I know this has been around for a little while now and many people may already know about it, but for those of you who don’t, this can be a great way to earn rewards for doing something you probably already do on a daily basis.…search the internet!
I know there are a few different sites for this, but the one I use is Swagbucks.
Using Swagbucks is easy, you simply sign up, and the next time you need to search for something on the web, instead of going to Google, you go to Swagbucks and use their search engine.

Here are just a few of the items you can purchase with your Swagbucks:

About once or twice a day you will randomly win between 1 and 20 Swagbucks. Accumulate enough Swagbucks, and you can trade them in for great prizes or gift certificates.
Prizes range from 36 Swagbucks for a $5 Starbucks gift card to 7999 Swagbucks for a flatscreen TV.
From my experience you can expect around 1-5 swag bucks per day, which will give you about $5 in prizes per month if you are searching frequently.
You can really start to earn prizes quickly if you refer a friend to Swagbucks. Each time one of your friends win, Swagbucks will give you the same number of Swagbucks that your friend won! So if you have 10 referrals signed up and each of them is winning an average of 2 Swagbucks a day, you would earn 660 swag bucks in a month. That is enough for over $90 in prizes for spending about 5 minutes a day searching.

How accurate are the search results from Swagbucks?
Swagbucks gets its results from a combination of Google and Ask.com. This makes them pretty good, but I do feel like Google alone gives better results. For me, if I am just searching for something simple I use Swagbucks. If I’m doing some intensive search I still use plain old Google.
Swagbucks offers two ways to integrate its search engine into your browser. If you have Internet Explorer you can download the Swagbucks toolbar. If you have Firefox, you can easily replace the search box within Firefox to use the Swagbucks search engine. That way you don’t have to go to the Swagbucks website whenever you need to search.

Does Swagbucks accept International Members?
Unfortunately at this point Swagbucks only accepts members from the US, Canada and the UK. However, there is another site that I have been using that I will write a full review about later.
Homepages Friends, formerly MySearchFunds is another Paid to Search site based out of the U.K. They accept members from many different countries and pay cash in the form of Paypal transfers to people who use their search engine. Results are provided by Yahoo and you can usually earn about $1 a day (although earnings are stated in British Pounds). You also receive a percentage of your referrals earnings and even their referrals earnings. So sign up your friends to really start bringing in the cash.

My Recommendation:
Use Firefox and Google Toolbar. I am a huge fan of Google toolbar for all the nice features that it gives. I also don’t really like having any other toolbars cluttering up my browser. With Firefox I replace the browser search box with the Swagbucks search engine, and then still have the Google search box on the toolbar. That way I can use Swagbucks for most of my searching, but when I just want to use Google, I still have it there.

Tips & Tricks to earning more Swagbucks

Before we get to some of the more advanced tips I’ve been using, lets start with the basics.

Basic Tips
Use Swagbucks to Vist your Favorite Sites – Instead of going to your bookmarks or typing in the address of your favorite site, why not go through Swagbucks? It takes about 2 seconds longer and will help you win more.
Don’t Oversearch – Swagbucks will only let you win about 3-4 times a day, and will very rarely let you win twice in the same hour. I would suggest trying to win in the morning, it usually doesn’t take too many searches to win your first Swagbuck, then switching to another paid search program like Homepages Friends for a few hours.

Later in the day, you can come back to Swagbucks and will have a better chance of winning. According to the Swagbucks website, only your first 20 searches give you a chance to win, after that you are just wasting your time. While I do feel like I may have won after my 20th search, I do know that constantly searching over and over again will not help you win more.

You Can Almost Always Win at Least Once a Day – I don’t remember the last time I didn’t win at least one Swagbuck in a day, and it usually happens within the first 5 searches. Additional wins are very possible, but get more and more unlikely as you continue to win. The most I have won in a single day is 4 times.

Sign Up Your Friends and Family! – This is the easiest way to win lots of Swagbucks. You may only win 1-5 Swagbucks a day by yourself, but with just 5 friends earning on average 2 Swagbucks a day you would earn 360 Swagbucks a month! Just think of what you could do with 50 friends signed up! I am currently earning about 25 Swagbucks a day!
Now on to some more advanced tips!
Setup up a Firefox keyword or letter for Swagbucks searches.
If you aren’t using Firefox, then all I’m going to say is that you should download it now and use it. It really is better than the alternative for the added speed and functionality it offers.

This is a great trick that I’ve been using to make it easier to search when you want to. Start by going to the Swagbucks home page, right clicking on the search box and clicking “Add a Keyword for this Search”.

A new window will open asking for a name and a keyword. In the name field, type “Swagbucks” and in the keyword field just type the letter “s” and click ok.
Now you have keyword function for Swagbucks setup. To use this, all you need to do is click on the address bar and type the keyword “s” then a space then what you want to search (for ex.  “s Earnontheside”)

If you did it right, it should automatically bring up the Swagbucks search results for Earnontheside, and hopefully win you a Swagbuck! If you want to speed things up even further, use the hotkey “Ctrl-L” to quickly jump to the address bar without even using your mouse.
Bookmark Your Searches
If you have websites that you frequent on a daily or more than daily basis, instead of bookmarking the site, bookmark the search results for the site. The easiest way to do this in Firefox is to just drag the Icon at the left of the address bar to your bookmarks toobar. You can then right click on the bookmark and hit properties to rename it to whatever you want. Try it now, just drag the following link, a Swagbucks search for “Earn On The Side”, into your bookmarks toolbar.
Earn On The Side
Take A Picture With Your Prize
This won’t get you a lot more Swagbucks, but if you email a picture of yourself with a prize that you earned off of Swagbucks to info@prodege.com, they will award you 1 Swagbuck.
Tricks that May or May Not Work
These are my tips that I “think” may help you win more often. I make no guarantee that they work as I can not verify or test them. However, in my experience they seem to make me win more often.
Switch Computers or Internet Connections - This may reset the time limit on how often you can win.
Change Browsers or Clear Your Cookies - Again may reset the time limit on how often you can win.
Sign Out From SwagBucks - You can still win Swagbucks if you are signed out, you just need to sign in after you are awarded a Swagbuck, again this might possibly reset the time limit on how often you can win.

GET STARTED TODAY!!

Search & WIN!10.0101