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Thank you to Adam Grunwerg for this guest post! With user-experience and engagement becoming increasingly important for SEO in 2012, one of the best things I like to look at when studying the QUALITY of my websites is the bounce rate. Let me just explain quickly here: the bounce rate is the percentage of single-page [...]

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My Latest

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

It’s been a long, frustrating 15 months since I last posted here. Over the past year I have: Put a lot of money into four major non-gaming domains/websites, none of which have yet reached page one for their targeted keywords. Sold my only USA-facing poker site, which had struggled in Google for over a year, [...]

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Working Outside of the Poker Industry?

Monday, September 19th, 2011

Thanks to Jonathan of MotocrossGear.com for this guest post. Many of us got our start in internet marketing in the poker industry. The high commissions and seemingly endless opportunities to make money made it an easy choice for me. But after years of hard work making a ton of crappy websites, a few good ones, [...]

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The below is a post by Nick Haslem, a longtime gambling affiliate and webmaster of AustralianGambling.com.au and IntenseGambling.com. When thinking of something to write here for Mike’s blog I thought to myself “what are some of the things he does that make him successful” and instantly I have something to share with you. It’s getting [...]

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Creating a Working Environment

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

The following is a guest post from Kevin, who runs this MLB Picks blog amongst other affiliate portals.  He blogs at DropoutGotRich.com if you’re interested in following him. If you’re anything like me, you like to get any advantage you can when working for yourself. I have found that setting yourself up with a solid working environment [...]

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Sustainable Income – The Holy Grail

Monday, December 13th, 2010

The following is an excellent guest post by “doovde” from the PAL forums, who runs a great bingo reviews website. His ideas on creating sustainable income and not worrying so much about short term profits reflect the exact moves I am making in my business at this moment. Business isn’t just all about how much [...]

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Write Whatever You Want

Monday, October 25th, 2010

The following is a guest post from my friend Greg Walker, an experienced poker affiliate. Feel free to check out his Real Money Games site to see an example of a well-structured affiliate site. How interesting is the content you write? Is it engaging and entertaining? Or is it reserved and constrained by imaginary Internet [...]

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Email Marketing for Poker Affiliates

Sunday, October 24th, 2010

This article was provided by Kevin of DownloadablePoker.org. Are you capturing your visitor’s e-mails?  E-mail capture and newsletters may be one of the most overlooked marketing methods in the gambling affiliate industry.  Although I have seen lots of gaming affiliates begin capturing e-mails, the majority still don’t.  With the search engines acting strange lately you [...]

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What Domains to Purchase

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

The article below is a guest post from a well-known affiliate manager who chose to remain anonymous… Domains… so much you can do with domains, and which you can learn so much of by just being and affiliate or talking with others. I would believe you have learned some recommendations on domains depending on your [...]

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Lazy Summer

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Summer is always a tough time to get work done, and this Summer was the worst one ever in that regard. I pretty much got nothing done for a few months… bought a little advertising and ordered a few pieces of content, but other than that I didn’t do much. I realized how bad it [...]

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