A Different Drummer

Its as meta as it gets, people....

As someone who is trying to get established as a freelance writer, I have been looking around for good options on how to earn money from writing, online and offline. The advantage of being based in Cairo is that every little bit of cash helps – which is important, given that freelance writing pays pretty terribly when you are still new and inexperienced.

As part of this seach, I found a great website, reviewme.com. The basic concept is that you sign up for an account, register your site, and then based on a few different stats for your website (traffic/link rankings from Technorati, Alexa etc) your site is assigned a ranking, from one to five stars. Your ranking is associated with a certain sum of money, and basically from then onwards you are given offers to review different products and services on your site, and you get paid per review.

My blog scored a two star ranking, which means I can get paid $30 per review. And this is my first review, a review of reviewme.com! Its pretty meta, but hey, for 30 bucks, I’ll get as meta as you want to go. I am curious to see whether I can score many more reviews from the site, but even if this one is the only one I ever do, it's still the most valuable blog posting I’ve ever written…..

So one a scale of one to ten, where one is this site paid me nothing to write a review, and ten is this site paid me thirty bucks to write a review, I rate reviewme.com a healthy ten out of ten.