Swagbucks Surveys-Earn More Swagbucks

Now you can take surveys  and earn more Swagbucks. This feature launched in June and according to Swagbucks, these are “trusted” surveys and your information is confidential. They are found on the home page under “Ways to Earn.” You must fill out an application and then qualify for the surveys. If you fill out a profile, your surveys will be targeted to your demographics and you will have a better chance of qualifying.

For those of you who are not familiar with Swagbucks. here is the basic information:

Swagbucks has a search bar where you type in your searches just as if you were typing into Google or Ask.com. The answers you get back come from these two search engines. To reward you for logging in to Swagbucks before you perform your searches is how you earn Swagbucks.

They don’t ask you for any personal information to set up an account, don’t require a credit card and I have not gotten any spam or unwanted emails as a result of using Swagbucks.

Most people redeem Swagbucks  for free gift cards. A few favorites are Lowe’s, Barnes & Noble, Starbucks, JC Penney and Amazon.com. If you have Swagbucks in your account you can use them to buy your gifts throughout the year.

You can get crazy with this and spend a lot of time – or you can just do a couple searches a day and earn some free Amazon.com gift cards. For every 450 Swagbucks, you can earn a $5.00 Amazon.com gift card. In my opinion, this is the best value on the site. 

There are all kinds of prizes, contests, and multiple ways to redeem and use your Swagbucks. You can add a Swagbucks tool bar to your computer if you choose.  Downloading the toolbar  makes it easier to remember to search through their site. It was a little confusing to me when I first started, so if you want to keep it simple until you catch on, just go to Swagbucks.com and do your searches. You can branch out later.

You can really go to town on this site but if you want to just give it a try- just set up a free account and do two searches on anything like “iPod” and “tomatoes”. You don’t have to get into the sites or read anything or stay on them, you just need to do the searches to win the Swagbucks.

Generally, you are awarded your free Swagbucks after your second search, so if you try it, make sure you do two searches. These Swagbucks are awarded and credited to your account automatically. You will see a pop-up window that says “you have been awarded 10,20 or 30 Swagbucks. Then you just click on “return to search” and resume your surfing. It takes all of one second.

I know they are using this site to track my surfing habits, but I figure Google is doing that anyway, so I might as well get some free stuff for it. If this makes you crazy, then this probably isn’t for you.

I did  subscribe to their blog and often they put extra Swagbucks codes in their blog posts. When you see a Swagbucks code, just return to your home page of Swagbucks and type the code in the bar that says “enter a swag code” above the word “gimmee“. That’s it -more bonus Swagbucks for you.

You can sign up through my site at the bottom of this post. You will get 30 free Swagbucks to start and they award me 10 for referring you, or you can just log in to Swagbucks.com. You can put the Swagbucks widget on your Facebook page or blog and earn referral bucks too. I find it pretty painless and I don’t like anything too complicated.

Having trouble qualifying for Swagbucks surveys? Me Too! My 19 year old daughter has taken a few and done well, but I have been frustrated trying to qualify. Here are two alternatives if you want to earn cash taking surveys:

If you want to make a few extra dollars, try these two sites that were featured in the October 1, 2010 issue of Woman’s Day.  If you have the time to take surveys and don’t mind giving out personal information, then you can make a little cash. The sites are easy to navigate and you get $5.00 just to sign up.

Most readers say they make between $20-$30 a month from these sites.  I recommend using a separate email for these surveys. You can get a free email address from google (gmail). You will get emails based upon the answers to your survey questions. Companies pay you to take these surveys so they can gather qualified leads for the products they sell.

Try Inbox Dollars

and Surveyhead

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