February 11, 2012

Amazon Mechanical Turk

I’m always looking for other methods to earn money on the web and Amazon Mechanical Turk has some capability to earn a little bit or cash, but a better use for it is to get low cost workers to help you with your web promotion. Basically it works like this you sign up for an account and either request to be assigned an Amazon Mechanical Turk for you to perform a hit on. A Hit is basically an action. It can be as simple as providing feedback or it could be a blog review. The reviews are where it gets useful as you can us it to help build up your backlinks to a blog or other website. This is an interesting concept and it works similar to other lancing sites such as the many free lancing sites, except you could have a hundred people performing hits for you all at once. The terms are a little tough, but as long as you stick to the rules you could gain a lot of backlinks in a short amount of time, with just a little investment on your part. You can take a look for yourself at http://www.mturk.com