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Dooyoo is a site similar to Ciao and Bview in that you can write reviews and earn money for doing so.

The way it works is that if you want to write an opinion of a product or company, what you do is to go to the site and do a search, find the item, company or website that you want to write about, write your review (I prefer to write mine offline in word so I can spell check it and read it through), then, when you’re done, you publish it on the site, and then people can read the review and your opinion of the item/site. 

Reviews need to be over 150 words minimum to be paid for (this really is an absolute minimum so don’t aim for it, aim to be well past it). 

When the review is published, you get 500 points for it, and then you get another 15 points for every person who reads it as well, and you keep earning from reads for 6 months.  People will rate the review according to how well it’s written and to get good ratings you want to be writing something that’s easy to read, and is primarily your own opinion rather than just a description of the item.

The site works on a points system, so as you go along you earn the points which you can then exchange either for Amazon vouchers or for a Cheque.  10 points is equal to 1 penny, and 50,000 points are needed for a £50 cheque – the minimum cheque value you can cash in for.  Or Amazon vouchers can be exchanged for at 20,000 points for £20 and then increase in £5 / 5,000 point increments. 

Dooyoo is actually very quick at processing payouts, and usually takes about 10 days for the money/voucher to reach you which compared to some is pretty speedy.

There are a couple of other ways you can earn points as follows:

Referring a friend – 500 points
Requesting a new product be added to the site – 10 points
Winning a crown award for your review – 1500 points

There are also various competitions on the site where you can win extra points as well, these are detailed on the site when they happen.

To join Dooyoo click on the word Dooyoo anywhere on this page.

Bview is a site where you can write reviews about places near to you (or far away, as long as you’ve vistied them!), from your local butcher or supermarket to pubs and clubs, solicitors, and every other sort of business you can think of.

When you have writen your first 20 reviews and they’ve been checked (no getting away with copying from else where or writing one liners here!) BView will send you a free £10 Amazon gift voucher as a thankyou.

This isn’t a money making site where you’re going to make a lot, but it’s a nice touch that they’ve added allowing people to earn a bit, and don’t forget that you’re joining in and helping others out at the same time.  Someone visiting or moved to your area who wants to know which butcher is good and which isn’t can go on there and see what you’ve writen about the different butchers and it may well help them to decide who to try for themselves.  A clever idea and a nice site.   Can I suggest you also take a look at this page before you start writing too, it tells you how long and what sort of reviews they’re wanting (So you make sure you do good enough reviews to get your voucher!).

Ciao is a site where you can write your opinions about various subjects from products you’ve bought to websites you’ve visited and make money from doing so.  Basically the way it works is if you want to write a review/opinion, what you do is to go to the site, find the item or site that you want to write about, then write about it.  When you’ve done so, you publish it on the site, and then people can read the review and your opinion of the item/site. 

The idea is that when you write about something you’ve bought whether it be a washing machine, new car, stereo or cd, other people who are thinking about buying that item can read what you think and get an idea from that about whether the item is going to suit them.

The way you make money from this, is that if the person who is reading your review is also a Ciao member, when they read and rate your review then you get paid 1/2 a penny or 1 penny or even 2 pennies depending on what the review was about and if it’s an item/site that Ciao is trying to push hard or not.

The money gets stored up in your Ciao account and then when you have accumulated £5 or more, you can request a payout from them.  They pay out via BACS so the money will be transfered directly into your bank account.  They send payments once a month, for the previous month, so if you request a payment in June, it would be paid to you at the end of July. 

To sign up to Ciao please click on the banner at the top.

This is a bit of an oddball site really, as Qype is a review site, but not one where you earn money for your reviews.  Instead, you earn points for doing different things on the site such as writing reviews, and uploading pictures for them.  You also earn points when people rate your reviews as well.  The way this falls into the money making side of things is that when you hit certain milestones, you are sent a goodie bag.  The first one is when you reach 250 points, the second at 500 points and the third at 1000 points. 

These goodie bags are kind of an incentive to carry on with the site and a thankyou for sticking with it this far.  After 1000 points, you don’t get goodie bags, but you do get admitted to a kind of inner circle where you get invited to enter competitions and you get the chance to go to special events and things as well.

The first goodie bag contains amongst other things a qype top - mine contained a long sleeved top, some sweets, and a flask, sadly I wasn’t asked what size top I wanted so that’s going to have to be passed to someone else as it’s much too small!, but all of good quality never the less. - The second I’m told contains things like frisbee and a usb stick, and the third one is the coverted ninja kit which if it’s picture is correct gets you an ipod, a bottle of champagne and a soft toy.

So, overall, nope you won’t earn any cash, but you will get some nice goodies, and to be honest it’s a very easy place to earn points.  I reached my first 250 points in about 4 days on there.  The reviews don’t have to be long maybe 20-50 words or so unless of course you want to write more, and a friendly place.