Have you ever wanted to get paid to write? Well, this may be a very good resource for you. If you have a blog or web site, sign up for a free account at ReviewMe.com and if your site is accepted you will get paid to write reviews.

It seems like a great concept. Advertisers want to get the word out about their products and/or services. By allowing an objective third party to write a review it can provide them with constructive feedback and that much needed advertising. Although whether or not a paid review can be seen as objective is debatable.

The sign-up process is extremely easy. Once I finished the very short application, I was advised that my site had been approved. Once approved I was shown the price for each review, my payout will be 50% of the price they determined. A site can publish an unlimited number of reviews, leaving the potential for profit wide open. The price for reviews is recalculated monthly so I will have to wait to see whether or not that price will go up or down after participating in the service for a month.

The first review assignment was to review ReviewMe.com, so this is essentially a sponsored review.

I have tried a similar service and the topics that I was supposed to write about did not match my web site in the least. It was a battle trying to find a creative way to include the information they required in some cases. I would be given a URL and the text that should link to the URL. In one case I had to search to even find a reference to the text I was given once I followed the link. Writing about an obscure reference buried deep within a web page is not my idea of fun.

Without knowing the types of reviews that will be available, I don’t know if this will bring anything of interest to my blog or if I will make any money. I figured I would at least try it out and share my experience with you, in case this is something you were considering but wanted to know what to expect. 

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