If you haven’t heard of Swagbucks you are really in for a treat! Swagbucks is a search engine (like Google) but it is not just any search engine. They literally pay you for searching with them!
Let me explain how it works.
You go to swagbucks, search for whatever it is that you typically search for and earn swagbucks which you can use to buy real things including books, starbucks, etc.
Learn how…
Join
First you sign up for an account here. If you use the link I’ll get some Swagbucks after you’ve been active and you’ll get 30 swagbucks for signing up. You will also get your own referral link and will receive swagbucks when others sign up with your link.
Search
When you search you will need to make sure that you are logged in whenever you search. If you use the same computer(s) most of the time then you don’t have to worry about logging in and out. They keep you logged in even if you turn the computer off (you may be aware of the major computer issues that I’ve been having and I haven’t been logged out of Swagbucks!) They also keep you logged into multiple computers at the same time too which is nice if you use several computers.
Earn
When you search on swagbucks you are randomly awarded swagbucks which are saved in your account – like a bank account. They add up until you are ready to spend them at the swagstore. I have found that they are generally given pretty frequently when you search on a regular basis.
There are also other ways to earn swagbucks: such as playing their games, watching videos, participating in the daily polls, finding swagcodes on their blog and their facebook page, using their toolbar, referring others, and even more. I’m still learning and they also add new ways regularly.
Buy Real Stuff
There are many things that you can purchase with your swagbucks, personally I always get Amazon gift codes which I add to my Amazon account. I have already bought three personal development and marketing books and I am extremely close to buying my fourth book!
You can also purchase gift cards from many others places such as Starbucks, restaurant.com, paypal, fandango, and much more.
One trick that I use is that instead of typing in the url of a page that I frequent I will instead go to swagbucks and type in the site’s name and click to the page from there. For instance, instead of typing ‘gmail.com’ I will just type ’gmail’ in the swagbucks search box and then I have a chance at winning swagbucks. I have won a lot of swagbucks that way!
I hope that you join Swagbucks, I know that it will pay off for you! I am so glad that I did, I love winning free books! What will you buy?
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Great post Stacy, this post really helps for those who didn’t know about this Swagbucks.. For my case, this is my first time to encounter this. i’m looking forward to it.. Thanks for sharing this.
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Stacy Reply:
September 14th, 2011 at 1:22 pm
I think everyone should use swagbucks! I love getting free books every couple of months!
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Hi Stacy,
Sounds like a pretty darn cool way to make a few extra bucks.
Thanks for sharing with us!
RB
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Stacy Reply:
September 14th, 2011 at 1:22 pm
Hi Ryan,
It really is cool, who would have thought you could get paid to search? I love getting free books!
Thanks,
Stacy
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Hmm… sounds like another interesting way to search. I’ll have to check it out. Sounds pretty cool if I can “earn” doing something I do anyway!
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Stacy Reply:
September 14th, 2011 at 1:23 pm
Grady,
That’s exactly it, we’re all searching anyway! We may as well get paid for it!
Stacy
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I had already registered at Swagbucks earlier this month, but for some reason I forgot to search through it (probably ‘coz my home page is google
), Changing my home page right now!
Thanks for a timely reminder stacy.
K.
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Stacy Reply:
September 14th, 2011 at 1:24 pm
Ken,
I had the same issue at first, I kept forgetting to search through them.
Stacy
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such an interesting post thank you so much for sharing this to us i may apply this to my work in future..
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Stacy Reply:
September 14th, 2011 at 1:24 pm
You may as well start now.
Stacy
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Great a serch engine offering so many things and few bucks as well, that’s really cool. I’m going to check it out right away.
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Hi Stacy,
I’m bit sceptical here, why Swagbucks offering so much….. Well I’m going to check first all thing carefully.
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Thanks for this great post about Swagbucks. I never heard off it before but now I know about it and will definitely make an account on it and use it often. I will use your Swagbucks referral link because you told me about Swagbucks. Thanks!
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It was very well authored and easy to understand. Unlike additional blogs I have read which are really not that good. I also found your posts very interesting. In fact after reading, I had to go show it to my friend and he enjoyed it as well!
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Hi Stacy, I use to be part of a website that did this stuff! They had a combo of Google, Bing and Yahoo. You would get points and the points could get you a gift card or some other things.
I think this is a great idea for newer search engines to take some market share from the competitors such as the big three I just mentioned.
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That is pretty cool Stacy, thanks for sharing. If we are going to search anyway, why not be able to buy something cool from our efforts.
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That sounds really cool and also very rewarding, literally, at the same time! I think I’ll give it a try. Thanks for the heads up! I’ve never heard of this before and would not have known about it either.
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Hi Stacy, I really likes your post.. looks like a nice way to make some extra money
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Um, love this and getting signed up immediately!
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Stacy, what’s the relevancy like in their search results? Is it as good or better than Bing? Or is it on par with Google?
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Wow! I will be checking this out right away. I am so glad I read this article, Stacy. Thanks! Sally
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I greatly appreciate you mam for this post and your gift, thanks.
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Hi Stacy,
I’ve never really heard of Swagbucks before. Glad to know it here on your blog. Thanks for sharing!
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Stacy Reply:
September 21st, 2011 at 5:13 pm
Hi Felicia,
It’s a great tool to use, who doesn’t want to get free stuff doing what they are already doing?
Stacy
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Hi Stacy. Thanks for sharing this. Interesting article!
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Hello Stacy,
Is there any metrics available as to the popularity of swag? Is there a benefit to a blog like yours, with its popularity to be indexed there? Does it crawl the web like Google?
Thanks,
Rich
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Stacy Reply:
September 24th, 2011 at 7:33 pm
Hi Rich,
Swagbucks uses google and some other search engines, but I don’t know the specifics. Maybe they have that information on their site?
Thanks,
Stacy
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Ooh, I hadn’t heard of this before, but it seems pretty cool! I’ll have to check it out, thanks for the recommendation
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Stacy Reply:
September 24th, 2011 at 7:43 pm
It’s a good one! It’s fun to win the swagbucks!
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I love Swagbucks, I’ve been using it forever! Thanks for the post, you’ve just reminded me to start using my referral links.
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Stacy Reply:
September 24th, 2011 at 7:45 pm
It’s a great way to earn extra swagbucks!
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It’s interesting that you posted this Stacy! I was an avid Swagbucks user months back and actually did earn a couple of Amazon cards that way but gave up on it because it was slow going. I had trouble using their browser instead of Google.
Perhaps I should give it another try!
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Stacy Reply:
September 27th, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Maybe they’re giving out more swagbucks lately, I seem to be gathering the amazon gift cards pretty quickly! At least a couple a month!
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Swagbucks..!! Now that is something interesting i encountered.. i never heard of them before … and above all the concept of getting paid for searching your stuff is marvelous… one of the best way of promoting website or services!!! Everyone would like to enroll themselves, and goodies they are providing are irresistible …
Gosh.. you bought three books..! i must say you search a lot…
Thanks for sharing Stacy .. it is worthwhile giving a try…
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Stacy Reply:
October 3rd, 2011 at 12:37 pm
Searching a lot is the trick, instead of typing in a url I go to swagbucks and give it a search!
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Thank you Stacy! I did not know about Swagbucks until I read this blog post. I will now go get an account. thank you!
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Stacy Reply:
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You’re welcome, I hope you earn a lot of free stuff!
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Thanks a lot Stacy. I never heard of Swagbucks before but now thank to you I know. It’s kinda weird if you look at it they pay you to use them. Keep on the good work.
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Very cool, Stacy! I signed up
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Swagbucks! wells, sounds cool….
Do they still pay?? I cant trust such GPT sites. Yet, i dont mind giving it a try. I’m gonna signup under you
Well, whats the referral commission? Cus its always better to be a super affiliate rather then earning by searching!
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I’d heard about Swagbucks before, but always believed it must be some make-money-online-easy gimmick which’d earn just cents a month. But ah well after reading your thorough review, I guess I’m gonna give it a go… It looks interesting. Thanks for writing up about it.
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