[nakitakona]

Site review is one of the many ways of promoting the website to be known to the public especially the newly created one. Another is for improvement or suggestion to make it web friendly and to be qualified for search engine optimization.

Anybody has done site review. What is your criteria in writing about that site? Are you being paid? If so, what is the basis of paying you?

Is site review done in honest evaluation? Or is it done for a pay and that is why it is being appreciated, and anything good is used to describe the site?

[cessy_08]

I do get paid writing site reviews and the level of "honesty" depends on the client's preference. There are some clients who want to publish the review so they want the tone to be positive in general so that's what I'd do.

[Angie10]

I take it this is user testing sites you guys are talking about? Well, I'm yet to jump on that particular bandwagon, but I will be soon. It sounds like something I'd enjoy, but clearly I'm at risk of stretching myself too thin. As it stands, I have too much on my hands, but I don't want to miss out on this LOL

[nakitakona]

I do get paid writing site reviews and the level of "honesty" depends on the client's preference. There are some clients who want to publish the review so they want the tone to be positive in general so that's what I'd do.

While writing for them especially product review which sometimes they have sent you a sample product, do you write it based on what you have tested their product? As you said, honesty counts a lot. Do you emphasize that?

[simonex]

I used to write website's reviews only when I was on ChatAbout, and that's happened long ago. They paid me with 100 points for each review I've done, and thinking to the minimum amount of points needed to be able to redeem, which was 5000, it was a little rate in my opinion.

[Angie10]

Wow, @simonex....that must have been quite a long time ago because as long as I've been at ChatAbout (now just over a year), we've never had user testing. I know you can do product reviews, but not website reviews. Plus, for as long as I've been at ChatAbout, i've always been able to redeem at 1 000 points. Before that, it was 500. I hear it then went to 1 000 for people outside of North America, before admin levelled out the playing field so that everyone now has to redeem at 1 000 points, regardless of where they're from. I doubt I'd still be there if it were 5 000 points LOL I'd never be able to cash out at all!

[simonex]

Wow, @simonex....that must have been quite a long time ago because as long as I've been at ChatAbout (now just over a year), we've never had user testing. I know you can do product reviews, but not website reviews. Plus, for as long as I've been at ChatAbout, i've always been able to redeem at 1 000 points. Before that, it was 500. I hear it then went to 1 000 for people outside of North America, before admin levelled out the playing field so that everyone now has to redeem at 1 000 points, regardless of where they're from. I doubt I'd still be there if it were 5 000 points LOL I'd never be able to cash out at all!

Yes, you are right, I wrote wrong 5000 instead of 1000, but anyway I found it as a too low rate for a website review, moreover I have created also a video about that site promoting it on social media. 100 points was nothing in my opinion. After I was banned without reason I have deleted all my promotions from the social media.

[Angie10]

Wow, @simonex....that must have been quite a long time ago because as long as I've been at ChatAbout (now just over a year), we've never had user testing. I know you can do product reviews, but not website reviews. Plus, for as long as I've been at ChatAbout, i've always been able to redeem at 1 000 points. Before that, it was 500. I hear it then went to 1 000 for people outside of North America, before admin levelled out the playing field so that everyone now has to redeem at 1 000 points, regardless of where they're from. I doubt I'd still be there if it were 5 000 points LOL I'd never be able to cash out at all!

Yes, you are right, I wrote wrong 5000 instead of 1000, but anyway I found it as a too low rate for a website review, moreover I have created also a video about that site promoting it on social media. 100 points was nothing in my opinion. After I was banned without reason I have deleted all my promotions from the social media.

No worries, @simonex....I now get what you mean by site review! There was this thing where ChatAbout rewarded members for reviewing the site, as in ChatAbout, on your blog! I was racking my brain, trying to recall if there was ever user testing on there, which is not quite the same thing, and I was coming up empty LOL Glad that's been cleared up.

Sorry to hear you got banned without any explanation I've heard many of these stories from other people, and it's such a shame because I really do like ChatAbout and think it's a great site. I wish I knew why they do that, as i'm sure everyone who got banned would too!

[cessy_08]

I do get paid writing site reviews and the level of "honesty" depends on the client's preference. There are some clients who want to publish the review so they want the tone to be positive in general so that's what I'd do.

While writing for them especially product review which sometimes they have sent you a sample product, do you write it based on what you have tested their product? As you said, honesty counts a lot. Do you emphasize that?

Well, for product reviews where I have actually used the product, I write it as honest as I can. I also take note of my personal experience on the product and also take note if something is not "likable" based on preference.

[DreekLass]

The site reviews that I have done are either on site review websites, or on blogs. when I first tried to get into blogging, I was reviewing websites, and trying to get paid through adsense, but it did not work out.

[Nigar1989]

I wish I could remember which blog this was on buy the blogger a beer and thank him for changing my life.But it's been long forgotten in my jumbled, sleep deprived, brain. So it is a big platform for blogging.

[DreekLass]

In the case of product reviews, I also tried that in the form of earning money through blogging and Adsense, but still was not able to gain much money from it, so I gave up.

[nakitakona]

At least I have heard some of your experiences on reviews like product review, site review. I even noticed from my fellow bloggers that they do movie review, music review. I want to know on how they do it.

[iamshane487]

There are many sites that pay for reviews but I forgot. I only remember Usertesting. It is the most recommended site to earn big. We can 10$ in every review that we are making.

[DreekLass]

There are many sites that pay for reviews but I forgot. I only remember Usertesting. It is the most recommended site to earn big. We can 10$ in every review that we are making.

I am always suggesting usertesting to people, but many are intimidated by the idea that they will have to speak their way through the tests. I hate the rating system though.

[suny]

I have done that as a member of mturk and microworkers in the past. I was good at this job but now that microworkers had problems with Paypal I am no more doing this job anymore. But I can do provided I get a regular job.

[thisnthat]

There are many sites that pay for reviews but I forgot. I only remember Usertesting. It is the most recommended site to earn big. We can 10$ in every review that we are making.

I am always suggesting usertesting to people, but many are intimidated by the idea that they will have to speak their way through the tests. I hate the rating system though.

Yeah, that is what puts me off. I don't want to be recorded. I don't know why, because I'm generally not shy, but I'm uncomfortable with that part of it.

What's up with the rating system? It seems as if most rating systems don't work very well...

[suny]

Yes I have done site and product reviews both indirectly through Amazon's site. I was being paid good for all my efforts according to their prefixed rates.

[morgoodie]

I have looked into the User Testing site but have not taken the plunge either. I am not sure if I would be able to talk while I am using the website or not. But it sounds like it would be promising and making $10 a test would be great if they had lots of tests to do. I do use Usability Hub and that is okay. There is not always any tests to do but I keep checking and once in a while I will get one or two.

[DreekLass]

There are many sites that pay for reviews but I forgot. I only remember Usertesting. It is the most recommended site to earn big. We can 10$ in every review that we are making.

I am always suggesting usertesting to people, but many are intimidated by the idea that they will have to speak their way through the tests. I hate the rating system though.

Yeah, that is what puts me off. I don't want to be recorded. I don't know why, because I'm generally not shy, but I'm uncomfortable with that part of it.

What's up with the rating system? It seems as if most rating systems don't work very well...

It is just your voice that gets recorded. You just talk your way through. I sometimes stutter, but I do it anyway, and I have a pretty good rating. The rating system on UT is actually pretty astute and well put together. It is not the rating system itself that makes me feel a certain type of way. It is the anxiety of not knowing whether or not I will be rated well or not based upon my performance. But every time that a client has rated me poorly, UT have reversed my rating and returned it to its high status. One client cited that they thought I was acting my way through the test, and gave me a lower rating due to that.

I was not acting at all, and to rate someone badly based on the assumption that they are not being authentic during the test is ridiculous. As they could not prove this, UT returned my rating to its previous standing.