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Tips on How To get Reviewed on Blogs

Why Get Reviewed?

Getting reviews about your site is an essential tool for your marketing strategy and is "in our opinion" the most successful element that creates a buzz for your startup. Any webmaster knows that the success and value of their site highly depends on the number of visitors that visit their site.

For that very reason a method is required to acquire these visitors, one of the successful methods you can use is to get reviews from other blogs reporting on your site and service. But not every site can get a review, the following tips will enlighten us on some important factors which are essential for your site to get reviewed on blogs, a checklist if we may.

Benefits of Getting a Review?

Blogger Benefit:

New Content for their readers
Becomes more appealing to search engines when content is updated
Achieves the objective of the blog by reviewing what it aims to review
Possible to achieve back links from reviewers who use "Reviewed By Badge"

Your Benefits:

Getting more valuable visitors to your site
You accumulate back links to your site
You increase your search engine visibility
You get better rankings on search engines
You get more blog posts from other blogs that review your post
You create a buzz to your site
You build a source of organic traffic

Tips to get Reviewed on Blogs

A unique and Clean Look and Feel for your site

First impressions are last impressions, it is important to have a unique look and feel to your site in order to make it appeal to reviewers. You might have a killer idea but without a clean look your chances of getting a review are very slim.
A New Service

If you have a new service that isn't currently available then your chances of getting a review are very high. Many bloggers look for these type of services to review on their blogs. New doesn't always have to be Entirely New, it could have added services that build on old Service Models.
Added functionality which isn't available elsewhere

By adding more functionality to your site you increase the value your site returns which provides higher chances of getting reviewed on blogs. You have to be careful to make sure that you add related functionality to your core service which would be useful to your visitors.
Innovate your service - Innovation

Innovation is probably the strongest element to get you a review. By providing an innovative service you increase your chances of getting reviewed on startup blogs.
Site Strategy and Aim

The aim, objectives and strategy of your site are taken into consideration when making a choice to review or not to review your site. Even the terms of your site will play a role if you get reviewed or not.
Send your site to the right Blogs

Don't waste your time by submitting your startup to any blog which is not related to your startup. Make sure that the category of the review blog matches your startup catagory.
Provide a valuable service

If you have a valuable service then chances are you will get reviewed. Bloggers look for value for their readers, startups that can provide such value to their readers.
The expiry of your domain

If your domain will expire shortly, chances are that you won't get a review. Bloggers want reliability in their posts and the last thing any blogger needs are "dead links". Make sure your site is registered for more than 1 year at a minimum. The more the better.
Site usability

Site Usability is a factor to take into consideration, don't assume that all your visitors are profesianals, have your site adaptable to both professional and none professional users.
Unique, Unique and Unique

No body wants to review a site that is a replica of another site. Make sure to have something that is unique to encourage reviewers to write about your service and to review your startup!

Summary:

Remember there is no golden rule to follow to get a review, you might have it all but still won't get a review as the factors that will determine the review is solely based on the human interpreting them. For that very reason you should try to the best of your ability to cover as many elements that are mentioned here to get higher chances of getting reviewed.

Do you have any tips on getting a blog review that we may have not covered here, send us a line and let us know about them suggestions@submitstartup.com