UHRS Made Simple – A Step-by-Step

Guide
Do you know you can earn money by helping search engines search
better? In this article, We will discuss about UHRS – A platform
developed by Microsoft to improve Bing Search Engine. This is going to
be the most comprehensive guide on UHRS you would have ever come
across. I have earned more than $6000 from it in the last 12 months and
I will guide you through each and every single process that will help you
earn better.

How To Get Access To UHRS?

UHRS is owned by Microsoft and it doesn’t provide direct access to it’s
platform. The only way to get access is through different vendors or third
parties. I am listing out all the vendors that are currently providing
access to UHRS.

1. Clickworker
2. Teemwork
3. Oneforma
4. Quadrant Resources
5. Datamime
You can create account on any of these sites and get access to UHRS.
Now people often ask me which one is the best vendor to start working
with. The list that I have provided above is already ranked as per my
priority. To rank the 5 sites, I took 2 factors into consideration:

1. Work Availability – Number of hitapps available in the platform

2. Payment System – Smoothness of the payment process

Live ID And How to Create it?

Live ID is going to be required to access UHRS platform. To create it,
You can simply go to live.com and create a free account. Vendors like
Clickworker and Quadrant Resources will give you a specific email ID
that you need to create. While for the others, you can create any random
live id. After creation, You will be required to link it with the vendor after
which you will be able to access UHRS platform.
Link to UHRS
UHRS Platform Guide
UHRS Platform is basically divided into 2 sections.

1. Marketplace
2. Report
We will discuss about both of them and will provide every single detail
about the Platform.

Marketplace
Marketplace is the part of UHRS Platform where you will be able to see
the tasks availability and a various other information about each task.
Below is a screenshot of how the marketplace looks like. It is the first
screen you will see when you login to UHRS
Once you are here, go to All section as shown in the above screenshot
and change the view to List as It is easier to track things than the Grid
View.

Now Let’s start discussing about each and every term present in the
UHRS Marketplace.

Hitapps, Hits, Earn, Completion Time

1. Hitapps : These are the various kind of jobs/tasks present in
UHRS. Each hitapp is different than the other and has a different set
of rules to do it. From my experience, I can tell one thing that if you do
UHRS for around 4-5 months you will be familiar to all kind of hitapps
that usually comes.Presenting below a screenshot which we will refer
through out this section.
 I have covered the hitapp names in the screenshot as it is against the
UHRS guidelines.
2. Hits: These are the tasks that you do in a hitapp. Think of hits as
questions/queries that you have to solve and get paid. Each hit will
earn you some money. In the above screenshot, the top hitapp
contains approximately 89.7k hits which shows the work availability
for the hitapp. In simpler terms, there are around 89.7k queries that
are currently available to be solved in the hitapp.
3. Earn: This is the amount that you will earn for doing a single hit in
the hitapp. So for the hitapp present at the second which is having
2.5k hits has a earning potential of $0.012/hit. That is equivalent of
$30 in total.
4. Completion Time: This is the average time that you should take to
complete one hit. This is something you should follow in order to not
get a speed ban which we will talk later in the coming sections.
Preview, Train, Guidelines
1. Preview: The wifi like icon shown in the above image is the
Preview section. Before you can do the paid tasks, you can practice
the hitapp using preview and understand how the hitapp works. It will
provide you questions similar to that in the Paid tasks and is very
helpful to get a practical overview of the task. This is not mandatory
and can be optionally done only for practice.
2. Training: The next icon to preview is Training. It is similar to
Preview. The only difference between Preview and Training is that in
most of the hitapps Training is a mandatory field before you will be
able to start doing the Paid Tasks. It is also for practice and will help
you understanding the task.
3. Guidelines: The last icon in the image refers to Guidelines. You
can download guidelines for every hitapp using this section. They are
a set of rules and methods that you should follow to judge/solve a
hit(query) in the hitapp. Guidelines will give you the theory knowledge
while the training and preview will give you practical examples of the
tasks.
Note: Personally, I like to start a new hitapp with Training and Preview
and if I don’t understand it while doing Training, only then I go and read
the guidelines.
Qualify, Start, Pending

1. Qualify: For doing paid tasks in any hitapp, you will have to go
through a qualification process. As per my experience, I have seen
the hitapps generally require 70%-80% score in Qualification to pass
it. Each hitapp will provide you a certain number of chances to
 qualify. If you fail in all the chances then you won’t be getting
another chance to pass it. So it’s very important to do the
Qualification carefully. Below is a sample instruction to qualification
screenshot:

In the above screenshot you can see there are 3 qualification

attempts and in each attempt you will get 15 Hits. And as per the note
above the usual percentage to pass qualification is 70-80 which
means you will be required to do around 12 Hits correctly out of the
15 available Hits in qualification to pass it. Qualification is a one time
process which means if you qualify on a hitapp once you won’t be
required to pass again if the same hitapp comes in future.Small
Trick: While doing the qualification if you are unsure about a
hit(query) you can refresh the page to see a new hit. In this way you
can only do the hits you are sure about and pass the exam.
2. Start: This is the button which will take you to the Paid tasks.
Qualify button automatically converts into Start once you successfully
pass the exam.
3. Pending: Some hitapps show the action button as Pending after
you give the qualification test which can be seen from the above
screenshot. Only a few hitapps have this issue and I will recommend
you to ignore those hitapps and focus on the others.
This ends the Marketplace section. I hope you understood it well. We will
now talk about Report and the other important topics.

Report
Report is a very important part of UHRS as it will show you your
performance across various hitapps that you have done. You will be able
to improve your earnings by checking your reports regularly. Below is a
screenshot which we will refer throughout this section:

Judgement Total, Judging Hours,

Judgement/Hour
1. Judgement Total: This shows the total number of hits that you
have done for that particular hitapp. The more hits you do the more
you earn.
2. Judging Hours: This shows the total amount of time you have
spent to perform the tasks.
3. Judgement/Hour (Speed): This shows your speed with which you
have done the hits. You must follow the completion time which we
discussed in the above section to avoid getting speed bans. We will
talk about speed bans in the coming section.
Potential , Incentive and Total Earnings
1. Potential Earnings: This shows the amount of money that you
have earned by doing the hits.
2. Incentive Earnings: Some hitapps will contain bonus. If you earn
any bonus from a hitapp it will show up under Incentive Earnings.
3. Total Earnings: This is the sum of Potential Earnings and
Incentive Earnings. This is the amount that you will be getting paid
from UHRS.
For a better understanding, you can check out our video on UHRS –
Complete Guide.
Note: The video is in English
Spam Accuracy
This is the most important part in the report section. This tells you how is
your performance in a hitapp and if you need to improve it. To
understand Spam Accuracy better, we will have to understand the
various kind of hits present in a hitapp.

Types Of Hits
We are only going to talk about the various types of hits present in the
Paid Hits which will come after qualifying a hitapp.

1. Task Hits: These are the hits whose answer is not known to UHRS
and you among with various workers will solve the hits to give UHRS
the answers. Now here comes a problem, if UHRS will give all the hits
as Task hits then people can easily spam(give any answer they want
even without reading the query). Spamming will decrease the quality
of work that UHRS is looking for and hence it has come up with a
solution to it with 2 kinds of hits which are inserted among the Task
Hits randomly.
2. Spam Hits: These are the hits whose answer is already known to
UHRS and it will be used to assess your quality of work. Now UHRS
will not tell you if the hit is a spam hit or not. It will just look similar to a
Task hit and is almost impossible to differentiate a Spam hit from a
Task hit.
3. RTA Hits: This is similar to spam hit as the answer to this hit is
also known to UHRS but this will not be used to assess your quality of
work rather it will just provide you information if you are doing the hits
correctly or not. Also you will be able to identify a RTA Hit from the
other hits as it will give you a alert after you complete the hit. The
alert looks similar to an alert you get while doing a hit in Training
 section. A sample screenshot is shown below:

Finding Spam Accuracy

Now that you have understood the various kind of hits, let us understand
what spam accuracy is by one example.
Suppose you did 100 hits in a hitapp among which 10 hits were spam
hits and were randomly placed between the Task hits. Out of the 10
Spam Hits you did 5 hits correctly then your spam accuracy will be 50%.
It doesn’t matter if you do the Task Hits correctly or not. The only thing
matters is doing those few Spam Hits correctly.
The formula for Spam Accuracy is :
Spam Accuracy = Number Of Spam Hits Done Correctly/Total
Number Of Spam Hits Done
So if by anyway you know what are the Spam hits in a hitapp then you
will be able to ace the hitapp with 100% accuracy and probably you will
earn a lot of money. 👌

You should always maintain a good spam accuracy so as to not get a

ban. We will talk about various kind of bans in the next section.

Type Of Bans In UHRS

There are 2 types of bans in UHRS.

1. Spam Ban: This happens when your spam accuracy goes below a
set threshold. For every Hitapp there is a threshold already set by
 UHRS which is unknown to us. So people usually ask me What is a
good Spam Accuracy? The answer to it is simple, there is no exact
spam accuracy which is good as for every hitapp the spam accuracy
is different. But if you can keep your spam accuracy at 90% and
above, there is a very little chance that you will get banned. One way
to know the threshold is by getting a ban  as it will tell you at what
spam accuracy you got banned. But I will not recommend doing so 😂
2. Speed Ban: This happens when you try to do the hits at a much
faster rate than the desired speed limit. Like the spam ban which had
a threshold for spam accuracy, every hitapp also has a speed
limit/threshold. If you go above that threshold you will get a speed
ban. You must follow the average completion time which is mentioned
for every hitapp in Marketplace to avoid a speed ban.
Ban Timeline
Temporary Ban: Each hitapp will temporarily ban you before banning
you permanently. The temporary bans will be like a warning and if you
get it you will usually have a message “Based on your recent work, we
have noticed that the quality is not in line with Task owner’s
expectations and guidelines.” While in Temporary Ban, you still get a
chance to work on the hitapp again. The Temporary Ban usually lifts in
24 hours, more specifically at 12:00 AM (PST).  So after this you can
again start working on the hitapp.
Permanent Ban: After 2 temporary bans, the 3rd ban will lead to a
Permanent Ban and in this case it will disable your access to the hitapp
forever. It will come with a message “You have been disabled“. This is
something you should avoid at any cost.
To avoid Permanent Ban, you must understand how the Ban Timeline
works.

For every hitapp, the Ban status resets every 7 days. Let us understand
it with an example:

If you are temporarily banned today a hidden timer will start for 7
days from the exact time of your ban. Within these 7 days if you get
2 more bans then you will be permanently banned but if you don’t
do the hitapp for 7 days after the 1st ban then the timer will end and
the system will forget that you had a ban before.
You can take advantage of this method by stopping to work on a hitapp
for 7 days on which you have a temporary ban. This will make sure you
don’t have a permanent ban at all.

PA AC and TA AC Hitapps
The Ban Timeline doesn’t apply for a small number of hitapps ending
with PA AC and TA AC. These are the hitapps which will ban you in your
first ban without giving you a warning. So you should be more careful
while doing these hitapps.

Note: The UHRS Portal refreshes every 15-20mins which means it

doesn’t show all the information in real time. 
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