It wasn’t too long ago that I signed up for Text-Link-Ads. I’d had Google Ads on the site for a while, but the ads were a bit off topic, if not out and out strange. So I signed up for TLA in hopes of a little better deal, and more relevant ads.

The way TLA works: You sign up and wait to get approved. Once you get the okay, you tell them how many text ads (one line each) you’ll put up and on how many pages. Then you wait. Hopefully, someone buys a month-long ad for your site. For each ad, you get a few bucks a month. You can knock any ad you don’t like off your site, and they don’t sell ads for porn sites or other spam.

I’m still waiting for that first ad. One or two of the things would pay for Making Chutney, but a medium-traffic religion blog ain’t exactly a hot commodity for web advertisers.

So my curiosity was piqued by TLA’s new service, ReviewMe.com. The idea is that advertisers pay you to review their stuff. ReviewMe sets the rate and you get half. There’s a minimum word length and the required link. But apparently you can say your website sugar daddy sucks goat ass and still get paid.

At the rate they’re offering to pay me now, I can pay for a year of Making Chutney in two or three reviews—they’re even paying me for this review. That makes me happy.

There won’t be a glut of paid reviews here. I’m not doing this to make money, so the reviews will need to be somehow relevant to Making Chutney. I’ll always explicitly say when I’m being paid to review something, and I’ll give my honest opinion.

Time will tell if ReviewMe can find enough relevant stuff for me to review here. But at first glance, it looks like it’s worth a shot.