We have recently launched a new blog advertising platform GetReviewed.org, where advertisers can buy sponsored reviews/blogposts from authority blogs DA30+ and Alexa below 1 mln. All blogs are high authority only and reviewed manually each week. Platform subscription fee is 50$ per month, but you do not pay any additional fees for each review only paypal transaction fees and blogger's prices per review. I would like to see your reviews about our platform or any suggestions on what needs to improved or changed. At the moment we are adding additional features to the platform, after which each advertiser will be able to subscribe to any category and receive updates on newly registered blogs.
1. You guys need a mobile version of your site. I was surprised that you still do not have one. 2. I am a big skeptic of .org names. It's not that they can't work (take craigslist for example or some large charitable organizations), but for the most part they do not sit well with online users. 3. The site design (very basic) and the services you're trying to provide (rather large in scope and magnitude) work against each other. The first impression is still very important. 4. Overall the site lacks information that would convince a user to sign up for your services. Just my two cents.
We already have more than 200 signups among which 65 authority bloggers. But there are no subscriptions yet.
And that's great, but what if you had 2000 signups among 650 bloggers? A better design could have helped with that. Informative descriptions could have helped with that. I am just guessing, but it's a more or less educated guess.
First, I doubt flat fee subscription model will work here, people will not pay subscription fee without first analyzing available blogs and results with Moz or Majestic. Second, for something like this to work you'll need 1000x blogs in different niches, so that advertisers can pick relevant niche. It's not 2010 anymore and all of us got burned quite badly for buying posts/links from sites that later on were deindexed/penalized by G for "unnatural outbound link profile". I doubt that you'll find many naive people who will blindly subscribe for such service on the premise of DA>30 and Alexa>1mln, it's way too easy to manipulate these metrics. I bet most of your blogs will be by seasoned link sellers purchasing expired domains with high DA and pumping Alexa rank using one of many methods: http://makemoneyyourway.com/lower-alexa-rank/, http://www.dirmaxe.com/articles/increasing-alexa-traffic-rank-in-20-easy-steps-2/, or http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/550/how-to-boost-your-alexa-ranking-in-one-easy-step/
As I already said all blogs are picked up manually, we review each blog before approval and it is easily can be checked whether that blog is an established one or a recently purchased domain. According to advertisers, they have the ability to review first 10 blogs in our platform, once subscribed you are able to review all registered blogs. The number of blogs is not high yet, as we have just launched and we didn't have any big promotional campaign. Regarding blog parameters, so you MOZ, PR and ALexa of the Blog are updated daily and can be reviewed below each blog in the marketplace, regarding Majestic, I think we will add this parameter soon, as well as ability to request a blogpost sample from blogger, I also want to hear more suggestions for DP Forum members in order for us to improve the platform. I think we will cancel the 10 blogs limit in order for advertisers to be able to see all blogs that we have.
Subscription fee is now 25$ per month and we have deleted the limit of blogs shown for unsubscribed users, now everyone can see all blogs registered with GetReviewed, but in order to purchase a review from a blog, you will need to buy a subscription first.
First thing I notice? Fixed pixel width layout and fixed pixel metric fonts; sending me diving for the zoom only to have the layout fall apart. The image based text on the logo looks horrible thanks to a lack of anti-aliasing and the painful thin-glyph font, and the blue background is too bright for that white footer text (though I'd toss text-shadow at that with a blue dark enough and say close enough, IE8/earlier doesn't get it, oh well!) The content of the home page also just kind-of feels slapped in there any old way. Not exactly the speediest site either which is odd as it's only 11 files, but for some reason the ping time to/from your hosting here is disastrously bad as if your server is so overtaxed it can only handle one request at a time. The worst "crime" on the page prior to looking at the code would be the ridiculous 819k of Scripting on a site that to be brutally frank, I'm not seeing a blasted thing warranting the presence of JavaScript! Popping the bonnet, well... stylesheet links with no media targets, presentational images in the markup, overstuffed <title> tag doing META's job, invalid element nestings, endless pointless DIV and classes for nothing, clearing DIV like it's still 2003, span doing heading's job, DIV doing paragraph's job, pointless title attributes, run-on sentence doign a list's job... Oh, it's Yii... that explains the gibberish filenames, broken methodologies and general endless "scripttardery for nothing". Do yourself a favor and kick that bloated train wreck of how NOT to make websites to the curb. At only 5.34k for the markup of the home page you'd think there wouldn't be a lot of wiggle room, but easily 2/5ths of your HTML belongs on the cutting room floor... not a blasted thing is being done that should even have JavaScript involved. Mix in the accessibility woes (also known as "WCAG, what's that?") and non-responsive layout in a mobile age... I'd HIGHLY suggest pitching it in the trash and starting over. Also, that you even MENTION Alexa sets off my scammy sense, since they basically just pull numbers out of their ass at this point since most anti-malware blocks their tracking, and even Microsoft slammed the door on their arse. (when they used to intentionally bundle Alexa tracking in IE7/earlier)