Blogs have been around for quite sometime, but they haven’t really been monetized yet. Sure, there has always been Google Ads, but unless you were driving it hits by the thousands, you made little money. Luckily, this is all beginning to change.

Just last week a company called ReviewMe launched a new advertising service. Unlike other advertising services that display ads throughout a page, ReviewMe is going after the content. The concept is simple; bloggers offer their review services, and companies pay bloggers to write the review. This is a win-win in my book. The blogger gets something to write about and is payed for the article, and the advertiser gets a review that is more than just a simple text link.

One of the great parts of the service is ReviewMe lets bloggers be bloggers. When writing a review, you can trash the service, or give it praises. It’s all up to the blogger. And, yes, I said you can write a bad review. A bad review is better for a company than you think. It gives them an opportunity to see what’s wrong with their service. Once they know their flaws, they can go back to the drawing board and work them out.

Now that we have the blogger and advertiser in mind, what about the blog reader? Again, ReviewMe is coming out on top. ReviewMe allows bloggers to tell their readers that it’s a payed post. In fact, it’s a requirement. That way blog readers will know when they’re reading something that was sponsored. It shouldn’t matter though, because like I said before, bloggers are still allowed to be themselves.

Overall, from a blogger’s standpoint, I think the service is wonderful. It has terms I can agree to, and I don’t feel like I’m doing anything dirty. While I feel good about the service, it will be interesting to see how advertisers react to the service. ReviewMe could have the best service in the world for bloggers, but if the advertisers don’t come, the service is never going to take off.

This has been a sponsored post paid for by ReviewMe.