According to their website, SwagBucks.com is a “loyalty program” where you can earn prizes for doing the same stuff you do online everyday.
Shopping, watching videos, searching for products, playing games; all of these things and more can earn you prizes with the Swagbucks system.
How Does Swagbucks Work?
It may be confusing to understand why a company would pay you to just do “anything” online. But companies understand that the average American actually spends quite a lot of time on the internet, and that what people do online says a lot about their interests, habits, likes and dislikes.
If companies know what kinds of games people play or what kinds of products and advertisements catch their attention, it goes a very long way towards helping companies understand how to better reach their target market. Companies all over are discussing the benefits of understanding exactly how and why we do the things we do online.
So, Swagbucks will give you prizes in exchange for “doing what you already do online” because they are taking that information and providing it to others, who will use it to change and influence the way they do business online in the future.
What Is a “Swagbuck”?
Swagbucks, unlike other pay to search sites, does not compensate their members with money. Instead, they give them various amounts of points, called Swagbucks, for the tasks and activities they do online. At any point in time after you have begun collecting these Swagbucks, you can go to the Swag Store and exchange them for items.
One of the issues with Swagbucks is that they do not maintain a set rate of pay for activities. The pay changes as certain demands for information changes. However, keep in mind that you are still simply getting paid for activities you would be doing regardless, so though it may be frustrating, it’s still not a bad deal.
You also have the option of turning your Swagbucks into cash, but customers report that you get less bang for your Swagbuck when you make this choice. It takes more Swagbucks to get cash paid directly into a PayPal account then it does to simply redeem them for a gift card of the exact same value. This goes back to Swagbucks’ partnership with various companies, but luckily for their members these partners tend to be large vendors like Amazon.com and Wal-Mart, places where you are likely to spend your money anyway.
Tips for Earning with Swagbucks
- Take advantage of the referral system. When you refer someone, Swagbucks will reward you with matched earnings up to 1,000 points. The more people you refer, the easier and faster you’ll rack up Swagbucks.
- When you use the Swagbucks search, be normal. Swagbucks is recording your searches, and if you are continuously entering gibberish like “aldkjfa;ldkj” and hitting the search button, you won’t be a member for long.
- Take advantage of the Swagbucks “extras.” Once a day, they’ll have special offers for you to look at that will take a couple seconds. Or submit poll ideas. If yours is chosen, you earn more.
- Use their toolbar, and better yet, use Swagbucks. For everything. The whole point of the system is that they want to know what you are doing online. The more you use it, the more they benefit, and the more you will earn.
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You earn mainly by searching with the Swagbucks search engine--kinda like google, but a little less effective--and they randomly will award swagbucks now and then. You'll generally not win more than once in an hour. It's a waste of time to spam the search engine as it's not going to give you any extra for doing so.
You can also earn by doing surveys. Some of these pay fair enough, some definitely do not. I usually avoid the ones that require more 10 minutes per 50 swagbucks because it's just a waste of my time. Choose what time length and compensation is acceptable before taking the survey.
You can always earn at least 4 swagbucks a day easily. By having the toolbar installed, doing the daily poll, and going through the NOSO (I always just skip through to the end.) I usually win at least once or twice a day so I generally get about 15-25 swagbucks a day without doing surveys.
Like I said before, you won't get rich. But if you take surveys anyway and are going to be searching with google anyway, why not use swagbucks and earn a little extra cash?
The tasks are difficult however. But When you think you wont be any good at something you are. They're better than the rest of the sites that don't do anything. I don't think it is a waste of time watching videos, which I'd do that on youtube anyway.
I still like the tasks though and wish I could continue, but they share with everyone else, which is good. I make a game out of it, and do well.
It took me a 2 weeks and a half to accumulate enough points for an amazon 5$ gift card. Now let me say I have been on the site for a total of maybe 2 hours during those 2.5 weeks.
Ways to get points fast: Referrals . . Referrals allow the new person to accumulate points and will help the referrer to get equivalent points up to 100 i think. Just do the polls, NOSO, and surf (there are 3 times you can surf in a day where you can get ~30-40 swagbucks.
As for the person who got banned, you tried to cheat the system. They dont allow similar home e-mail addresses and same computer boosting.
In all, this site is for people who can spend 2-3 minutes per day on this site to get about 200$ in gift cards and items in a year.
It takes too long to accumulate points watching videos also.... you only get 3 points(equivalent to .03 cents) for watching 10 videos(plus ads, there's an ad in every video), whereas in real survey sites you get rewarded .10 cents to watch a video and .10 cents to just visit a webpage, so there it is again Swagbucks pocketed .97 cents each time they reward you .03 cents.
Swagbucks is just plain RIP-OFF, so STAY AWAY from it !!!
You can find many tips and tricks within swagbucks to earn quicker.