Paid Review or Adsense

Disclaimer: This hub is written for self-hosted bloggers because basically you cannot earn money from paid review if you only write in HubPages or non self-hosted blogs.

Does paid review earn you more?

It seems that paid review is giving much earning rather than adsense this year. For one job review which can be done only in an hour, we can get $10 for writing 200 words in our posting or even above $100 if your blog has a good reputation among the blogosphere. This is quite easy money rather than adsense, which requires about 2,500 page Impression to get around $10 - $30 with 300 clicks (this is just a rough estimation of course).

I met some bloggers who can generate $ 2,000 a month only from paid reviews and they only write the job reviews for about 1-2 hours a day. This is quite a decent money and may be a good alternative if adsense gives you low earning. Moreover, you would be paid through PayPal which lets you get your payment quickly and easier rather than Adsense -  you get your cheque from Google only if it reaches $100.

If you have 10 blogs which you submit for paid review and each blog can give you $5 from paid review in a day, then you may earn $1,500 in a month! While in order to get the same amount from adsense, we must have at least 300,000 page Impressions in a month which we may get from around 1000 pages that have been indexed by the search engines - each link should appear on the first or the second page for certain keywords with the assumption that each page has at least 30 page impressions in a month.

Once you sign up for paid review program, you need to submit your blog which has high Page Rank and also Alexa Rank so that you can get the job review. You can try to sign up for Blogsvertiseor LinkWorth if your blog is not really good in terms of ranking or traffic since other paid review networks such as ReviewMe or PayPerPost will require you a high ranking and massive readers to your blog. In this case, the requirement is quite easy and achievable if you regularly maintain your blog.

If you don't like to write junks though they offer a good amount of money, you can reject the offering - this will help you to maintain the quality of your blog. When you found out that a job review is suitable with your niche, then you can have a topic to write about while you are being paid as well when writing the review. Paid review can also help us to get new ideas from other sites which hire us for a review.

We know that paid review is a matter of backlink technique to improve the SEO ranking of a website and to draw more visitors. However, if we believe that the site we review is going to be useful and beneficial, then by writing a review, we have helped the site to be known by many more people who might need them.

There are many other parties who are against paid review including Google! Google considers paid review as a means to manipulate Page Rank. Page Rank is determined by how many sites give vote to our site. If there are many sites giving outbound links to our site, it means that our site has been voted by many and may get higher Page Rank.

Google does not support paid links and as a result, Google has started to lower or even taken out the Page Rank of blogs with paid reviews posts. If your blog has no Page Rank, you may not get any paid review job - unless advertisers know that your blog has massive traffic - normally websites with massive traffic also have good Page Rank.

Paid review program may give you decent money but perhaps not forever because you will only get paid when you write a review. People are looking for many ways to earn decent money continuously from the Internet so paid review may be just a temporary alternative. You can still earn money with Adsense every month and even years to come with your site.

Too many paid review postings will make your readers leave your blog or unsubscribe to your RSS. While in the new internet marketing world, readers are your main source of income. A smart blogger will mix their paid review postings with other affiliate postings so that readers will think that the paid review posting is part of the blog's articles.

So, should we say that paid review is worthless? Well, some bloggers earn decent money from them. Should we tell people not to join paid review? Well, what is the reason of prohibiting someone to earn money, we don't have the right for it either. Should we join paid review program? If adsense and others don't give you much earning, so why not, as long as your site does not break the TOS of your affiliates.

I would say that we can still be professional bloggers if we carefully select the paid review job which we believe is going to be useful to our readers. However, in the practice, of course, it is very rare since most bloggers want quick decent money by writing a very short paragraph.

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