In a post quite a long time ago, I casually mentioned Swagbucks and promised to do a post about it at some point. As I sit here kinda-watching the Super Bowl, I finally decided to get around to it.
Do you know what Swagbucks is? Do you already "Swag"? If not, you totally should!
Swagbucks is a search engine, like Google or Yahoo. And honestly, I often get better search results with Google, which is why I don't use Swagbucks as much as I should for optimal results. But what makes Swagbucks so awesome is that you earn FREE MONEY just by using it as your search engine. And if you're willing to put in a little extra time, you can really rake in the dough, er, Swagbucks.
Here's how you can earn money with Swagbucks:
- If you install the Swagbucks toolbar, you get 1 Swagbuck each and every day when you open up your Internet browser. You don't have to download the toolbar to use Swagbucks, though, you can just go to http://www.swagbucks.com/. Having the toolbar is convenient for searching, though.
- You sometimes earn Swagbucks when you use it to search. You can use it to get to sites you visit every day anyway, like Facebook or Hotmail, or search for any random thing. In just a half hour tonight, I earned 12 Swagbucks for searching "Super Bowl!" and 9 Swagbucks for searching "straw bale gardening." When I earn for searching, it's been anywhere from 5 and 19 Swagbucks. Once I even got 50 Swagbucks for a search! Oftentimes, of course, I don't get any Swagbucks from a search, but I typically do at least once a day. It can also be sneaky - sometimes you won't initally get Swagbucks, but if you go to page 2 or 3 of the search results, you will!
- From my personal Swagbucks page, I can go to the Earn tab and earn 1 Swagbuck every single day for doing each of the following: voting in the Daily Poll, viewing the No Obligation Special Offers (NOSO - all you have to do is click "Skip" or "View Next Offer" at the bottom of each screen for a few screens to get your Swagbuck; you don't have to actually look at the ads or enter any of your info), and clicking on "Trusted Surveys" (again, you don't have to do any of the surveys, you get 1 Swagbuck just for opening the surveys page). These are easy ways to get Swagbucks every day; sadly, I neglect them and only do them sporadically. If I just spent a couple of minutes each day doing this, I could rack up a lot of extra Swagbucks over time.
- Two words: SWAG CODES. Swag Codes are awesome and real Swaggernauts who are devoted to earning $$$ with Swagbucks can earn a lot just by checking for Swag Codes regularly. They're little codes that you enter on your page and that give you a predetermined number of Swagbucks (4, 15, it vaires). When I feel like checking for a Swag Code, I find the easiest thing to do is go to this website: http://www.we-love-swag-bucks.com/ . They find and report any Swag Codes that have been released and tell you where to find them, so it saves you the trouble of searching for them myself. There is a time limit on Swag Codes, so you have to enter them before the deadline, but they're an awesome way to get extra Swagbucks.
- If you have time to kill, "Trusted Surveys" can be an awesome way to earn large amount of Swagbucks. You may or may not qualify for a particular survey, but if you do qualify and complete it, you'll get a certain number of Swagbucks: 10, 25, 50 . . . one time I even took a survey for 150 Swagbucks. I've done surveys giving my response to a proposed Red Lobster commercial, giving a profile of my automotive preferences, things like that. They can be pretty boring, but if you don't have anything else to do, they're a good way to rack up points.
Now - what is the point of all this? What can you actually DO with Swagbucks? You can use your Swagbucks to "buy" a lot of different items in the Swag Store, but the best deal out there (and the one I always use) is to buy $5 Amazon.com gift cards. You can redeem 450 Swagbucks for one $5 Amazon gift card. And you can keep stockpiling your gift cards on your Amazon account until you want to use them towards a purchase. I joined Swagbucks (which is free and easy) at the beginning of July and I have earned $30 in Amazon gift cards, and that's without really using Swagbucks that much. (I just get busy and don't take advantage of it like I should. I usually go through long dry spells where I don't use it at all and then a short spurt where I use it a lot.)
That's $30 in free money.
Here's what I earned just TODAY:
- 1 for using the toolbar
- 12 for a web search
- 8 for a Swag Code
- 1 for doing the daily poll
- 1 for visiting the Trusted Surveys page
- 10 for taking a survey (took me less than 5 minutes)
- 2 for viewing the NOSOs (usually it's only 1; there was a bonus today!)
- 9 for a web search
If you want to try Swagbucks (and you should try it), please go to this link to sign up: http://www.swagbucks.com/refer/Myoo - - it's my referral link, so if you sign up through this link, I'll earn Swagbucks every time you earn via web search. It's a win-win thing. :)
But even if you don't go through my referral link, I still think you should check it out! Even if you only use it now and then, you'll still be able to slowly earn enough points to get a free gift card. What's not to love about that?
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