Great work and great site. Thanks so much.

Josh

When we started a year ago it was slow going. About 3 to 5 SB a day from searching and Swag Codes. We quickly realized that referrals would be the way to get more Swag Bucks.

Let me clear something up for the haters out there. Swag Bucks tells its users to promote their referral links. In fact they dedicate two big parts of the Swag Bucks site to help people promote themselves. The Invite Friends page is located here: http://www.swagbucks.com/?cmd=sb-refer
and the Promotion Banner page is located here: http://www.swagbucks.com/?cmd=sb-promote

So the big question is how have we been so successful in promoting our referral link? Since we started out we have tried to be very active in the Swag Bucks community. We got lots of referrals by answering questions on Yahoo answers (we posted our link for people who were reading but had not signed up). We made this blog and offered tips and Swag Code hints. Word got out, search engines picked us up, and people signed up through our link.

We’ve never made any of this a secret. Quite the opposite. If you read through our blog and the comments you will see that we tell people that referrals are the key to big Swag Bucks. We’ve stated before the breakdown of our earnings, and so you don’t have to search it goes something like this:
Swag bucks earned from
Searching: 8%
Swag Codes: 2%
Referrals: 90%

We’re not, nor have we ever been, telling people that if they sign up with Swag Bucks that they WILL get thousands of dollars in Amazon cards. What we have said, and continue to say, is that if you sign up with Swag Bucks you CAN get thousands of dollars in Amazon cards.

We’ve never HID our referral link on the page. If you’ve read the Swag Bucks site you’ll know that the banners are readily available to all Swag Bucks users to place on their own blogs, or social networking pages for the purpose of getting referrals. In fact if you read the post above, we simply ask kindly to CONSIDER using our link. We’re not tricking anyone… We’re just ordinary people like all Swaggernauts, and we haven’t done anything that any of you great folks couldn’t do… Many people won’t start a blog or put time into the community or promotion… but it doesn’t mean they can’t. Many people want it to be fast and easy, but it takes some time. With Swag Bucks you get back what you put in. We’ve put in a bunch and got a bunch in return.

We hope this helps answer some questions. Maybe we’ll make a main post about this since we get a lot of people asking.

We reallly do love Swag Bucks, and we love all the thousands of people who read our blog each day. We hope we’ve helped you get some extra Swag Bucks here and there and that we’ve been able to clear up some of the mysteries of Swag Bucks. Above all, we hope we’ve inspired you to make your own Swag Bucks blog, or to think of a brand new way to promote your own referral link.

We love you guys.

Good luck!

Do you ever win the swagstakes? I would love to see some stats on that. I can never decide if it’s worth it to enter or if I should just save the bucks for Amazon gift cards since that is a for sure thing!

Thanks much!
Katy