If you own a blog and are looking for ways to start making money from it, then Sponsored Reviews is a good place to start.
Sponsored Reviews is a website that brings together bloggers and advertisers. It allows the blogger to make money and the advertiser to promote their products.
What I like about Sponsored Reviews is that you can make money in two ways. Firstly you join as a blogger and write reviews about ‘products’ on behalf of advertisers. Products is a general term for anything an advertiser wants reviewed, it may be their website, a service or a physical product. And the other way you can earn money is to become one of their affiliates and promote their link on your website.
When you are writing a review on behalf of an advertiser, you must be sure to thoroughly read what the advertisers requirements are prior to doing a review and make sure you follow those requirements otherwise your review will be rejected.
So how do I get started?
Firstly you need to sign up with Sponsored Reviews. The process is relatively simple, it’s just a matter of going to the “Manage Blogs” tab and then clicking on “Add New Blog”. One thing I will stress is that you read the requirements in the ‘Bloggers Policy’ section.
It won’t take long before Sponsored Reviews will advise you if your blog has been accepted, and once you receive an email advising that everything is okay you can go in and bid on the opportunities that are relevant to your site.
Part of the process for adding your blog requires you to enter some details about your blog. This is so the advertisers know what your blog is about and how much you want to write a review.
The things that you need to complete are:-
Desired Price – Set your price in this field.
There are some suggested prices which have been set by Sponsored Reviews and if you want to be successful in getting reviews to write you need to set your price somewhere in the suggested range. When an advertiser is looking for someone to write a review they will see your price so it pays to make sure it is reasonable.
Blog Category – Select the category that best suits your blog.
Blog Title – As with any application you are recommended to add descriptive keywords to your blog title. “Wanda’s Travel & Hotel Reviews” will get a better response from advertisers than “Wanda’s Blog”. You are more likely to attract advertisers if you use keywords in your title. This is because advertisers only get to see the title of your blog so they are more likely to purchase a review from you if they see a keyword that is relevant to their product.
Description – In this field you enter the number of visitors you have, or show some examples of posts you have written. This is your opportunity to sell yourself so make sure you enter information that is likely to attract advertisers.
Blog Tags/Keywords – This is where you enter keywords. i.e. travel, technology, pets.. etc…
Once your blog has been approved it is time to start bidding on opportunities and earning money.
There are times when an advertiser will find you when they are searching the directory and they will approach you directly. This is quite an acceptable practice as long as it is done via the Sponsored Reviews website. Just recently I was approached by a travel firm to write a review of their products on my travel blog.
But as with everything it makes sense that you will earn more money the more proactive you are. Once you find something you think you would like to write a review for, you submit your bid and you will be notified by email if your bid is successful.
So off you go, get in there and search out some reviews to write and start earning.
Now once you have completed your review and made sure you have double-checked your work to ensure it meets the advertiser’s requirements and that the spelling and grammar are correct, you simply submit the URL to Sponsored Reviews. Full details on how to do this are provided on their homepage.
All payments are paid into your Paypal account every 2 weeks for reviews completed in that 2 week period.
The second method for making money from Sponsored Reviews is to sign up as one of their affiliates and place the link that they provide on your website. If other bloggers click on the link and join you will receive a payment.
You can earn up to $175 per Advertiser and $90 Per Blogger Referred.The payment structure:
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Blogger |
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Amount Spent |
Payment |
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Amount Earned |
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$1 |
$5 |
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$50 |
$5 |
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$100 |
$20 |
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$200 |
$10 |
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$1000 |
$50 |
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$1000 |
$25 |
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$10,000 |
$100 |
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$10,000 |
$50 |
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