My Review Price Just Went Up
written by John Chow on March 22nd, 2007
Those with a sharp eye may have noticed the price on the ReviewMe logo at the right sidebar now displays $500. With my entry into the Technorati Top 100, my review price has now double.
I bet you’re wondering how many reviews I’ll get at $500. I had the same question when ReviewMe bump my price to $250, from $100. It seems history has repeated itself. Just as I asked, “Who’s going to pay $500.00 for me to do a review?” I logged into my ReviewMe control panel and see two new review requests.
The rich get richer. 
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Congratulations John! I’m sure at the rate you’re going your site will be in the top 10 on technorati. Keep it up.
Reply to this commentThe climb to the Top 10 is going to be a lot harder than the climb to get to the Top 100. However you’re right, John will probably make it to the top 10 with some of his strategies, lets just hope he doesn’t get banned again
Reply to this commentAt this rate, yes . . . john will crack the top 10 soon, but to be honest . . . will it happen this year? I don’t know.
Reply to this commentIt’ll be extremely difficult to crack the Top 10 considering the sites that make up the top. I’m guessing he’ll settle in somewhere in the 40s.
Reply to this commentI expect the same, the ‘top blogs’ nearly all got multiple authors, everyday somewhat unique articles and such, it wont be too easy to pass those ‘giants’.
Reply to this commentYea, AND they are updated several times a day, and are mostly news and tech blogs.
Reply to this commentjohn’s blog is too important now, if some service like technorati bans him, that will begin a “war” and everyone will talk (write) about that.
I didn’t now that this blog was banned at tecnhorati…why?
Reply to this commentTop 10, no. Top 50, most definitely. If John made it to the top 10 Technorati would ban him. Lots of politics involved in having a top 10 spot on a site like Technorati, and I’d bet lots of $ changing hands for those top 10 positions too.
Reply to this commentNo doubt. Every time I see a site jump into the top ten it gets banned by Technorati.
Reply to this commentYep sure does. I don’t like to speculate but I’m guessing a top 10 Technorati listing is worth the equivelant of a 6 figure marketing budget to big blogs.
Reply to this commentSince Technorati works on a 3 month rolling cycle it would take a lot of doing to nudge someone out of the top ten by getting people to stop linking to them.
It would probably be cheaper to go out and buy 30,000 domains and drop a WordPress blog on them with an article that links to your site!
Reply to this commentAnd the evil get eviler?
Reply to this commentOh.. you have seen nothing yet!
Reply to this comment*shiver* This should be interesting.
Reply to this commentAre you sure? ^_*
Reply to this commentI noticed that this morning. Way to go John. I suspected you’d still be getting lots even in the upper brackets, since the ROI gets better the higher you go.
Reply to this commentI believe that also. reviews will continue to come in good quantity.
Reply to this commentGood thing I got my review in early! Congrats!
Reply to this commentcongratulations man!
Reply to this commentArrg… they wont even accept me yet
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Reply to this commentand you’re getting paying 500 USD per review..
W-O-W (and i dont mean world of warcart
Testing reply
Reply to this commentIt took me almost 2 months to get approved. Just keep working on your content and network with people.
Michael
Reply to this commentYou have to have a solid amount of content, backlinks, Technorati rating and readers to get approved.
And even then, actually getting a review request is another big step.
Reply to this commentSo true. I was approved at a $60/review tick. None ordered yet.
Reply to this commentDon’t worry about it. I was approved but haven’t had any requests to review any sites or products and my going rate is like $20 or $35.00 lol.
Reply to this commentJohn, why not bump it up to $1,000? I bet you’ll continue to get more review requests. Being in the top technorati 100 has that type of value.
Reply to this comment$750 is the max they allow you to use.
Reply to this commentGot it. Thanks Steve.
Reply to this commentAre you still giving it all to charity? You’re making an awful lot of money now. Somebody is going to be happy
Reply to this commentI believe John said he would only be giving his first month’s revenue to charity.
Can’t give all your money to freakin’ charity…lol
Reply to this commentYea, a person who does all of that wouldn’t be in his right mind.
One gotta take care of his own benefits too!
Reply to this commentI wonder what the sweet spot is for this blog in terms of ReviewMe pricing. If people are still purchasing reviews, why not increase it to 600 or 650? At $750 I suspect the review orders will start to decline.
Reply to this commentI think the cap is at $500, he has reached his Everest.
Reply to this commentI think the cap is at $750 since there are several blogs that have manually changed their prices to be at the top of the list.
Reply to this commentI bet he’ll get reviews no matter what the price rises to. People tend to believe things are worth more when you have to pay more.
Reply to this comment“If you build it they will come…” I wouldn’t worry at all about lost interest in your reviews. Keep up the inspiration John!
Reply to this commentYou truly are evil!
Congrats John!
Reply to this commentDo we have to log into reviewme to look for review requests? Crap, I thought they would send me an email. I am only at $60 per review, but even that makes me happy.
Michael
Reply to this commentI have been trying to get in also and was hoping for a quicker reply. My site is PR4 and Im getting 1000 visitors daily… guess keep plugging away
Reply to this comment“The rich get richer.” Haha! Nice one John.
It’s amazing how sometimes a bump in price can drive up demand. It doesn’t appear to be rational behavior but I’ve seen it happen myself. Thanks for keeping us posted.
Reply to this commentVery impressive, I had my doubts as to how many people would order a $500 review but I guess I was proven wrong, congrats!
Reply to this commentcongrats…. I learned something new from u..
Reply to this commentI saw that earlier and had to do a double take. While I can’t even imagine the traffic a ReviewMe review on your site would generate I am sure it is worth every penny of the $500.
Reply to this commentIts only a matter of time until it goes up again I’m sure. Great Job John.
Reply to this commentAmazing congrats on the nice increase and the nice 500 you just earned, and the extra 500 you just earned for review me, I think its time you talked to them about giving you a bigger piece of the pie, or you could just sell reviews on your own for $300 a pop. I bet all the people that only had to pay 125 are laughing at their good fortune right now.
BTW congrats on what I am assuming will obviously be another record breaking month!
Reply to this commentI wonder if this is the highest rate they have. Anyone seen any reviews for a higher price?
Reply to this commentShoemoney is at $2,500 per review. http://www.reviewme.com/Technology-C111/ShoeMoney-17950.html
Reply to this commentThat’s just ridiculous.
Reply to this commentI think you can set your own price..
Reply to this commentI dont think I have read a review me from him though yet.
Reply to this commentholy crap that’s crazy!
Reply to this commentJosh, I believe 500 is the highest.
Reply to this commentnope $750 is
Reply to this comment$500 is the highest pre-set rate that they have, but you have the ability to adjust your own rate to whatever you want.
Reply to this commentYa, I dont like u anymore
Reply to this commentWell done John! I guess that knocks out a lot of people with new blogs or sites like me from affording a blog review now. $500 sheesh! Good work though
Reply to this comment$500 a review! Wow, that’s amazing.
Reply to this commentDoes ReviewME still make 50% of the price advertisers pay? If that’s still the way they work, I honestly don’t see why advertisers do not contact you directly, potentially saving 500$.
Reply to this commentYou made a great job and now this is the results: mooooney !
Reply to this commentThe real question is did you notice or did your readers notice first?
Reply to this commentCongratulations!
I hate you.
Reply to this commentthis is good for us (the readers) for two reasons:
1. We don’t get junk/spammy/affiliate reviews as everyday individuals don’t have that kind of cash. Last month, the reviewme’s were getting ridiculous on this blog.
2. The reviews we do get will be top notch as John will feel under even more pressure to deliver on the inflated price tag.
Reply to this commentCongratulations! And yes, we hate you and love you at the same time. Lol!
Reply to this commentNice John. I’ll pay $500 without even blinking the next time I buy a review from you. Then again, if I’m sneaky I could just slide a link to one of our products into my next guest post - but I’m not that evil
Reply to this commentGeee, $2,500?? I can’t imagine it being worthwhile, regardless of how large the site. I can see $500 for a site that is relevant to your readers. Not worth it for me tho, sorry LOL.
Reply to this commentWhy only 4 Alexa stars? What Alexa ranking do you need to have to get 5 stars???
Reply to this comment$2500 is just for attention! See we are talking about it..
Reply to this commentWell keep being evil John! Thats awesome news, one thing I wondered is there any $1000 review me prices out there?
Reply to this commentI thought $250 was the maximum!! hahaha
Reply to this commentDo they still have 50% off promotion? If so, $250 after discount is seems affordable.
Reply to this commentTo me $500 isn’t affordable let alone $250
I’ll just have to figure out a better way to blog or get John to do a review without paying him
Reply to this commentSeriously! I’m waiting on the 75% off sale.
Reply to this commentI got it at $125. I’m sure it will work well for some people–especially those selling products to “make money online”. I didn’t get as much traffic as I was expecting from it.
Checkout the stats and my analysis here:
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mwshead/2007/03/22/review-of-john-chows-reviewme-for-productivity501/
By the way I was pleased with John’s review. He did a great job, you just have to choose the sites you get reviewed on very, very carefully.
Reply to this commentHmm, based on the amount of traffic and reputation that you have here, advertisers wont hesitate to be featured here for that amount of money
Reply to this commentIt’s a real deal!
Depends on what you are selling. Here are some stats from a ReviewMe from John Chow My Stats
Reply to this comment$2500 for ShoeMoney. Wow. How many visitors does he get in a day? My site is listed for way less and we’re pushing over 200,000 visits from 90,000 unique IPs in A DAY.
Reply to this commentHe set the price himself. You can set yours really high too if you want.
Reply to this commentDoes Mac Update even have a place to post reviews?
Reply to this commentGeez, $500 for a review sounds pretty good to me. Start sharing with your readers, John. Start with me first, okthxbye.
Reply to this commentOkay I just noticed my price just jumped to $100!
Reply to this commentI guess you will only get full 5 stars on Alexa when you reach the top 1000. Wow.. It just seems that John is getting further and further away from the common crowd. Oh gosh.
Reply to this commentJust in case anyone wonders what happens when you get a ReviewMe from John Chow, I’ve posted some of my stats here:
Reply to this commentHow high do the ReviewMe rates go up to anyway?
Reply to this commentJohn, you’ll become evil millionare soon. Congrat
!
Reply to this commentYou are def. cashing in with ReviewMe!!!
Reply to this commentThat must be a phenominal feeling to see a blog debut in the Technorati 100?
Do you remember the very moment you fist saw it there? What was your intitial reaction????
Reply to this commentJohn Is the blog getting more money than the techzone? I have never actually seen you posting your revenue from there.
Also dont you feel guilty getting Micheal to do all the review Me’s?
Reply to this commentMore money than TechZone?
The man wakes up at noon every day!
Reply to this commentNo and no.
Reply to this commentIt’s going to be crazy to see John’s April review me money.
The earnings from his blog are only going to go up.
Reply to this commentI wish I was just added to ReviewMe lol
Reply to this commentGeez! I envy you!
Reply to this commentBut congratulations anyway
Just noticed John has lowered the review price to $300. Did the review requests stop coming in at $500?
Reply to this commentI see the price is back down to 300
Jeff - http://wallpapers.jeffreymunro.com
Reply to this commentSo sad that you review price went up. Now I am far from getting a review from the great John Chow. But I am hoping their are other ways for me to earn the relationship with John. They should let you control the price, because who is to say that the price they give you is at the best price looking back to supply and demand principals.
Reply to this commentHopefully, you’d rub off some of that money mojo on us all. John, you are officially my ambassador of Kwan!
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