily, I don’t do $5 posts and definitely not when they’re looking for 200 words but I figured that perhaps it was a matter of starting from the bottom and working up with them so I wrote a couple in May and then four last week.

Result? They paid out for one of the four, the advertiser pulled out of another one and they rejected the other two.

Why the rejections? Well, they sent me an e-mail saying that I’d “flagrantly broken the rules” and quoted the three rules:

1. The post must say it’s sponsored;
2. The link as specified by the advertiser must be included; and
3. There must be at least 200 words

I tag all my paid posts as sponsored unless the advertiser specifically requests that I don’t. The post that was accepted was identical in this regard to the other three.

I copy and paste the link specified so it was what the advertiser asked for in all four cases. 

I run a wordcount on my posts so all four cleared 200 words.

Actually, the second point was the problem. Three of the four advertisers had specified a link that simply wouldn’t work. The ReviewMe software obviously checks that the link in your post is the one asked for and therefore it’s not possible to correct this yet they rejected me because the link wasn’t “correct”.

I pointed this out to them but have yet to receive a reply.