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The Top 10 Sites for Earning Money Online

First of all, I just want to put you at ease. I am not trying to herd you into a ton of crappy sites with crappy earnings. No, you came here because you want to be enlightened & that's exactly what I am going to do. Ok, now that I have that out of the way, lets get to the real reason your here. You want to find a way to make some money online, right? Well, listed below are my top 10 favorite sites that I personally use in order to generate a secondary income. (I like to think of it as my play money)

1. InboxDollars.com
Features: Get paid to search, read emails, do surveys, shop, complete offers, prize drawings & more.

Pros: Surveys are almost always available & for good pay (averaging about 50¢ each), Free offers pay out well too. You also have decent paying emails (about 3 a day at .02¢ each). Daily videos also pay well with about 2-3 each day paying about .02¢ each.

Cons: Not much, you will occasionally have a day without many good surveys, but other than that the site is perfect.



2. Crowdtap.com
Features: Surveys & activities brought to you by some of the biggest consumer companies. Most of the missions on this site are surveys, although they also have photo missions for more points.

Pros: Backed by some real corporate titans, you will never have any issues with scamming. You also will never be blocked from survey questions. The photo missions, a lot of times are actually pretty fun. The cash out rate is pretty low, being able to get a $5 Amazon card at least twice monthly if you keep up with everything.

Cons: The site is pretty much perfect. The only reason why its not at #1 is because it takes a bit more time than InboxDollars to make money and you only have the option for Amazon gift cards. (I am not complaining though!)


Features: Shop, do surveys, watch videos & do offers for points that your can exchange for gift cards or cash via PayPal.

Pros:  This site is amazing for several reasons. Firstly, you can earn points simply by being a BzzAgent member. (An amazing product review site ran by P&G. I can't recommend it enough!) Secondly they give you points just for trying. You got kicked out of a survey? Don't worry, here's 5 points just for trying. They also have excellent shopping options, paid emails and search. 

Cons: If you want to really get anywhere with MyPoints, being a BzzAgent member is a must. This is not so much a con, as much as it is a recommendation to join BzzAgent. They are amazing!



4. SendEarnings.com
Features: Get paid to search, read emails, do surveys, shop, complete offers, prize drawings & more.

Pros: For those used to InboxDollars, it has a familiar layout (Its owned by the same company) It also has virtually the same features with just a few minor differences. Payments are also about the same. (.02¢ per email & an average of .50¢ per survey)

Cons: Even with it being a very similar site to InboxDollars, I find that I dont get as many surveys here as I do at InboxDollars.



5. YouGov.com
Features: Do surveys for points that you can use to get gift cards or a prepaid Visa card.

Pros: When they want you to do a survey, they will send you an email. These are almost always pre-qualified surveys, so your not wasting your time. You also earn about 500 points per survey making them worth about .50¢ a piece, (Considering a $100 prepaid Visa on the site costs 100,000 points.) I get about 5-6 surveys a week from them, so the earning is not bad.

Cons: Not much. They just don't have paid surveys available at all times.



6. Hits4Pay.com
Features: Paid to click ads & weekly prize ads

Pros: Ads are sent directly to your inbox, or just go to the site to see your paid ads. Each one pays about .02¢. You also get about 3-4 ads a day.

Cons: The site just specializes in pay to click. You wont find much else here.




7. Bing Rewards
Features: Earn points searching with Bing. Points can be redeemed for a variety of offers and discounts.

Pros: You cant beat getting points for something you probably do alot already, searching. Its also from Microsoft, so they actually have good search results.

Cons: I have cashed in my Bing Rewards points for an Amazon card before, although they have recently taken away that option as well as numerous other gift card options. Who knows if they will ever return. Bing Rewards would have been much higher if it was not for this fact.



8. Prizegrab.com
Features: Ok, so this is not technically an earning site. Its a sweepstakes site. Prizegrab gives you about 30-50 ways to enter sweepstakes daily for free.

Pros: If your looking for sweepstakes. This is the most pain free option on the internet, hands down. Just enter to win, no strings or hassles.

Cons: I have never won anything, although their are various people online showing off their winnings. I would assume it is pretty difficult to win since its free and so easily accessible.



9. GiftHulk.com
Features: Do surveys, offers, shopping, coupons & more in exchange for gift cards or cash via PayPal. 

Pros: You have a lot of stuff available for you to do here. You also have a few daily games that will reward you for playing.

Cons: The earning here is relatively slower than your other options. I also get kicked out of surveys here a lot. For this reason, I like to keep Gift Hulk on the back burner, while I focus on other sites.



10. Swagbucks.com

Features: Do Surveys, offers, shopping coupons and more in exchange for gift cards or cash via PayPal.

Pros: This is one of the oldest earning sites. For this reason, it has quite a lot of things for you to do. You also have a ton of options for your rewards, in the forms of gift cards & PayPal cash transfers.

Cons: I never got off to a great start with Swagbucks. I felt like the earning was slower here than other alternatives, much like GiftHulk was for me. For this reason, I just keep it around as a spare site, in case something where to happen to any of the others.



Tips: Before we wrap this up, just a few friendly words of advice.
1. Get your own dedicated email account for all of your online earning endeavors. This makes everything super streamlined. You will always know what to expect and you wont get anything mixed in with your personal emails.
2. Sign up for everything! Try it all out and fall in to what you think is best.
3. Juggle your favorite 5-6 sites daily, making your rounds and tapping the the best looking offers/activities/surveys/so on.

That about sums it up! Happy earning!

Have any sites of your own that you would like to share? Please do so in the comments below! Please keep in mind that we only want legit sites!