Poker Affiliate

There is a cool new concept that makes playing poker online legal? This is the claim that Duplicate poker room makes on their site. Do I believe them? Yes, but I believe playing poker online in general is legal and a game of skill. Baxter’s stance was that earning money in a poker tournament was no different than money earned by a golfer through his/her efforts on the golf course. Chance might play a part, but skill was the driving factor.*

Duplicate poker takes this to a whole new level with it’s new concept of poker as a game of skill.
Here is what they did:
We’ve taken the principles of Duplicate Bridge and applied them to Texas Hold’Em, which we call “Duplicate Poker”.

This allows them to accept credit cards from USA players and clear state that it is not a gambling site.
I would have to agree with their claim and also state that I feel other sites are not gambling sites either unless they have casino games. I would like Turbo tournaments to be banned on all poker sites.
They offer no skill level and make bad players play worse when they playing regular structured tournaments. Try this new ingenious form of poker and play poker at Duplicate poker.

I was unable to finish registering at the Duplicate poker affiliates program, because I did not have my bank info ready, and I suggest that you get all your banks info before starting the affiliate application.

I did sign up as a poker player at Duplicate poker and was happy to see freerolls going on regularly!
This gives me the chance to show you how great their site is! The poker client is excellent and the graphics are professional. I even enjoyed their little short animation that they did while the client was downloading.

I highly recommend giving Duplicate poker a try, not only as a poker affiliate, but as a poker player.
I really excited to see how my play stack up against people with my same hand!

*Source:Billy Baxter Supreme court article at Poker Pages

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One of the most difficult concepts for any new affiliate to grasp is that of niche marketing.

Here I will take you through the process of how and why you should select a niche market to focus your affiliate marketing efforts on.

Affiliate marketing is a very easy way of making a comfortable living. Working from home, working your own hours and having cheques drop through the mailbox seems like a dream job. And it is if you do it right.

The fact is that for every 100 wannabee affiliate marketers only one or two will succeed. Most get as far as registering a domain name for their fantastic idea and then get no further.

The internet is a huge business opportunity for anyone willing to give it a go. However you need to be realistic in your ambitions and what you can achieve to be successful

Let’s take the poker/casino market as a case study.

Where nearly all new affiliates go wrong when they decide to build a new site is that they try to address too much of the market audience. You have to be realistic about what you can single handedly achieve.

Trying to beat the many well established poker sites out there is going to take too much work for one person and will usually end in frustrated failure.

A poker room “review site” has been done to death. There are hundreds of them. To compete in this market you are not only going to have to spend a huge amount of time writing quality reviews but also spend inordinate amounts of time gaining back links to push yourself up the search engine rankings.

In addition to this whilst you try to play catch up with the linking game your established competition is also gaining links at a steady rate to keep their market position. It’s going to be mission nearly impossible to try and break into this sector of the market.

In order to get a slice of the poker market you are going to need to isolate a particular sector of that market and focus on supplying everything that is missing from this “niche”.

Let’s break down the poker business into “do able” chunks to give you some ideas for a new site.

Poker room reviews – This is pretty much a no go area for any new affiliate. Unless you have substantial resources and access to a good search engine optimization team you should give this a wide berth.

Try to think about smaller sub sections of a market that you could reasonably hope to dominate.

For example how about a site dedicated to multi table tournaments? There are a few already out there but not many good ones. You could break this down further into a site that specializes in a rebuy only or freezeout only tournament.

Taking this idea further you could build a niche site dedicated to multi table tournaments of the freezeout variety for less than $3 and where to find them. You may not get huge amounts of traffic but what you will get is a small amount of targeted traffic that will convert a much higher percentage into depositing players.

You will also have success with this far more quickly than you ever will by trying to build a “please everyone” poker site.

Find a niche that you are interested in and then break it down into “do able” identifiable chunks of work that you can accomplish in a given time frame. This is the way to start your affiliate career.

Trying to build a bigger audience for your first project is going to sap your energy when you see how much work is actually involved. Start small, build one complete site and then move on. Don’t be distracted by the many other opportunities that will get in your way.

This one of the biggest reasons that new affiliates fail.

They simply try to do too much and never manage to see one project through to completion.

If that’s you then you need to prioritize your workload so that you only work on one project until it starts making money. It’s no good flitting from project to project and never finishing any of them.

Bio:

Tony Cooper has been affiliate marketing for over eight years.

His latest poker project is at Six handed

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It seems that everyone is trying too become a poker affiliate right now, but what most people don’t realize is that it takes a lot of hard work to make it successfully. Thousands of people make lots of money promoting online poker rooms each month, but even more people don’t and you will need to isolate yourself from the group not making money. For successful poker affiliates there are lots of great perks that you will soon begin to notice.

When you choose to become a poker affiliate you need to first decide if you need to earn a full time income or if you’re just doing it for fun and some extra cash. This will reflect your work load a great deal, and may also limit the perks available.

If you do make it to the big times of poker affiliate marketers then you will be earning a steady full-time income and you will then start reaping most of the benefits of being a poker affiliate. Once you establish yourself as someone who has the ability to get conversions then poker rooms will start giving you promotions codes specialized for your websites, and even offer you free poker money for their rooms. Poker rooms make tons of money, so they don’t mind treating their affiliate earners too some free chips once in awhile, and it’s one the great perks of being a poker affiliate.

One of the best benefits is that you will never feel like you’re actually working again, which is by far the best outcome from being a poker affiliate. All you’ll need to do is work on your websites and socialize with other poker affiliates all day long, and not many people can say they have a job this easy. Being able to work at home is also becoming a luxury more and more people are seeking, and by becoming a poker affiliate the chance to become a work at home person is very realistic.

As a poker affiliate you will get to attend many great invitation only events all across the world. Each network usually has their own conferences and meetings with their affiliates, so you’re presented with the chance to travel the world and meet other poker affiliates. Many established poker affiliates who don’t need to spend much time on their websites spend most of their time traveling around to the different poker events and poker affiliate meetings.

The perks and benefits of becoming a poker affiliate are endless, and it’s a job that is dreamed of by many people. You need to put in the work if you expect to see any results though, and it might take a few months before you start seeing any money. The key is sticking to your guns and continue on promoting the websites. Eventually they will pick up in the search engines and you will have a chance at becoming a poker affiliate that lasts in the industry. You want get to experience many of the perks or benefits for the first year or so either, because you need to establish yourself as a poker affiliate who can get sales. Once you have established yourself into the poker affiliate world though then you’re on your way to riches.

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Now you have a plan, a site and are ready to bring people to your site. How do you do that? Well, one valuable method is to increase the one-way links to your poker affiliate site. This however is not the only way. If you also provide readers with quality and unique content that is searchable, then you have a step up on the competition. To provide steady original content can be time consuming. Often your plan includes more than just writing content for your site. It includes such things as site promotion, networking and improving the overall site marketing. Perhaps you have more than one site that you are working with, and that can take all your time for the writing aspects of your sites. You have alternatives.

The first alternative is PLR content. PLR stands for Private Label Rights, these articles are able to provide you with the research needed to add to your site or sites. This saves time and organization, freeing up a few precious moments for family or marketing. You take the PLR articles and rewrite them to make them original content. This will fill your site with quality information, in your words, designed to target your audience. The other advantage of PLR content is that it can be adapted in the cost. Generally, a pack can be purchased at substantially lower rates.

Another option available for providing content for your site is to subcontract the work to a ghostwriter. Ghostwriters are located in many areas through a wide range of sites. These writers are able to produce unique content for your poker affiliate site. The problems you often face with this is the fact that each writer is a hit and miss situation, so always ask for samples or have the potential ghostwriter do a sample as a test. Beyond that, once you have a writer you appreciate, you can have them produce unique content on a steady basis. This is an ongoing process that needs to be continued. However, this is not the only good choice for steady content.

Prepared content is also a valuable option. There are content sites all over the Internet. The problem is identifying the ones that provide poker and/or casino content. This is not always allowed through a wide range of content sites. One incredible site with high quality content that has a focus on the Poker and Casino Industry is ContentBasics.com This site provides a wide range of content including online poker room reviews, online casino reviews, e-books in the industry, along with blog packs and articles on almost everything in the industry. This site is a great way to get your poker affiliate site filled with unique, high quality content that will fit into your budget. They also have an option to create tailor made content for your site with a simple order. .

I’ve been busy for last week covering World Series of Poker, and also creating a “hot girls” website. I’m not into creating a porn site, but I’m going to have allot of bikini photos and more. I don’t just start with one site, but I create a whole network from the start. I’ve been building non poker sites for over a year now.

I run into allot of people who want to make money quick and do very little work. At first they read my blog about making money promoting poker sites, then they want to start a poker blog. I set them up with a poker domain name and a Wordpress. They make a couple of posts then give up, and they say they couldn’t get poker sign ups etc etc. In one way this is bad for me because I lose sub affiliate income, but in another odd way it’s good for me. This means that people in general are not motivated and will not be competition in the future. In fact, the more poker sites that don’t exist, the more money I will make because I wont be competing for poker keywords.

Some of my sub affiliates are working hard though and I’m making money off of them. It may be small, but In the long run it’s going to keep growing. I’d say I’m the happiest right now with the
Full Tilt Poker affiliate program. It makes it really easy for me to sign people up with their banners with tracking codes for sub affiliates. They also have great tools and poker widgets!

I’m hoping Doyles Room affiliate program will step it up a notch and make sub-affiliate banners
and tracking links….