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Wednesday, May 2, 2007

All Tips and Tricks Denies Link to ReviewMe

Simmone, thanks for your comment to MATCHinform's blog article Beware of ReviewMe.

On your blog All Tips and Tricks you advertise “[i]f you have a blog, and after a while you like what you see, and decide that you want to be reviewed at AllTipsAndTricks, you can either drop a comment here with a link to your blog (and if you catch my attention, you’ll get a free review), or order a review via Review Me. This blog is young, so a review costs only $60. This month, Review Me has a promotion: 50% cut off, if you use the coupon code “trial”. You can take advantage and get your $30 review now, or wait to read my Rolling Blogroll, then decide.”

Besides advocating for your readers and other bloggers to use ReviewMe, you also promote your own advertising schema (similar to ReviewMe) called The Rolling BlogRoll Idea, which you explain as follows:

“Every day, over the next few months, I will publish one review of a blog I like. It is free, and it does not oblige the authors of the reviewed blogs to anything. That’s my pleasure and my way of thanking them for the great content they provide. If you like the review, you can grab the Rolling Blogroll Badge and put it on your site, with a link back to your blog’s review. The badge will be available on this page and on your blog’s review page. Do you want to roll on the Blogroll? You are welcome: after I review your blog, please do the same thing for one of your favourite blogs: review it and explain the Rolling Blogroll idea to the author.”

Dan and Jennifer solicited a review from All Tips and Tricks on March 30th, 2007 at 18:02. "Hey Simonne, Great blog. I just came to All Tips And Tricks from our friend Scott’s blog (Finding Your Marbles) - great review. We’d love a review of our blog as well if you’re so inclined. Our site is a Dating / Relationship advice column...Scott actually did a wonderful review of our site about a week ago - and he really got the essence of what we’re about, which is really cool...Thanks and have an awesome day! Dan"

Finally, listed with your Ask Dan and Jennifer review is a comment from Dan and Jennifer. (April 10th, 2007 13:20) “Hey Simonne, Thanks for the great review, we really appreciate it! Have an awesome day! Dan.” You answered as Simonne. (April 10th, 2007 14:57) “Hi Dan (and Jennifer). It was my pleasure doing it! I really like your blog.”

I will leave it up to our readers to decide if your support of ReviewMe, promotion of your own advertising system The Rolling BlogRoll Idea and correspondence with Dan gives the impression that the arrangement wasn't at the very least mutually beneficial.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This whole “reviewing my blog thing” is a good way to increase traffic, but I agree that if you are reviewing someone's blog with a cash incentive or other benefit (exposure in their blog) then you should disclose that information. After all, if you are trying to gain something from the review, how objective can you be?

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