Tips For Paid Review : Don’t Forget Your Blog’s Niche
Paid Reviews or Sponsored Reviews are a special sort of posts that you write reviewing your client’s website, software, etc after a deal between you and the advertiser is made. The deal usually states that you are going to review your client’s website placing two or three do-follow backlinks. The deal also notes how long your post needs to be. This deal can be made directly or via third party clients such as PayPerPost, etc.
Most of newbie bloggers do a common mistake after getting an opportunity to write a paid post on their blogs. We just forget what our niche is. To those bloggers, I have a simple message: Please don’t forget that your audience is of greater value than money. Audience helps you make money. Money doesn’t make you gain audience. Of course, in some case, money is necessary to reach wider level of audience; but that’s not all.
Today I’m going to explain you the fact showing an example of what I did last night.
From a third party website where I signed up for receiving paid review on blog proposals, I received an email which offered me to review a website for $10. I was asked to check out the website and take necessary actions. Obviously the actions were either Accept or Deny the opportunity. Any blogger would be happy to get such a proposal in the inbox just like I was. But hey, that’s not all. You have to consider if you should accept the offer.
Proposal that came to my inbox.
The first thing I did after reading the email was checking the customer’s website out. I checked out the site thoroughly and finally figured out that the website was a car-selling website. That means, the niche of that site was Automobiles, and the site was selling autos to consumers.
Now, I ask you, what do you think? Ring any bell on your mind? Should I accept the opportunity?
Well, honestly, there is no difficulty to write a review for that website about automobiles. BUT, my blog has a specific niche and I don’t want to hurt it. If I would write a review of that site, I would have been paid $10. Understandably, the amount is pretty much good for us in Bangladesh. I guess most of Bangladeshis would accept the offer, write a review, and then wait for the money.
No awards for guesses that the blogger would get paid shortly. In fact, some companies pay bloggers in advance.
But, I didn’t do that mistake. I thought just a little moment and clicked the “REJECT” link. Do you know why? Let’s see what I wrote as the reason for rejecting the opportunity.
Reason for declining.
As you can read my message from the picture above, the reason for declining the opportunity was it didn’t match my blog’s niche or subject or central topic. So, I didn’t think thrice (I did twice, though 
) before declining the proposal.
And that’s my today’s lesson to all my readers. We should always remember that we have some readers and they come here for their OWN INTEREST. They would not be happy to see an irrelevant post on my blog. They would come to check out if there’s any new post on my blog; not to mention the post would be about technology. If they find that the post is all about a website selling automobiles, they would be either confused or disturbed to see ‘mixed content’.
Considering my readership, I just threw $10 away. And I’m not sad at all. There is nothing to be sad since I did that just to respect my readers’ valuable time that they come here and spend reading my stuffs. I can’t be bothering to them. I have some responsibilities to provide them the best and the most relevant content to my blog’s topic.
And that’s what you too should think before you accept a sponsored post.
Important: Please note that if you don’t want to write a review proposed directly by the advertiser or via third party clients, you should decline or reject the opportunity instead of making no reply. If you don’t reply, they will consider you as disrespectful or something alike that may cause you receive no more proposals in future.
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