Content Quake

The founders of Review Me have opened up their services to bloggers and advertisers. Ive jumped in to test things out and see what its all about, here is my initial review.

The premise -

First of all, the premise of Review Me is to connect bloggers and advertisers, much in the same way Pay Per Post has done. But, one of the main differences between the services is full blogger disclosure.

What do bloggers need to do?

For bloggers, its rather simple. You sign up and provide your information, this info includes your SSN as you are becoming a 1099 member of the Review Me family when you agree to the terms. Once your account is set up, you add your blog. You can add up to 6 blogs and review as many things as you like it appears.

Once you add a blog a price is assigned based on a combination of your Alexa rank, your Technorati rank, and estimated number of RSS subscribers. You are then also assigned a star rating, between 1-5.

For example, our music blog, Each Note Secure, received a 3 star rating, and a 100$ price tag, of which our take for a review would be 50$, or 50%.
What about advertisers?

Well, advertisers have access to all the blogs that are in the Review Me system, and get the opportunity to browse the prices and ratings and select a blog you would like to give a Review Me assignment to.

How do you get paid?

Well, we are still a little in the dark as to the final result, but I did follow the prompts as a part of the Review Me 25,000 contest for the opening. For the first review, they are asking for you to review the site, Review Me. The criteria is simple, write about Review Me, minimum of 200 words, and you must disclose that it is a paid review.

They recommend that you call it a sponsored post or something similar. Or, like me, you can just say it. You are given 48 hours to complete your assignment, and then you must provide the url of your article in your dashboard on Review Me. You are then put into pending review status and you await payment.

Seems pretty easy and unique so far. Ive used Pay Per Post before at a different blog and have found this to be much better in the early going. We will see how things progress for Review Me, it should be very interesting.