The hardest part of playing online bingo is finding a place to play. With over 100 websites devoted to playing bingo, some for free and some for money, it's hard to tell which bingo room best suits you. Finding good people to play is also important to increasing your bingo enjoyment.

That's why a bingo directory is a great place to start. There are two kinds of bingo directories that can benefit your online bingo experience. The first is a directory of places where you can play.

A good bingo directory will list all the possible bingo websites, give a summary of the possible ways to play and rate the websites. You start out trying to choose from 100 possible bingo websites. Through a bingo directory you can drastically lower that number to the bingo websites that fit what you're looking for in an online bingo game. The goal is to find three or four bingo rooms that you can try out, like Bingo House, Astro Bingo and Bingo Canada.

From there you can easily try out each bingo room and see which one you like. The most important thing is finding the right bingo directory. It sounds like a catch 22, but the number of websites devoted to rating bingo rooms is much lower than the number of bingo rooms. You're looking for a bingo directory that lists and gives a quick review. If the directory only has five bingo websites than chances are it's just a fluke to draw you to those five websites.

If the bingo directory is covered with popups advertising one particular bingo room than it's probably just more free advertising. What you want is a long list of places to play bingo. Not every directory is a scam to get people to one particular website.

The right bingo directory can be the key to your online bingo experience. The second kind of bingo directory is still up and coming. There are over a 100 websites out there, but do you now how many online bingo players there are? Thousands, even more, and if you're a social bingo player than you want to talk to these people, email them, ask them where they play, that's the best way to find a great bingo room. Imagine a directory, like an online bingo phone book, where you can contact other online bingo players. Not only can you meet people, but you can organize to join a particular bingo tournament en masse hoping to push the jackpot bingo up.

Online bingo is growing and there needs to be an easy way to keep track of the growth to benefit both the player and the websites already providing bingo games. Bingo directories are the key, as long as they can be controlled to the point of trustworthy.

Jeffrey Davis is a expert on Bingo and a marketing executive at Triumph Marketing, you can find more of Jeff's Bingo Articles and play bingo at http://www.bingohouse.com