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Register as a Bright Hub Member
- Go to www.brighthub.com and register by clicking on the Join link in the upper right corner of site. This takes you to the Member Registration page.
- Fill in the fields, click on Continue, and you will be taken to Email Confirmation. You should receive email confirmation within five minutes.
- When you next log in to Bright Hub, you will be asked for the verification code you received in your email (one-time only request).
Steps to Write Your Review
1) Make sure you are logged in
- Go to www.brighthub.com. Click on “Sign In” in upper part of the screen.
- Enter your email address and password and click on “Sign In Securely”.
- You will be taken to the default landing or “Getting Started” page.
2) Complete your profile
- From the Getting Started page, click on “Complete Your Profile” and fill out the fields. The more detail-rich you make your profile the more it can help to build your reputation.
- Click on Update to save data on this page.
- Select “Upload Your Photo” next.
*Please Note: All Profile Information MUST be filled out in order to receive payment from Bright Hub.
3) Write your Review
- Click on “Write a Review” (located under the third step: Become a Contributor). This takes you to the Bright Hub Products page.
- Search for the product assigned to you via email from Bright Hub, or paste in the product URL we sent you.
- Click on “Write Review.” The review-writing form will open and by default, the product title will display in ‘Name Your Review’ field.
- Fill in the basic data required (Teaser text, Tags—you only need five, and Overall Product rating, all of which you can change at any time).
- Click on Save
 and a dialog will pop up informing you that your data is saved. You will remain on form and can continue to add text.
4) Returning to a review in progress
- To return to a review in progress, simply log back in. From the Getting Started page, click on the ‘Reviews’ link under My Contributions in left Nav bar.
- Reopen your review by clicking on the little blue pencil icon next to your review’s title, and continue writing. (You can also write offline and paste your review into the website when you are ready to upload a draft. This is recommended.)
Completing Your Review
Now let’s look at the various fields you will need to fill out to complete your review.
NAME YOUR REVIEW:
- For titles, we have a specific convention we use—that is, Product name [space dash space] Eye-catching title. Here is an example:
CyberScrub AntiVirus Lifetime - Like Buying a Cheap Parachute
• The system automatically inserts a title when you select a product to review, but the Product title can be no longer than 30 characters, so it is important to get the data that matters in the product title; sometimes it will be title of product and its version number that is important but for others it will be important to include the software publisher name and product title, within the 30-character limit—e.g., if publisher name has more cachet or more household-name recognition than product title alone.
• The ‘catchy’ title portion of Review Title should be just that—eye catching to readers and can be no longer than 100 characters.
TEASER:
- When writing your Teaser you MUST get the product name in the first seven words of the text. (This is for search engine optimization purposes.)
- Think of the Teaser as a synopsis of your review; try to make it catchy and descriptive, bearing in mind this is what search engines will pick up as description of your review.
- There is a character counter for the Teaser (300-character limit).
INTRODUCTION:
- Think of Introduction as an overview of your review (do not repeat Teaser in Intro). Intro is where you provide reader with what you will cover in review, but it doesn't have to be limited to that as you can discuss why you chose this product to review (relates to your field of expertise) or take an angle--you expect the product to be capable of certain things, and will it live up to expectations. But intro is still only an overview--save the good stuff for the individual Sections where you can delve into the details. (You also get more points for Sections so your Intro should be no longer than 2 to 3 paragraphs.)
- In Intro (and in all other sections) use the actual product name rather than the generic 'this software' or 'this product' when you make references to it--it is helpful for SEO purposes (for keyword density) to have the product title mentioned by name as often as you can, without sounding annoyingly repetitious. Maximizing 'keyword density is another way you can help your reviews be found by search engines.
SECTION RATINGS:
- Sections include: Price to Value, Installation & Setup, User Interface, Product Features, Performance, Security & Privacy, Help & Support, and Other.
- At a minimum, you should cover Price to Value, Installation & Setup, User Interface, Product Features, and Performance. Note: writing to these sections can sometimes lend themselves to redundancy--be on lookout for this.
- Use the ‘Other’ section to cover a an aspect of the software that is outside the realm of the established sections. For example, you bought podcasting software that came with a headset and you want to discuss the quality of the headset. You will need to give the ‘Other’ section a Heading of your choosing.
- To add each section, click the “Add Section” button and select a topic, such as Price to Value.
- Fill in the good and the bad in the Comment box.
- Give the section an overall rating—you cannot save until you select a rating.
- Once you have entered all of the text and a rating, hit Save. It will take a few minutes but then you will see the section show up in the main webform of your review.
SCREENSHOTS:
- Upload screenshots right to the review. (Note: you gain points per image, but don't upload images just to gain points--the screenshots should have meaning to text.) We want you to include images and they should help support the text. And please provide references in the text to the images you upload. This provides the context for the images. Please follow our style for these text references exactly.
- The style and formatting for the references in text to the screenshots is as follows: Cite the text reference using square brackets. The text to use is [See image 1] etc., and the text reference to Image 1 should correspond to the first image you upload, and so on. The text reference should be OUTSIDE any sentence punctuation. The reason for this is so that when Bright Hub deploys links to the text references to images, readers will then be able to mouse over a text reference and it will display the image that corresponds to the number in the text reference.
CONCLUSION:
- Wrap-up your review; keep it brief. Tell the reader whether or not you'd recommend product and why.
SUGGESTED FEATURES:
- This field is for any future features you’d like to see in product, or for features that are simply missing from the product that you think should be in it.
RELATED PRODUCTS:
- Enter products related to the one you are reviewing – these products may or may not be on the Bright Hub site.
TAGS:
- Tags are added to increase “ease of lookup” in terms of Search Engine Optimization. Add terms that are relevant to your subject matter, but are not in the body of the review.
- Bright Hub will provide you with a list of the most relevant keywords associated with your product review. Reviewers use select keywords in the body of the review and others are used as tags. You can enter up to five (5) comma-separated phrases.
OVERALL PRODUCT RATING:
- Once you have completed your review, please check the overall product rating you selected at the outset of writing.
- Be sure your Overall Product Rating is in line with your review as a whole.
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