Swagbucks

Ever heard of Swagbucks? Swagbucks is a search engine powered by Google and Ask.com that rewards you "Swagbucks" for some of your searches. You can earn up to 3-4 Swagbucks a day just by searching the internet. Yes, I was skeptical at first, but I have already earned 47 Swagbucks! I now have enough Swagbucks to buy a $5 Amazon gift card. There are several different gift cards available to purchase with your Swagbucks, including Target, Barnes & Noble, and iTunes. You can also spend your Swagbucks by entering sweepstakes to win bigger and better prizes. To me, this is like gambling. I'd rather use my Swagbucks towards something I am guaranteed to get.

What is the catch you ask? Well, you do have to download the Swagbucks toolbar. Then, use the Swagbucks search engine for your internet searches. I have found that Swagbucks search results are heavily populated with sponsored results. This is fine if you are shopping or casually surfing the internet. However, if you want meatier search results, use the real thing-Google.

There are other ways that you can earn Swagbucks, such as typing in codes, signing up for promotional offers, shopping through the Swagbucks site, promoting Swagbucks through your social networking site, etc.

Bottom line: get paid to do something you already do anyway-search the internet. Free money never hurts!