Swagbucks is one of the top ways I've earned money and gift cards online so you'll see me reffer to it often throughout the blog! I get about $5 in amazon gift cards a week! They have surveys, daily polls, hidden codes to find- and you get rewarded for watching their own "swagTv" which is similar to Youtube videos. You also get points for normal internet things like searching, shoppings, etc. I downloaded their optional toolbar for searching, which sites on my web browser and is similar to Google and i get rewarded for using it to search the interner. You earn swagbucks to redeem for Gif tcards, video games, DVDs, Clothes, Consumer Electronics- this site seriously has the biggest variety of cash or prizes!!!
I would appreciate if you used my referral link: http://swagbucks.com/refer/LilSarahBug and if you do they give you 30 swagbuck points to start!
My SwagBucks Intro and How-To:
Swagbucks is a "Get Paid To" site. The more you use it, the more you get rewarded- and you can participate for free! I just do what I think is easy and is FREE and won't invite spam and viruses. I trade in my Swagbucks (SB) 450 at a time for a $5 Amazon gift card. You can claim five $5 amazon.com certificates a month, but there are other prizes and giftcards as well. Certainly not raking it in, but it's certainly nice, especially when at the very least I'll have $300 in amazon cards by Christmas! If you are more into it and do more you will get more.
So anyway, you sign up first, and then I would download their toolbar. I've never had any issues and I trust it completely. Here is a rundown on the ways I get SB.
1. SEARCH using Swagbucks Toolbar.The way you get many of your points is by searching using Swagbucks instead of Yahoo, MSN, Google, etc. or even using your address bar. The easiest way to do this is to go to their site, swagbucks.com, and download the toolbar and install it. Then you just enter your search terms into your search field and search! You randomly win bucks. You can also go their homepage and enter a search term, but I like the Toolbar, it's much easier. On Fridays the odds of bigger amounts for your searches goes up.
2. Get your 5 points every day.
You get one for opening your browser if you have the Toolbar downloaded.
You get one for doing the Daily Poll.
You get one for going to the Trusted Surveys page (just for going, not even doing surveys!)
You also get two for going to the NOSO (No Obligation Special Offers) page and clicking "No" or "Next" on all the ads. More points for completing the offers!
You can find all of these from the Swagbucks homepage under "earn".
3. "like" the SwagBucks facebook page and often there will be daily contests and hints about hidden codes. Secret codes can be hidden in videos, the swagbucks blog- anywhere! This SwagBucks facebook will let you know when a code is out and a hint on where to find it. It will also connect you to other SwagBucks people who can help! Through facebook contests and participating in discussions you can earn even more.
4. Enter codes when you find them. TSG (the Swag Guy) hides them in his blog, on the website or on his FB page.
You can find all of these from the Swagbucks homepage under "earn".
3. "like" the SwagBucks facebook page and often there will be daily contests and hints about hidden codes. Secret codes can be hidden in videos, the swagbucks blog- anywhere! This SwagBucks facebook will let you know when a code is out and a hint on where to find it. It will also connect you to other SwagBucks people who can help! Through facebook contests and participating in discussions you can earn even more.
4. Enter codes when you find them. TSG (the Swag Guy) hides them in his blog, on the website or on his FB page.
5. Look through the Special Offers to see if there are any FREE easy ones. Right now you can watch a few videos for 2-5 points a piece. You can find them under "ways to earn" and then "special offers". gWallet usually has some videos to watch (you have to scroll through and see). Trial Pay does too (click on them and then click "videos". Just browse around and glance through the point values. The ones under 10 are usually the easiest. Some examples of things that give you easy points are: You can "Like" something on FB or you can click through to a site and then click their banner or use their search engine.
6. New to Swagbucks: SwagBucks TV. They are YouTube style videos and as you watch videos you fill up a little meter, each video will knock the meter up 10 degrees. When the meter reaches 100 (after ten videos) you will be rewarded with 3 swagbucks. The SwagTV has gone through changes and I expect more, but this information is accurate as of 5-8-2011. In the past the videos were rewarded randomly and the videos were on instant-play where people could "set it and forget it" walking away and racking up points. They have changed it to make it more honest. However, they have also added more entertaining videos such as an E(entertainment) chanel, home and garden, technology, animals, etc!
You can earn a max of 75 SB a day this way if you have the time to watch 250 videos, but you can do as little as you like. SBTV is also a place that the codes might be on a Code Hunt. If the SwagCodez gives you a link to a video then you will see the code appear below the video (in it's title) a little ways into the video - usually in the first 30 seconds.
