anatomy of destruction – aff. programs buying/running affiliate sites

This is nothing new, it’s been going on for years.

The few examples I know of (no, not giving details!) have gone quite wrong for the casinos who bought the sites. They don’t seem to understand the amount of work that goes into it.

Buying hundreds of “three page wonders” and then buying traffic for them was possible a few years ago, but isn’t now.

Doing blackhat techniques and spamming the search engines with hundreds of sites advertising certain properties has been done and casinos who do this risk being tossed out of google alltogether. You don’t see it anymore today.

And you can’t buy a popular site and just leave it sit.

Generally casinos soon see that they bit off more than they could chew and the practice really hasn’t spread in all these years.

Just got an email from de.888 for a 3 way link bargain………We will put your site on ……a….electronic equipment store site……deleted instantly……

I see some sites now fully dedicated to one affiliate program like wizard of odds.

I do not mind btw. :wink-wink

Yes nothing new it has been going on for a long time.
I think the players can see a portal like this a mile away (advertising only one brand)
and just hit the back button

Brad

I would probably sell if the price had merit, but the offers I received in the past never got me really excited.

I noticed starting several years ago that some aff programs have been running their own sites (especially in the US/English markets). Some of them quite successfully and some of them not even close. I would imagine buying a well established site and building on the success would be much easier than starting from scratch though.