Today is Friday, it's also Mega Swagbucks Day. What am I talking about?! Well Swagbucks is a search engine, much like the many different well known ones you probably use everyday to search the Internet. Whether it be for the latest news story, a recipe for dinner, or a how to on a DYI project, you could be making money with your searches! I promise you this is no scam and it doesn't take years to add up to a measly $5. I started using Swagbucks as my search engine occasionally about the middle of the year and by Christmas I was able to use my Swagbucks for Amazon.com e-gift cards and buy many of my kiddos prsents...for FREE! So it's only January and I've already gotten enough Swagbucks for $5 Amazon.com e-gift, and I have to say that I really haven't even been serious about getting the most I can each day and believe me it could be so much more!

So what is Swagbucks?

Swagbucks.com is an online portal dedicated to helping you earn digital dollars called “Swag Bucks”. These Swag Bucks can be redeemed for merchandise and gift cards. Here are a few important facts to know about Swagbucks.
1) Swagbucks.com is FREE to join.
2) You can earn Swagbucks in a variety of ways.

•  Searching – use their search bar to do your normals searches and you will randomly receive Swag bucks just for searching. I have found their search results to be very reliable and comparable with Google.
   
• Swag Codes – Swag codes are given out randomly for varying amounts of Swag Bucks. these codes can be found in our widget on our side bar (just click swag code and it will tell you if one is out right now). Sometimes they will give you a clue, sometimes they will just give you the code.
   
• Referring – You can refer your friends to Swagbucks.com. You will earn point for point what they do up to 100.
   
• Toolbar – You can download their toolbar get Swagbucks just for using it. The Swag Guy also randomly will send you a Swag Code in the toolbar.
   
• Daily Poll - You can earn 1 Swag Buck per day just by participating in the daily poll.
   
• Surveys-Filling out and taken profile survey can win you various amounts of swagbucks
• Coupons- You can print coupon for you favorite grocery items and you will earn swagbucks after you redeem your printed coupons.
   
• Special Offers – You can choose to participate in their special offers and earn Swag Bucks.
   
• Trade-in – You can trade in electronic devices that are no longer in use for Swag Bucks.
  
   
• Shopping – You can shop through Swagbucks.com and earn more Swag Bucks for doing so. 

3) Redeeming Swag Bucks is easy and fun! One of our favorite prizes to redeem for is the Amazon.com gift cards as well as the Target.com gift cards. The amount of prizes they offer is amazing.

4) For those of you who enjoy entering contests, they also offer Swagstakes. they have 2 kinds of Swagstakes – Limited Entry and Limited Time. For instance, right now you can enter to win a $2,500 Amazon Gift Card for 20 Swag Bucks. This is a limited entry swagstakes with the cap at 50,000. There is also a time limited swagstakes for 25 Swag Bucks which would only cost you 1 Swag Buck to enter.
5) When you get a code, all you have to do is go to their homepage and enter it in the box that says “Enter Your Swag Code”. Codes are case sensitive. Once you put the code in it automatically goes into your account.