We are excited to announce our very cool affiliate program is ready for your blog! Not only will the affiliate program drive traffic to your individual listing at ReviewMe which will encourage review sales for you but it will also pay you $25 for any referred sale even if the visitor does not purchase a review from your blog.

To get your affiliate badge simply login to the new affiliate page. Here is a preview of what the badge looks like on our Link Building Blog

Remember you can control the price of your reviews, details here.  So jump over to ReviewMe and set up your affiliate badge now!

Are you doing poorly in the search engines? Loren Baker and his crew from Search Engine Journal are doing a weekly site clinic where they give one lucky winner free SEO advice.

A couple of days ago I wrote the post about how to ask bloggers for links. While emailing can be a very effective way to get on a popular blogger’s radar, it is by no means the only way. There are a number of others ways to get these people to notice your content, here are a few of the things that have worked for me.

1. Comments – One of the most effective ways to get a blogger to notice you is to comment on their blog. This is also a great way to get others to find your blog as well. It is important to make sure you leave well thought out comments that actually contribute to the conversation. If you just leave things like "nice post" no one will really pay much attention to you. Leave original, well thought out comments that intelligently add to the conversation.
2. Trackbacks – Bloggers are generally egomaniacs, they like to see who is talking about them and linking to their content. Even if they aren’t egomaniacs a good blogger will always keep track of who is linking to them and talking about their posts. The key here is to contribute to the conversation in the same way that you would with comments. The blogger who you are linking to is just about guaranteed to read your post, this is your chance to "prove your worth" so make the posts really good.
3. Email – We already covered this technique in the last post.
4. Social media sites – Getting your content popular on social media sites like Digg and Delicious is a great way to get noticed. If this happens your content will be in front of thousands of bloggers and the links will come pouring in. Make sure your next few content pieces are extra good because you’ll have a lot of fresh new eyes and good content is the best way to keep them around.

There are millions of blogs on the web these days. Every day it’s getting harder and harder for new blogs to get noticed, follow some of these tips above and you’re sure to be in the fast lane for gaining new readers.

Do you have any other tips that have helped you get found by other bloggers?

There are many ways webmasters are obtaining links these days such as submitting sites to directories. But with new media emerging why just stick to the conventional methods when you can get a little creative?

If you look at the picture above it shows that the site has incoming links from YouTube. The way this works is that if you are one of the
top 5 sites that drives the most traffic to a particular YouTube video, they link back. So the next time you embed YouTube videos into your website, check to see if you got a link back.

Do you know of any other creative ways to pick up a few links?

We are going to start featuring some of the reviews completed through our service. Our bloggers are doing an outstanding job and we need to start showing off their work! Here are a couple I ran into that are exactly what we are trying to do here.

Graywolf’s review of SoloSEO

Devlounge’s review of a Ruby on Rails book

Great work!

A few days ago I wrote How to Build Trusted Links, which caused a few people to email me about purchasing .edu links. There are a lot of companies that sell .edu links, but most of the links will be on student blogs and not the actual university website. Although this can still build trust, search engines are quite complex and can probably tell the difference between .edu links from student blogs and links from the actual university website. So before you purchase links from .edu sites make sure you know what pages they are going to be placed on because ones from the actual university site will probably create more trust.

We are excited to announce that Ken Jerome has been appointed to the position of Vice President of White Delivery ESP (Email Service Provider), a new offering scheduled to launch in the second half of 2007. Mr. Jerome will be based in the Plantation, Fla. office of WhiteDelivery, the email marketing division of MediaWhiz.

WhiteDelivery ESP will provide MediaWhiz’s current and future clients with a comprehensive package of self serve email delivery applications, including such advanced features as behavioral targeting, auto-responders, email confirmation, delivery monitoring, and real-time reporting.

“Ken is an important addition to our company. His knowledge and experience in the email industry will be particularly valuable as we work to develop and launch our new WhiteDelivery ESP offering,” stated Yannick Tessier, Co-President, MediaWhiz.

Mr. Jerome has over 20 years of interactive marketing and multimedia technology management and development experience for Fortune 100 clients. He was most recently Vice President of Client Services and Operations for SubscriberMail, an email service provider specializing in the delivery of permission-based email marketing campaigns. Before that, Mr. Jerome was Vice President of Interactive Multimedia for DCI Marketing, a $300 million firm specializing in POP/POS permanent fixture displays. He was also VP of Operations for Peak Image Communications for over 10 years.

Bloggers, you can now set your own price for reviews!  When your blog is accepted our algorithm will automatically set the price for you but you are free to edit that price at any time.  To edit your review price:

1.  Login to your account

2.  Select the “Manage my sites” link.
3.  Click on the current price set for your blog where you will be taken to a page where you can edit the price.

Let us know what you think and any other ways we can improve ReviewMe, thx!

ReviewMe users, we are constantly trying to improve our service. Coming down the improvement pipeline:

- Ability for bloggers to set their own review price. update: completed, details here.
- Affiliate program. update: completed, details here.
What other changes or features would you like to see? Thanks for your feedback!

Our parent company, MediaWhiz, has recently launched a blog. The rss feed can be found here. Many internet marketers are not familiar with the various services offered by MediaWhiz. They are:

Email Marketing by White Delivery

Affiliate Marketing by Filinet

Lead Generation by Coregistrations.com

Specialty Lead Generation by MonetizIt

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