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Poker Website Reviews Are Now Available

Randy Ray — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:34:08 +0000

Poker website reviews seem to be an in-demand product offering. By that, I mean that I’ve had multiple inquiries about what services I offer, and I’ve decided to start offering poker website reviews as a service. (And honestly, I’m not going to limit myself to just reviewing poker websites, either. I’m qualified and willing to review casino websites, gambling websites, or a...

Monetizing a Poker Blog

Randy Ray — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:14:01 +0000

I’ve got some ideas about monetizing a poker blog that I’d like to share. Some of them I’ve done myself in the past, and some of them I might try to do in the future. But this post is mostly aimed at real poker bloggers–the ones who write about poker because they love it, NOT because they’re trying to make a buck. I’ve noticed that some poker blogs are not mone...

Simple PHP Site Map Generator

Guest — Sat, 28 May 2011 23:38:04 +0000

Download sitemap.php.zip You can see a demo of this PHP script in action on the sitemap of ThePokerBank.com. What is it? This PHP script will generate a basic PHP sitemap for your website. It runs through all the folders on your website and returns a hierarchal, unordered HTML list of links with headings (optional) for the pages on your site. Why it’s handy. Pages will automatically be added ...

How to Be a Better Searcher

Randy Ray — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 03:25:57 +0000

Sometimes we get so caught up in obtaining links and optimizing title tags that we forget that being a better searcher can also make us better SEO’s. (I know poker webmasters who have demonstrated some amazing lack of skills in terms of being able to fully take advantage of Google’s search capabilities.) Here are some things that you can and should know how to do with the Google search...

Poker Webmaster Questions, Answers, and How To’s

Randy Ray — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 02:33:22 +0000

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...

How to Comment on Poker Blog Posts

Randy Ray — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 02:02:04 +0000

How to Comment on Poker Blog Posts (and Why) If you’ve read any of the content on this site, you’ll understand instantly that I’m not going to write a long, detailed blog post about how to spam blog comments across the poker blogosphere in the hopes of getting better search engine rankings for the phrase “online poker.” But legitimate reasons for commenting on poker b...

Poker Search Channels

Randy Ray — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:41:31 +0000

Optimizing for a single search channel is foolish in today’s search environment. Google isn’t one search engine; it’s multiple search engines. Neither are Yahoo or Bing; they’re multiple search engines too. All large, modern search engines offer multiple search engines. Think of these multiple search engines as channels. Ranking on the main page of a Google poker related se...

Poker SEO Cliches and Poker Link Building Cliches

Randy Ray — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:49:35 +0000

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...

Online Poker SEO for Online Poker Websites

Randy Ray — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:12:01 +0000

“Online poker” SEO isn’t for the faint of heart. Besides the phrase “poker”, “online poker” is one of the most competitive, high-volume keyword phrases that someone doing SEO for online poker websites could try to rank for. At the same time, the rumors that it’s impossible to rank for high-volume, competitive phrases like “poker” and R...

Poker Blog and Poker Microblog Optimization

Randy Ray — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:10:06 +0000

The title of this post (“Poker Blog and Poker Microblog Optimization“) might make one think that you’re about to learn how to optimize your poker blog for the search engines. But this post is actually the second in a series of posts I’m writing about social media optimization for poker websites. If you’ve read that post already, then you know that the goal of social ...