How to Make a Consistent Income Online by Writing Blog Reviews

Do you know that you can make a nice income with a blog without needed to make yourself or your blog popular, without getting massive amount of blog traffic, and without having to learn the blog monetizing strategies and busy testing which advertising programs work well for your blog.

By posting paid or sponsor reviews on your blog, it is possible to make $100 to $2,000 every month. But of course, there are some drawbacks if you build a blog specifically to post sponsor reviews only. Firstly your blog will not attract returned visitors because most people don’t like to read blog posts about product reviews. Secondly your visitors will not subscribe to your blog feed because again they aren’t interested to read review posts and finally your blog isn’t suitable for Google AdSense and other similar money making programs.

But don’t feel bad because of the above drawbacks as you are still able to make a good income just by focusing on posting paid reviews.

Starting a blog specifically to make money with paid reviews isn’t suitable to everyone. But if you do interested to make money online with this method, here are the steps you can follow to get started:

Step 1 - Start a Blog
Blogger.com is so popular; I bet you have heard of it. You can join Blogger.com and set up a blog absolutely free with a subdomain name of blogger.com. But I will suggest you use a custom domain name for your blog that set up in Blogger.com.

Using domain name for your Blogger blog will increase your chances of getting more paid review opportunities. The easiest way to set up your Blogger blog with your own custom domain name is by buying your domain name through Blogger. Buying a domain through Blogger will automatically set up everything for you and will attach you a new domain to your existing Blogger blog instantly. Below are the instructions from Blogger.com on how to set up a blog with your own domain name:

http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=55373&topic=12451

Alternatively, you may use Wordpress.com to set up a blog. Setting up a Wordpress blog does involve some technical works. If you need help, here is a link to a video series teaching you how to start a Wordpress blog from scratch:

http://becomeablogger.com/video-1.html

Step 2 - Decide the Topics for Your Blog
After you have set up your blog, it is now ready for posting your content for publication on the Internet. But before you know what to post, you must decide what topics you want to focus on. In the case of building a review blog, you will need to start a list of topics for your blog. It is not difficult to start numerous topics or categories for your blog, just write anything related to your life, hobby and experience and you’ll then come up with a list of topics in your blog.


Think about your weekly activities, you may have watched TV & movie, played games, traveled to somewhere else, seen some interested electronic products, read about the latest technologies, learned something new about computer & Internet and many other things you may have experienced. All these topics can be written down and published on your blogs. But make sure all the content you posted on your blog are legal, ethical and family friendly. Here is a real example of simple review blog that has made more than $1,800 this month (up to 30th March as recorded in Payperpost.com) just writing product reviews for the advertisers of Payperpost.com.

http://www.frenchvision.net

Take a look at the site and you will get the idea on how to start a review blog.

Your blog have to be updated with content on an on-going basis but don’t worry you don’t need to post too many blog entries. Just 2 to 4 blog posts every week will be enough.

Step 3 - Build Traffic for Your Blog
You don’t need a massive amount of traffic to make money with sponsor reviews, but you do need some consistent traffic (50 to 200 unique visitors daily) for getting paid reviews opportunities. So you are going to need to spend some time driving traffic to your blog daily. There are plenty of methods you can use to generate traffic to your blog, some of the common methods are social bookmarking, article marketing, forum posting and holding a contest. As these are common traffic-generating methods, you can use Google and search for these topics to learn everything about how to use these methods to get traffic. And probably you will find other methods of getting blog traffic that you can apply also to increase your blog traffic when searching on Google

Building traffic for your blog will help you get the most paid review opportunities from advertisers.

Step 4 - Join Payperpost.com
There are many websites offering paid review opportunities and the most popular and biggest one is Payperpost.com. So Payperpost.com is the first site you should join. Your blog have to be at least 30 days old and have at least 10 previous posts in order to participate in Payperpost program. So make sure you meet the requirements before applying for becoming a review blogger of Payperpost.com.

Opportunities are released almost every day in Payperpost.com. You need to login to your Payperpost account often to see the opportunities you are qualified to take. So if you have a list of topics or categories in your blog, you are likely to be qualified for more opportunities.

You will usually earn $5 to $15 for each review posted on your blog that get approved by Payperpost.

Another good site that offers similar opportunities is Sponsorreviews.com.

Conclusion
It will take some one to two months to build your blog with content and traffic to qualify for participation in Payperpost program and make money writing sponsor reviews. So at the beginning you wouldn’t see any money come in and you have to be willing to put some effort to build up your blog traffic.

Once you have qualified posting sponsor reviews, join Payperpost and be patient to wait for review opportunities to come. You will be getting more and more opportunities over time and make a nice income writing reviews.