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Still Not Accepted by ReviewMe

July 12th, 2007 by Spud Oregon

One month ago, I applied to ReviewMe, the paid-to-review service, and was rejected. At that time, I put this down to the lack of Bloglines subscribers, and did my best to boost those numbers, getting my blog juice up to 4.3. Now, Nice4Rice is four months old and my blog statistics are better than when I first applied to ReviewMe:

Google PageRank: 4
Technorati: 28,432
Alexa Traffic Rank: 137,006
RSS subscribers: 86

I never got a response from ReviewMe when I asked them to take another look at my site, so I thought I’d just apply again. However…

One month on and still not accepted by ReviewMe

What were your numbers when you were approved? 

If you have been accepted by ReviewMe, please share the approximate stats your blog had when you were approved. Since ReviewMe doesn’t make their qualifying criteria public, I think it would be helpful for people like me, or those considering applying to ReviewMe to know what shape their blog must be in to get approved.

Come on guys, show us the numbers!

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Posted on July 12th, 2007 in Random Observations.
Comments: 25

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25 Comments

Comment by IngaOz
2007-07-12 13:23:32

Try to email them. When I changed my blog url I emailed tehm to make corrections ad get no response, then I emailed again and got response in less than 24h…

Maybe there is some bug in system and blogs aren’t actually reviewed monthly…

 
Comment by Michael Kwan
2007-07-12 13:33:12

If memory serves me right, my numbers would have been about the same as yours when I got accepted… but I got accepted right away, whereas you’re in their “rejected, but we’ll review it later” bin.

I think I was PR4, Technorati 25k-ish, Alexa 110k-ish, with 50-60 RSS subscribers.

 
Comment by Bobs
2007-07-12 21:34:58

I was rejected first too. About 1-2 months later I received an email letting me know that I was now approved. I think they only do check on a monthly basis though, if that.

Honestly, I think you have MORE than enough now, it may just be a question of when they need to cycle checks again.

 
Comment by fruityoaty
2007-07-12 21:41:11

Yes, it’s strange… I know a few bloggers who have lower stats than mine… and they got approved. Me, nope… not yet. Still waiting.

 
Comment by Jason Subscribed to comments via email
2007-07-12 21:58:08

Your stats should more than suffice to get you accepted into ReviewMe.

When I applied, my site was five months new, had a Technorati Authority of 24 and rank of 350,000-ish. According to some Google PR calculators I would have been given a PR of 3, and there were 6 people subscribed to my feeds. My site has never dipped below 1,000,000 on Alexa.

ReviewMe approved my site six hours after the application.

All that said, though, I think your Bowls of Rice are more effective than potential ReviewMe offers. In the last four months I’ve seen zero offers and two sites in my category looking for reviews. Both would have paid $5, but they were outside my area of expertise ….

Perhaps there’s a way you can monetize your rice? :P

 
Comment by Ken Subscribed to comments via email
2007-07-13 11:19:51

Weird, not again! i guess it’s like dating a girls, if you got reject once, it’s pretty hard to get a second chance, just kidding.

i think most paid-blogging got bugg in their software. I test out some, like forgot my password email feature, some of them didn’t work. Anyway, Oregon, here is my stat when i got approved.

- google page rank 2
- technorati around 15,000
- alexa 240,000 something

you got better stat figure then me, and i think the only thing is i have a higher technorati ranking. Hey Oregon, forget about rejectme, try pay per post or sponsorreview, there are so many out there.

 
Comment by Ed Lau
2007-07-13 11:33:57

I think I was quite a bit lower than that when I was accepted. It was back in late January so I definitely did not have stats like that yet although today, I average around 90 RSS, 9,000 Technorati and about 130k on Alexa.

 
Comment by Blogs Do Make Money
2007-07-13 23:21:23

I submitted two blogs and both were rejected. Then, sometime down the line, my PR3 blog was accepted. One month later, I wrote in asking them why my PR4 blog was not accepted as compared to the PR3? They replied and approved that blog. So, I got in. Big deal! I’ve only done two $5 opps so far. At this point of time, let’s just say, I’d die of starvation if I were to depend on them :P

 
Comment by swollenpickles
2007-07-15 22:55:14

Hi,
I’ve been in a similar situation with Text Link Ads. It’s getting a little annoying.

Comment by Spud Oregon
2007-07-16 06:41:13

Text Link Ads rejected my other blog at first, but when I emailed them and told them my stats, they manually approved it.

 
 
Comment by Michael Subscribed to comments via email
2007-07-16 22:10:15

My blog was rejected also. My site is just over a month old though so I don’t expect to hear back from them for a couple months at least.

 
Comment by Victor Franqui
2007-07-17 01:51:53

Please keep us posted I was in the process of requesting for a blog that i own and after reading your post decided to wait my numbers for that blog are a bit lower than your so i know for sure i am getting a no.

 
2007-07-17 06:01:01

[…] at Nice4Rice has not been accepted by ReviewMe yet and is asking others what kind of stats they had when […]

 
Comment by Chad
2007-07-17 08:14:37

still not approved :/

 
2007-07-17 11:32:44

Did you run my bloglines list … it has helped a lot in building peoples network …

Darin

Comment by Spud Oregon
2007-07-17 12:08:38

Yep. You obviously missed the backlink.

 
 
Comment by Bubs
2007-07-17 15:57:35

I was rejected to for only being a month old and not enough visitors. If you got rejected with those stats its going to take me forever to get accepted

 
Comment by Vincent Chow
2007-07-21 10:09:17

Your current stat is sufficient to be accepted to ReviewMe in my opinion. Just forget ReviewMe if they doesn’t reply you. I made more using SponsoredReviews in just a month than using ReviewMe since they first launched.

Basically only done two review on ReviewMe, the first one was for ReviewMe when they first launched, and another one after months. Nothing else till now.

 
Comment by fruityoaty
2007-07-21 12:12:28

OK, I finally got accepted.

Just 10 of months of blogging with ONLY 82 lame posts and zilch knowledge of SEO (I wish I cared enough to understand it to raise my blog’s visibility):

Alexa: 425,847
Technorati: 12,691
Google PageRank: 4.2

To date, I’ve NEVER asked one person to do a link exchange for fear of rejection. I’m beginning to think I should start… Timidness never gets anyone far in life… hehe.

 
Comment by Jason
2007-07-21 12:29:32

If it’s a link train you seek, feel free to join mine :P

 
Comment by fable 2
2007-08-11 04:27:50

Wow, I had no idea that ReviewMe blocked rejected blogs from being resubmitted. That kinda sucks… :(

Steve

 
Comment by Kels
2007-08-11 19:47:47

How do I get my blog ratings up? It’s a really new blog but I want to start writing reviews but I dunno how to get accpeted. How do you get your site into technorati and alexa?

Comment by Spud Oregon
2007-08-11 20:39:17

You don’t have to “get into” Alexa. People visiting your site with the Alexa toolbar is all you need. You’ll need to “claim” your blog at Technorati. If you really want to make money with your blog, you should get off blogspot, and use Wordpress.org on your own domain.

 
 
Comment by JennyHow
2007-09-01 13:52:26

I am having the same problem like you Spud. I was not approved the first time. And subsequently after months interval, i tried to add the same blog, and i get the same message like yours.

What is ReviewMe requirements to be approved?

 
Comment by Ian
2007-09-10 14:13:21

How long does submissions normally take?

 

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