over the course of the past year or so, i have experimented a number of ways to monetize this blog. installed ads, removed them, installed something else, took them down after a few months. at the moment, i am even considering ridding of the google ads. the clutter is just not worth the few cents some ad programs are generating. after all, it’s not like my personal life generates as much buzz and interest as the other blogs i write about. and the 10 or so loyal visitors i have are apparently either immune to advertisements, or too lazy to be bothered to click on them ;)

of all programs i’ve tried, i like text link ads best. the ad(s) are comparatively discreet, and requires nothing from readers for me to earn. i bet a lot of you don’t even recognize the lone text link ad on this blog, unless you purposely look for it.

this week, the owners of text link ads launched a new program enabling bloggers to earn a few bucks from their personal blogs: ReviewMe.

how does it work? simply put, advertisers will ask you to review their website/service/whatever, and you get paid for posting your review in your blog. in the same way that advertisers get to choose which bloggers they will offer the job to, bloggers also get to choose which offers they’d like to take on. if you don’t like the offers you get, no pressure, you don’t have to do anything. should you eventually accept an offer, you get paid a fee which depends on your blog’s popularity or traffic. for writing this review of reviewme, for example, i’m supposed to earn $30 (let’s see if it materializes come paytime).

what i like best about reviewme is that they even tell you to indicate that you are writing for $ in exchange. that means, your regular readers won’t be puzzled when you write about something totally out of sync to the normal fare you write about. i have written reviews before — books, hotels, foodstuff, etc– without getting paid for any of it. now that there’s reviewme, why should i say no to a chance of getting paid for my opinion?

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