Paid reviews are one of the major source of income for bloggers. I have some blogs whose AdSense and direct ad sale income is less than $30 a month and during last 3 months I have earned $200 from sponsored reviews. In AdSense or similar ppc networks, bloggers get 50 to 70% of the proceeds from advertisers. But in case of sponsored reviews advertisers directly contact with bloggers to advertise their brands. Here comes a problem, how to get sponsored reviews and where to find advertisers?
Think like an advertiser, if you are an advertiser and your goal is post 50 paid posts in high authority websites this week. You will try to find the places online where bloggers gather. In case you are not successful, you will go to an intermediary. So as a blogger your goal must be to get maximum related and genuine paid posts, so you need to pay attention to all sources.
Hope you will find the above sources useful and it will make you blogging path smooth. Share your views in comments.
Think like an advertiser, if you are an advertiser and your goal is post 50 paid posts in high authority websites this week. You will try to find the places online where bloggers gather. In case you are not successful, you will go to an intermediary. So as a blogger your goal must be to get maximum related and genuine paid posts, so you need to pay attention to all sources.
Intermediaries
There are a lot of websites acting as paid posts intermediaries. Some of them are reviewme.com, sposeredreviews.com, postrelease.com, socialspark.com etc. I have tried all of them but got success only on social spark.So i recommend socialspark.com, you can register herePro bloggers
Whenever an advertiser thinks to advertise his product then face towards the big websites of a particular niche. Once a deal strike between advertiser and blogger, its time for advertiser to find some more good bloggers in the similar niche. As advertiser hot a good experience from that pro blogger, he will ask to refer some good bloggers. Now that pro blogger will refer bloggers from his network, which he keep up on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or commentators and contributors of his own blog. So try to build some sort of relationship with pro bloggers.Social media groups
Advertisers will try to put less efforts in finding quality blogs. Normally bloggers in every niche, geographical location or sections becomes a part of social media groups which are maintained on different social media sites. Advertisers use to post update on these groups about the sponsored review need.Bloggers' forums
Bloggers' forums such as google groups, css-tricks, bloggertricks etc provides great opportunities to bloggers. I have seen bloggers earning huge from forums, by selling premium domains, websites, articles, paid posts and a lot more.Facebook groups
There are a lot of regional facebook groups of bloggers. Whenever a blogger get some opportunity, he shares the same with other bloggers via these groups. One group in facebook which i follow regularly is buy and sell. I sold 4 domains, which were waste for me. Although there are no big buyers in these groups, but i found people like me who are doing same things, so got a sense of attachment.Advertise here page
Make a contact form, and show in advertise page that you accept paid posts. It's not a secret, everyone is doing that, you can also do that bravely. Remember, Once Matt Cutts said that these paid posts should not affect search engine rankings, so you should give nofollow tags to paid post links. May be in next Google algorithm update all those sites that are giving dofollow links to paid posts get penalised and get removed from searches.Hope you will find the above sources useful and it will make you blogging path smooth. Share your views in comments.