Free or Paid Surveys Lists, Which To Use

To make consistent money from taking surveys online, you need to belong to several, really many, different survey websites. I belong to over 120 survey sites myself. Some of those sites email me everyday and some send email invitations at very irregular periods.

The easiest way to find out about sites to join is to get a list of such sites. If you do an online search you will find that there are "free" lists of such sites and sites where you must pay a onetime fee to get access to their database of survey sites to join.

I recommend you spend a little money and join a paid membership site for your list of survey websites. Why? Let's look a what free listings sites offer.

Now I have obviously not looked at every free listings site out there, but this is what I have found. The free sites, that I checked out, contained 6-12 actual survey sites you can join. The funny thing is that these same 6-12 survey companies appear in one free listing after another. These 6-12 survey companies are good ones and you will want to join them. But why do they appear over and over?

Some of these sites pay an affiliate fee to the list website publisher. There is nothing wrong with receiving an affiliate fee for recommending a product or service. I do this here. That is why those companies appear again and again. The real problem is the number of viable survey sites you will find on these free listings is so small. Another annoyance you will find with free listings is that they often contain pseudo survey sites, which are, in reality, pages of promotional opportunities that want you to spend money. These just waste your time.

To re-cap, free listing sites contain the same small number of survey companies coupled with useless (in my opinion) sites.

Paid or membership survey listings sites have many more survey sites for you to join. And that is important. The more survey companies you join, they more opportunities you have to make money. And the paid listing publishers spend time editing their lists, adding and subtracting companies as needed.

So what paid listing sites do I think you should check out? I have winnowed my recommendations down to three paid survey listing sites.

The first is my own membership site, Surverycash.com which contains over 120 survey sites you can join and costs $15.95. I have collected what I believe are the best survey companies open to US residents.

The second is SurveyScout which has over 400 survey sites in their database and contains companies that are open to residents in many other countries besides the United States. Plus they provide other services. They charge a one time fee of $34.95.

And the third is PaidSurveysOnline.com which has an even larger database (over 700) than the two other sites above. They charge $34.95 as well.

With many more choices provided, the paid membership lists are they way to go. A small investment can lead to a lifetime of earnings. These paid listing sites give you so many more opportunities to find survey companies that are looking for your particular characteristics. This means you will more likely to be accepted for a survey and make more money.

Note that each of these paid sites charge a onetime fee which allows you to access their updated databases anytime. And it takes very few surveys to recover your membership fee.