How does earning money from searching the internet sound? Well, it won’t earn you much, but it’s certainly very easy to do. Let’s see how Serpclix works and how much you can really expect to take home each month.
SerpClix summary
Pros and cons:
✅ Takes little effort to earn
✅ Automatic payment by PayPal every month
✅ A decent referral scheme
❌ Most people won’t earn more than $10 per month
❌ Only available for Microsoft Edge
❌ It does ask you to search for some strange things
Serpclix
SerpClix
Some of you may have already read my post about being paid from searching the web. In general, you can’t really expect to earn much. Swagbucks pays around six bucks for a search. That’s worth under 1 penny and you’ll probably need at least 20 searches to earn anything. Qmee is slightly better, paying around 9 pence for two searches every few days. However, these are primarily survey sites so I can forgive them.
SerpClix is a site dedicated to paying you just for searching the web. But it’s not for any old searches…
What is SerpClix?
SerpClix is a click-through service designed to help websites improve their search engine rankings (SEO) by driving real human traffic to specific search results. It operates through a network of workers who are instructed to search for specific keywords, find the client’s website in the search results, and click on it.
How does it work?
First, you will need to download the SerpClix extension to your browser – and you can only do this for Microsoft Edge. Once done, the extension will tell you when jobs are available. Jobs are simply words you will need to search Google for. I say Google, but occasionally there are searches available on Bing, DuckDuckGo and YouTube.
When a job appears, just click on it and you’ll be taken to the search engine directly. The word you need to search for is automatically copied, so you just need to paste it. Then, you need to scroll through the results and find the website highlighted in red. Select it, visit the page for a certain time (usually 1-2 minutes) and earn money. Simple.
If you click on an international link, you’ll be paid $0.05. For UK links, you’ll earn $0.10.
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Why do they pay?
It’s manipulating something called Search Engine Optimisation (aka SEO). SEO is the method that search engines use to tell how helpful a site is and how high to rank it when people search for a certain term.
So, if you search for a word, click on a website and read it for a couple of minutes, Google will think it’s a good site and rank it higher. And because Google is the most used search engine, companies are willing to pay big bucks so they can appear at the top of their list.
This probably explains why the extension isn’t available on the Google browser. Google would know instantly which terms are being manipulated and punish the companies accordingly. Instead of going to the top of the rankings, they would sink out of trace.
Is SerpClix safe?
Generally, the main risk of using SerpClix is to the companies paying them. As a SerpClix user, there’s little Google would do to you just for you clicking on links.
However, the 1st ever link I clicked on (below), my anti-virus programme threw up a warning and told me not to continue.
That was quite a worry, but fortunately, I have up-to-date virus protection. And since then, I have clicked on 100’s of links without an issue. You need to make sure that you have anti-virus software on your computer. It could be a very cheap way for a company to get you to click on dodgy links.
As always, with anything that involves installing an extension on your machine, I can’t guarantee what SerpClix does with all your information. But with that said, can you trust anybody after the Facebook leaks over the last couple of years?
However, I have been a SerpClix clicker for over two years and never had an issue.
The good
This is a simple way to make a bit of extra money. If you spend a lot of free time on your computer, it will take you just a few seconds to check and search for words.
The bad
Some of the jobs need you to do a map search. This is a little hit-and-miss on whether they show up on your results.
Some of the words you can never find. I have trawled through 30+ pages before and have not found the search term. That can be very frustrating and I don’t want to spend five minutes in return for $0.05.
Sometimes, you will need to click on the ‘include omitted results’ after you’ve cycled through all the pages.
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Be warned…
A message was flagged on accounts recently that you were not to share any of the data you searched for publicly. On one of the forums I visit, people had been posting the various terms they had searched for and Serpclix gave people a couple of weeks to remove the information.
Not everybody did, and these users were banned from Sepclix. It’s important that you note some of the conditions attached to using this site.
- If you click on any ads, you will be banned.
- If you publicly share or post on any message board or anywhere on the internet any information from any of the orders you receive, including keywords text, urls or screenshots, you will be banned.
- If you or your household use more than one account, you will be banned.
- If you use a proxy or a vpn or in any way attempt to spoof our system you will be banned.
- If you are banned you will immediately lose all access to serpclix and you will not receive any credit or payment for any clicks you’ve already done
How much can you earn with SerpClix?
This isn’t easy to quantify. You can see ten jobs in the space of a few minutes and then see nothing for a day. Plus, some jobs are quick to complete, whilst others take more time as you have to trawl through Google.
As you can see from below, my earnings change quite a bit month to month.
Your earnings are paid into your PayPal account during the 1st week of the month as long as you have over $5.
Questionable clicks
After using the site for some time, I was surprised to find quite a few searches for people’s names leading to different pages. Many of these were just profiles, so I was unsure why anybody would want to do that… until I did some digging. These people were linked to some quite unsavoury acts, including sexual assault. So it looks like these individuals are trying to push the stories of their crimes further down the results in search engines.
I will leave it up to you to decide whether you feel comfortable clicking these links.
What other people say
When writing my reviews, I always look online to see what other people think. On Trustpilot, the site scores an ‘excellent’ score from a decent number of reviews. Most reviewers are pleased with how easy it is to use.
My SerpClix review conclusion
Another site that won’t make you rich. But, if you spend a lot of time at home on your computer, it might be worth having this run in the background and checking it when you can. I would be shocked if many people would earn more than $10 per month.
Still, $10 per month is $120 per year, which isn’t bad for clicking some buttons.
Is there a SerpClix alternative?
Another site worth checking out is ClicksPaid. This works in almost exactly the same way as SerpClix, paying between $0.05 and $0.10 per click. Payment can be claimed through Bitcoin or PayPal. Again, it’s only available on the Firefox browser.
And there are other sites that will pay you for searching the web, although they don’t generally pay quite so well. Take a look at other sites that pay you whilst you search.
Alternatively, if my SerpClix review hasn’t convinced you, why not look at other ways to make money on the side?
Is SerpClix compatible with Firefox?
No, support for the Firefox browser was withdrawn in the summer of 2024.
David
Sunday 2nd of February 2025
I've been using Serpclix since June 2021, and I've earned a total of $628. Here are a few tips: 1) If your search isn't in the first ten pages, go to search tools and select verbatim. 2) If not in verbatim, check images. 3) If not in either of these, and the search term has a location in it (i.e. *****, Croyden), and it hasn't opened in maps, then check maps. 4) If all else fails, search by time (Last year, last month, last week. etc) 5) If you can't find it at first, don't clear the serpclix job. Give it 10-30 minutes, checking it regularly, and sometimes it will appear. You can refresh it during this time, but if you still can't find the search, then clear it. It will usually surface again at some point. It's also worth manually refreshing the order list page regularly anyway, as this often brings searches up. 6) For me, the vast majority of Bing searches are hard to find. Some of those that show up, my browser prevents me from accessing the site due to it being suspicious. I don't recall any of the Google searches ever doing this, just the Bing ones. I hope this helps! Regards, David
Pete Chatfield
Tuesday 4th of February 2025
Thanks David. Useful to know!