Last time we talked about Paid reviews good bad or ugly, and many bloggers including me keep getting email for paid reviews. When I started blogging, I used to get lots of request for review software’s, Product, websites and ebooks.
Initially I was not aware of the face that Should I do a paid review or not, because for me it was easy money. And I never bothered to figure out the amount I should charge for that review and I ended up doing my first review for 25$ only. Honestly, that is the minimum anyone could charge from a page rank 3 websites.
I have been asked from many blogger friends about how much they should charge for a product review and it’s impossible for me or for any one to give you exact amount, but I can give you few points which will help you to determine the charges for paid review.
Reason for Review
First determine the reason for Review, if Review is done only for anchor text with linkback, you can charge more in that scenario. If Reason for review is branding and traffic, you can be lenient in terms of charges here.
Kind of Product
Again as I stated in my earlier post, you should review only quality product, but again you can categorize those quality product in terms of relativity to your niche blog. It has two sides, if the product is exact similar to your niche, you can charge more , since it’s going to give them more lead, sales or traffic. Else you can charge less, if you feel that reviewing that product wont help him much, better charge him less than the earlier case. In this case you also need to consider Point 1, i.e Reason for Product review.
No. of Leads
Suppose you reviewing any webhosting review company and if you drive a good number of traffic to them, that means any single sale will generate atleast 50$ for them. Now do a rough count, do consider long term in this case, since that post is going to be forever. More over that Webhosting review site is getting prominent linkback from a page rank website in similar niche. In that case you can start minimum from 300-400$ to any extent, depending on your website popularity and readership.
Last but not the least, I won’t say this is the perfect system to determine the price of any review post, but I’m sure this will help those people who are new to Paid review system.
Do let us know How do you decide the price of any paid review?
Article by Harsh Agrawal
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I have done 8 sponsored reviews on my blog… and all are related to computers or internet. I think its best not to quote a price. Because when they decide for the price … its always on the “more than I thought” side.
I got 1 60$, 2 50$ and 6 20$ reviews….
Generally Its best not to charge for the review …if the product or service is free.
I normally charge 24$ for reviews but I review products ocassionally and only one which are related to my niche but if I am getting some good money than I can consider other options too
Mad geek you may consider other non related product but that will put your readers off. So Instead of short term money target long term
This post is helpful for us as we have got few mails for paid reviews but just ignored it, never thuoght money can be made out of it. Thanks for this post Harsh.
Infolinks suggested me to write a 300 word review for a betting company at a measly price of $5. And my blog is PR3. Wondering whether I should do it or not because its the initial offer so maybe the charges would increase in the future. What do you guys suggest, should I do it?
Tanuj 5$ is nothing for such review. Infolinks is no doubt good company but advocating any service for 5$ is more like giving it for free. Think the other way, how much business they are going to get . If I would have been at your place, I would have charged somewhere between 50-100$.
Exactly my point. Maybe I should try and discuss the charges. If that is possible.
You are always free to quote your price and this way you will get best value for the review.
i have got one request for paid review 6 months back when i started my blog with Blogspot….it was an online gaming website and they were offering me $5 which i rejected…sometimes i regret it but your post makes me feel better
If its Gaming its good..but if its gambling.. always avoid it…!!
After reading this post, I am getting angry on myself as I do have written some paid reviews for $9 or so for mine entertainment and general news blog http://oceanofweb.com having Page Rank 3
Thanks for this post.
I be very very careful from now onwards.
Atul
I go for paid review only when I get good amount for that but I don’t like to do reviews out of my blog niche.
And i still do paid review for $1o — i think i need to re-think my paid review charge.
There are a lot of factors that need to be taken into account when deciding price for a product review.
Vivek will love to know your insight.. Which all points do you consider while deciding upon the charge for product review?
I think you should consider: 1) alexa rank 2) rss subscribers 3) previous performance of a blog’s paid posts etc. Also the ROI for the advertiser you have mentioned is an important criteria while you set the price.
awesome tips
will surely help the newbies
great, i had started blogging initially for money but now i want to make a difference, yes paid reviews might be a part but mostly i will write content oriented posts.
Interesting article. May be I should start charging more when I’m reviewing a web host next time. Thanks for the benchmark tips.
I recently did a paid review for $40 and didn’t even have to write a review actually. Getting many offers for $30 onwards but I’ll charge nothing less than $40 or $50.
I believe it’s more of paid link sell.. Is int it??
Nopes. Seems I messed up with my comment. “I recently did a “free” review and got the offer for a paid review for $40 without even writing the article” . Don’t think I’ll do it though. Its better to concentrate on affiliate earnings by writing honest reviews of products you’ve yourself used.
One more thing Harsh, do you remove infolinks and adsense from the “sponsored post” or leave them as it is ?
I have been asked to write a review about a company in business. I would be the third party and I am a professional writer. The review will require research and contact with the business to be reviewed. The review should be 500 words.
My first proposal was $100.00 and the middle man says it is too much. What is your advice?
Thanks very much,
Susan
Oh that’s cool then. Will quote the price at $50 then. Thanks Harsh.