Comments on: Permanent Lovelinks to our Sponsors

By: Time To Thank Sponsors » SELaplana

Time To Thank Sponsors » SELaplana — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:56:12 +0000

[...] like what we’ve realized last May 2007, I need to give permanent lovelinks to all my sponsors. But this will only be applicable to those who purchased our text links through [...]

By: SELaplana

SELaplana — Sat, 26 May 2007 02:33:20 +0000

thank you again for dropping by.

Anyway, I read your comment, however I will only reply the ones in the bottom.

With regards to the reviews made at the ReviewMe, I was already paid for some of the reviews and I believe I will still be paid for the others just like what they did at the TextLinkAds. They pay me by check.

By: Thor Schrock

Thor Schrock — Sat, 19 May 2007 12:51:50 +0000

Thanks for the SECOND backlink. You were perfectly withing your rights to write the review you wrote. In fact, you raised one concern regarding ad placement that I elected to correct.

We can go back and forth about the need for the referral buttons (SpyLocked only infects IE, hence instructions to install FF, and the new Google Pack comes with Spy Doctor, which CAN prevent reinfection) but I never said your blog was a splog.

In fact I said that your blog was good, related content. You might notice that I rel=nofollowed the splogs and left legitimate backlinks to the real blogs.

You can’t deny that just under 1/3 of my paid reviews were a complete waste of cash. And at $15 dollars a link (my cost, not the blogger’s cut) that’s a pretty hefty price for a PR1 / PR0 backlink.

In this case, all I wanted was backlinks. But the whole point of ReviewMe is to drive traffic. So getting a review on a blog with no readership is a bit like bait and switch IMO.

Granted, I don’t expect John Chow or Shoeney to snap up a $5 review and roll with it, but I did expect REAL bloggers (like yourself) to write a review – and just over 70% of them did.

With that aside, I am DISGUSTED with ReviewME’s internal systems, and I hope you and I both get paid for the reviews we each completed.