A great way to get traffic and add value to your site is to purchase one way links to your poker site.
Before you spend cash to buy a link from someone, check out the Alexa Ranking for the site. If the site is not ranked in the top 500,000 sites don’t expect to get any traffic from it. It may be worth it if it has a high page rank. If it has a page rank of 3 or more it may be worth it. When buying links to your poker site, make sure that the sites are poker related. You don’t want links from flower sites if you want to get poker related conversions. On the other hand, you might want traffic from Hockey, Football, or Baseball sites. These sites are bound to have guys and women that like to play poker.
If you can get poker related PR3 links with sites that are in top 500k, I believe you should pay up to 15$ for them and maybe double that in some cases. In order to be an effective and profitable poker affiliate you must get traffic beyond your friends and word of mouth.