Earn Money Just by Searching the Web

I first heard of Swagbucks about a month ago.  The premise is simple:  You sign up and whenever you want to search the internet (for me, that means about 764,589,495 times per day), you either go to Swagbucks or use the handy seach toolbar that you can download to your browser window. 

And when I heard that, a warning bell went off in my head:  Adware!  Spyware!  Viruses Galore!

But then yesterday 2 frugal bloggers that I trust put up a post about Swagbucks and they both linked to another woman who has paid for much of her Christmas shopping through Swagbucks. 

Still nervous, I decided to try it.  I signed up with Swagbucks.  There are no fees, no giving them your credit card information.  You don't even have to give them your address until you are ready to cash out.  You don't even need to download the toolbar to use Swagbucks...you can do all of your searching directly from their site (just make sure that you are logged in before you start searching so that you get credit!).  I've run my Spyware & Anti-Virus program 4 times since I started and haven't seen an increase in Adware/Spyware/Viruses (Virii?)

So how do you earn money?  Well, you actually earn gift cards.  You get 3 SwagBucks just for signing up and then each time you search you can earn more SwagBucks.  After just 45 Swagbucks, you can cash in for an $5 Amazon Gift Card.

A $5 gift card?  Whoopdedoo, right?  Well, if you have a blog, and you refer people, you can start earning more and more Swagbucks based on your referrals.  That's how this woman just cleaned up with Swagbucks.

So give it a try and see if you can start earning some gift cards!  The way I figure it, I'm going to be searching the internet anyway - may as well try & get something out of it!