April 7, 2016 at 14:11Crisis of the genre: dumping on content exchanges
Content exchanges have turned into a circus and this is a fact. Having returned after a hard school day, professional writers are in a hurry to accept several dozen orders for ruble-fifty per thousand characters. At this point, I want to stop and thank the wise leadership of the services for creating a cheap workforce that daily clogs the Web with thousands of meaningless symbols. However, customers also do not particularly bother with tasks performed for a penny, accepting, of course, “unique articles” (indeed, the check shows their high uniqueness) - they are not worried about the meaning of texts placed on advertising platforms, because search engine robots will read them . The main thing is to quickly fill up the next site and to have less “water”.
But among those who remain committed to “Ctrl + C / Ctrl + V” there are authors who are directly involved in intellectual work. They grab such people for a short time, after which they leave voluntary slavery, unable to cope with hard dumping. The exchanges themselves, who are interested in lowering prices and, therefore, greater turnover within the system, also help them. And services that care about the quality of completed orders can generally be counted on the fingers. Often their strict rules do not imply an increased rate and only repel performers with senseless fuss for the right to gain access to expensive orders. Understanding this, good writers there are found in even smaller numbers.
You can look at this monotonous process of content circulation forever. Moreover, at some point, it begins to seem that exchanges are roulette in which, by and large, only the owner wins. Of course, they can be skillfully used if you know what you want from the writer and are able to properly organize the work of those very desperate teachers and lecturers from the near abroad and the outbacks of the country. They will become your slaves without question and fill the site with quality content. After that, they will certainly go to rest, burnt out on an ungrateful job. Several conclusions follow from this:
- ultimately, content exchanges, as a phenomenon of the last decade, will be forced to meet the writers,
- or squeeze penny profits from new customers, expecting restructuring into serious companies specializing in content.
I have not visited content exchanges for a long time and was very surprised at the surrealism of what is happening on them today. Top exchanges have turned into real swamps, profitable at the expense of customers. The latter, I am sure, after a while run away from them to private companies offering the services of professional writers. And they’re doing it right! Instead of caring for good authors who work on the image of the service and stricterly select candidates, exchanges lower rates and adopt a system of severe fines, not taking into account the level of a particular author. And so such a desperate teacher sits, has to write articles for some “startup”, and then gets drunk, falling asleep in the classroom before his customers (don’t believe me? Look on the web for videos!).
I think now it’s partly clear who forces the exchanges to lower rates and creates difficult working conditions for really good authors. The topic of making money online is relevant today, by and large, for those who cannot officially be hired for legislative reasons. Yes, and they still could not work - the school schedule is merciless, Saturdays - and those are busy. Most of the authors, of course, are schoolchildren. It is they who actively use free programs and send low-quality texts to customers, spending time and nerves of the latter. Under their blow, there is another part, which is constantly decreasing its number on exchanges - these are education workers, as a rule, from the hinterlands and CIS countries. I don’t know how now, but earlier it was possible to find such an author and get excellent work in a short time. After ten articles, such an author disappeared.
Many who are thinking about making money on content exchanges want to know - is it a myth or a reality? To dispel the dreams of easy money and quiet work in slippers, I’ll say right away - no, you can’t. Especially now, when rates have dropped to the ruble (I admit, a few years later, for me this was real news!). A few years ago I earned money on content exchanges and as a private author (working for SEO companies and network media) equal to the average income in St. Petersburg, but now I have a big doubt that exchanges can still help professional authors. To make it clear to you, imagine that your salary has been counted and now it is only 15% of the one you are used to receiving. You can work for free, by the way - for the rating,
And once I was brought to the content exchange precisely for this purpose - to check the possibility of earning on the Web. Alas, to earn there it was possible only with low-quality and often simply delusional content. Already then, back in 2010, customers eagerly accepted even texts that were incoherent in meaning, written only to make fun of readers. For example, one article of four and a half thousand characters could be written by me in five to ten minutes. As a result, I came to the fact that I began to set personal goals - to write beautifully incoherent texts and reduce the time spent writing such content (by the way, a good training on developing print speed!).
In total, about six years passed between my visits to content exchanges. During this time, the quality of texts has changed significantly and not for the better, and opportunities for good authors have narrowed. And, I am sure, a wild price reduction will someday affect each of us - whether it is a customer or an author. Personally, I feel this dumping today by opening the site of a reputable company and reading a description that does not correspond to the product. And last week, I spent a long time figuring out a photo of a product that was clearly thoughtlessly copied from the Web and had nothing to do with the name. The same thing happens with information rewritten by hundreds of writers reproducing the effect of a damaged phone. So, dumping on content exchanges is a fact. And this circus, apparently, is going to tour for a long time.
But among those who remain committed to “Ctrl + C / Ctrl + V” there are authors who are directly involved in intellectual work. They grab such people for a short time, after which they leave voluntary slavery, unable to cope with hard dumping. The exchanges themselves, who are interested in lowering prices and, therefore, greater turnover within the system, also help them. And services that care about the quality of completed orders can generally be counted on the fingers. Often their strict rules do not imply an increased rate and only repel performers with senseless fuss for the right to gain access to expensive orders. Understanding this, good writers there are found in even smaller numbers.
You can look at this monotonous process of content circulation forever. Moreover, at some point, it begins to seem that exchanges are roulette in which, by and large, only the owner wins. Of course, they can be skillfully used if you know what you want from the writer and are able to properly organize the work of those very desperate teachers and lecturers from the near abroad and the outbacks of the country. They will become your slaves without question and fill the site with quality content. After that, they will certainly go to rest, burnt out on an ungrateful job. Several conclusions follow from this:
- ultimately, content exchanges, as a phenomenon of the last decade, will be forced to meet the writers,
- or squeeze penny profits from new customers, expecting restructuring into serious companies specializing in content.
I have not visited content exchanges for a long time and was very surprised at the surrealism of what is happening on them today. Top exchanges have turned into real swamps, profitable at the expense of customers. The latter, I am sure, after a while run away from them to private companies offering the services of professional writers. And they’re doing it right! Instead of caring for good authors who work on the image of the service and stricterly select candidates, exchanges lower rates and adopt a system of severe fines, not taking into account the level of a particular author. And so such a desperate teacher sits, has to write articles for some “startup”, and then gets drunk, falling asleep in the classroom before his customers (don’t believe me? Look on the web for videos!).
I think now it’s partly clear who forces the exchanges to lower rates and creates difficult working conditions for really good authors. The topic of making money online is relevant today, by and large, for those who cannot officially be hired for legislative reasons. Yes, and they still could not work - the school schedule is merciless, Saturdays - and those are busy. Most of the authors, of course, are schoolchildren. It is they who actively use free programs and send low-quality texts to customers, spending time and nerves of the latter. Under their blow, there is another part, which is constantly decreasing its number on exchanges - these are education workers, as a rule, from the hinterlands and CIS countries. I don’t know how now, but earlier it was possible to find such an author and get excellent work in a short time. After ten articles, such an author disappeared.
Many who are thinking about making money on content exchanges want to know - is it a myth or a reality? To dispel the dreams of easy money and quiet work in slippers, I’ll say right away - no, you can’t. Especially now, when rates have dropped to the ruble (I admit, a few years later, for me this was real news!). A few years ago I earned money on content exchanges and as a private author (working for SEO companies and network media) equal to the average income in St. Petersburg, but now I have a big doubt that exchanges can still help professional authors. To make it clear to you, imagine that your salary has been counted and now it is only 15% of the one you are used to receiving. You can work for free, by the way - for the rating,
And once I was brought to the content exchange precisely for this purpose - to check the possibility of earning on the Web. Alas, to earn there it was possible only with low-quality and often simply delusional content. Already then, back in 2010, customers eagerly accepted even texts that were incoherent in meaning, written only to make fun of readers. For example, one article of four and a half thousand characters could be written by me in five to ten minutes. As a result, I came to the fact that I began to set personal goals - to write beautifully incoherent texts and reduce the time spent writing such content (by the way, a good training on developing print speed!).
In total, about six years passed between my visits to content exchanges. During this time, the quality of texts has changed significantly and not for the better, and opportunities for good authors have narrowed. And, I am sure, a wild price reduction will someday affect each of us - whether it is a customer or an author. Personally, I feel this dumping today by opening the site of a reputable company and reading a description that does not correspond to the product. And last week, I spent a long time figuring out a photo of a product that was clearly thoughtlessly copied from the Web and had nothing to do with the name. The same thing happens with information rewritten by hundreds of writers reproducing the effect of a damaged phone. So, dumping on content exchanges is a fact. And this circus, apparently, is going to tour for a long time.