As I’ve mentioned many times, Swagbucks is by far my favorite way to earn free money online, because it’s a great way to earn at least $25 in Amazon gift cards every month. You need only 450 Swag Bucks to get a $5 Amazon gift card, and you can order up to 5 each month.

This month, Swagbucks has put the “treat” in Trick or Treat with the latest team challenge: Zombies vs. Vampires. You have until the end of October to get started, score points for your team, and win bonus Swag Bucks. Take sides by clicking “Max Your Bonus” on the Daily Ghoul Meter of the homepage. Complete your daily goal – er, I mean ghoul – to earn a point for your team. Bonus Swag Bucks will be awarded at the end of the challenge based on how many points you earned and whether your team won or lost.

Learn all the details by watching the Zombies vs. Vampires tutorial on SBTV. If you haven’t signed up for Swagbucks yet, October is great month to join the action and win major bonus Swag Bucks along the way. The undead may roam, but bonus Swag Bucks are a real scream.

P.S. I’m a Zombie – come join my team … we’re winning!

If you’re looking for new ways to reach your daily ghoul, learn how to earn 200 Swag Bucks every day, and how I earned 1,000 Swag Bucks in one day. You may also want to check out my favorite ways to earn Swag Bucks.

Thank you if you join(ed) Swagbucks using my referral link!

As I’ve mentioned many times, Swagbucks is by far my favorite way to earn free money online. The best value prize, in my opinion, is the $5 Amazon.com gift code – it’s just 450 Swag Bucks, and you can redeem your Swag Bucks for up to five of them every month.

I recently shared how I regularly earn 200+ Swag Bucks each day, but since then, I’ve been earning a lot more. Check out the screen cap below:

That’s from last week, and shows that I earned 1,046 Swag Bucks in just one day. That’s not typical, but I’ve definitely been earning more lately. My latest discovery is Surveys, which you can find on the Special Offers page, Trusted Surveys, and the Daily Survey on the homepage. However, I have to warn that surveys are very hit and miss when it comes to availability, qualifying, and occasionally even crediting. I definitely recommend approaching surveys with cautious optimism, and avoiding them if time management is an issue. But if you are a member of survey sites, you might find that Swagbucks is a better use of your survey taking time since you may be able to accumulate lots of Swag Bucks quickly, which you can redeem for a wide variety of gift cards and other prizes.

A few other bits of Swagbucks news:

There will be a Swag Code Extravaganza, or Treasure Hunt, tomorrow (September 19), to celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day. The fun starts at 4 a.m. PDT, and there will be 7 codes released throughout the day within the Swagosphere.

They’ve tweaked SBTV so that the SBTV meter goes up once per day per video. In other words, you only get rewarded for watching a video once per day. The move appears designed to encourage Swaggernauts to explore new videos, which I can understand.

Finally, Swagbucks has a new Shop & Earn portal, and they’re offering TRIPLE Swag Bucks for purchases at Walmart.com for a limited time. That means you get 6 Swag Bucks per dollar spent, instead of the usual $2.

Happy Swagging!

As I’ve mentioned many times, Swagbucks is by far my favorite way to earn free money online. The best value prize, in my opinion, is the $5 Amazon.com gift code – it’s just 450 Swag Bucks, and you can redeem your Swag Bucks for up to five of them every month.

Of course, I always feel like I can’t earn Swag Bucks fast enough, but I also don’t want to feel tied to their site. And I’ve been less than happy with some of their earning opportunities like Tasks (I find the directions misleading and have been disqualified multiple times) and Trusted Surveys (I’ve spent anywhere from 5 to 15 minutes answering questions, only to be disqualified). But I do have a regular routine that starts my day off with approximately 30 Swag Bucks, and then gets me over 200 every day if I’m around my computer enough.

Here are relatively easy and completely free ways to earn 200+ Swag Bucks every day:

• Take the Daily Poll – 1 Swag Buck
• Open a browser with the Toolbar installed – 1 Swag Buck
• Look through the offers at NOSO (No Obligation Special Offers) – 2 Swag Bucks
• Look through the Special Offers – You can sort by “Free” offers, and there are usually a bunch of 1 Swag Buck offers under the Radium One tab, and occasionally under the other tabs as well
• Play Games – 2 Swag Bucks per 2 games, up to 10 per day (Tip: you don’t have to finish each game; just get a feel for how long you have to play before you can click “Back to Games” to get credit)
• Use the Search function to look something up multiple times throughout the day – usually 6 to 11 Swag Bucks per Search Win, but possibly a lot more
• Watch SBTV – There’s a huge selection of videos, and a meter at the top right of the page that will go up at regular intervals. When it gets to 100%, you get 3 Swag Bucks. And the best part is, you can earn up to 150 Swag Bucks per day through SBTV. The vast majority of my daily Swag Bucks are earned through SBTV, which I leave running in the background as much as possible throughout the day – when I’m cleaning, doing dishes, folding laundry, etc. It’s a bit of a pain, so it’s not for everyone, but it’s a super easy way to rack up Swag Bucks each day.
• If you have an Android device, there’s a Mobile SBTV app that’s independent of the web-based SBTV, so you can earn an additional 50 Swag Bucks per day through the app.
• Keep an eye out for Swag Codes. If I see an active code, I’ll alert you through the CFO Facebook page and CFO Twitter stream.
• Hit the Daily Goal. You’ll see the Daily Goal in the meter on the right side of the Swagbucks homepage – reaching the goal earns you a 10% bonus of the goal, plus you’ll earn extra bonuses for hitting the goal on consecutive days.

As I said, I routinely earn 200+ Swag Bucks per day using these methods myself – that means I’m hitting the Daily Goal and earning even more Swag Bucks. The numbers I’m telling you exclude referral Swag Bucks, which can add up quickly if you have a lot of referrals. That means, of course, that anyone can earn this many Swag Bucks every day without spending a penny or the whole day at the computer. Because while I do spend hours at my computer each day (mostly blogging), I’m also getting my children to and from school, helping them with homework, making dinner, and doing housework. So if I can do it, anyone can do it!

Happy Swagging!

If you’ve been reading CFO for any length of time, you probably already know that Swagbucks is by far my favorite way to earn free money. And right now, they’ve got a few new ways to earn:

First, there’s a new set of sports-themed Collector’s Bills. You can only earn these through search, and if you collect all nine bills by August 12, then you’ll get a bonus of 15 Swag Bucks.

Second, a new month means a new Daily Goal Meter. You’ll see the meter in the right sidebar of Swagbucks.com if you’re logged in, and it will show you the day’s goal as well as how many Swag Bucks you’ve earned so far that day. Reach the goal and you’ll earn a bonus equivalent to 10% of the goal. Hit the goal for at least 7 consecutive days and you’ll earn more bonuses. It’s a great and easy way to earn extra Swag Bucks, especially since you don’t have to do anything extra than you’d do already to earn your free money.

Third, there’s a new Swagbucks.com mobile site, which you can use to access Search and Daily Polls. Other methods of earning are expected to be added soon – I’m hoping for SBTV myself.

If you’re new to Swagbucks, now a great time to join because right now, new members get 60 additional bonus Swag Bucks when you join here and use code SBISONTHEGO – since all new users get 30 Swag Bucks upon sign up, you’ll start off with 90! That puts you well on your way to the 450 Swag Bucks you need to get a $5 Amazon gift certificate. You may also want to check out my favorite ways to earn Swag Bucks.

Code expires at 11:59 p.m. PDT on August 3, 2012. Thank you if you join(ed) Swagbucks using my referral link!

Swagbucks wants to help you spread the word about Swagbucks to your family and friends, so they’re hosting the first ever Swagbucks Summer Social today. It’s a day where every referral you’ve gotten between June 20 and the end of today will earn you matching Swag Bucks on practically everything they earn during the social, with a cap of 1000 Swag Bucks per referral.

If you need some help, you can learn how to share your referral link here. I find that Swagbucks is an easy thing to share, because it’s such an easy and totally free way to earn FREE money.

Even if you only use Swagbucks for searching, you can earn a FREE $5 Amazon gift certificate in a couple of months. And if you do a few extra things like play their games, take the daily poll, and watch SBTV, it’s easy to earn at least the max of five $5 Amazon gift certificates per month – that’s a FREE $25! I know a lot of people save their Swagbucks Amazon earnings for the holidays, although I like to use them to buy things I would have bought anyway.

If you’re new to Swagbucks, now a great time to join because new members get 70 additional bonus Swag Bucks when you join here and use code JUNETASTIC – since all new users get 30 Swag Bucks upon sign up, you’ll start off with 100! That puts you well on your way to the 450 Swag Bucks you need to get a $5 Amazon gift certificate.

Code expires at 11:59 p.m. PDT on June 30, 2012. Thank you if you join(ed) Swagbucks using my referral link!