Comments on: ReviewMe – Stats Update and Set Own Review Price

By: Popular Wealth

Popular Wealth — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:01:41 +0000

MediaWhiz can’t get the stats correct in peoples accounts for shit. I DARE you to try hitting the manual update option on ReviewMe.com – I bet you your RSS numbers will go to zero stars instantly.

Not impressed, and not doing business with them until they fix it for both their main services. It’s just not worth the trouble and they quickly email you saying it’s fixed when it’s not.

The BUYER is getting the shaft with their stat collecting issues too.

By: johnon.com - John Andrews - » ReviewMe gets a little Shmarter: Better than A Press Release

Fri, 23 Feb 2007 21:05:31 +0000

[...] ReviewMe just updated their evaluations of blogs and now charges $250 for a sponsored highlight on this johnon.com blog. Initially, I was offered half of a $60 fee for johnon.com. With this update, I think ReviewMe is now a viable service. Since they keep 50% of the fee, sponsored reviews here at johnon.com will now result in a $125 payment to me, and $125 to ReviewMe. As a pasive form of promotion, we can both prosper with that. [...]

By: robwatts

robwatts — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:54:31 +0000

I signed up for reviewme last week, more out of curioisity really. I got accepted too, thanks to a lot of link love from that 2000 bloggers thing. I think my current rate is something ridiculous, so yes that option to set your own price is good. Ive never been a fan of having my personal worth determined by others. I prefer the ‘I’ll work for X, pay me or find someone else’ mentality.

Some might argue that the social metrics used to determine value are done so for the specific purpose of saying ‘hey, high pr/alexa/technorati rating, buy here and win’ so I guess its hardly surprising as a result to read Matt Cutts et al complaining that its remarkbly similar to a sophisticted kind of link pop manipulation scheme, aimed at rewarding high metric measurement sites for the SE value they bestow upon those reviewed.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 05:57:30 +0000

I actually received that same email from them when I first queried updates a month or so ago, when I replied to it Andy Hagens replied in person though I was expecting the update on the first of the month… Andy didn’t however specify which month ;)

This system is much better. I am sure some people will reduce their prices to get more reviews, though from what I have seen advertisers prefer the premium partners who can give them some traffic and possibly better link love.

As to the comments system, it is new, maybe a little confusing because this is the only blog doing anything like this, but hopefully I can get it more streamlined, I don’t want to discourage real comments positive or negative.

By: Roberta Rosenberg, T

Roberta Rosenberg, T — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 00:59:44 +0000

Hi Andy, I found your post very opportune! Interestingly enough, I wrote ReviewMe over the weekend asking how I could update my info since it was very, very old. I got an email back saying how they update every month. I replied with my latest Alexa and Technorati numbers and voila, I’m updated and so are you!

Of course, I haven’t been asked to review anything since you were, but still … (BTW, it took me forever to figure out the comment thing. I guess that’s the whole point! :=)