Top Secret Tips to Succeed in Surveys

1. Be consistent with your profile information

Make sure your age, gender, location, income, and interests are always the same across all survey platforms.

If your answers change too often, the system flags you as unreliable.

2. Complete your profile 100%

The more details you provide, the more accurate your survey matches will be.

This helps you get invited to surveys you actually qualify for.

3. Answer honestly (but strategically)

Don’t try to guess what the survey wants.

Give real answers, but stay consistent. For example, if you said you don’t drink alcohol in your profile, don’t later say you buy beer weekly.

4. Avoid speeding through surveys

Many platforms track how long you take. If you go too fast, it looks like you’re not reading properly.

5. Watch out for trick questions

Some surveys include “attention checks” like “Please select ‘Strongly Agree’ for this question” — failing those can get you disqualified.

6. Don’t refresh or go back

Once you start, finish the survey in one sitting. Refreshing or going back can cause errors and automatic disqualification.

Some quick tips that can increase your completions and lower your disqualifications.

7. Taking surveys as soon as they are released or available.

For example, some sites send an email when you qualify for a survey. The moment that email is sent, there have been no respondents. Your particular demographic has not responded, and if the survey WANTS your demographic, you are almost guaranteed to be accepted at that time. If you wait and let other similarly demographical persons respond and take the survey, the quota for those people might be met and the survey doesn't want any more. This quick response will not get you accepted to every survey as the desired demographic may not include you but it should maximize the ones you qualify for.

8. Use sites that let users rate the individual survey experience.

Some sites let you rate your experience taking (or being disqualified) from each survey you attempt. I've found that these ratings can be very accurate! On these sites, I stick to the surveys that have the highest rating. If you see an almost five stars there, you can bet that almost everyone that attempted that survey got to completion and was satisfied with the time spent and reward amount. Watch these ratings and take the best rated surveys for more completions!

9. Be consistent in your answers to demographic questions. 

The survey creators do not know you personally. They only know you through the repetitive basic questions you get peppered with about your demographics. they ask these questions constantly for two reasons. First to get the right mix of respondents to make their survey results more reliable and 'scientific'. Secondly, to weed out people who are dishonest or answer questions randomly. These kind of survey takers offer no value to the creator. they are aggressively weeded out.