Internet Babel

This is a Guest post by Greg Walker from NewPokerAffiliate.com, giving an overview of an area that can bring in big money if you think about what you’re doing and have the right resources to help you. The opinions expressed are Greg’s but he’s quite rightly enthusiastic about his chosen field. Certainly an area worth looking at for anyone who wants to earn some online dollars.

Dave 

Online Poker Affiliating

Let’s not beat around the bush, this article is about online gambling.

No seriously, just give me a chance on this one to let me explain a few things. I know a number of you webmasters are going to completely dismiss the idea of promoting online poker from the start, but that is your own choice and it’s completely up to you what you do with your time spent Internet marketing. However, even from my biased point of view, I’m going to say that you’re missing out on making a lot of money, and I want to give you a run down on the possibilities (as in “how much money you can make”) of being a poker affiliate. 

The Money

The typical commission for sending a real money play to a poker room is $100 or over. It’s not a $1 commission on a book sale from Amazon, neither is it $20 from a SEO ebook sale. It’s $100 (and sometimes more) for every visitor that goes from your site to the poker room and starts playing for real money.

If you can just get 10 real money players to your site a month, that’s 1K a month. Now, if you create 5 sites like this, you are making 5K a month. There are no tricks here, it’s just basic math.

Let me put it another way: I have worked with people in this industry that are doing pretty well for themselves. Many start out casually promoting poker as more of a hobby than anything, and they end up quitting their jobs and earning more from poker affiliating than they did working for IBM. If you’re doing ‘okay’ as a poker affiliate, you’re earning 5K a month. If you’re doing really well, you’re earning over 100K. The more you work, the more you can earn. 

The Workload & The Returns

Sure, these figures are nice, but they are not going to come overnight, we both know that. However, as far as actual work goes, the time spent creating and developing sites will be no different to the time you spend developing sites in whatever other industries you might already be in (and making money from).

The only difference with poker affiliating is that you need to have the right approach and know what you are doing to be successful. It really is a case of working smarter and not harder.

It might be nice to have a blog about your experiences as an Internet Marketer, but it’s not going to be efficient to create a high maintenance blog in an environment that is difficult to make money in, let alone have it as a flagship site. Your time is best spent elsewhere, and that ‘elsewhere’ could well be in poker.

For example, let’s take a look at a typical well-regarded blog in the MMO niche… TheNetFool. Jim grinds out decent sized articles around common MMO topics on an almost daily basis. Now, if you look over posted earnings records from past months, you will find that the blog makes maybe $400 a month (discounting any spikes/bonuses). He’s not in the Premier League but at that level he is certainly making more than the majority of MMO Bloggers out there.

If you spent your time writing a solid article about poker every day on a poker site, you would be making a hell of a lot more than $400 a month, I will tell you that for free.

You just need to know what you’re doing. If you have experience in creating solid websites and know about good SEO, you really need to start broadening your horizons and considering the possibilities of other industries. 

But I’ve heard poker affiliating is bad!

That’s because the people you are speaking to have failed in their attempts at poker affiliating. It’s much easier to blame the industry than the fact that you took the wrong approach and didn’t work hard enough, it’s human nature. So disregard what other people have told you, and take a look at the facts:

• Yes, poker affiliating requires work.
• Yes, you need to know what you’re doing.
• Yes, it takes time.
• Yes, many people will give up.
• Yes, you can make a boat load of money if you do it properly.

I’m not going to try and make out that poker affiliating is some silver bullet that makes you millions from one 10-page website, I just want to let you know that it is a perfectly viable option as an Internet Marketer.

The majority of people do not want to put the effort in to make a successful poker site, and they are happy to move on and complain that it is a terrible industry. However, if you have the drive to do well and create a useful site that brings in traffic from the search engines (Google doesn’t hate poker y’know), then a lot of money is waiting for you.

This time next year you could be earning 10 times what you are earning right now, just because you decided to take a chance as a poker affiliate.

I wish you the best of luck.

For key strategy guides and tips, as well as how to “know what you are doing”, check out New Poker Affiliate.
 

Greg