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As an advertiser I can see the value. Pay five bucks, get a link. Cheaper than AdWords, easier than affiliate networks. But as a reviewer, what is the point of writing a paid review? Getting discredited by google for paid links, losing PR, losing respect from your readers for sending them to a crap site that paid you a buck, etc. Granted, some reviews pay more, but generally speaking paid reviews are cheap. Why do people do them? Is it really worth it?

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  1. katrinawafs
    yes because here in the Philippines, dollar is a big amount here...so that's why there are a lot of people who really want to work with the advertisers and do reviews for them.
  2. calais50
    I looked into doing them, but as you said, I don't see that the payout is enough to justify it.
  3. TrickFalls
    I stayed away from this, as I did with sponsored posts for other things, because I didn't like ripping off the people who were reading my blogs by inserting posts about things I was being paid to push.

    Telling people it was a sponsored post helped a little, but nobody really wanted to read the stuff because they knew it was just an ad in disguise.

    TF
  4. Xight
    Some people have seperate blogs just for reviews, that they do for extra cash. Its basically working for someone else/outsourcing doing link building.

    I don't do paid reviews, but I can understand why people do them.
  5. weblogian
    ModelElaine
    This defer and depend upon the blog or site.
    I know a site call think digit they charge @min. about $400 to write a reviews on a local products. ANd the price are high if the product(any) is from international companies.
  6. battledressu
    Because I have bills to pay, lady!
    1. blackzero85
      lol.

      Everyone has the bills to pay, dear. Although I can understand people (that doing paid reviews) need money for their life yet, there are so many things you will lose by doing paid reviews.
    2. battledressu
      I honestly haven't lost anything by doing paid reviews. My PR is the same, my readership is exponentially increasing and the opps I'm being offered are gradually getting higher.

      I'm pretty positive I've lost nothing.

      Oh, and don't call me "dear". It's a term of endearment and nothing has happened between us that has been endearing.

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