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Originally Posted by Relentless
99% of the people who make a review site badly underestimate the amount of work needed to build a successful one (I know because I own successful review sites and because I have been hired as a writer by dozens of others). Review sites depend on bookmarkers, customer loyalty and branding. That means they have to actually provide services worth returning for and reviews worth reading.
There are literally 1000s of sites online that call themselves review sites and probably less than 100 that are actual review sites. Throwing up a blog on wordpress with a bunch of made up reviews that do not tell the consumer much of anything about a paysite is not the same thing as actually reviewing 100s of paysites with a meaningful scoring system and detailed reviews that give the consumer an idea of what is inside the members area of 100s or 1000s of sites.
Review sites do make money. Review sites also do take a lot of time and effort to produce well. Keep in mind quality review sites have existed for years and built loyal followings among consumers, so throwing up a new review site that is no different from existing sites will be unlikely to attract much. Build something unique and innovative and people will use it... build something copying someone else, or something that is not actually helpful to consumers and it will fail.
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Well said. I agree with that.
Building a review site up to a point where it makes more than

takes a damn lot of time and energy. Especially today.
I also agree that too many start "review sites" which in fact are pay site indexes with brief descriptions only. No problem with the idea - it's just not a review site.