SponsoredReviews Brightens Up The Place
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Popular paid-review service, Sponsored Reviews, has had a makeover recently. It’s a most welcome change because it addresses some of the things that have always caused me a little discomfort.
When you click on Find Advertisers you’ll be presented with a more robust dashboard of opportunities. This can save you a lot of clicks, too. You no longer have to click on the opps in order to find out the details. In fact, if you did click on the names of the advertisers, you’d be taken to their site. Now all you have to do is rollover the names to get the details of the opp.
You can now bid right from the dashboard, too, by clicking on the appropriate column to the right.
And are you tired of seeing the same…old…advertisers? Well, now you can dismiss them from the list, which will take them from the current opportunities tab and put them no the dismissed tab. So in case you feel like returning to them, you have the option.
Now, if they could just get rid of the porn opportunities that have been making their way to the list. Who ever heard of a porn site needing help getting found?
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February 1, 2008 at 11:36 am
Do you use Sponsored Reviews in this blog, Mark? I don’t think I have seen any sponsored posts but I would like to hear your thoughts on using this in the post-Google PR penalty era.
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February 1, 2008 at 5:13 pm
I never had any real problems with Sponsored Reviews website, but it looks like those are some great improvements.
I would like to see Bidvertiser do a revamp of their site as I’ve found it difficult to navigate.
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February 1, 2008 at 9:20 pm
I love the new look of SponsoredReviews! And it’s so much more user friendly now.
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February 1, 2008 at 9:20 pm
@K
Well, I haven’t here in quite a while. I continue to hold out for my bids to be accepted on other blogs that I don’t care so much about the impending Google-doom.
@Kyle
I agree with that, buddy. I’m taking a vacation from them, not for that reason, but because of absolutely no response to the ads I’ve placed. Maybe some day I’ll use them again. It does seem like I have to learn that place all over again each time I’ve returned.
February 1, 2008 at 9:27 pm
@Tish
Indeed it is. Have a great weekend, Tish!
February 2, 2008 at 1:22 am
Mark, I have a suggestion. Why not replace your generic SponsoredReviews link with your affiliate link? If someone decides to sign up for an account, you should get the credit!
Have a great weekend!
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February 2, 2008 at 8:57 am
@Tish
That’s a good idea. Time to widen my vision on that sort of thing.
February 2, 2008 at 10:22 am
All I can say is, it’s a good thing you gave them a possitive review. I’d hate to see all the SR natives coming after you with torches.
You seem to attract that type of attention
February 2, 2008 at 12:18 pm
@Ad Tracker
LOL!! Thanks for that.
February 4, 2008 at 9:57 am
Did someone mention torches? Haha. I like the revamp. One thing SR should add is a section where it specifies whether an advertiser allows nofollowed links. I know a lot of advertisers aren’t really after anchor text, just exposure, so this should be something they should add.
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February 4, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Getting traffic to a porn site is just like anything else. You have to build links to your terms etc.
Adult sites is my recent project 
SR is good, they havent really taken hits like the PPP crowd has.
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February 4, 2008 at 8:22 pm
@Baron
LOL
That’s not a bad idea, actually. It would seem to me that getting the word out would be a higher priority; that way, the linking would take care of itself.
@Matthew
Interesting side note, buddy.
February 6, 2008 at 9:58 pm
I love Sponsored Reviews, and I was excited to see the mini improvements as well. I agree with what Brown Baron said though – a section for nofollow advertisers. I’ve been making quite a bit with SR lately, but in Google’s latest PageRank update I was downgraded to a zero, which burned a bit.
In order for Google to restore my PageRank, do they want me to remove every dofollow link or advertisement I’ve ever done, or will a simple “I won’t do it again” be enough? =|
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February 6, 2008 at 10:19 pm
@Tay
So Google penalized you for SR stuff? I was wondering if they focused more on PPP since they require you to include code on posts written for them. I can’t wait to see how PPP’s new SocialSpark is going to work out since they won’t be basing it on PR.
February 11, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Mark, Google penalized me for many reasons. I do sell other dofollow advertising, and if not the reviews, then it was probably my advertise page and the links in the sidebar that got me.
Sorry for the late response.
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February 12, 2008 at 8:04 am
@Tay
It bothers me that the Big G has taken that strong of an approach. It has taken me a while, but I can understand their viewpoint on paid posts, but to say that a blog or site is to be penalized over offering paid advertising in a sidebar or wherever is a bit heavy-handed. I would think they’d want to avoid being seen as someone who is only trying to promote their own ad network by trashing others. I like Google a lot; I use many of their products. But it’s things like what they did to you that causes me to scratch my head in wonderment.