Comments on: Now I Know Why I’m Getting So Many ReviewMe

By: Jaxia

Jaxia — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:19:51 +0000

I’m not sure they look at Alexa because my rankings there are horrible, but I have a Google PR of 5 on both of my sites that were accepted.

By: ReviewMe Fixes Price Gaming « John Chow dot Com

ReviewMe Fixes Price Gaming « John Chow dot Com — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:00:42 +0000

[...] looks like ReviewMe has been paying attention to my recent price gaming post. They no longer list blogs based on pricing. Now all blogs are listed based on star [...]

By: Maki

Maki — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:47:09 +0000

Just to clarify something here, now that Garry Conn has mentioned my blog.

My blog pricing on Review Me has got nothing to do with his suggestions two days ago.

My blog has always been priced in this range for sometime.

@Shokthx, Alex Bamo and John

Just because a blog prices a review at a certain price doesn’t mean that it is naturally gaming the system nor does it mean that the blogger in question does not want to do any reviews. Assumption of motivation is the biggest error here.

In my case, the price set is appropriate to the amount of time I can choose to spare for an advertiser, especially on one that doesn’t interest me in the first place.

Gaming ReviewMe for traffic is just plain silly when you have a dozen other social websites that are more efficient at sending massive amounts of visitors to your site.

By: sg-GOD

sg-GOD — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:04:12 +0000

True! Reviewme has to put some kind of limitation on this price gaming, as you told may be based on stars or alexa ranking etc.

By: Garry Conn

Garry Conn — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:46:07 +0000

The reason why I was doing it was because that is a PR5 page and I wanted to have a great link back to my site from that page. But since it all got caught on so quick, I just put my site back to a normal price and it’s back to business again. LOL!

By: Garry Conn

Garry Conn — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:44:18 +0000

Matt,

Email Patrick and present some stats to him and show him that your site is ready. That is what I did and he manually approved my site for me in 24 hours. *That was actually Text-Link-Ads… but I am sure that if you present decent stats to him and show him what you are doing towards working on building your site and provide a few references, he will approve it.

By: Garry Conn

Garry Conn — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:12:41 +0000

Busted! LOL… I was one of the first to do that. Oh well, I have put my price back down to a normal level. It was fun while it lasted! Man, some people are quick to catch on! I did that less than a week ago, then I told DoshDosh about it two days ago, then I noticed JohnTP doing it… Sheesh! Cat got out of the bag real quick.

Ok Mr. Chow… I have my sites back at a normal amount! LOL

By: Price Gaming Keeps Increasing On ReviewMe

Price Gaming Keeps Increasing On ReviewMe — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:24:18 +0000

[...] review price from $250 to $320 thinking that I may get more review orders. But the next day I found John Chow make a post about ReviewMe price gaming and since then I have noticed an even higher level of price [...]

By: Mr. Red

Mr. Red — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:46:17 +0000

i would be happy just to get the $40 reviews, been on there a month and have yet to get one, how many reviews are you averaging a month through them now?

By: Russell Rockefeller

Russell Rockefeller — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 01:53:41 +0000

I agree with Matt Jones. It likely wouldn’t bring random traffic but rather sophisticated advertisers that could potentially drive revenue. This falls into the area category of indirect monetization which is something that all brand marketers are aware can only be measured the way scientists measure dark matter. If you want direct calculatable conversion I recommend a less esoteric approach. Something trackable unlike organic SEO techniques.