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 ...
[Continue Reading...]Thanks to Brandon for this guest post. Keeping Things in Perspective as a Poker Affiliate There is little doubt that affiliate marketing can be a healthy part of a poker site’s advertising efforts. With that being said poker affiliates need to keep in mind that an affiliate program is just that – part of the bigger advertising picture for a poker room. An affiliate program isn’...
[Continue Reading...]I’ve decided to offer one way gambling linkbuilding services. This service is a new one, like my premium poker content services. (By the way, I still have room for some more content clients, but not much. The response to my post yesterday was good.) What does my one way gambling linkbuilding service include? What does it cost? I’ll build 30 one way links a month, at a price of $599, ...
[Continue Reading...]I’ve decided to offer premium poker content on a limited basis. This is a reaction to recent Google updates aimed at content farms. (The Panda updates.) Many poker webmasters are using the same poker writers and writing companies. They wind up publishing the same poker content on their sites that everyone else offers. As Google continues to separate the high quality content from low quality ...
[Continue Reading...]It’s no secret that I read Michael Martinez’s blogs with interest, and his post titled “What Is a Content Farm?” inspired this post from me. His points about the lack of a formal definition are valid, but I want to add some practical advice for the poker webmaster. From a practical standpoint, I don’t need to understand what anyone thinks a “content farm” ...
[Continue Reading...]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...
[Continue Reading...]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...]No one talks about sculpting PageRank anymore, and that’s good, because it was never a good strategy. But here’s one way to sculpt PageRank that actually works. But calling it “sculpting” is a mis-nomer, because what you’re really doing is redirecting PageRank. You should regularly audit your Analytics information to see which pages receive the most traffic and which ...
[Continue Reading...]Most poker webmasters outsource the content generation on their sites, and that’s not always a bad thing. But my suggestion is that a poker website should have a personality behind it. And that personality should belong to the poker website owner. If you can’t be bothered to write an occasional post on your own site, then how important could the content on your site possibly be to you?...
[Continue Reading...]One big mistake I see new poker webmasters make all the time is buying some template for a site from a forum member somewhere. This is the last thing a new poker webmaster should do. If you don’t know how to design your own poker website, how are you going to know whether or not the guy you bought the template from has done a good job or not? Most webmasters in this business are way too conc...
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