On the Swagbucks Bandwagon

If you've been reading my blog for long, you've probably noticed the Search and Win banner in my sidebar. Maybe, just maybe, you didn't know what it was, so I figure its high time for an explanation. The Search and Win banner leads to the Swagbucks website. Well, to be honest, it leads to my referral link at the Swagbucks website, as do all of the links in this post. Yes, I'm encouraging you to join Swagbucks, and to do it using my referral link- but why?
Well, Swagbucks is a way to earn points towards prizes by doing something that you do anyways- searching using Google. When you search through Swagbucks you get pretty much the same results as if you used Google (there's even options for an image search, and for comparison shopping). In the process, you earn points that can be redeemed for prizes. The best prize, so far as I can see, is the $5 Amazon gift card. The gift cards are in the form of codes that you enter into your Amazon account and use for discounts on your orders. You can add them to your account when they are e-mailed to you, then the gift codes are just there and waiting to be used. Of course you can get just about anything on Amazon, which makes the codes very useful.
To be honest, this takes a bit of patience, but it does pay off. Most of the time, I earn a few Swagbucks each day just by using their search feature. So far I've earned enough for two $5 Amazon cards. However, that's where the referral program comes in. If you sign up for a Swagbucks account using my referral link, then when YOU earn points, I also get points. Once you have a Swagbucks account, you get your own referral link, which you can then post, e-mail, or use however you want to get people to sign up and help YOU earn points towards prizes.
I've tried several other "search to earn points" programs before, and so far this is the only one that has actually paid off in a reasonable amount of time. Earning referral points makes it pay off even more quickly. So if you've been thinking about jumping on the Swagbucks bandwagon, or even if you've never heard of it before but are now intrigued, think about jumping on here.