His only big concern was how he said all of the sites are geared towards woman with their pink colour schemes and images of smiling women. He wanted a site where he could feel comfortable playing as a man and not feel like he was in a woman’s shoe shop. I told him he was being silly but he went out and found a site for exactly what he wanted: a site called Bloke Bingo.

Now it’s not what you’re thinking. This site is bingo without the feminine design and it is not the other sort of bloke’s website, I assure you. It’s a site that is more macho and its prizes include games consoles etc.

Now I just wish my husband would stop hogging the computer and let me get back on my favourite bingo sites!

To be fair, I won’t go naming names but you can probably guess who they are. There have been loads of sites churning out over the last 12 months that offer the same layout and format and the only thing they’ve changed is the site logo and the background colour of the pages.

Because of the sign up offers and often the free BBs that new sites offer to new players, people will continue to sign up and play. But once you realise you are playing the same games with the same style, you’ll eventually take yourself back to the sites you like and enjoy the most.

If only these bingo site owners would take a step back and have a proper look at their sites and software. It can’t be too hard to take an existing design and make it look… special. Or not even special – just different would be nice.

If you’ve come across any great new sites recently let me know. In the mean time I’m off to hunt out some for myself.

The new reviews directory on Free Bingo allows players to read about both new and old bingo sites, as well as have the opportunity to leave their own opinion in the player review section. This will help other fans as it provides an unbiased opinion on the best place to play.

Each site which is reviewed by Free Bingo is listed with clear informational icons to help players quickly find the most appropriate site for them. Things such as deposit bonuses that are available at each site are mentioned, and some of the reviews in the directory are even accompanied by a video guide hosted on YouTube.

A specific page has been set up that is exclusively for new bingo sites (ones which have launched in the last few months), as it had been recognised that many bingo players exclusively like to play at new sites.

In addition to a the directory, FreeBingo.co.uk have also revamped their prizes page and the “blog”. This is all part of wider improvements to the site which will shortly see a new software launched. The prizes page reduces the amount of the yellow background colour, which some players had complained about, and replaced it with a more easy-on-the-eyes black text on white background.

CM is the popular term, but these individuals may be known as chat hosts, chat moderators or chat monitors depending on what site you visit. Some sites don’t have any CMs at all but they are few and far between.

Most CMs work remotely from home, although some sites such as Tombola insist that all their CMs work in-house at their offices. Because of the ability to work from home, getting a CM job is often seen as a brilliant solution to stay at home mums looking for some extra cash. However, many fail to realise how difficult and time consuming CM work can be, and how fierce the competition for the few jobs available is also.

WhichCM is widely recognised as the place to get CM jobs. They have a jobs board where sites can post vacancies and applicants can apply directly from the site. However, there are usually only a handful of jobs at any one time and hundreds of applicants all fighting for the same post.

As a result, bingo sites are in a commanding position when it comes to negotiating wages, especially when they know they can drop a CM at any moment and have hundreds of willing wannabe CMs waiting to fill that position. Don’t go into it expecting to earn big bucks.

Also, if you are working from home you may be considered as working freelance and as a result be responsible for declaring your earnings to the taxman. If you do not, you could be in for trouble, so be sure you know what you are signing up to if and when you get offered a CM job.

As we approach the end of October, the bingo sites will be no doubt going out in full force with a variety of spookily named promotions and deposit bonuses, but when you get into the games nothing much appears different. It would be refreshing if a bingo site took that tiniest bit more of an effort to put some bats and pumpkins on the site, and heaven forbid maybe even a Hallowen design in the actual bingo game itself.

BingoBingo are the first site to publish details of their Halloween Offer for 2011, which they have deemed the Frankenstein’s Monster £5,000 Challenge.

All you need to do is win bingo on the lightning and frankenstein patterns, to earn a badge and entry into the Frankenstein Tournament being played on Thursday 27th October for the big prize.

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With such a big free money offer, why not take a look and see what lies beneath the skin of Rogers Bingo.

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We feel that this level of success could be hard to sustain as boredom with the same online bingo platform that comes with repetition could adversely affect potential new sign ups, and more importantly bingo player retention, once it is realised that they will be seeing more of the same bingo games again.

All the new bingo sites have quite good opening offers which makes people dip a toe in at a new site, but again all this will mean ultimately is that the focus will have to move back to customer retention policy to fight off this new threat to ongoing business.

Before you make your deposit and fund the account, make sure you evaluate the payment page properly. A padlock icon should appear at the bottom of your browser. If you use Mozilla Firefox, you will also find a green bar next to the address bar revealing the site’s SSL certificate registration name. The site address should also begin with “https” instead of the usual “http”.

Even with all these signs in place, don’t make the initial deposit just yet. Double-click on the padlock icon in order to confirm the site’s security certificate. If the certificate is still valid and is created for that particular domain name, you will see a window displaying the bingo site’s credentials right away. If not, your browser will issue a warning that the security certificate may no longer be valid.

You can also check with your credit card issuer regarding possible internet fraud protection. Most credit card issuers nowadays offer internet fraud protection to further protect credit card holders, which means you can easily file a claim and have invalid transactions reversed should your credit card is misused in the future.

After carrying out extensive player research to discover just what their players want from their bingo site and looking closely at the site design and user-friendliness, the brand new www.meccabingo.com layout has been designed with the key goal of making Meccabingo.com the bingo fans visit first.

The bold & colourful new site gives lots of new and simple to use areas, such as the up to date bingo schedule that pops up players’ favourite bingo games, whether it be speed bingo, straight from the homepage at the press of a button.

Gaming Director, Angus Nisbet, spoke:

“With 103 Mecca Bingo Clubs across the UK and a large online following, we have a huge customer base who wants the same experience whether they’re playing in one of our Clubs or online. This is why it has been important for us to bring the site design in line with our Clubs and provide consistency and a bingo experience that they are familiar with.”

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