Textbroker.com Review

I have been using textbroker.com for some time now, but decided to do a post both reviewing the service, and comparing the quality levels between 2 stars – 5 stars. I couldn’t find any good reviews from a content buying point of view, apart from this one at wolf-howl.com.

I should point out that Textbroker do not know I am doing this review, when I ordered the articles that I will be showing you here they were placed through their system (and paid for with my own money) like any other order.

An order was placed for a 2 star, 3 star, 4 star and 5 star article. Each of them was given the exact same article briefing, and asked to write between 950 – 1050 words:

A weekend in New York City: Things to see and do

Please write an article giving British tourists some suitable options of things to do in New York City if they are visiting for a weekend.

Textbroker quality/pricing system

For anyone who is unaware, I should probably describe how this works first. When you set jobs, you can choose what quality/price you want.

Textbroker.com order process

The system is extremely easy to use – you simply need to register your email address, then you can deposit funds by Paypal. Once this is done you can create new projects, which in turn can contain as many jobs as you like.   Each project can only be set to one quality level, so for my experiment here I created 4 projects.

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Once this is done, writers can then login and accept jobs. They then complete them and add them back to the system for your approval. Typically this will all happen very quickly – 3 of the 4 articles here were back in my account for approval within 12 hours of the job being created.

At this point you can either accept the article, or ask the writer to fix any mistakes or make any changes.  I should also say here that I never requested any changes to any of the articles.  I wanted a review of their first efforts. I doubt many people will want to waste their own time proofreading and editing content, so I felt that it would give a better reflection to simply review what was returned first time, to allow anyone reading to make better choices of what level from 2-5 stars suited them best.

The results

I have posted all the articles, links below. I have not edited them whatsoever – the layout and styling is exactly as they were given to me by the authors. In order to avoid fragmenting any discussion, I have disabled comments on the articles themselves. Please leave any comments on this main post.

2 star article - cost $10.59. Click here to read.

3 star article – cost $13.45. Click here to read.

4 star article – cost $19.74 . Click here to read.

5 star article – cost $70.50 . Click here to read.

I am struggling to see any value in the 2 star article whatsoever – it is littered with mistakes and is blatantly not written by a native English writer.  I would be the first to admit my own writing is not the best, but this one is appalling. In spelling  errors alone we have:

• ou’ll
• york
• withouth
• YOu
• endosed
• Conservatoin
• auquatic
• exampe
• ethusiastic
• entrall
• gaurantee
• NewYork
• everthing

And this is before we even start looking at parts which are spelt correctly, but make no sense whatsoever (The most famous street in New York is Broadway. Though it from all the way from Manhattan to the Bronx, is home to the famous Time Square, and Broadway theaters) etc.

The 3 star article is of reasonable quality – I would certainly use this for filler content, or for link building on external sites. For my own sites I would definitely pay the extra money and go 4 star though. Looking at both side by side, its not hard to see where they extra money went. The 4 star seems better value for money.

Unless you are running a content mill, an MFA site, or doing something extremely spammy, I can’t think of any reason why you would want to pay $10 for the 2 star quality – and that view is only magnified when you read the excellent 4 star one, which came in at a mere $9 more.

The level 4 and 5 content is perfect in my opinion. Whether you think the 5 star is worth 3 times the price as the 4 star, well that is more going to come down to your own site and business model than anything else.  If I needed 2-3 articles for a site I would certainly consider the 5 star. If I was creating a new site and needed 100 pages of a few thousand words each, it would be an easy choice – 4 star all the way.

The Conclusion

In whole, I think TextBroker.com is an absolutely brilliant service. I will definitely be continuing to use it both on my own sites and with client projects.  It is an extremely quick and hassle free way to get your content. I had been using rentacoder.com for content creation, but after a couple of nasty experiences there recently, Textbroker is definitely the top dog for content.

I would like to see a couple of improvements though.  Right now Textbroker are forcing you to send content back for revision before you can outright refuse it. If I am paying the 2 star writer  $10 to write 1000 words, I simply do not think I should be forced to do his proof reading for him because he cannot be bothered to run a simple spell check on it before submitting.

I think perhaps Textbroker.com need to introduce a 1 star level, and put the non native and low quality writers in it, or failing that, they should remove these writers from the system altogether.  This was obviously only a sample order for review purposes, but if I was genuinely wanting to use that on a travel site it would need extensive work to fix it. Even going back and forward with the writer and having them do it, I would be quicker (and it would be free) to simply have written it by myself from the start.

All in, don’t let those downsides put you off – simply avoid the 2 star stuff and the service is perfect. It definitely gets our recommendations. If you want to test it out yourself, why not head over there and give it a go. There is no minimum order, you can try a single $5 article if you like and let me know what you think in the comments.

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51 Responses to “Textbroker.com Review”

1. DebD says:

   March 11, 2011 at 10:12 am

   Hi Shad
   I may be able to help you. I do quite a lot of freelance writing and just finish a few sports articles. I would need more details though.