Be A Bingo Affiliate With No Web Experience - Beginner's Guide!

[Dio]

I thought it would be fun to put together a few guides for the Playing Bingo members - to show how easily you could make a couple of pounds as a webmaster Bingo affiliate. Best of all, it'll cost you nothing but time. You don't even need experience of making websites.

If you can post here, you can pretty much do this, seriously. About the only skill you need is to write a diary. If you're up for it, here we go - and of course, if you do try it and want help, that's what the forum's here for.

Basic Instructions - I'll go into other issues again.

1: Get yourself a blog. You can go to www.blogger.com and sign up for one straight away. It's free and easy. Think of a catchy name - the blog you'll be keeping will have a Bingo theme so it'll help if you can get the word Bingo in the title!

2: Select your template, fill in the details, set up your blogger account and you're away. You now have a website. Next thing you need to do is start writing.

3: As you're looking to affiliate and earn money from Bingo, it's good to keep the theme mainly Bingo orientated. You could maybe write a couple of paragraphs every couple of days. Your thoughts on the game, an experience you had that night at the Bingo hall, etc.

Really, it's your blog, and you set the tone and theme - it doesn't have to be just Bingo - you're welcome to post about personal things as well.

4: After a few weeks you will have some entries in your blog and a bit of content. You're now ready to start affiliating. Why not affiliate the online Bingo you play at now? On the homepage, look around the page for an affiliate or webmasters link.

5. If there's no affiliate or webmasters link, take a look at places like Buy.at or Tradedoubler.com - there are Bingo schemes there you can sign up for.

6: Sign up, and you'll have to give your website's URL - this information is available in the blogger site if you're not sure. It'll be something like http://name-of-your-bingo-blog.blogspot.com

7: Once you've been approved, you can start adding your own affiliate links to your blog. This get's a bit complicated depending on how you do it and we'll go into at more detail in another thread - you may need to edit the template.

Failing that, you can usually add the code to your blog posts. The links work best when you build them into content - like "I was playing Bingo at [Your Link] and I had a great win."

8. Anyone who clicks on the link on your site and signs up and becomes a Bingo player will earn you affiliate payments. How much you earn depends on how much work you want to put into pushing your blog - you may just earn enough money to have a free Bingo game, or who knows, if you manage to sign up enough players, the skies the limit.

That's a very simplistic and easy first step into the realm of affiliate marketing. Most people don't realise they could very quickly jump into this world. Starting up a blog is a great first step that anyone can take for free.

In future articles I'll mention stuff like hosting your own sites, promoting them, gaining traffic for your sites, making it show up in search engines, etc. For now though, that might get you thinking...

If you start you're own blog (or other sort of site) then share a link here with us all, and we'll all see what we can do

[ShazzaB]

That sounds easy! Can I put some on my blog already? I'm going to find out!

[Chris]

Thank you for posting this information Dio. I am not happy with the affiliate programs I'm using now on my blog and I think a bingo affiliate is a fantastic idea. I'm most definitely going to look into this. Thanks for the information!

[traceh]

That still sounds to complicated for little old me - any chance you could train us up?

[tater03]

I always wondered how you did it. It doesn't sound all that hard to me. But I am not really sure I could write about just bingo?

[Dio]

I always wondered how you did it. It doesn't sound all that hard to me. But I am not really sure I could write about just bingo?

To be honest, it applies to anything, not just bingo. There's no reason why you couldn't earn money writing about movies in on DVD, knitting or anything - their are affiliate schemes available for all sorts of things. If the subject is one you love, it's easy to keep writing.

[Mickie31]

That sounds so good. I love playing bingo so this would be ideal for me. I love anything to do with writing and if it was about bingo that would be even better. I think I will do this, but I am in the middle of setting up my website at the moment so I don't have time, but once that is self mannaging I could even have the blog on my own website. My website is covering many topics so I am sure I can dedicate a page to playing bingo. Thanks for this cool idea.

[Green-Moo]

That is indeed an excellent 'how to' guide Dio. I hadn't actually realised how easy it was either.

I've always been put off writing a blog as I'm not sure I'd be able to come up with enough interesting stuff to keep people returning. So many blogs that you read are so obviously just in it for the affiliate links, and the writers really don't have anything to say.

[Mickie31]

Thanks for this great information.

[noaamirav]

The guide is really nice, but it doesn't tuch one of the most important aspects in affiliate marketing - getting the traffic!
To build a good blog in blogger with good content is just not enough to get people to read your blog, you need to do some SEO job to get it high in ranking... Maybe write a guide about this important aspect?