Complaints about poker affiliate program shenanigans are posted on poker affiliate forums constantly. But there’s an easy way to take away the affiliate programs’ ability to frustrate you. Dictate your own terms. Not a day goes by that I don’t receive an email from a poker affiliate program asking me to sign up. Once you have a poker site with any reasonable amount of traffic, yo...
[Continue Reading...]Over the course of the previous year, a lot of cool search queries have brought visitors to my poker SEO blog. Here are some answers to some poker webmaster questions that might not have been fully answered in some of my previous posts: How to Make a Poker Website Most of how to make a poker website depends on what kind of poker website you want to make. If you want to launch an online cardroom, I...
[Continue Reading...]A common question on gambling affiliate forums is, “What is a good conversion rate for gambling websites?” New affiliates, trying to gauge how much traffic they need to generate a target revenue every month, usually ask this. It’s a valid question, but it has no real answer. Factors That Affect Conversion Rates on Gambling Websites Your conversion rate depends on multiple facto...
[Continue Reading...]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, ...
[Continue Reading...]A post on another poker affiliate blog contends that “thinking outside of the box is idiotic advice“. The phrase IS trite, isn’t it? And the people who repeat that phrase like a mantra are the least likely to actually think outside of the box. But it’s far from the worst poker affiliate advice I’ve ever seen. The problem is that most poker webmasters don’t know...
[Continue Reading...]Here’s a random list of cliches along with some thoughts on how they apply to the poker SEO and poker link building life. There might be something useful hidden in here. But some of this is just pure observation. Good things come to those who wait. This isn’t true in poker SEO. When doing search engine optimization on a poker site, good things come to those who create great poker cont...
[Continue Reading...]I read a great post from Michael Martinez at his Best SEO Blog yesterday, and I thought I’d share it here. The post is called The Best Blog SEO Strategy. His mime metaphor is cute, but the real gold comes later in the post, and it’s literally the only SEO advice you really need: “The Best Blog SEO Strategy is to use the blog daily, work it, treat it like it’s the meaning of...
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