Beginner Tips for Swagsurfing!

Welcome back to SwagMelt! I hope some of you took advantage of yesterdays sign-up bonus code. It's gone today (and we are workin on The Swag Guy to get it back!) but there is STILL the normal 30 swag bucks bonus for signing up. (just click Sign Up on that black & white box to the right there to get started!)

 I want to help Everyone get lots more swag! To say the economy is tough and cliche, and frankly "putting it lightly".  Swagbucks has been a blessing in my life, allowing me to get things we Need, and shappy surprise, things we Want as well! So I am going to start blogging tips to help you do as well, or hopefully even better, than I have been doing.  I'll collect and refine those tips and put them in a FAQ down the road.

Today I'm going to repost the starter tips I zappped off to my other new swagfriend this morning. It's just the TIP of the iceberg, believe me.



There are a few ways to earn swag bucks. The easiest is searching with their browser. Their engine pulls from Google and Ask so once you get used to the way it looks, the search results are pretty good. I do recommend getting the toolbar- it doesn't slow my computer down at all, has no viruses, and is very useful. I use it to check messages from TSG (sometimes there is a code there) and I search from it all the time.

I have the best results with searching if I space it out over the day. I learned early on that not only is it Frustrating to keep trying and trying, but it actually lessens your chances, because you can be put on a "timeout". So I search a few standard things several times a day. It doesn't matter what they are, but for me its gmail, swagbucks facebook, twitter, netflix, flickr, photobucket, good morning america *chuckle*. I win with at least one of those a day, more often a couple times. I also search other things, say if I need to track down a virus alert on my computer, I will search for the file name- for some reason I almost always win within a few search pages when I am doing REAL research :)

You can expect to get an average of 3 wins a day if you spread it out. Sometimes more. And if you are ever up in the middle of the night, at 12am (central) the win algorithm resets, and a lot of people get 1 or 2 wins between 12 - 12:15. However, beware! Sometimes when you win 4 times in a day, or you hit midnight bucks, it can take a while to get your first win the Next day. I have had to try until 7 pm sometimes. I usually still manage to get 3 wins by the end of the night though. On the rare occasion I only get 2 wins, I usually get four the next day. It averages out, so if it seems like you aren't getting anywhere, don't stress it! Try again later!

Do The Daily Four! If you have the toolbar installed, then the first time you use your browser every day, you get a free swagbuck. Click DAILY POLL from the "Earn" tab at the top of the homepage. (Or from the Ways To Earn tab on your toolbar.) Vote every day for a free swagbuck. Click NOSO from that same earn tab, and SKIP through the offers shown. Today there was only 1 to skip through, Free easy 1 swagbuck. Lastly, visit your Trusted Survey page after you have been a member 7 days. Another easy free swagbuck! May not sound like much, but after a month thats 120 free swagbucks for Very little effort. (Bonus- right now its 2 swagbucks each, for the promotional week we are having.)

Last but not least for this morning- visit the Facebook Swagbucks page. Its the most active community of all the "Search & earn" sites. The members there are Generally VERY helpful, and will answer any question you have. Its a little slow in the mornings but by evening its Hopping!

There is a thread titled General Info for Newbies in the DISCUSSIONS tab of the facebook page. LONG, lots of information to go through in there.

There are a variety of other ways to earn swag bucks. Special offers is probably the biggest, and if it's done right, more profitable way to go. I will tell you more about special offers tomorrow, because it's a BIG topic, and there are a lot of ins and outs to it!

Until then, Happy Swagsurfing!!