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[melodylogan45]

Sorry! I didn't realize that you had asked for my help with anything until now. I always forget to check the 'Off Topic' section. Since it concerns the tasks, you could post your question in the 'Support' or 'Offers' section. I always check those daily. Anyhow, about the tasks I complete....

Last month, January, was definitely a great month for me and it was the first time I was able to earn so much money with just the tasks. I think I was up to $53 with just the tasks on the last day of Jan. I do have a 'routine' when it comes to tasks. I always start off with the higher paying ones and at least 75% of the tasks I complete are the 'Flag & Tag Images'....whether it's the 1 cent, 2 cents, or 3 cents ones. These image tasks are straight forward and don't take much time at all....which is why I like them so much. I also like the 'Answer a few questions (5 cents)', 'Send a Tweet (2 cents)', and 'Search Google (5 cents)' tasks. When I see any of these tasks and I haven't yet completed them, I do those right away. Each day, I also go through each task page to see if CrowdFlower has added a 'Survey' which is usually worth 10-25 cents. Once I've completed all the higher paying tasks, I start all the 0.50 - 2 cents tasks which go by the names 'review a site' or 'quick webpage review' and those only take 10 seconds to complete each. There are some tasks that I don't even bother to try because I know I won't understand them or they don't credit even if I follow the instructions. After a while of completing tasks, you sort of know which ones are worth it and which ones aren't. For example, the ones that say 'look for the code after downloading the file'....I ALWAYS ignore those tasks. From experience, I know that even if I download the file, there is no code anywhere and I won't get credit because I can't submit the task without the proper code. I also stopped trying the 'Search for terms and record the search results (15 cents)' because if it says to use google, I already know I won't be able to complete that task because it asks for minimum 5 search terms and my google only gives me 4. If that same task says we can use bing, I'll complete it because bing gives me 10 search terms and I'll have enough search terms for each box. So yeah, I complete at least 90% of the tasks that are offered by CrowdFlower but not all of them.

You mentioned signing up with CrowdFlower. I signed up 2 months ago because some tasks were not crediting and I wanted to use the CrowdFlower Support button. The fact that I signed up and have an account with them hasn't changed the number of tasks available or anything else. I've also only received 2 bonuses in 3 months from them....so it doesn't give you more bonuses either. But signing up with CrowdFlower is free and if you notice that some of your tasks aren't crediting, it might be useful for you to have an account with them so that you can get help with specific tasks. You'll just need to be patient with them tho because they can be real slow in responding haha. They've got hundreds of people asking for help with FC tasks and tasks offered by CrowdFlower on other sites too and everyone ends up on the same CrowdFlower page asking for help with this or that.

Last but not least, the 'Thanks for your hard work....there is no more work for you at the moment' message. Well, I don't take 'no' for an answer. I get that message very often and what I usually do is either 'refresh' the page or complete another task and then come back to the one that supposedly has no more work for me....and 70% of the time....the task page will open up again and I continue working on it. This technique only works with the 'Flag Images', etc tasks which have several pages for each task. This technique won't work for the 'Search Google' or 'Review a webpage' because for those tasks, there is only 1 task page available per person and once you've reviewed a page once....that's it. Kinda hard to explain but hopefully you'll understand what I mean. But for those 0.50 cents, 1 cent, 2 cents 'review a webpage' tasks, they are constantly adding new ones so it's not really an issue. That's actually the most common task in the task section.

Hope all this helps you and sorry for taking so long to reply!  

This post is so helpful. I have one a few tasks but have been wanting to do a lot more to increase my earnings. I was not very familiar with how they worked so this post is awesome for helping to understand them little better

How do I send a tweet for two cents. Also, is that something
That can be done daily?

[keauhou]

I ran out of Tasks too and so I cleared cache and cookies. Now I more to do!

[ffwoodard]

Some of the tasks can be fun, and some not so fun. If you get a pattern and keep working on them you get better. If you have an account with them they have a forum of sorts to discuss what doesn't credit correctly.

[mh874892]

Thanks so much for such an amazing answer as to how you get so much money on the tasks. From what I can tell, it just takes patience and time put in to make money with them. Good to know that refreshing the page can give you more options. I will try to get into a routine and make even more money that way.

[IceKittyNM]

I also stopped trying the 'Search for terms and record the search results (15 cents)' because if it says to use google, I already know I won't be able to complete that task because it asks for minimum 5 search terms and my google only gives me 4. If that same task says we can use bing, I'll complete it because bing gives me 10 search terms and I'll have enough search terms for each box.

Elisa, there used to be a lot more to the directions on 15 cents google one. If you didn't have 5 searches you needed to hit the space bar twice in the fifth search suggestion block. I only get the 4 search suggestions with google also. I have been using those spaces in the fifth search suggestion block and it has always worked for me. I haven't ever gotten a "some answers weren't what we expected" error for that at all.

There's a way to fix that Google search results issue.  It's a "feature" that Google added to make searches more "user-friendly".  After you do a search, look for the settings icon in the upper right corner (looks like a spoked wheel).  Select the "Search Setting" option from the list.  On the search settings page, the "Search Results" section (which it should default to), find the "Google Instant predictions" setting (should be the second setting on the page).  Select the "Never show Instant results" option, scroll down to the bottom of the page and select SAVE.  Then open a new tab and you should now get all 10 Google search suggestions again.

With Bing searches, after you've done several searches, you might notice your previous searches appear above the regular search suggestion lists in blue.  If you see that, those blue entries are not the search suggestions, but your Bing search history as another "user-friendly" feature.  To clean that up and get the correct results, when you type into the Bing search and get the list, at the bottom right corner of the list is a link to "Manage Search History".  Click on that to go to your Search History page.  On that page, find the "Clear All" button - that will erase the previous search results to give you a clean search suggestion list.  You can also select the "Turn off" button that should prevent Bing from recording your history so you don't have to keep going back and clearing the history.

Hope this helps those who want to try those higher paying search for terms tasks.

I know this is an old subject, but never too late to interject. When doing this particular task, if you read ALL of the directions it says the following:

"If you are using certain browsers, Google will only display 5 search suggestions. In this case, please list "NA" for the sixth to tenth search suggestions."

Therefore, no need to mess with any of the settings on your browser.