Thanks for the link. I liked your site and they way you reviewed all the sites. A back link is always appreciated, not matter whether it is from a site with good PR or not. Our motto: “links, links and links”.

When you honestly review a particular site, it helps both of you. However, there is a vast difference between free review and paid review. I noticed that people who review for money, just list the positive aspects and often ignore the negative ones. That may not go well with the “Big Boss”. I would always request a fellow blogger to take a look on my site and review it in his/her own way. I will accept both the bouquets and brickbats. No problem with that.

Your reviews are very nice and create a sense of positiveness in reader’s mind. I must say that you have done a great job. Keep up the great work.

Thanks for stopping by to share your thoughts and feedback on the topic of reviews. Both of you make some very good points and offer things to consider, for both the paid reviews and free reviews.

As a blogger, I think the important thing to do is put the same quality into your content regardless of whether a review is free or paid.

But I feel that it really depends on the blog - popular blogs will usually write a nice review simply because they ARE popular, meaning that people enjoy their blog because of their content. Similarly, poor blogs will often write the minimum treshold becuase they put no effort or quality into their blogs.

One difference between ReviewMe and this method is that with ReviewMe, advertisers are hand-choosing which blogs will review them; the reciprocol link offer is open to anyone, and so it is not expected that all the reviews will be of quality.

The “ReviewME” phase, in a sense is useless, sure it helps PR, but Traffic is more important then PR, and quality is more important as well. Very few people will do more than the bare amount to get their link featured.

However, on the good side it does get your site out there more, however, whenever I see a “Reviewme” post, I just skip by and very rarely read how the other sites did.

I have been more than pleased with your reviews. Especially since all it cost me was a t-shirt
But really, your reviews were very positive and in-depth, giving the reader a good idea of what my sites were about before checking them out for themselves. You also created a nice bit of mystery with the “babes” pictured on my site, even women like to see other attractive women. I just hope I pull it off with a touch of class and don’t inadvertently degrade their images.
Thanks again and keep up the great work on your site!

Leo

For instance, in that last review I linked to John’s site he was only asking for a short little blurb with specific anchor text but I wanted to provide more to my readers and made it a little more *meaty* review.

Regardless of whether I am being paid for a review or not, my goal is to provide a quality review and I hope that comes across. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts.