Have anybody used his blog review for branding and traffic? I am thinking of using one if its any good. He charged about $700 I think; trying to make sure it worths the money. If he writes a review does it really help getting backlinks from other blogs?
$700 sounds like a lot of money just to get a blog review. Does he have a guarantee that its going to make you at least the $700 back? Have you reviewed what was written in reviews for blogs. Do a lot of checking unless you don't like money and have $700 to throw away. donrock
You will find ShoeMoney is a "little" more than $700 and on top of that Jeremy doesn't review anything unless he genuinely finds them interesting and useful to his readers.... not like some similar blogs who'll blog about anything for a dollar. At the end of the day you need to work out for yourself if it is worth it... what is your product? what audience are you after? etc etc...
By that much money you can get positive review written from 70 blogs with good PR by utilizing service like smorty/sponsoredreview.com ect.
These things typically aren't worth the money. Prices are inflated by traffic, and while you will definitely see a big bump in traffic surrounding the dates of your review... I wouldn't count on it living up to your expectations. It really is a judgment call though.. how much value you put into increased traffic
I have only heard from a few people and they said that if you have the right product that his audience will buy then of course yes the $700 is worth it but it has to be targeted towards his niche that he is going to get. I haven't heard one good review of John Chow's blog reviews tho so stay away from that. But I think Shoe Money has a pretty strong following and if you have a budget then I would more then likely include it if you have a way of sustaining and keeping some of the initial traffic he brings.
I havent tried it personally, but do know that Shoemoney has a large following and is generally a well-respected person in the industry. If you have the money It could produce dividends for you...
It's possible that buying say 2 reviews on less well-known blogs like Tylercruz.com and ZacJohnson.com would give you a greater bang for your buck. But if your reviewed post becomes one of the most commented then it gets continuous exposure at the top of Shoemoney's blog. That could make it worth it.
How many can ya get from a review? I have a pretty good idea. If it's 700, which is highly doubtful, obviously, then that's $1 a click in advertising. If it's 350, which again, is highly doubtful, we're talking $2! Can ya get your money back? Remember, maybe, maybe 2% of your visitors will buy. And if you have, say, a blog, how many will come back, time after time? Even if all of them did come back, you still won't see enough money from them in getting your money back. I like and respect Shoemoney, but when he charges that much for a review, I have my doubts about him sometimes.
Shoe Money will only review products he believes in and is respected but at the same time Shoe Money knows his price is way to high to convert and get your money back and keeps it high so that he doesnt get paid often to review and cheapen the content of his blog.
It's all about how well that post will rank over the long-haul. It seems a bit high, but he has a great ranking sites with a lot of readers in his syndication I'm sure.
it could bring some traffic to your blog of course but do you believe your blog are good enough to have people stick to your blog once they are there?
by getting reviewed by shoe you will get more eyeballs and the exposure alone makes the 700$ worth it. But thats just my opinion..
Just because you'll end up getting more exposure/hits to your site, doesn't mean it's worth the $700, unless those hits generate to revenue in some way down the line.
Here is a clear picture of what I am trying to do. Apologize for not mentioning earlier. I am trying to get more exposure for webcosmo.com. Its a classified ads site with 90k+ visitors (m). Its growing at a pace of 35%+ per month for last six months. Only earnings from the site is AdSense. So I am not really looking to earn money. I am looking to get a bigger exposure. From reading the posts from you guys here, I highly doubt it would help much.
$700 for a review. Shoemoney just reviews sites on his site and that's it. It's your job, the advertiser/site owner to turn his traffic coming to your site into customers and not him. So if your site is not optimized that good or doesn't look that interesting then it doesn't matter where you advertised, you most probably will not get it back. Now if you site was very good, then yes you probably could get a lot of your money back and more. How can Shoemoney guarantee how much you will make from your site with his traffic. Only you will know.