Many bloggers write sponsored reviews. Ive seen things from the side of a blogger, but as with a lot of things you do, its a good idea to find out how things are from all angles. My two favorite sponsored review sites right now is Reviewme.com and Sponsoredreviews.com.

The majority of my experience with those two came in the form of the "Marketplace" portion of the service. That is where people place offers for reviews to be written. There are qualifications such as Google page rank, Alexa rank, Technorati rank and a few others. Those reviews are then made available to bloggers that qualify to be either bid on or in the case with Reviewme.com accepted.

I wanted to get more information on how things work from the side of the advertiser, so I created a campaign on my two favorite review services, using Jonzee.com as the blog I was advertising.

Reviewme.com

Reviewme

Reviewme.com was pretty simple to get started, since I already had an account, all I had to do is go to the advertisers section of the site. Creating an ad campaign was simple enough. I transfered funds to my account, then wrote a little info on what the blog is about and what links and anchor text I wanted. I selected a category and other requirements. Lastly I set how many reviews I want written and how much to pay for each.

The way you set the price at Reviewme.com is pretty simple, but it doesn’t leave any room for adjustment. For example, I transfered $100 bucks to my account. I then set the account to10 reviews, that would be 10 reviews for $10 bucks a piece. Simple enough. The thing you have to think about is the portion of the money that you are paying for the reviews are going to Reviewme.com and in my case that was 50%. So when it was all said and done, it ended up being a $5 dollar review.

Once everything was approved, my ad went live and I quickly got an written review. Before I go any further, lets take a look at…

Sponsoredreviews.com

Sponsoredreviews.com

Sponsoredreviews.com did things a little different. To start an add campaign, I had to create a second account. After I created the account, I also had to transfer funds to that account to get started. As with Reviewme.com, I transfered $100 bucks and started creating my campaign.

Creating the campaign seem pretty straight forward, with a lot of the same information asked that was asked at Reviewme.com. There were 2 main differenced I noticed right off the bat.

  • Sponsoredreviews.com pricing is set in a price range and not a strict price per review. I set my price range from $10-$20 bucks. Bloggers would then bid on the price instead of taking the one price that is set.
  • There were a few more options when creating the ad. You had an option of selecting how many words you want as a minimum in the review and you had the option to add 3 required links and anchor text where Reviewme.com only had space for 1. Reviewme.com does however have a spot where you can write in your own guidelines.

After I finished creating the ad, and it went live, I quickly got about 50 proposals.

Note: If you are creating ad campaigns at two different sponsored review services. Its a good idea to not have them running at the same time.

The way people are contracted are very different between the two and the note above really made me favor Sponsoredreviews.com over Reviewme.com. At Reviewme.com, once your ad campaign goes live, bloggers have the option of accepting the ad with no input from you. When they accept the ad, you don’t even get any notice. The only notice you get is when the blog post is made. At Sponsoredreviews.com, when your ad goes live, you get bids. You get to see every bid and check out the site or blog first. The blogger is only contracted by you when you select them. You have a lot more flexibility on who does the job.

As far as price, like I said, Reviewme.com has a set price that you choose and only 50% of that price goes to the blogger. With Sponsoredreviews.com you have a price range. Bloggers can choose any amount within that price range and the amount they get paid is a little more than the percent you get with Reviewme.com, Id say anywhere from 30%-40% goes to Sponsoredreviews.com.

This leads to my Note above. Many people who use Reviewme.com will most likely also use Sponsoredreviews.com (and also Payperpost.com). I created my campaigns about a week and a half a part, with Reviewme.com being created first. As soon as my campain at Sponsoredreviews.com went live, I got tons of email from Reviewme.com informing me that people (who I didnt know accepted reviews) were canceling their review. And why wouldn’t they, SponsoredReviews.com has a bigger payout, and they have a bigger range to bid on.

Both services seem to work pretty well but Id say that Reviewme.com still needs to tweak things a bit. Sponsoredreviews.com seems to just work out a lot better as things are today.

"Dont be mistaken, this blog post was in no way a paid or sponsored blog post"