Gambling affiliates and casino portals : how they make their money There are also some programs that pay by the referral which is usually anywhere between $75 to $250 per "playing for real money" accounts. There are a few programs that are left around that still pay by the click, or per visitor sent to their website, but as you can imagine there was a lot of room for cheating to go on by both sending and receiving parties, and from my point of view, its a pay method better left to other niches than gambling. There are extenuating circumstances which I will elaborate on more thoroughly in a bit. First I'd like to explain a few of the downsides in terms of my "owning" the casinos. Because as you know, that is not the truth by any means when it comes to having control over the decisions made by the casinos. This makes for a fine line we affiliates walk, but one that is quite possible, profitable, and even helpful if not completely necessary for the online gambling niche to be successful. We are what keep the casinos honest. If there were not casino portals such as mine, there would be no place to publicize the wrongs committed against the players. And even if there was, there would be much less incentive for the casinos to stay honest because as you might already be aware, the message boards are full of sour grapes posted by players that played and lost, and now want to call the casinos a cheat,  and to trash their reputations regardless of whether there is founding for such allegations. Even the very best casinos would have enough players that had lost and were nothing more than sore losers,  posting against them to make many people afraid to play at the casinos. How on earth would you ever weed thru the mess to find credible information? It just would be too time-consuming to be worth the effort to most people that like to gamble. So you'd have two choices, you could go ahead and Back to page 77 / Next page