Since the heady early days of online bingo in the early
2000's we have seen a plethora of online bingo sites launch, mainly (especially
since the US gambling ban) targeting the UK. With these sites now numbering in
the hundreds, with some lavishing millions on television advertising it is
indeed fairly difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff, so how best to go
about doing this?
As with many things nowadays the first port of call for many
is an internet search engine, and for the vast majority this means Google.
Usually this means using a generic search term like "bingo" or even a
brand name of one of the larger sites.
However, unsurprisingly for these sorts of terms, Google is
dominated for these sorts of terms by firstly the large online bingo companies,
or secondly by bingo portals which can afford to "optimize" their
sites thanks to large sums of advertising they are receiving from the best bingo sites, and this may not represent your best option.
Whilst some of these portals may have some good content, for
example up to date information about promotions and prizes, and various other
comparison style features, they cannot help but be swayed by the sites which
are paying to be featured, especially when the sums of money involved can be
many tens of thousands of pounds a month. Official "awards" should
also be treated with a degree of suspicion, after all the bigger bingo sites,
inevitably, are better able to promote themselves in any voting scenario.
Real choice however can be found by usinbingo player reviews are posted. Social bookmarking
sites such as stumble upon, and Digg, can also be a good source of site which
people feel moved to recommend to other web users.
g longer, and
slightly more esoteric search terms, and perhaps also by hunting out the
sites/forums where real
In this era of Facebook, and Wikipedia, trusting your peers
is definitely the way to go in bingo and they are a few sites which are
starting to latch onto this trend, and user generated reviews and content is
definitely an area which is set to grow and grow in the online bingo world.
