In depth Swagbucks tutorial

When you register with Swagbucks you do not need to give out any address, phone number or even any credit card info. Pretty cool, huh? When you register, you’re already started out with 30 Swagbucks in your account. Sweet, huh? After you are registered go fill out your PROFILES section for even more Swagbucks.

I then suggest downloading the Swagbucks toolbar because it’s a great source of free codes and you can always see your Swagbuck balance. Oh, they also give you a free Swagbuck daily just for having the toolbar too!

Once you have the toolbar, just enter your search terms into the search box as you would with any search engine. You’ll get your search results and every so often you’ll also be rewarded with Swagbucks. There’s no special way to search to win and there are no certain number of searches that you need to make to win. It seems to be a completely random process. You won’t win with every search, but you will win at times. You’ll know that you’ve won Swagbucks when you get something that looks like THIS:

That was about a normal win for me. You’ll earn a different number of Swagbucks each time you win, the amounts are rarely the same and can vary from 5 to as many as 50-100 on Fridays because that is MEGA SWAGBUCKS DAY! On Fridays the search awards are usually the higher amounts if you are lucky. I once won 50 for a search! That was cool! Those randomly-awarded Swagbucks add up pretty quick in your account.

If you downloaded the Swagbucks toolbar (you should!) you’ll sometimes see messages from The Swag Guy. It will be under the “From TSG” section in the toolbar, and it will look like this.

  

Click the icon as soon as you see a new message-meaning a number there in place of the usual 0. If you are lucky you will snag the bonus code before it expires and grab you some bonus Swagbucks. After you have copied the code, just go to the front page of the Swagbucks site , paste the code where it says GIMMIE and you get your Swagbucks!

Be sure to click on the Trusted Surveys link to get your daily free Swagbuck, as well as the Daily Poll. If you are lucky there will be a survey available for you to take for more free Swagbucks. Those amounts vary depending on the survey available.

Everyday you can go to the Special Offers tab and look through the No Obligation Offers section. You don’t have to sign up for anything, but you will win a Swagbuck just for looking through them.

You can also refer your friends to Join Swagbucks and earn. When you are a member you will also get a referral link for your own account. Be sure to share your link because you will get bonus Swagbucks for it.

Oh and be sure to check their blog a few times a day because the folks at Swagbucks like to hide codes in their postings there. If you have a Face book account and a Twitter account, they also like to stash a few codes here and there too!

Lastly, if you do any shopping through the internet, always be sure to check if there is a link through Swagbucks to shop through. Usually you could get 2 Swagbucks for every dollar you spend through their link. I made the mistake of buying something online before checking out Swagbucks. I lost 140 Swagbucks because I didn’t check first. That hurt. The cool thing is that a lot of the good deals that I post on my twitter deal box in the upper left hand side of my site usually have a thing going with Swagbucks too! Talk about maxing out your great deals! So.. rule of thumb here, always check with Swagbucks first before shopping online.

Like I mentioned when I first started my blog, I am not out to make money off of it. You will not find any affiliate links or advertisements here at all. I only post about great deals or freebies that I would or have done myself because I just want to help other Frugalistas out there get the most for their money… However.

I do have one tiny exception to this link thing. If you are so inclined, I would like to get a Swagbuck referral from you if you have not joined this fantastic freebie program yet. (I have a widget on my home page)

 If my Swagbucks totals are showing a low count, it is probably because I just cashed in a bunch of them. They will build up again soon enough. What that widget does not show is the gift cards that I have purchased with my Swagbucks. As soon as I can redeem them, I do and keep them active in my account that does not show up here like my current available Swagbucks do. In just a couple of months of doing this I have gotten many Amazon gift certificates which I am now stockpiling for Christmas shopping.

If you do not wish to give me credit, that is fine too, you can just go to the main Swagbucks site to sign up. Either way you are off to getting some fantastic freebies and making your money stretch which is what this whole blog is about anyways, right?

Now go swag!