Textbroker Review: Not Bad, But Not Great Either

If you’re a niche store builder then you know sometimes the most difficult thing is keeping your sites fresh by frequently adding good unique content, especially if you have many sites. In some cases the problem is that you have a niche that you aren’t really knowledgeable about, but often times the problem may simply be a lack of time. A solution that many webmasters use is to outsource part of their content creation. There are several content services available. Some of them are big name websites while others are lesser known and can be found on various Internet marketing related forums. One that I recently chose to use is Textbroker so I thought I would write a little review about them.

You can sign up as a member of Textbroker free of charge and there’s no monthly fee but there is a $0.15 charge for each order placed. Before placing an order you must deposit some funds into your account using either a credit card or PayPal. After funding your account you can place an order for your content. Textbroker’s authors are U.S. based and are ranked in quality from two to five stars.Prices begin at $0.010 per word for a two star author and range up to $0.067 per word for a five star author. With the processing fee, a 500 word article from a two star author will cost $5.15. You can state in your order what level of author you desire. The nice thing is that you may select two stars, but your order is viewable by any author with two stars or more so it’s possible that your content could be written by a higher quality author. If this happens, you only get charged for the price of the level you requested so there’s no additional charge to worry about. All articles must pass Copyscape before they are returned to you so duplicate content issues shouldn’t be a concern.

I deposited my funds and placed orders for six different articles trying some at each of the two, three and four star levels. Most of the articles took around three to four days to be completed. I would have to say that the level of the author seemed to have no relationship on the quality of the articles. The best ones I got were written by two star authors. None of the articles had any spelling issues and grammar issues were rare but the biggest complaint of mine was that all but one of the articles just didn’t read like they were from someone who was knowledgeable about the subject. That’s not what I needed. I could have achieved that on my own!

My verdict on Textbroker? If you’re looking for content to use for article directory submissions, Textbroker will serve that purpose fine. But, if you’re looking for unique, high quality content to place on your website without having to rewrite or edit it, then I would look elsewhere.

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