Poker Affiliate

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Are you a hardcore WSOP fan? Do you have all of the major poker news sites bookmarked and refresh worldseriesofpoker.com every 10 minutes to see if there are any updates? If so, there is another website that you need to add to your list. Full Tilt Poker has released their own website aggregator covering the 2009 World Series of Poker, and if you are not linked to it, you should be.

Unlike other poker sites, this site has updates given by both bloggers and Full Tilt pros. In the daily highlights section, Michael Craig and Alcanthang both provide coverage and insight of all the poker happenings at the greatest poker game on earth.

The pro blogs section includes posts from Roy Winston, Jon Turner, and Andy Bloch. Winston has already posted about the Omaha 8 event and Turner lets fans in on what events that he is playing.

The most interesting section for fans will likely be the twitter update box where various Full Tilt pros will give constant updates about how they are doing. For those of you living under a rock, twitter is a website where people can put up short posts about themselves. No topic is off limits and twitter is available anywhere, including over cell phones. Many times, you will get tweets right from the table as action is happening.

Whether you are a casual fan or the WSOP stalker that sits up until daylight to find out who exited in level 10, Full Tilt’s 2009 WSOP site is a site you should have linked in your browser.

I bought some ice cream for my son today and noticed the money was not immediately placed in the till. This is the second time this has happened to me in a week. The end of last week, I bought some sushi from somewhere and noticed I did not get a check when I received it and the person did not go to the register with the money. I can spot this because I’m street smart, worked in the restaurant business, and understand human nature. I think this will spill over into the poker affiliate business. I’ve seen many scammers in the last 5 years and I think the number is going to go up and I think it’s going to go up fast. This is a reminder to other affiliates to be weary over the next couple years. Don’t pay for things upfront and use Escrow.com.

Poker Domain and site sales seem to be very low. This seems to contradict the fact that I’m earning more money from players and getting more sign-ups. It could be that I’ve been spending more time concentrating on getting conversions, but the fact that I’m doing well should mean others are doing well. If others are doing well, wouldn’t that mean domains and sites would go up or stay the same in value? Or are too many people selling domains and sites to pay mortgages,taxes, school and other things? It looks as though the domain bubble has burst from government interference, Icann, and saturation. If you have any ideas on what has happened or going on, please email me at XXXGharitosXXX@xxxGmail.com (remove x’s).

With online Poker having become a true phenomenon of our time, it seems clear that an incredible number of people spend a lot of their time gambling at all the most popular online Poker sites. But the truly important question is, how come these people choose a particular Poker site and how do they discover it? This is where the very important work of Poker affiliates comes into play. It seems logical that the biggest and most successful online Poker sites would pay a lot of money to have new players referred to them, after all, every business’ goal is steady growth. Affiliates do exactly that work. By focusing on referring the biggest possible amount of people to a particular Poker site or even multiple sites, they can get a piece of the successful industry that online Poker has become.

Once a person has decided to dedicate his or her time to promoting online Poker, there are a few things one absolutely has to know about being an affiliate. As in every industry there is the potential of making a lot of money, but it will only come through hard work, which starts with obtaining all the important information. To begin with, there are two different ways in which online Poker site pay their affiliates. The first way is called CPA, which stands for Cost per Acquisition. As the name already implies, in this case affiliates get paid for every person who is referred to the online Poker site. This means, that once a referred player has played for a specific time or earned a certain amount of loyalty points, the affiliate receives a previously negotiated flat rate. This flat rate can be quite a significant amount of money. The second method is called revenue sharing. In this case the affiliate receives a certain amount of what the referred player is spending on the website. Since every tournament has a different buy-in amount, not every player yield the same amount of income. If a tournament costs, for example, $20+$2, the two dollar part is the contribution the player makes to the revenue out of which the affiliates get paid. In addition to that, the Poker site also uses a percentage of the total tournament pool in order to pay its affiliates. The type of payment that the affiliate chooses, if he or she has the option to choose, largely depends on the marketing strategy that is being used. If a website, blog, or forum post focuses on attracting high rollers, revenue sharing is clearly more profitable. If an affiliate is attracting sheer numbers, however, a flat rate per player might be more lucrative. As already mentioned, after signing up as an affiliate of an online Poker website, the responsibility of how to attract people to the website is in the hands of the new affiliate. Clearly only the best strategies and most dedicated individuals will be able to make a big profit from it.

In order to sign up as an affiliate, with Full Tilt Poker for example, one has to go to the Poker website and click on the affiliate option on the website’s browser. If the site is accepting new affiliates, one has to register with personal details. There is generally no fee that needs to be paid to be able to register. After that, the website lets the new affiliates choose the preferred payment option. Full Tilt Poker offers both CPA and Revenue share plans to its future associates. After having verified the email address, affiliates can log into the Affiliate Center in order to obtain important promotional information for their particular website. The most important thing for this kind of business venture is to target the right group of people and leading them to the desired website without spamming advertisement.

Like regular employees of a company, affiliates generally get paid once a month and are alerted to this by email. The online Poker website transfers the commission payments to the website’s affiliate accounts from where affiliates can withdraw the money onto their player accounts. Once it is on the player account the affiliate has the same choices as a regular player would, namely either to join a tournament and spend it on some good Poker games, or have it paid out. Affiliates can cash out with Moneybookers, Instadebit, Click 2 Pay and ClickandBuy. Since the amount of money that is being earned like this depends on the number of players that have been referred through the affiliate’s efforts, there are various ways to track this number. Generally this is done with the help of either tracking codes or referral codes. A tracking code is a specific URL that tracks the players that are being referred from a particular site. A referral code is a code that the player enters when signing up on the site, which also works for players which have been attracted to the online Poker site through an offline promotion. These tracking methods are of great importance since being an affiliate is purely based on commission.

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As many people know, NeverWinPoker.com was a website created for the fans of poker across the world. Unlike many websites that take themselves too seriously, NeverWinPoker is a site that encourages the degenerates of the world to assemble and contribute anything that they find relevant. Everything was posted on the site from regular day to day poker news to various gossip and scandal from all over the web. You could even find some porn sprinkled in the forums.

What many people may not know is that the website is now a PokerNews.com owned website. Back in 2007, Tony G negotiated the sale of NeverWinPoker from original founders Dustin Woolf aka Neverwin and Bryan Micon. In 2006, Micon stated that they would never sell NeverWinPoker.com. However, in just a year, Micon had gone through a divorce and some say his entire bankroll. As a result, when Tony G came knocking, they opened the door.

The official terms of the deal were never truly discussed with the general public. As a rule, Tony G likes to keep as low a profile as he can on his business dealing. When the sale was initially announced on NeverWinPoker’s forums, rumors had the price at around $20,000. Although never confirmed, the price was said to be as high as $200,000. Bryan Micon did confirm that the site did sell for more than $20,000, but when asked to give a specific number he said jokingly between “34,000 and 2.9 Million.”

One of the terms of the deal was to give partial ownership to Bryan Micon and Dustin Woolf. Also, partial ownership of the site was given to Todd Witteles aka Dan Druff. Witteles was a contributor on the website from the beginning and initially came to the site as a way to poker fun at Woolf and Micon. His contributions became such a regular and integral part of the site that he was offered a minority share of the site upon reaching a deal.

There were complaints after the sale that Micon and NeverWin “sold out” when they decided to sell their site. In a recent post, Dustin Woolf talked about how that with selling the site, he was looking more at the future of the site than the short term success. To him, it made more sense to have a smaller portion of a very successful company than to own a larger portion and risk having it go under. For someone that likes to brag about “sticking it to the man” and living a “baller” lifestyle, this sounded like excellent thinking on his part. Today, the site is larger and more popular than ever. Chances are that most people had no clue that PokerNews owned the site until they read this article or similar ones on the internet.

Did Micon and Woolf sell out when selling NeverWinPoker? Yes. However, selling out is not a bad thing. It is common in the business world to start up a company and sell it off to another company in exchange for either a payday, partial ownership in a stronger overall company, or both. There are examples all over poker of people that have “sold out” in order to make their lifestyles comfortable and to be able to take care of their families. While it may not be the hip or controversial thing to do, it is the sensible and responsible thing to do.

Poker Sites Decreasing in Traffic

While the online poker market in general continues to grow, there have been some sites that just haven’t been able to keep up the pace. Tops on the list is Bodog, which is down 33% over last year. Bodog, once the top name in online gaming, has lost some of its luster over the last year. The reason for this appears to be two fold. For starters they lost their domain name, Bodog.com, and they now appear on Bodoglife.com. A domain name change like this is bound to hurt any online gaming operation. Bodog also had some payment processor issues over the last year, which led to slow payments to players.

Other notable losers include Crypto at 28%, Cereus at 12% and Svenska Spel at 10%. Cereus poke was in the poker news seemingly all year, and not for good things. They had a super user scandal by being able to see their hole cards. These events took place at Ultimate Bet, which along with Absolute Poker make up the Cereus Poker Network.