I read a post by a guy named Mike, who has a blog along with the help of his wife Michelle, which reviews other blogs. It’s called Bloggin-Ads, and this is not a paid review by the way. This is based on a post I read from his blog about him not getting link love from free reviews. This guy is smart and has a good thing going, and has been able to get his feed up pretty quickly. Not only does he do reviews, but they are FREE! You just can’t beat a free review with a free link.

Free Reviews vs. Paid

There are so many people out there that like to charge for reviews, and that is perfectly fine, but at what point do you go overboard?If your blog isn’t like Mike’s which is based on reviews, and you are doing paid reviews non stop, then people that have subscribed to your feed are not really getting anything of value. They are really being cheated wouldn’t say?

Give value to your blog

So when you blog, give people something of value. Choose wisely what you will get paid to post. If you take anything and everything, then people will see right through that. If your biased before you get paid, then you made the choice before you made the money, which in turn means you care about what you put on your blog, and it wasn’t really just all for the quick buck. I am sure Mike doesn’t just pick anything and throw it up there. If He is doing this for free, the site has to contain some value, right?

So bottom line, the point is to pick and choose your reviews, no matter if you get paid or not. I will be doing reviews now myself a couple times a month, so if you are interested you can shoot me an email to contactjcg(at)gmail.com.