Super Auto Refresh. The Chrome Extension for when you need to keep up to date.

One of the things I've discovered with a number of the sites I've tried to make money from is that, if you're not quick on the uptake, you can miss out on opportunities.

Content mills are a prime example of this, where job offers can be snapped up by others before you even knew they were ever there.

One way to get round this is to leave that site's job page open, in a separate window, with an auto-refresher extension added to your browser, while you're using your computer for other things,

There are plenty of such extensions and add-ons available but the one I'm currently using on Chrome is Super Auto Refresh. It only take a few moments for you to attach it to your browser and, once it's there, you can set it to auto-refresh any page of your choice at whatever interval you like between 2 seconds and 60 minutes.

For the more active sites, like Textbroker, I have Super Auto Refresh set to do its thing once every 2 minutes.

For sites where jobs hang around for a longer time, like Copify, I have it set to refresh every twenty minutes.

Super Auto Refresh can be found by clicking on this mighty link or you can simply go to the Google Chrome Web Store, where a whole host of auto-refresher extensions can be found.

iWriter. There's plenty of work on offer, but...

I think it's fairly obvious by now that my adventures in the realms of content milldom have been somewhat uneventful. I've made money with Textbroker but Copify, Zerys and Crowd Content have proven to be almost total wash-outs for me.

That means it's time to look at yet another content mill and see if I've had any more luck with that one.

And the answer's no.

This time I'm looking at iWriter which has a pay rate that makes other sites look positively generous. In fairness, you can work your way up the ranks to a place where you'll be able to earn more money and you can also take assignments directly from clients, which should earn you more.

Regardless, entering at Standard level, which you will, provides a rock-bottom earning rate of barely more than 0.5 cents a word.

I've been offered plenty of jobs by iWriter, so it doesn't suffer from the major flaw that Crowd Content and Zerys did. However, the vagueness of the assignments in Copify has tended to be replicated here.

But the main obstacle I've encountered with iWriter has been the extraordinarily high rejection rate by the clients. So far today, iWriter has offered me three jobs. One of them was by a client with a 52% rejection rate, another by a client with a 28% rejection rate - and the third by a client with a walloping great big 80% rejection rate.

Needless to say, I'm not even going to bother trying to write an article if it has that high a chance of being rejected. This is especially true if the brief is so vague that it's anyone's guess what the client even wants you to write about.

Overall, I'd say iWriter isn't totally without some sort of hope. There's certainly plenty of work to be had and it's not generally demanding work. However, the initial low pay rates and the high rejection rate means you have to go into it with the view that you're there to get experience and with a strong eye on getting promoted through the ranks as fast as you can.

If you'd like to sign up with iWriter you can do so via this affiliate link, which will make a modest sum of money for me if you do so.

MySurvey - I'm not sure what it's there for.

MySurvey is a very strange case because I really don't know what the differences is between it and Global Test Market. It looks like it, it acts like it and it seems to carry the same surveys as it.

Unfortunately, it also tends to have all the same problems as Global Test Market. Pages can take an eternity to load, there can be problems logging in and the surveys themselves are frequently stricken with technical errors that mean they don't always credit or complete.

On top of that, like Global Test Market, it uses an arcane points system that seems to be designed to make it not totally clear just how much a survey is paying you.

Also like Global Test Market, there's a fair amount of getting screened-out of surveys involved and it can take a fair amount of work to reach the basic payout threshold.

Although MySurvey has a referrals system, I deleted my account with the site, several months ago, so I definitely won't make any money from it if you sign up for MySurvey by using this link.

Payment method: PayPal and various gift vouchers. Minimum payout: $10. Time for payouts to be processed: Variable. My earnings in the last week: N/A My rating: 3/10. JOIN MYSURVEY.