Get paid to do various tasks at Microworkers

I ran into a site called Microworkers today. As usual, when I first took a look at what they had to offer, I was a little bit confused. After taking a closer look into Microworkers, I realize they have a good thing going on. Of course, I’m writing about them because they give a $1.00 sign up bonus just for joining and are 100% free to join. That’s just something I always do.

I like Microworkers because you can get paid to do various tasks for website owners. I never seen a site so flexible in their earning options. Some of the tasks are pretty easy if you have some time to kill and want to make some extra money online.

Here are some “micro job” examples:

• Comment on some one’s blog.
• Post in forums.
• Write a short article.
• Post ads on Craiglist.
• Write a blog on a particular product.
• Follow someone on Twitter.
• Digg a website.
• Complete a survey.
• Sign up under some one’s referral link.
• Link to some one’s site.
• There is no limit on what a task could be.

If you own a website, Microworkers can help you get traffic to your site at a pretty inexpensive rate.

Anyway, as with anything, nothing is ever perfect. It looks like the $1.00 sign up bonus is supposed to be used towards advertising. This isn’t a complete waste, since being a website owner, I spend a good junk of change on advertising online. You don’t have to own a site to promote something though.

I tried using my sign up bonus to do a quick comment task. I had to do at least 25 positions. I thought this sucked because I was hoping to try their services out before actually putting any real money into Microworkers.

One last downside is that they claim you can earn $1.00 per referral, but in order to get the $1.00 for referring someone, the person needs to earn at least $25.00 in commissions either by  completing tasks or by referring others themselves.

This makes the earning potential go down just a little bit, but overall, I think Microworkers is a pretty unique site with a distinct name for themselves. What do you think?

Take a look at some more sign up bonuses that pay you for doing things and let me know what you think.

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