I have been a member of Dooyoo for the last couple of years and have watched the progression of the site with interest. It has potential and little by little with hard work from the Dooyoo staff, Dooyoo is becoming a very active review writing site.
What does dooyoo do ?
As a member of Dooyoo, you have your chance to express your views in either short unpaid reviews, or in standard full size reviews, on any subject that would be of interest to the consumer. In other words, it is a site dedicated to telling the public what they need to know about products that they may wish to research.
Becoming a member is very simple, and you are given your own page which details your reviews, the points that you have earned, the number of reviews you have rated and the number of people that have rated you. Simple, and functional, and now with a Product proposal button on each members page, very simple to use.
Logging into the site, you are immediately attracted to the green screen and the words Earn Money, Write Reviews, Voice your opinion, make friends.
Sounds good doesn't it ?
The layout of the site is pretty easy to follow and I would like to take each promise and tell you how the site lives up to them.
Earn Money.
You earn money from reads by other members and the way in which you maximise your experience of Dooyoo is to read, read and read, hoping that perhaps 50 per cent of the people you read will read you. They usually do, and if you are fair with the way in which you read around the site, getting to read a widespread number of other writers, I believe that the site lives up to its promise of good payment. They pay either in vouchers for Amazon.com, or in lump sums of fifty pounds, and if you are relatively active on the site, then the rewards that you reap are good, and compare very favourably over its main competitor, i.e. Ciao.
Write Reviews
Writing reviews is a skill that you do learn, and here giving the consumer a good balance of the kind of information you would be looking for when wanting to know whether you wish to buy a product will bring good ratings. Comparing your product with other products available, giving your experience of using it, and generally a good overview of the product itself with advantages and disadvantages is the best way of preparing reviews and then posting them. There is not a drafts section on Dooyoo and I feel that writing your reviews first on Word or similar is a good idea because you can spellcheck them before posting them on the sire, and also keep a copy of the review that you write.
Voice your Opinion.
This is always an interesting part of any review site, and the fact that your opinion counts whether it is negative or positive is rather good. You do get to voice an opinion and it is not always the positive opinions that get the best ratings. It really is overall balance of a review that counts, and I find that on the whole the people that rate the reviews that you write are fair in their ratings.
Making Friends.
This, to me, is the only part of the site that is lacking, in that community as such doesn't really exist, other than in writing Speakers Corner reviews which reveal a little of the writers personality. What the site lacks is contact of any kind between members, although they do have off site guestbooks, which I am not keen on, as being offsite, they really are not a concern of Dooyoo itself.
In the making friends area of Dooyoo, I would say that it does not compare very well with the making friends promise of ciao, and as I have experienced the two sites, side by side, for a similar length of time, I would say that the community side of Ciao is much better, much more alive, and much more accessible.
Staff on the site.
Here, I can see that the staff on the site are making efforts to improve Dooyoo enormously, although my experience is that email replies are rare. I have had one of two, but I realise that the site staff are busy with changes that are making the site a better and more useable place to be.
How fast is the site and easy to navigate ?
The site is actually very easy to navigate and on the Member page, there are competitions that members can enter and lists of people who have won prizes. There are also things called crowns awarded to members, after having been nominated by members that read the reviews. In this respect Dooyoo really do win hands down against ciao, in that the button to recommend reviews is in the same place as the rating buttons and easily acccessible, whereas on ciao it is at the top of the review, where an inexperienced member would not find it. The crowns are awarded more regularly than the Ciao award of diamonds and are very widespread which is good news for members in their attempt to gain one.
The alerts system works well as well after a little bit of technical tweaking, and I can now receive an alert each day listing my favourite writers new reviews, and ratings on my own reviews. There is also a trust system whereby a member can add members to their trust if they find that their reviews are worthy of that trust. Unlike on Ciao who limit this trust to 100 members, it seems that Dooyoo allow you to trust as many people as you actually do trust.
Overall conclusion of the site.
I am a review writer and use the site, although to me, it loses against Ciao.com in that it has no actual community. In terms of innovation it wins over ciao, though to writers like me that enjoy social contact, Ciao does come up trumps with guestbooks and the ability to see who is online and I do find that Ciao would get my vote at this moment in time simply because of the social aspects.
For those who prefer less social contact, then Dooyoo keep their promise in paying quickly and efficiently for your reviews and is well worth joining.
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