Poker SEO Blog

The most common way for poker webmasters to find targets for their linkbuilding strategy is to research who’s linking to your competitors. Here’s why I think that strategy sucks: Even if you succeed in getting the same backlinks that your competitor has, you’re always trying to play catch-up. Which site is going to rank higher, assuming that you have the same backlink profile as ...

Some poker webmasters think that regular link exchanges don’t work anymore. (Lots of them think that 3 way link exchanges are somehow “better”, but I’ve written about debunking the reciprocal links are bad myth before.) Assuming that you’re one of the enlightened poker webmasters who understand that link exchanges work fine when used correctly, how do you find good li...

Written by Dealer Dan Disheartened by the lack of regular content on here lately, I decided to write a new article for Randy’s awesome Poker SEO Blog to hopefully inspire him to get back into writing again.  I’m sure Randy knows full well that from a writer’s point of view, when you stop updating a website it can be hard to start updating it again.  I’ve been in that situ...

I’m seeing more and more people getting translations made of their poker sites, page by page. Living in the USA, the obvious first choice for translations for me is Spanish. I live in Texas, so finding people who are fluent enough in Spanish to translate my poker pages is relatively easy. One of my best friends is from Peru, so he can doublecheck any translations I buy to make sure they̵...

[caption id="attachment_293" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Poker Webmaster Goals for 2010"][/caption] “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is were they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” –Henry David Thoreau 1. Write a poker article every day. A personal poker article a day challenge is the best thing you can do for your...

Knowing where and how to buy Spanish poker articles is one of my poker webmaster skills that has served me well. It’s not that I speak Spanish, and I don’t read it or write it either. But I live in Texas, where we have a large Spanish-speaking population. So finding someone who can write about poker in Spanish might be a little easier for me than it is for other people. I’ll tack...

“How to SEO new poker sites.” Hmm. I wonder what I was drinking when I came up with this idea for a post? (Did you know that I plan these poker SEO posts way in advance? I have a list of my next 100 post topics already made out. Sometimes I’m in the mood to write, and sometimes I’m in the mood to generate ideas.) So much hype about old domains and old sites has been spouted...

Permanent high PR poker links are rare enough, even if you don’t get into philosophical questions like, “Is anything really permanent?” In this post, I’m going to look at the subject from both a philosophical and a practical perspective. I’ll also try to keep the observation content of this article high while keeping the advice content low. (I give too much advice any...

Where to get 554,597 poker content ideas instantly? That one’s easy, actually. Visit a popular poker forum with that many threads. (I used an actual count from a popular poker forum when I came up with that number.) Every single discussion on that forum is a potential article for you. And if people are discussing those subjects in a forum thread, then it makes sense that they’re going ...

Summary: Jakob Nielsen is the Internet’s leading authority on website usability. Usability can double the amount of money that a website earns. This post looks at specific takeaways from Nielsen’s usability site which can improve a poker site’s usability and profits, including prominent search functionality, conducting user testing, following standard website design conventions, ...