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I agree with you, I posted to my blog to test the service but removed the posts simply because they were off-topic. If I were a Vancouver blogger like Miss 604 or a fashion blogger, or just had a “personal ramblings” site it would be another story.

Sharing to Facebook would be interesting too, as that was the point of the whole Beacon thing.

Affiliate bloggers might appreciate porting their reviews, but as a merchant, you don’t want your “unbiased” reviews mixed with affiliate reviews!

Just a comment on bloggers who seem to post about random products, if they’re not affiliate bloggers they are probably accepting some form of payment in exchange for the post, using keyword-rich anchor text for SEO. We’re seeing a lot less of this now that Google has laid the smackdown on paid reviews.

Or maybe some people just love shopping and do it for fun?

@ Marc,

I checked out Measured Up, just for the sake of our readers I will mention that is more of a social shopping site where people can review stuff. Power Reviews and others are tools that integrate with an online store’s ecommerce platform so customers can review products on the websites the products are being sold – right on the product page.

Your disputes could be resolved using MeasuredUp if the company you reviewed reads your review or another consumer could give you advice. When you have good things to say a company could reward you.

It is free and easy to use and your info is private.

I have tried some other sites that are also good but really like this one.

Personally, I wouldn’t share any reviews on my own blog, but I know of friends (and have seen internet strangers) who have personal blogs that they use to blog about random and recent purchases (e.g. “So I just bought the new iPod, here’s what I think about it…”). I could see this feature potentially appealing to them.

It would be interesting to see participation rates. It would be even more interesting to see participation rates overlaid with review ratings; that is, are negative reviewers more likely to share their reviews on their blog? Or are positive reviewers? Or is there no correlation?

From the shopkeeper’s perspective, I wonder if they’d still like this feature if it was found that negative reviewers were more likely to share their reviews (perhaps ANY publicity is good publicity?)

That is a good idea

Maybe others who are using Power Reviews can chime in on conversion rates for the blog-review call-to-action?

I was thinking of some other possibilities that the user could do without submitting their username and pass. Maybe they write the review on their blog then ping your website submitting their review. Kind of backwards but an idea.

Personally, I would not be willing to submit my username or password for two reasons. First, the owner of the website might steal that information and use it to access and do anything with my blog. Second, I have the same password for my blog, gmail, and other Google services. So, I do not know about others, but for me I would not want to do it.

Also, how were you able to make sure the formatting would stay correct on the persons blog if the CSS is styled differently for certain elements and what not. And is this geared to only one type of blog engine, I’m guessing WordPress?

Really cool idea and I think a lot of people will start using this type of functionality.