Written by In this post on money-making ideas, I will write about Microworkers.com and about ways you can use it to your benefit.
Microworkers is a site that offers great way to get back links, articles, Diggs, yahoo answers, video views, and for completing CPA offers ( more on that later! ). Pretty much, if it is a task that needs to be completed online, you can have someone on Microworkers complete the task for you for literally pennies.
Let me show how to creatively use the power of the Microworkers’ community of workers to expand the possibilities most see only on the surface. Below are some ideas you can use to get the most out of Microworkers.
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Use Microworkers for high PR links and to create your own wheels. – As already mentioned, you can have people with PR3+ blogs write a 50, 100, or more word post about your website and link to it. High PR websites have authority with Google and often result in better back links helping you move up in the search engines. But, you can also have PR3+ blogs link to other links you already have which will help boost those links indirectly thus giving your website even more link juice.
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Use Microworkers for YAHOO Answers – Do a search on Google in “Question form” and often you’ll see a link to Yahoo Answers. If it is showing up in the top results it makes sense to work towards maximizing your exposure on it. Figure out what question most people would ask that the answer would be on your website. For example, if you sell toys you could answer the question: “What is the best safe toys for kids?”. So, what you do is YOU create the question on Yahoo Answers and then have the Microworkers answer the question with your link of course in the source.
This is one of those you have to watch closely because you don’t want a lot of the same answers. Cancel it after you get the question answered. This works well because over time you have a lot of different yahoo accounts answering questions with your link as the source thus building authority for you.
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Twitter – Google admits they use Twitter links in their search algorithm. Get the workers to RETWEET your posts for you! Works awesome!
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YouTube – The more views you get the more options you get. These options include the ability to make money off your videos. Now, at .10 cents per view this can get expensive in a hurry but is a great way to get the ball rolling if you have the budget to support it. Other great ways to maximize your budget with this strategy is to have the PR3 bloggers post your YouTube video on their blog. This way you get 2-for-1!
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Forums – This is another source of great back links but we use it in another way. Let’s say you have a dog training blog and you want to add a forum. How do you get people to start posting in the forum? You guessed it! Microworkers!
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Articles – Ezinearticles is a must for anyone seeking back links. But, those articles can be hard to write. Microworkers will write those articles for you while you sleep. Easy!
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Craigslist – Selling stuff online? Using Craigslist? Keep getting flagged? Microworkers will post for you and you can set some guidelines like “must remain unflagged for at least 24 hours”. Tip: Use bit.ly to track your links from Craigslist ads!
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Reviews – If you have a business online with a physical location you can get the Microworkers to post positive reviews about your business on Google Maps, CitySearch, etc. Now, I don’t necessarily recommend this. You may have a moral issue with this one since it is technically not an actual review.
However, if you ask them to check out your website first and then write a review based on the website’s ease of use,
information, and usability, then there isn’t anything wrong with that!
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Facebook – Facebook is one of the most untapped markets for creative marketers. Facebook ads are expensive and the ROI is terrible. But you can use the power of the community to spread your message on walls, photos, likes, fans, etc. Use Microworkers for Facebook Likes, Posts to your wall, Likes and Posts, Adding an Application, suggesting a link to their friends, etc. Microworkers Alternatives – This is how you double, triple and more your campaign reach!
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If you spend any time on the Microworkers “Available Jobs” section you’ll notice a lot of CPA offers. CPA offers are those offers that if completed result in payment to the person who offered up the job. For example, if I have a job for “Get a Car Insurance Quote” and you complete the task then I will be paid $6. Well, you can get USA workers to complete the task for $1.50 so you don’t have to be a math wizard to see the potential here. If I get 100 workers to complete this task I will make $600. I’ll have to pay out $150 for a net gain/profit of $450.
The problem is what you are doing is offering an “incentive” to complete the offer. If the offer says something like “no incentives”, then you just have to find offers that allow you to use incentivized traffic. You just have to ask your affiliate manager about these or search for them on their websites. There are some offers that accept incentivized traffic on Neverblue, Adscend Media and Maxbounty to name a few. But, some incentivized offers don’t allow “paid to complete” type offers. When in doubt, ask your Affiliate manager.
Also, it is important to know the alternatives to Microworkers so you can scale your campaigns.
MyLot – This site is actually how I found Microworkers. I used this before Microworkers and is actually cheaper to use. The only reason I didn’t write this money-making ideas post about MyLot was because the interface is more difficult to use and the targeting isn’t as good. I found a larger International audience here where I was looking for a wider USA/Canada market.
ShortTask – I’ll admit I haven’t used this site much but I hear others have used it with success and it’s pretty easy to use like Microworkers is.
Similar sites are not that hard to find with Google. Well, that wraps it up. I hope you enjoyed this post.
