How to Make Good Money Writing Reviews

If you are attracted to the idea of writing online content as a way to make good money and to have the kind of lifestyle that goes along with the flexibility of a freelance career then you should seriously look at the opportunities that review writing can offer. Of course it is not as romantic, and perhaps not as much fun as writing general articles on any subject that happens to interest you, but it is the best way to earn a serious income as a freelance writer of online content.

There are loads of websites that will publish your work online when you sign up for an account with them (including this one of course!), and there are various profit share models that will determine how and how much money you will earn from your work. This site, for example, pays a fixed amount per 1000 views of your content, whereas many other will allow you to take a percentage of the ad revenue from your pages.

But whichever website or websites that you choose to use for actually publishing your work you should take a look at the Revud (pronounced reviewed) site, because in addition to publishing complete reviews it also allows you to publish links to reviews that you have online on other sites. You get a 50/50 share of adsense adverts from your pages, and also lets you add an affiliate link to the product and keep 100% of the money earned through it. If you add a link rather than a complete article then a unique information page is created for that link, with your 250 character description, and you still get to share in the ad revenue from that page as well as promoting your content elsewhere.

Squidoo allows you to add amazon and ebay modules to pages, which is good for highlighting products, but I personally think that the reven ue share is not ideal, as the amount you get paid is based on the amount of traffic to your pages, and often review pages don't get as many visitors as general articles and entertainment, but make much more money on average per visitor.

Hubpages and Xomba are great general content sites for publishing reviews, as they give you a proportion of the ad revenue rather than a fixed rate. With Hubpages you can also include amazon and ebay modules to make additional cash through sales of the product you are talking about using their affiliate programs, and you can also add videos and other stuff.

There are also a few other sites like revud.info which only publish reviews and not general content. ReviewParty.com has a revenue sharing scheme which gives you a percentage of the money from adsense adverts and amazon affiliate links. ReviewStream.com, on the other hand, will pay a flat rate of $2 for every article that they accept, but do then pay extra later on for popular articles.

Whichever of these sites you choose the hardest thing is finding products to review. As well as using your own personal purchases you can borrow things from friends to write about. As long as its an area you know about you can also write about things without having used them yourself, by talking about their specs, features and so on - as long as you don't lie about having personal experience then its ok. You can also get additional articles about the products you have already written about. Write articles such as 'The Best ....' or 'The Best Value....' and so on, linking to reviews of specific products and including comparisons and other consumer information in the overview article.

Good luck with your writing career - I hope that this information was helpful and that you are very succesful!