Every day thousands of people shop at Amazon using gift certificates.

A large number of these are given out FREE as prizes or payments.

So how do you get free amazon gift certificates?

There are two ways to get Amazon vouchers - win them or earn them. Obviously winning them requires a little bit of luck. Earning them on the other hand requires a little bit of effort. Either way can reap far more income than any outlay you may make.

You won't get rich with the following (but then most get rich schemes don't work) but you will be able to easily earn a bit of extra money for Christmas, or a bit of pocket money for a hard up student.

For me, Christmas 2008 was sponsored by Amazon :-) I managed to do ALL my Christmas and birthday shopping online using gift certificates earnt during the previous year. No huge credit card bills for me in January. 2009 looks just as good!

Start planning now and you too could have a FREE Christmas in 2009 and never nead to pay for a present ever again! Read on...

This is the easiest way to get Amazon Gift Certificates. It costs nothing, mostly just involving searching the net. Below are details on my favourite ways of making the Internet pay. :-)

With Lucky Search you can win points for searching the Internet which you can then spend from their rewards catalog - you 'buy' all manner of gifts, including Amazon Vouchers. The beauty of this one is that not only do you win when your friends win, but when your friends' friends and friends' friends' friends win too! Get some referals going and the whole thing can snowball raking in plenty of points. Very reliable website. Been using them for ages with no problems.

iRazoo US based version of Lucky Search. Looks very promising. A nice rewards catalog that includes Amazon.com vouchers, along with points referring and reviewing websites. They recently changed their business model so you don't actually get points for just searching.

** It seems that Wabbadabba are not giving out any prizes at the moment **. You can still sign up, but I won't guarantee you have a chance of wiing prizes. If I hear different I will update the info here.

I would recommend anyone thinking of joining Wabbadabba to email them and ask them exactly why they are no longer giving prizes (despite their t&c saying this is done daily), yet they are still accepting sign ups.

An American variant on the search and win theme. Swag Bucks offers a multitude of prizes from their reward store. Most of which are only really relevent to residents of the USA and Canada. They do however give out Amazon.com vouchers. You can order a huge range of books, CDs and DVDs even if you live in the UK and so long as you have a gift certificate balance big enough to cover your order you don't even need to register a card, which is useful as they only accept credit cards, and not debit cards, otherwise. Works a treat. Already had books from Amazon.com and a DVD boxset is on the way at the moment.

Was a pretty good site, but not so sure now. My account was recently deacivated for no reason and they don't seem to reply to emails. Maybe sending traffic to them is not what their 'referal' system is meant for. Search the web for 'deactivated swagbucks account' and you will see there are a lot of very unhappy ex-members.

By all means sign up via my link, but don't forget to email them and ask why your referrer is deactivated and can you have double swagbucks instead ;-)

Of course, if Swagbucks answer my emails and reactivate my account, I'll be back to giving them praise on this site instead of warning potential customers to beware.

Another US Search and Win site. Gives out lots of $5 Amazon.com vouchers, so essentially a US version of Wabbadabba.

A cross between Wabbadabba and Swagbucks. Only recently discovered Big Devil and it seems to be dish out $5 Amazon.com vouchers for searching the internet.

Now going to a charity model, which sounds great, but considering their reliablility in paying out you have to wonder whether any charities will receive any money. Best avoided.

Also if you're feeling lucky you could try Winzy. Here you win points through searching and playing games. All these points are then entered in to a sweepstake at the end of the month. Not won anything yet with this, but I've got my fingers crossed.

Kudos Network is a slightly different approach to winning prizes. Basically you need to complete one of their listed offers, sign up friends to do the same, and once you've reached a specified number you can claim a prize (including our good ol' Amazon vouchers). The good news is that some of the eligible sign up offers are free trials, so it needn't cost a penny! If you have a lot of friends you could earn up to £500 in Amazon vouchers! If you're not so adventurous, you can bag a Nintendo DS for only 5 referrals or Nintendo Wii for 8 - an easy target amongst friends and family. As a fabulous added incentive, sign up with Kudos Network and you will get a bonus FREE £5 Amazon Voucher or £5 PayPal from amazonvouchers.co.uk as soon as your offer completion is confirmed!

Recently found out you can cash your 'greens' out to a bank account. Works a treat and only took a couple of days to receive a payment from Kudos in my bank account. Can't recommend this website enough!

Want a little less chance to your income? There are many companies giving free Amazon vouchers just for placing adverts on your website. And we're not talking high-profile, high-traffic sites either. Normal websites that you I or can create. Advertising is what makes the Internet go round, and many companies have cottoned on to the idea that thousands of low cost adverts spread over thousands of sites is better than one expensive advert on a high profile site.

A low traffic website can return £60 in Amazon vouchers. Two sites - £120 Amazon vouchers. It soon adds up! You can even supplement this with advertisers that pay directly to your bank account. A low traffic low cost site can easily return £60 in amazon vouchers PLUS up to £180 in cash. Oh, and did I mention most of these advertisers pay a signing up bonus and referal bonuses as well?

All you need is a website. If you don't have one then just Google, or better still Wabbaddaba 'Free website builder' or 'website design tutorials' and you will find lots of software and tutorials to help you.

If you have a site, or are in the process of designing one, then you are also going to need a domain name - that's the www.whatever.co.uk address. I wholeheartily recommend 123-reg.co.uk for buying domain names. I use them for all my sites. You'll will also need webspace. You may get some with your ISP, but it's worth considering a Reseller hosting account. This will allow you to host an unlimited number of websites, yet pay for only one lot of webspace. This is great if you want to put together as many sites as possible to bring in maximum revenue. Recommendation here goes to 247-Host. They're not the best out there, but they are very, very cheap - starting from as little as £2 per month. Trust me that is cheap for unlimted domain hosting!

If you're a bit confused by the whole hosting and domain name stuff then email me at webhelp@amazonvouchers.co.uk and I'll happily answer any questions.

Once you have a site on the Internet you can start applying for advertising:

Money 4 Banners will pay £5 per month in Amazon vouchers for displaying 3 adverts on your site. Plus they offer a £10 signup bonus. Once you're approved you will be pulling in £5 each and every month. Been with this company for a copule of years now and although the payment dates fluctuate a little, they are very reliable.

Same deal as Money 4 Banners and Better Than Banners. They all seem to use the same database, so if you get approved by one you will not get approved by another on the same site. Oddly enough sites that are rejected by one are often accepted by one of the others, so it's worth working through all three.

Same deal as Money 4 Banners and The Ad Network. They all seem to use the same database, so if you get approved by one you will not get approved by another on the same site. Oddly enough sites that are rejected by one are often accepted by one of the others, so it's worth working through all three.

Search for your domain name

Contact

A Five Minute Website Production © 2007-2009

In association with Wickedlemon

This site has no connection with Amazon or Amazon.co.uk