How Much Would You Pay For A Free Review?
Since I’m not really the world’s greatest blogger (i know, you’re shocked) I sometimes find myself struggling to find things to write about. Because I try to keep the blog focused on “how I do it” with regards to GrownUpGeek.com, I don’t have the luxury of posting things like “random rants“, “where I ate for dinner last night“, “the difference between buffalo and bison” or “airport bathrooms I hate the most” when I run out of real ideas like many other bloggers do. This leaves me with far fewer options to choose from when I’m trying to come up with good topics to write about.
In my quest to find more stuff to blog about in my downtimes I’m considering offering free paid reviews. That’s right – FREE paid reviews. Since my blog is “anti spam” and “Ad free” I can’t really charge for them so I’ve been thinking of doing these “paid” reviews for free – but I’m not sure how many of you would be interested in paying even that much.
The reviews would be written from my perspective and would be brutally honest -I would interject my thoughts and ideas for improvement, I would let you know if i like it or hate it, if I would visit the site or if I think others would, etc. Of course all reviews would include links to the site/blog I’m reviewing, but because I just moved from my old PR3 Blogger.com to my new sub-domain I don’t yet have any PR-Juice to squirt.
Since I’m really just toying with the idea, I’d like to gauge the interest in having your blog/site reviewed by the Great Randy Brown. If you think this is a lame idea or if you’d be willing to beg for a review by me, please cast your vote and/or post a comment.
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Please please choose my blog first. I really want to improve it a lot – personalise it, use pics etc. And I would really welcome some suggestions, as I don’t have a clue – especially when it comes to adding pics etc. I have tried and tried and I can’t even work out how to change the blog header.
I think that indeed a lot of small blogs (like mine) would prefer a bad review than no review.
As I view the things, this would benefit me in 2 ways:
It would increase my technorati and google rankings
I would have some feedback that I could use to improve the blog.
2 stones, 0$. Almost too good to be true
Two quick questions (maybe it is answered in the older posts, but I am too lazy to search
): You seem to be making a lot of money with your forums so
1) Is this a better idea than starting a blog for money?
2) Why do you decide to blog for free when you obviously have enough PR to skyrocket your blog to 10.000$/month?
Greetings,
Olivier.
I like the idea of FREE paid reviews. I think is very original.
For my 9 months old site I would really appreciate some “brutally honest” review.
thanks,
Shoot me a email, and Ill let you into Wordze for free for a review for free, or we can talk paid at the right price. Either way!
So are you going to go ahead with this? I’d really love to have my blog reviewed please.
How the heck can you pass up on free? As for your skills as a blogger, I think you do quite alrite dontcha think, I mean all my readers seemed to love your skills.
Count me in!
I am not sure if you are going ahead and reviewing sites but please give mine a look.
My own invention and I am trying with this SEO stuff to make my hobby business grow and succeed.
Advice would be great but a review would be icing on the cake!
All the best.
http://www.martialarm.com