Swagbucks

Have any of you ever heard of Swagbucks? It's a search engine like Google (and in fact uses a lot of Google technology), but you can earn digital "money" called swagbucks for using it. The way Google works is the company makes money every time you click on a sponsored result in the search result list. Swagbucks works similarly in that they make money from the sponsors, but then they also pass along some of that money to you the searcher in the form of swagbucks.

What can swagbucks be used for? Well, they have a bunch of stuff for sale on their website and through various partner sites, but the big thing most people do with them is to redeem them for Amazon gift cards. 45 swagbucks equals a $5 Amazon card. I have been using Swagbucks since November, and am now on my 8th $5 Amazon card and for doing nothing more than using Swagbucks to do my internet searching instead of Google. I used 3 cards to buy Penny's $17 booster seat for 2 bucks. How cool is that?

If you are interested in signing up, go here and register. You'll get 3 swagbucks just for signing up and you'll probably earn at least one within your first two or three searches. You can't just search words over and over though. It really works best if you search naturally, remembering to use Swagbucks every time you would otherwise go to Google or some other site. I usually will get 1 swagbuck in the morning, 1 in the afternoon, and 1 after Penny goes to bed.

There are also special swagbucks codes released in various places, but you don't have to worry with that if you don't want to. If you do want to, they are having a big second birthday blowout on Thursday and should be giving away lots of codes.