Hi everyone, just found this thread and I'd like to share my contribution, hope that's ok
For me personally Swagbucks is very easy to earn from! The first thing I do is run the SBTV app on my smartphone. This gives me 10 Swagbucks per day, and only takes a few minutes.
Next, I go on the website and do the Daily Poll for 1 Swagbuck, then view the Daily offers for 2 Swagbucks.
Next, I play the games for a total of 10 Swagbucks. They pay 2 Swagbucks every two games. If you don't play the game quite long enough then they may pay every 3 games.
Then, it's watching the video's. There are a lot of video's on the site - and there's a few where you just watch 1 video for 1 Swagbuck, or 2 video's for one Swagbuck.
Then, you can try the surveys. They pay 1 Swagbuck if you don't qualify too. I don't have very good demographics for surveys, but I still tend to get a fair few on Swagbucks. There are Gold surveys, Partner surveys, the daily survey and Peanut Labs to choose from.
There are also CrowdFlower tasks that you can do if you like.
I only do searches when I need to which isn't that often, but I've found the longer I leave it in between searches the more Swagbucks I get - the other day I got 32 Swagbucks for a search
(you can add the Swagbutton on your toolbar too - apparently this gets you more Swagbucks when you have it set as your default search engine - I had it on my old laptop but it slowed my computer down)
Sometimes they have "Team Challenges" - if you join, you get points for your team just doing the things you normally would on the site - and then all teams will get a prize at the end, such as 40 Swagbucks for first place, 20 Swagbucks for second place and so on.
If you can meet your daily earning goals, then you get a bonus next month too.
I exchange my points for PayPal cash - if I cash out on a Monday I usually get it by Wednesday, but if I cash out on a Thursday I don't usually get it until the Monday on average.
I might have missed some things, I could go on for ages about Swagbucks - it's an easy earning site for me.
Basically, I think it's definitely worth trying and seeing how it works for you if you're interested! Hope I've helped someone