Did you know that the average person spends almost 68 hours PER MONTH on the internet? The rise in popularity of the internet is insane these days. Can you imagine if you could get paid to search the internet? I wondered that myself, until I found out about Swagbucks. Swagbucks is an online rewards system that credits you points for doing various things on the internet. These include taking surveys, starting free trials of various programs, and even just searching the internet. Use this system all the time, and you have the potential to earn some pretty serious prizes (and thereby money) by doing it.

There are several ways to maximize your Swagbucks earnings. First and foremost is to make sure you always use it for searching the internet. It uses a Google powered search, so the results are going to be the same as what you’re no doubt used to. Simply set your default search engine to use Swagbucks (instructions are on their site), or download the Swagbucks toolbar if your into that kind of thing. This will allow you to earn Swagbucks constantly while surfing the web. Another great way to earn them even faster is to use some of their trial program offers. If you don’t already have Netflix, for example, you can earn 675 by simply starting a Netflix one month trial by going through the link on Swagbucks. You can also earn 900 from FreeCreditScore.com free trial (yes, the annoying commercials one) and 3600 for applying for a Discover More credit card.

Those Swagbucks can add up fast, and when they do, you can redeem them for awesome stuff. You can get an Amazon.com gift code for only 450 Swagbucks. If you were to do the free trials mentioned above, you could rack up 11 of these gift cards, or a bigger one to another place. That is a huge amount of money for simply signing up for some free trials. You can also earn other prizes, such as a Kindle Fire for around 29,000 Swagbucks, and all kinds of other electronics. If you want to gamble with your points, you can enter contests to win huge gift cards, concert tickets, and even laptops for tiny numbers of points.

Swagbucks is a great way to earn some money and prizes from doing something that you already do, browsing the web. Head over to Swagbucks.com, or click on the banner at the top of my site, to sign up for an account and get started!