Swagbucks Review: How to earn money and free giftcards with Swagbucks

Published December 11, 2016, Category: Cash back, Paid Surveys

Quick Summary:

What is Swagbucks?

Swagbucks is a website that allows you to earn money and giftcards for doing simple tasks, such as taking online surveys, watching videos, playing games, and a variety of other things. Swagbucks is able to do this because it gets paid by companies to get survey data and to promote the products of different companies. As a result, Swagbucks earns money for each survey you take or each task you perform on Swagbucks. They then pass on some of their earnings back to you in the form of swagbucks which you exchange for gifts cards or cash. Swagbucks is completely legitimate, and has been in business since 2008, paying out over $300,000,000 in cash and giftcards since its inception.

How to sign up for Swagbucks

Swagbucks is free to sign up. Follow the instructions below to sign up:

Go to Swagbucks.com and create an account by entering an email and password for your new account. Signing up through this link will earn you an extra $3 once you earn 300 SB.

How to make money with Swagbucks

There are several ways you can make money with Swagbucks.

1. Sign up offers

First, once you sign up for Swagbucks you’ll instantly have the opportunity to earn money by completing the following tasks:

• Adding the swagbucks addon to your browser gets you 50 SB.
• Making swagbucks your default search engine gives you 20 SB
• Signing up for a hulu free trial will earn you 300 SB
• Watching videos provided by swagbucks will earn you 5 SB in 60 seconds.
• Taking an intro survey will earn 5 SB.
• Telling Swagbucks why you signed up will get you 5 SB.

2. Cashback on purchases

Swagbucks gives you a cashback in the form of SBs, on purchases you make on websites like Amazon or Walmart. The only catch is that you need to click on those websites from Swagbucks website. For example, as of right now, Swagbucks offers 7 SB for every $1 you spend on Amazon. This mean you’re getting a 7% discount on purchases you make from Amazon. This is great option for earning SB since you would be making many of these purchases from your favorite store anyways. If you install the Swagbutton addon, you gain 50 SB and the addon will instantly alert you when an online purchase eligible for cashback.

3. Watching videos

You can watch videos on the Swagbucks website that will earn you SB. You can earn up to 500 SB a day watching the videos. However, the videos do not give you that much SB. Usually 1-3 SB for watching a playlist of videos. The playlist can range from 2 mins – a couple of hours. There is a wide variety of categories for the videos such as education, health, TV etc.

4. Surveys

Another way to earn SB is answering surveys. This is fairly painless as you don’t need to enter much personal information such as your address or phone number. The surveys usually range from 2 mins to 30 mins and can earn you from 5 SB to 100 SB.

This is what the Swagbucks survey interface looks like.

5. Searching the web

Swagbucks will give you between 5 to 200 SB everyday if you use their search engine. The SB you receive from searches are random. Their search engine is powered by yahoo (which works with Bing) so you’ll get the same results as if you used Yahoo or Bing. You can make Swagbucks search engine as your default search so you can passively earn SB.

This is what the Swagbucks search interface looks like.

6. Playing games

The Swagbucks portal has a number of games you can play. Swagbucks will give you usually between 10 to 18 SB on each in game purchase you make.

This is what the Swagbucks interface looks like to see the gaming options.

7. Promotions

Swagbucks has third party promotions that will earn you a high amount of SB. These promotions usually involve signing up for a free trial, purchasing some kind of product or service, or entering into a sweepstake. There are a wide array of options in promotion category to earn SB. This can be an easy way to earn SB since you might find that you were going to take advantage of the promotion anyways. Also, you have nothing to lose for signing up for free trials which can earn you SB.

This is what the Swagbucks interface looks like to see promotions

8. Referrals

If you refer a friend to SB, you get 10% of what they earn for life.

9. Swagcodes

Swagcodes are number or word combinations that you can input on Swagbucks to redeem between 1-5 SBs. They are usually hidden around on different sites on the web.

10. Adding Swagbutton

As mentioned above, adding the Swagbutton to your browser will give you 50 SB. Furthermore, it will alert you when a website is eligible for SB cashback, as well as when there is a new Swagbuck code available.

Conclusion:

Swagbucks won’t allow you to quit your job, but you can make $1 to $2 a day without much of time investment, simply by doing searches, doing surveys, and having Swagbucks videos running. Of course, you can earn more if you devote more time to it. If you take a passive approach to using Swagbucks, you can easily make $30 a month simply by using Swagbucks search, getting SB cash backs from stores, and having videos play in the background of your PC.