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An Introduction to the Best Reviewer Site

By Christina Mulberry

Anyone who is trying to promote a business, product, or cause online understands the importance of backlinks. They are extremely important in helping to push your webpages higher in search results. Thus, we write, and write, and write. It's time consuming and endless.

When I come across a new publishing site, I often try to evaluate whether or not it's worth my time.

First, I want Do Follow backlinks so that they are as powerful as possible.

Second, I would like those links to occur within the body of the article ideally, so that readers are more likely to see them and potentially click through to my page.

Third, I want to know how easy the site is to use and how quickly I can write something so that I can move on to other valuable tasks.

Fourth, I want to know if I can earn any extra income from my work on the site.

Fifth, I want to know the site's power to attract visitors. It's page rank can help me ascertain this.

And, finally, I want to know if there is a strong community where I can connect with others, and potentially get more views.

I recently became involved with the Best Reviewer site. (Link follows this article; beware there are sites with similar domain names) and although it's not perfect, I'm convinced it's a great place to earn some quick and easy Do Follow Backlinks.

Every article on the site follows a prescribed format. The format is that of a top list. For instance, "The Top 5 Ways to Nail a Job Interview" or "The Top 10 Homemade Cold Remedies". When submitting an article, the writer merely composes a short introduction and then lists their items. The items can be links to webpages; your own, or someone else's. Then, a one or two sentence conclusion is added and the article can be published.

This meets my criteria for not being too time consuming. I could easily write 15-20 of these articles in a day. Each article can contain up to 20 links. These links are Do Follow. That meets my criteria for gaining a lot of valuable backlinks. Even better, those links are within the body of the article, not pushed to the bottom.

The Best Reviewer site also offers AdSense revenue sharing. Users get 100% of the AdSense revenue generated by the ads placed at the top of the page near the article title.

The one drawback of the Best Reviewer site at this time is it's status as a brand new site. It hasn't even been ranked yet. So there is no authority for it to pass along to the pages writer's create...yet. This is certain to be a temporary issue.

The community of course is just now evolving, but it is common for others to comment on submissions, so this should evolve over time. The forum just started a couple of days ago, so only time will tell how strong the community will be.

While Best Reviewer will never match Hubpages, Qondio, Helium, and similar sites for writing solid, completely unique content, I think it may be an excellent compliment to the work writer's do on such sites. It would appear that it can do a great deal to push pages higher in search results.

1 Even in top publications like TIME magazine, I find that "Top 5" articles only satisfy me when I know nothing about a subject. Life has taught me to avoid valuing "authorities" unless I'm sure that they really know their stuff!

2 As with all writing sites, its success - and the power of the backlinks it generates - depends upon the quality of the writers it attracts.

3 While I shall certainly keep an eye on it, Best Reviewer seems to be attracting writers who want backlinks, rather than those who want to write. Consequently their articles will probably not hold peoples' interest.

e.g. I just read Top 5 Action Movies - a few lines on each movie - with links to IMDB. As far as I'm concerned, the whole process was an irritating waste of my time and if I had found Best Reviewer via a search engine, I would never visit the site again.

I agree with number 2 completely. I've seen both types of articles on the site, those with good info, and those that are purely a way of generating backlinks.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure about Number 1 because it's seems half of those who search online can't handle more that a few lines of text. :(

Time will tell, the site is only days old. When I first came to Qondio most everything I read here was c-r-a-p...now I find useful information and much better writing. The review process has always been in place, but...things have definitely improved. I hope to see the trash at Best Reviews go the same way.

Yes interesting comments, unfortunately the way search engines work is that a lot of emphasis is placed on sites with many hundreds or thousands of back links. So even talented and gifted writers must have back links to their sites to get found and listed in a prominent place by search engines. Accepting the fact that not all traffic comes from search engines.

Sometimes this means participating in what might be considered low level, low involvement sites in order to get those links. You only have to look at the spinners to see who is winning this battle at the moment, they write one piece of content, use software to spin it into nonsensical tripe and post it all over the Internet to get their sites onto page one of the search engine results.

At least if you are actually writing the content when you do a review or make a comment, there is some value in what you produce and it probably makes sense at some level.

So I don't take too hard a stance on this subject, some people do still try and make a living on line with integrity and by trying to add value. Until the search engines find a different way of establishing what is truly valuable content that is based on the content itself and not the number of links to it, there is little other choice.

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