Big News Afoot At Swagbucks - And Another New User Code!
I’ve written about Swagbucks before - it is a search engine portal that gives you the chance to win “Swagbucks” every time you search (redeemable for a number of prizes including Amazon gift cards, which is what I redeem mine for). The portal uses Google and Ask.com to search, and although it does mix in some sponsored results (as does any search engine) I have found in using it that the results I get are comparable to using Google (my search engine of choice, which also does have sponsored search results) and I like earning gift cards at Amazon for doing what I would normally be doing anyway. I am one of those people who does a lot of online searching, so it works well for me. In fact, through a mix of search-earned Swagbucks and referrals, I purchased my spouse’s birthday present this year as well as some DVDs for my mom.
A few months ago Swagbucks offered me my own “swagcode” for new users to their portal - if when you registered for their free search engine portal, you entered my swagcode, you got bonus swagbucks for registering. And now they’re doing it again. If you haven’t tried Swagbucks yet, sign up and enter the code PAIDTWICE1 (case sensitive) and you’ll receive 6 Swagbucks (3 for signing up, 3 from the code)! It is active now and will expire the 16th of June at 11:59pm PST.
Swagbucks has a number of new things going on this week, including Thursday, unveiling an entirely new and sleeker version of their website, so if you haven’t tried using their search engine, check it out (and enter the PAIDTWICE1 swagcode of course)! It is totally free, there is no hidden catch, and if you don’t like it, you don’t ever have to use it again. For me, it’s a frugal way to earn gift cards to get presents for my family I was going to get anyway - but now I can do it for free. 
And a user tip - I use Firefox as my web browser, and Swagbucks gives you an option to add Swagbucks to the built-in search bar in the Firefox browser. So I have Swagbucks selected there as my default search, but if I ever want to use Google or something else to search, all I have to do is select it from the dropdown menu. Easy peasy! In Firefox, it isn’t a separate toobar or anything like that (in IE I think there is a toolbar you can install if you choose to).
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June 13th, 2009 at 2:32 am
As a fellow SwagBuck-lover, my big tip is that I stopped going to websites directly. I just use the SwagBucks toolbar to look them up first. Pretty easy, but also effective.
July 7th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Tried the code and it said it was expired. Signed up anyway, will see how it goes!