Amazon Mechanical Turk vs SerpClix

About

Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing marketplace that connects businesses with workers who earn money by completing small tasks through the web. Founded in 2005, the platform is owned and operated by Amazon.com and is home to over 500k crowd workers. Learn more.

About

SerpClix is a crowdsourcing marketplace where website owners can hire real people to click their links on search engine results pages. Clickers earn money for each click they complete. Founded in 2016, the platform is operated by Monumental Marketing, LLC. Learn more.

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Status

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Platform Type

Helps You

Helps You

Best For

Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is for two groups: (1) Businesses looking to outsource microtasks to a global workforce; and (2) Individuals looking to earn extra money by completing small tasks through the internet.

Best For

SerpClix is for two groups: (1) Business owners looking to increase their rankings on Google, YouTube, etc.; (2) Individuals looking to earn a few extra bucks from home doing a simple flexible gig.

Age Requirement

Age Requirement

About

Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) workers can earn money by completing small tasks known as Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs). These tasks can include things like identifying specific content in an image or video, writing product descriptions, answering survey questions, collecting data, and more. After accumulating $1, earnings can be cashed out via direct deposit or Amazon gift card.

About

SerpClix clickers can sign up for free and earn cash by conducting and clicking specific search engine results and by referring friends. After accumulating $5.00, earnings can be cashed out via PayPal.

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Type of Work

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Type of Income

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Work Schedule

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Workplace

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Commissions/Fees

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Minimum Payout

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Payout Speed

Editorial Ratings

Editorial Ratings

User Ratings

Based on 18 reviews from Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers. 100% of reviewers said they would recommend the platform to others.

User Ratings

Based on 8 reviews from SerpClix Clickers. 87.5% of reviewers said they would recommend the platform to others.

Pros

• Flexibility to work when, where, and however much you want.
• Variety of tasks available.
• Earning potential can be high (some workers have reported earning hundreds or even thousands of dollars per month).

Pros

• Available worldwide.
• Has easy earning opportunities.
• Has a low minimum payout threshold.

Cons

• Low pay (many tasks on MTurk pay very little, sometimes only a few cents per task).
• Competition (there are many workers on MTurk, which means that there can be a lot of competition for the higher-paying tasks).
• Inconsistent work (the availability of tasks on MTurk can vary, which means that there may not always be enough work available for workers to earn a consistent income).

Cons

• Manipulating search engine results goes against the terms of the search engines, which can result in account bans in rare cases.
• Payouts are scheduled to be sent monthly, every first week of the month.
• Orders can be limited and scarce depending on your location.

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Hourly Earning/Saving Stats

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Monthly Earning/Saving Stats

About

Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) requesters can outsource tasks to the crowd of workers on the platform. This can be done either directly through the built-in requester interface or via the MTurk API. In terms of the type of tasks that can be outsourced, anything completable over the internet goes!

About

SerpClix clients can spend money on the platform to hire human search result clickers. Paid clicks are intended to increase click-through-rates (CTRs) on Google search results, Bing results, YouTube results, etc. which may help increase search engine rankings.

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Costs/Fees

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Payment Options

Pros

• On-demand labor force (workers are available whenever you need them).
• Rapid task completion (workers complete tasks in parallel).
• Pay for satisfactory work only.

Pros

• Claims to provide real clicks from real humans, no bots.
• Has various membership plans, with one-time purchase packages available as well.
• Fast registration. Easy to get started.

Cons

• Quality of workers can range greatly.
• Marketplace service fees can increase your costs quite a bit.

Cons

• SerpClix isn't risk-free or guaranteed to work. If you're caught manipulating search engine results, your SEO could be negatively affected. Also, even if you're not caught, there's no guarantee that artificial CTR increases will boost your organic SEO rankings.
• No refunds once the subscription payment has been made.
• Unused credits will expire if a subscription lapses. In the case of credits purchased with no monthly subscription, the credits will expire either 30 days of account inactivity or 180 days after purchase, whichever is at the earliest.