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While it may be fun to review a blog, it may actually be a matter of the level of insights the reviewer has to create a successful and effective review. Along my path of reviewing other people’s blogs, I faced quite a number of difficulties. It is basically in the premature phase, processing phase, concluding phase, and after-review phase. You might be taking your review money happily. But is it really making the reviewed bloggers happy? What does it take to create a win-win situation?

Introducing Blog Reviewing
When I first started to review other people’s blog, I did it only after reading how other reviewers did it in their blogs. I was initially exposed to the world of blog reviewing through the two programs in the Internet: ReviewMe and PayPerPost. Because of my new entry into the blogging world, I was being rejected from taking in reviews to make some money online. In the end, I started to work out a value in my blog since I don’t have PageRank or the traffic to offer my reviewed bloggers. I figured out about viral video when it is able to spread video of that particular blog to the outside world by itself. And the rest is history…

When A Blogger Asked For A Review
When I first looked at the blog to be reviewed, it can be daunting if it is totally new to me. Looking through the blog, if I have insufficient information about the blog or if the blog is not expressing its information properly, I will start to feel like a stranger trying to find out what this blog is all about in the shortest time possible. And if the blog has some obvious flaws, it is very hard for a technical blogger myself not to look at it.

While Working On A Review
When I look at the blog, I will usually try to have a browsing review of the blog. While I am trying not to take in any other additional information that the blogger is feeling threatened by the review, sometimes it is so unavoidable to talk about it since the readers may see it anyway. Though it may be a sponsored review, it also concerns how credible I am to review this blog. And my background of IT knowledge before 2001, and with my internet knowledge and marketing knowledge, I will give a review which is very much personalized in the Charles’ way.

Evaluating The Blog On The Text
Video reviewing is basically a browsing experience of the blog. Writing about the blog is yet another separate thought to share with the readers. Writing about the review, it gives me the sense of being a magazine author to write about that particular blog. It is a sense of “social responsibility” to the public as well as the blogger. Writing about the blog, is based purely on my entire experience with the blogger in both the communication I had as well as with the blog itself.

The Effect After Reviewing A Blog
I made quite a lot of friends along the way as I reviewed other bloggers. I also get to meet some bloggers who behave as though they are making money online and yet they are actually not. Is “faking” going to work in business? Well, I doubt it… If you are really not making money, just tell the world about it and start making money now! By faking all the results and information, the bloggers are basically liars… And when liars are exposed on the Internet, I think that fellow is virtually unable to use his real name anymore… If you want to fake your status, you might as well fake your names too…

Moving ahead and review even more… I am now opening up my horizons, and is tasked to review my two other elements… Software and Books!