Comments on: The wonders of honest blog reviews

By: Make Money Blogging

Make Money Blogging — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:37:10 +0000

It all depends on who you are if you ask me. I can review a product honestly and if nobody knows me I could be talking bull. People can hide behing a blog persona like other places on the net. You need to build up a rep and that will then carry weight when reviewing.

By: Nadeesha Cabral

Nadeesha Cabral — Sat, 17 May 2008 11:34:31 +0000

Yeah.. Pretty much.. Then again, some people just do not care to think twice when they see the “paid review” tag..

Cheers!

By: ceblogger

ceblogger — Sat, 17 May 2008 10:43:26 +0000

When you do a positive review, you lend your name to that product, site or service. But there are times, in my experience doing paid reviews, it is not the review that advertisers are after, but the link to their sites.

But the twist you put into the reviews are for the readers, so that they will not leave you when you do paid reviews.

By: Nadeesha Cabral

Nadeesha Cabral — Sat, 17 May 2008 10:39:03 +0000

Thanks Barbara! Honesty is the best thing – you nailed it.

Cheers!

By: Nadeesha Cabral

Nadeesha Cabral — Sat, 17 May 2008 10:38:07 +0000

Insightful! I agree with you.. Some people will always complain about the paid review thing and the others won’t as long as the review is unbiased..

Cheers!

By: Barbara Swafford

Barbara Swafford — Fri, 16 May 2008 20:11:39 +0000

Anytime a blogger does a review (paid or not), honesty is always best. If you steer people wrong, all it does is harm your reputation. That adds up, and soon your name could mean nothing in blogosphere.

Great post with superb information.

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:50:35 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. I think the first thing to be honest about, is if it is a paid review or not…then when readers see a good honest review (with the good bad ugly thrown in), they wont give a hoot about the money.

Cutting the complaint off before it happens, so to speak.

I always give 100% honesty, but am darn sure to provide “fix’s” for any negativity that I find, so it’s a truly helpful review….for the reviewed and readers. After all, theres a good chance someone reading will recognize they have the same problem you just described in the review! LOL

As I always say, we’re here to help people, NOT bash them for all their hard work.

BTW, I also put in what I believe to be an important “disclaimer”: “any review here may NOT be considered an endorsement on our part, unless specifically stated as such.”