Review me is a new website that allows bloggers to substitute the odd blog post for a paid review or advertisement. This is one such advertisement! They don’t have any strict rules about what the advert should say so I think it’s a nice way of including ads in your blog without sounding too commercial.
Advertisers will probably want reviewers to write positively about their product but as long as it’s clear that the post is an advert I don’t think there’s too much wrong with that. There isn’t actually a requirement that the reviews be positive and ‘constructive criticism’ is suggested but I would have thought savvy bloggers will sway the sponsored posts in the positive direction if they want repeat orders for adverts.
For this particularly advert, I would say that Review Me is a nice idea for bloggers to raise a small amount of cash, especially if they are interested in reviewing websites or products.
The downside is that people might criticize your blog for going too commercial or accepting ‘bribes’ but I think that as long it’s obvious that you are posting an Ad then it’s not much different from any other kind of advertising.
Anyway, this has been an advert paid for by www.reviewme.com! If anyone buys any adverts from me, you’ll see the posts clearly labeled: ‘Advertisement’.