There are a number of services out there now wanting to buy space on your blog. They pay you to review a service or site, and it seems like easy, and tempting, money, but in th end, it does nothing burting you.
It seems that when Google updated everyone’s PageRank this week, they took a hard line against sites that sold “text links“. PageRank, for those unfamiliar with the term, is the score assigned to your web site by Google. It is based on a 10-point scale, and the higher your rank, the better you show up in search results. So, seeing your PR go down is never something you want to happen as it can hurt where you show up in the searches. The lower in searches you are, the less traffic coming in to your site.
In the short term, using some of these paid review sites will help you earn a few dollars here or there, but is it worth risking your long-term traffic for it?
