SurveyBods.

As the name suggests, SurveyBods is a site that focuses squarely on providing surveys and I'd say it's one of the middling sites for that, paying between 50 pence and £3 for a survey. The rewards for a survey can be decent but there aren't a lot of them, so don't expect to make a fortune from it.

It also occasionally offers the chance to join focus groups, which is a better-paying option. Again, you likely won't get offered the opportunity to join many but such offers do arise from time to time.

Overall, the site's extremely simple, so if you want a slow-burning survey site that does the job, without whistles and bells, it's worth a try.

If you want to sign up for SurveyBods, you can do so by clicking this link.

Payment method: Direct payment into your bank account, or Amazon vouchers. Minimum payout: £15. Time for payouts to be processed: Two to three weeks for payments into your bank. Five business days for Amazon vouchers. My earnings in the last week: £1.25. My rating: 6/10. JOIN SURVEYBODS.

Branded Surveys - the rebranded site.

Branded Surveys used to be called Mintvine but, for some reason, has now changed its name. Apart from that, nothing much has altered. As before, it pays you to do surveys and also, as a sideline, has what it calls, "Offers," which are alternative ways to make income from the site, such as downloading and using apps, signing up for promotional deals and watching videos.

The Offers are mostly not worth bothering with. In my experience, most of the apps don't download and the ones that do take far too much effort to earn you any reward. Also, not all of the promotional deals actually ever get round to crediting.

However, the Offers' Adwall section is useful, as it features EngageMe.tv and Smores.tv which reward you for watching videos. The rewards are small - just 1 cent for watching three shortish videos - however you can leave them running on your machine while you get on with other things and you can have them running all day and night, giving you a modest but passive daily income. I'll probably do a separate post about them at a later date, as they really are worth knowing about.

But the main business of Branded Surveys is, as you might have guessed, surveys. They aren't the highest paying survey site but they do have a lot - and I mean a lot - of surveys available. They also tell you in advance how long a survey will be and how much it'll pay, giving you the option to reject any that don't look worth the effort.

They also often give you a small amount of compensation if you start a survey and are then screened out of it. That compensation ranges from between 1 to 30 cents.

Overall, this is a site that's well worth trying if you're looking to do surveys and I'd put it in my top half of survey sites. If you want to sign up, you can do so by clicking on this referral link.

Payment method: Paypal & a whole bunch of gift card/vouchers, including Amazon, Debenhams, iTunes, Marks and Spencer, New Look, Pizza Express, Starbucks, Tesco and The Great British Pub. Minimum payout: $10. Time for payouts to be processed: Usually one week. My earnings in the last week: £4.26. My rating: 7/10. JOIN BRANDED SURVEYS.

Testable Minds. The other academic research site.

I've  already mentioned on this blog that my favourite, "Survey," site is Prolific which pays you to do studies on behalf of those engaged in academic research.

Well, now it has a rival in the form of Testable Minds, which offers exactly the same sort of studies as Prolific does. It's not as well established as Prolific but, like that site, it has interesting and relatively well-rewarded studies available.

The main problem at the moment is that, being new, it doesn't have anything like as many studies to offer as Prolific does and its software isn't as slick.

However, it's definitely one to watch and, if you like Prolific, I'd definitely recommend it. You can sign up to Testable Minds by clicking on this link.

Payment method: Paypal. Minimum payout: $30. Time for payment to be processed: Unknown. My earnings last week: $1.30. My rating: 8/10. JOIN TESTABLE MINDS.