Make Money Online By Writing Product Reviews

Writing product reviews is a popular way to make money online. The process is straight forward:

1. Choose a product you feel comfortable promoting. There is a lot of rubbish out there, so it’s always best for choose something you’ve actually used yourself, and that you would be happy to recommend to your friends.

2. Create a web page or a blog on one of the many free services on the web. Some examples are: Yola.com, Blogger.com and Weebly.com.

3. Write a review of your chosen product. Try to make it as useful as you can to the prospective customer. Provide as much detail as you can. Write a thorough  run-down of the purpose of the product, its main features and most especially, the benefits it provides.

Don’t by afraid of  mentioning any minor shortcomings of the product. It’s important not only to be honest, but also to be seen to be honest.

End the review with your affiliate link to the product’s sales page. It’s a good idea to buy a domain name so that you can redirect the link – for example, my Micro Niche Finder affiliate link looks like this:

http://scriptxml.kickbutt.hop.clickbank.net

I use a redirect in my website’s .htaccess file to create a ‘virtual directory’, so the affiliate link ends up looking like this:

http://derrickmarkotter.com/micronichefinder

Some people prefer to allocate a domain name to each product, so you might register something like "http://MicroNicheFinderReview.com". With this technique, you don’t even need a website. You can simply set up a permanent redirect at your domain registrar’s site.

4. Promote your review blog. Many people find this the most difficult part of any online marketing project, although it’s actually quite simple. There are dozens of ways to get traffic to your website. The problem is that most methods require consistent, repetitive actions to be performed.

Some effective methods are: writing articles and submitting them to article directories; writing press releases and submitting them to free press release distribution services; posting comments on other people’s blogs and creating ’satellite’ web pages on sites like Squidoo, HubPages and Zimbio.

Once your review blog is receiving a steady flow of traffic, it can continue to generate an income for you for years to come. You may not make a fortune from one review blog, but there is no limit to the number you can set up.

Since you will be making money from affiliate commissions, make sure that your website or blog has a disclosure policy, as required by the FTC.  You can get one here: http://disclosurepolicy.org/

If you’d like to know more about this technique for creating passive income producing review blogs, you might be interested in ClickBank Cash Blogs, a video home study course which walks you through the process in 7 short videos.