Comments on: Make sure your blog rankings are up to date on Sponsored Reviews

By: Bush Mackel

Bush Mackel — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:47:57 +0000

As soon as the PR update hits my site, I’m certainly going to go through and do some updates at all the big ones. Now if I could only get my Alexa rank down. (#):)

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:27:05 +0000

Thanks Darr :) Hopefully more folks will find benefit in getting their rankings up to date :D

By: Darr

Darr — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:51:54 +0000

Thanks for the tip! I emailed Grace (you know her– you’re on her Top Commentators :D ) this article. :)

By: Christy

Christy — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:09:12 +0000

That’s great advice Mike, I always assume they are actually doing automated updates. I gave up on Sponsored reviews about two months ago so I should go see if I’ve been updated. I’m still doing okay with PPP but I don’t enjoy having to check for jobs a zillion times a day. Maybe I’ll give sponsored reviews another try.

Hope you’re having a great day:)

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:01:48 +0000

Sweet! They undoubtedly have the most prompt customer service I’ve witnessed so far from a paid blogging site.

I’ve had the same problem with bids just being left open and eventually disappearing. I’m hoping my formerly lame blog ranking had something to do with it ;p

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:42:01 +0000

I have an update: from the time I posted a comment here, to right now, I received a reply to my request for help at SponsoredReviews. They manually updated MAMD to 4 checkmarks! Woo-hoo! I gotta hand it to them: they are very good with customer service.

I also asked why my bids haven’t been accepted. Basically, he said diligence is the key. A no-brainer, but it is frustrating that advertisers leave their bids open.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:22:00 +0000

@Matt: Nice! I’m hoping a few more of my bids get accepted soon. There’s a couple nice sized ones I’d love to get :D

@Mark: Definitely! I knew something wasn’t right when I saw that low Technorati rank…lol. Their tech support guy mentioned to me that blogs will be updated soon, but they still went ahead and updated mine manually. It’s worth a shot :) Good luck on the bids! I was so surprised and happy to see two get accepted so quickly today :)

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:18:26 +0000

Hey T-boy, ;)

You bring up a good point. I’ve had 3 out of 5 checkmarks for a while now. I suppose it might be worth a try to see if they’re really accurate.

On the bidding acceptance, I haven’t had one accepted in at least a month, maybe longer. Very frustrating! And I have 10 bids pending right now. Grr!

By: Matt Huggins

Matt Huggins — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:45:47 +0000

I had the same issue, Mike. My Sponsored Reviews blog stats never updated since I joined several months ago. I noticed that all my ratings were low despite many improvements in my blog over the course of this time, and I requested that they update my stats. Apparently they’re supposed to update automatically, but my update was “erroring out” according to their support.

The manual update resulted in my overall rating jumping from 2/5 to 4/5 stars, with each individual stat that makes up the overall rating jumping from 1-2 to 3-4 stars. I also managed to be accepted for and complete a $50 review since that happened!

By: Writer's Reviews

Writer's Reviews — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

~~Thank you to Kim of Illusionaire for giving me a really nice “Thank you for making me smile award. ” It is so cool! ~~If you are signed up with Sponsored Reviews then you should read Mike’s post on the importance of updating your blog rating. Extremely great advice that has definitely worked for me! Thanks Mike for the fantastic advice! You also have to see for yourself how amazingly talented Mike is, he’s phenomenal! ~~If you enjoy laughing at me (or people in general) you’re sure to