Many of you have been wondering how to make the most of Swag Bucks. Here are my suggestions!
- Search naturally. Don’t just continue to search terms over and over for the sake of trying to earn a swag buck. The system is set up to recognize when you’re trying to do that (and in fact your account can be deactivated if you do that in excess). Just search normally, visiting sites that you truly want to go to! It’s as simple as that! I find that the more naturally I search, the more swag bucks I earn.
- Search for the websites you always visit, rather than bookmarking them. For example, I frequently visit my e-mail account, this blog, Facebook, Twitter, my bank’s website, and the library website. I have all of these sites bookmarked, but I choose to search for them through Swag Bucks. It gives me something to search for, even if I’m not searching for other terms throughout the day. It’s one little extra step that takes an additional 30 seconds, but it’s worth it!
- Search on Mega Swag Bucks Friday. This is not a myth — it’s for real! Your chances for earning the higher bucks with just one search are greatly increased, because more mega bucks are given out on Fridays than any other day. I have earned 50 swag bucks on Fridays quite a few times. I have had people e-mail me about earning 100, 500, or even 1000 from just one search on Friday! So, it definitely exists and happens. If you don’t search on any other day, search on Friday. Eventually, you will be rewarded for doing so.
- Either set Swag Bucks as your home page or use the toolbar. The easiest way to remind yourself to use Swag Bucks is to just make Swag Bucks your home page when you search. Some people have told me they don’t like the search engine, though. They feel that it doesn’t generate the best results. If you have the same problem, simply download the toolbar and use the search space on the toolbar sporadically throughout the day to earn your swag bucks, while keeping your preferred search engine as your home page. I usually just click the swag bucks button in the toolbar when I want to use Swag Bucks. I find that I usually earn some swag bucks in the morning, and some swag bucks in the evening. All other times, I just use my regular search engine that my home page is set to!
- Download the toolbar, like I said! There is a spot on the toolbar where The Swag Guy posts swag codes. They will just pop up randomly a couple of times a week. You’ll see “From TSG [1]” when you have a message, and most of the time it’s a swag code! (There was actually one last night). I find that codes are mostly given out on weekends, Holidays, and special events. For example, just recently there were Valentine’s Day and Super Bowl codes.
- Become a fan of Swag Bucks on Facebook. Codes are announced on Facebook from time to time.
- Follow Swag Bucks on Twitter! Codes are announce on Twitter quite often as well!
- Check the Swag Guy’s blog often. You can see his recent blog posts on the home page. He posts hints for swag codes frequently. Most of the time this is where the hints for the swag hunts are!
4. Refer your friends. This is the number one way I earn so many swag bucks. Every time somebody signs up for Swag Bucks under your name, you get their swag bucks too! For every swag buck that your referrals earn through searching, you will receive one as well (up to 1000 swag bucks). As you can imagine, this adds up really quickly.
Even if you can get just 5 people (friends and family) to sign up under you, you’ll be on your way to earning many gift cards every month! Think about it: Most people earn on average 10 – 40 swag bucks a day. Let’s call it 20, just to be safe. If you have 5 people signed up under you earning 20 swag bucks every day, in addition to yours…that equals 120 swag bucks a day! In one week, you’ll earn at least 840 swag bucks, and that’s just for searching! That doesn’t even count your codes that I mentioned above.
Remember…a $5 Amazon gift card only costs 450 swag bucks! So with 5 friends signed up under you, actively looking for codes each week, and searching yourself…you could possibly earn enough swag bucks to get $10 worth of Amazon cards per week!
5. Tie your Swag Bucks account to your Facebook account! You can do this by clicking on the blue “f” next to your Account Summary on the Swag Bucks home page, or by clicking on “view account” and then “my facebook settings.” When you do this, Facebook will automatically post on your wall when you earn through searching, grabbing a code, etc. Your friends will see your Swag Bucks post on your Facebook wall, and they’ll start getting interested in what it’s all about. When they click to sign up through the referral link that is included, you start earning as mentioned above!
6. Read the Becoming A Super Swagbucker Series for more in-depth ideas on how to earn more!
**A Couple Other Tips On Swag Bucks**
~ Your account will be deactivated if you try to search repeatedly, rather than searching naturally (like I mentioned above).
~ There is a limit on the amount of prizes you can trade in for each day and month. You can only trade in for 2 prizes per day. Also, you can only trade in for 5 like prizes in one month. Keep this in mind when you start earning your swag bucks quickly. You want to cash them in as you go along, rather than saving them up. If you save them up, you’ll be in a bind when you go to trade them in. (This happened to me at Christmas time!) Most of the prizes don’t expire, so you’re perfectly fine to trade them in as you go and use them later.
~ Gift card prizes post to your account around the 15th and 30th of each month. So be sure to trade in your swag bucks for gift cards a day or two before these dates. You can view all of your gift cards under “my account.”
~ Many of you have been asking me how many gift codes you can use on Amazon.com in one order transaction. I will tell you that I’ve used as many as 10 gift codes for one order, and had no problem at all! So do not be afraid to buy the better value Amazon card at $5, and use multiple codes per Amazon order.
I hope this post helped those of you who have been wondering how to earn swag bucks and truly make the most of the program. Please feel free to ask me any additional questions in the comments section!
What About You: Have I convinced you to sign up yet? I hope so! Start earning awesome prizes today! I promise you it’s sooooo worth it!
I just signed up for swagbucks on your page, thanks for the great tips!!!
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Meagan Reply:
March 7th, 2011 at 12:40 pm
@jenn, You’re welcome!
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