1 Quick Tip To Get More ReviewMe Reviews

Posted on 14. Feb, 2007 by in Internet, Making Money

After having just posted a new review, I wanted to share with you the 1 way in which I managed to increase my exposure on ReviewMe.com – generating more visitors by site referral and resulting in a review (although I can’t 100% guarantee it was because of this hack). If you don’t know what ReviewMe is, check out my post on it (which I was paid for unlike this).

Yesterday, I logged into my control panel and wanted to see which blogs I was competing against. The only way in which I could search through similar blogs (unlike the navigation at TLA), was to click on a “tag”. Now these tags are sized and coloured depending on their popularity. The idea:

Why not then add the tag to your blog listing which is the most popular one? At ReviewMe, this happens to be the tag “Blogs” at the time of writing. Thus, I added this tag to my listing. Another idea, remove all tags on your listing other than the most popular ones (ie. don’t over-optimize and carpet bomb with tagging). I’m pretty sure the site will rank your listing higher if you use less tags (again Im not completely sure on this).

Anyway, this morning I received an email saying that a review had just been ordered for this site. Coincidence? You decide…

P.S. At the moment ReviewMe.com are offering a 50% discount on any review for advertisers this month. Fortunately, us bloggers will be receiving 100% of this price (but that equates to the same amount – its just that RM.com will get no money). Just enter the word “trial” into the coupon code at checkout.

Disclaimer – I’m not trying to tell people to cheat the system. For example with me, I previously had a tag for just “Blog”. Therefore, I added an s and changed this to “Blogs” to compete with the most popular tag. If you feel there is a popular tag that describes your site well then by all means add it. If it doesn’t – then don’t use the tag and search for another phrase that does go well. Sorry didn’t make that more clear.

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8 Responses to “1 Quick Tip To Get More ReviewMe Reviews”

  1. Matt (mithrill)

    14. Feb, 2007

    Interesting…very interesting. That’s pretty smart of you Adnan though I’m not sure how ethical it is to manipulate ReviewMe.com rating system to earn more money. I’m not saying it is or it isn’t ethical, but you or anyone else looking at doing this must really consider some things before acting.

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  2. adnan

    14. Feb, 2007

    Thanks Matt – Im glad you pointed out an omission in my article – please see the Disclaimer now. You’re right, I wasn’t inferring that people should cheat the system, but I see how it could be misinterpreted.

    I would have to agree with you and say that any form of “gaming the system” is unethical – you know me and I try and stick to the rules. So sorry to anyone who feels that Im endorsing manipulation – it was a suggestion for more of us non-spammy and long-running type guys!

    Cheers for commenting mate.

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  3. Collis

    14. Feb, 2007

    I can’t remember for sure, but I believe i found you under ‘business’ … But i’d seen your blog before so it stood out of the list. Actually there are SOO many blogs listed on that site, its tough going through them all.

    I have a feeling that not that many reviews are being purchased and hence they are giving away the 50% off thing, though I could be wrong. I know that johnchow.com seems to get a lot of reviews, but thats about it.

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  4. adnan

    16. Feb, 2007

    Oh right – yeah the directory on TLA is brimming with both good and bad blogs and I suppose its just down to the buyer whether or not they advertise on a particular site. But it also helped that i had a little brand loyalty!

    Hmmm, I think the lack of reviews may be to do with the negative impact PayPerPost had on the reviewing for money world. ReviewMe is actually much cleaner and user-friendly than any other site I’ve seen.

    And yeah JohnChow always seems to have reviews coming his way – I try not to get jealous about it ;)

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  5. Cage Freely

    17. Feb, 2007

    Great tip! I just signed up to reviewme.com, I did go with minimal tags. Let’s see what happens.

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  6. adnan

    18. Feb, 2007

    Thanks Cage and good luck with the strategy. Keep us posted whether you got any reviews.

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  7. Mitza

    18. Feb, 2007

    Interesting.I’ve also used this tip today .. waiting to see results.

    Thanks for sharing.

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  8. adnan

    20. Feb, 2007

    No problem Mitza – thanks for reading.

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