Textbroker USReviews of textbroker.com

I have been with Textbroker for 15 years. It was a great way to make extra money. However, this past year has felt like I am the twilight zone. No pay, no ratings, and no work. Of course, it is always my fault. They can keep the $50 owed me for 5 months. I’m done.

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When I started with Textbroker sometime in 2008, it was relatively new. There were some interesting articles to write on a variety of subjects. The management at that time was very nice and accommodating, Writing was more of a hobby since I was still in the throes of my career at the time. There were many years when I wrote nothing at all because I was too busy. When I retired in 2017, I began to write more, but it was more difficult to find articles I cared to write. Most were concerned with SEO to get placement on Google, and the content the clients wanted was certainly not something I'd even be interested in reading, let alone writing, I noticed that Textbroker management had started to get more involved with the writers, making it more of an employee relationship than a contractual relationship. I didn't care for the management at all in these later years. They seemed to have gotten paranoid that legitimate US workers were not in the US, and I started to see many complaints in the forums about this issue. They had a way of turning it around to answer these writers by telling them they were more concerned for the writers' security. That made no sense to me. When they changed their payment platform from PayPal to Payoneer it was about the last straw for me, and I wrote very little after that transition. I finally decided there was no sense having a dormant account, so I closed it, If someone asked me in the years between 2008 and 2010 whether or not I recommended Textbroker, I would have endorsed it as emphatically as I would have advised to steer clear of it when I left.

I have on-and-off written for Textbroker for over a decade. It can be good or bad. The editors are paid about $11 an hour and are far from professional. For the last eight years, I have worked for the leading USA home improvement retailer barking out product descriptions. Once covid hit, I chose to go back to Textbroker. Now, it's a nightmare. I have two UC Davis SEO certifications, and I know these folks don't get it. They cater to Black Hats – it is a content mill. You would be better off digging in the neighborhood trash for aluminum cans.

Review from perspective of Client. Requested 5 star article, which was decent, requested some revisions, now there is a wholly different article written by a new writer which is worst than the first and doesn't take into account any of the revisions I asked for. Don't see a way of contacting previous writer as I don't have a record of their username. Poor experience overall wouldn't use again. Got suckered into it with the 7$ coupon they advertise. Minimum deposit is 25$. 500 word article was $36.

I was initially given a 3-star review on my sample, even though I was told it was 4-star quality. When I asked why this was, I was told I would be moved up to a 4-star writer. While this is good news, it has now been a week since I was told this change would be put into the system. These issues have delayed everything for at least two weeks now.

Disclaimer: I am not a writer, I've been purchasing articles on TB for a very long time now. I have spent a lot of money on the platform and the only thing they care about is how to exploit writers and squeeze every last penny out of everyone involved. Their product is broken (the messaging system DOESN'T WORK), they don't care if it is usable, they monitor every conversation, they add extra words to orders so they can claim the difference and they are not flexible with payments. Despite being somewhat useful if you are searching for a quick order, they are completely useless and rely on dodgy tactics to survive.