I wanted to promote a website so thought I've give ReviewMe a little go. I signed up, set up a campaign with a request that my website get reviewed by in-context blogs. I couldn't find much in the way of a guide or Help on the site, but managed to navigate my way through. It was mostly just an experiment so I just created a budget for 2 reviews at $50 each.

A few minutes later, I received an email from the system to say my first review was complete. Someone was keen, I thought and made my way along to the blog to proudly see the review I had paid for. Unfortunately it was fairly rubbish. The blogger decided not to review the site at all, but did write a post on the general subject of the site and included a link. Ok, fair enough, but it's not what I requested.

As a newbie to the system, it seems to me there's a step missing in the process. I put the campaign up and some blogger of dubious quality can just roll up and do the review and get the money. I'd have thought it would be preferable if he had to somehow apply to do the review and upon checking his site, I could then approve him. If I had seen the guy's site beforehand, no way would I have let him go ahead with it.

The second review I received was much better. It was actually already indexed on Google before I got an email from the system telling me the review had been done. It's provided a reasonable amount of traffic and should hopefully prove useful from an SEO perspective.

So, 2 reviews done - 1 good, 1 poor. I don't think I'd bother using it again because, as I mentioned earlier, I think there's a quality control stage missing where the person who's getting his wallet out should final individual approval.

Although maybe that option is there - if it is let me know! - but I didn't see it.

Link Swap Anyone?

At the moment I'm looking for link swaps for a London travel guide site and a toy site from sites on related subjects, so feel free to contact me about either of those.

Labels: link building, review, reviewme