Hey SharedReviewers,
It’s been a very busy month here at SharedReviews, we’ve released some important and pretty dramatic changes and we’re gearing up for even more over the coming months.
The biggest change we’ve made revolves around publishing, and how we’ve added a new parent category called “Articles”. These new categories allow you to publish unique content on pretty much anything you want that is helpful and informational to other surfers online. They can consist of “how to” articles all the way to instructive pieces so you can share your knowledge on topics that go far beyond just product and service experiences. The subcategories will be counted towards cash rewards the same as any other product review category, so have fun and make sure you share your feedback on whether we’re missing anything or if there are new features you’d like to see.
We also gave a pretty big facelift to our review pages, which includes a brand spanking new url structure based on the category and title of the review when published. Now you no longer have to publish non-sensible links with numbers and a strange category of “/r/” when trying to drive pageviews on other sites, but share links that will be much more attractive such as “http://sharedreviews.com/electronics/cellular-phones/detailed-review-of-the-palm-pre”. Don’t worry, we made sure to re-direct the old urls to the new ones, so you don’t have to update the old links everywhere you’ve ever posted them, although it’s highly recommended to help with building more visitors to your reviews. This also applies to links to your profiles, which have been changed from “http://shardreviews.com/profile_home?member_id=3” to “http://sharedreviews.com/authors/Peter”.
This means that not only do we hope these changes will make it easier to drive visitors to your articles and reviews, but natural traffic to well written pieces should increase over the long term. The bad news is that this will take some time, and in the interim we are seeing a dip that is going to affect both pageviews and SharedReviews advertising revenue forcing a temporary dip in the cash rewards total for this month at the minimum. This month we are allocating $1000 to the community, which has been updated in your profiles. Unfortunately we weren’t able to let you know about this change until now since we didn’t know how this would affect cash flow for the company, but we do expect cash rewards to go over and above what we’ve been sharing up until now in no time.
We will be releasing more new feature and category changes in the coming months, so stay tuned and let us know if you see anything that needs to be fixed, or a feature / function you’d like to see added.