@TheGooner 164568 wrote:
It’s quite simply a vote for a good quality site that like minded readers and online players might find useful.
:hattip:
hi paul
not sure I agree with you here completely – I see the CAP logos as having positives and negatives.
Positive:
I have had what looks like a potential spammer sign up to my site (classic spammer username) however looking at the site in their sig (it had a cap or gpwa logo on it), I knew they wouldn’t spam me and they haven’t (in fact quite the contrary – they have in fact started participating on my forum which is nice).. so that’s the good side for me (I am in industry so seeing that someone is associated with CAP through these labels on sites is reasurring in some respects)
hmm:
As for players seeing that a site is GPWA or CAP certified doesn’t have a great lot of weight. What does it mean to them? We don’t spam? We are Whitehat? Players don’t know much about these things imo, nor do they care too much – as long as the wares we peddle are legit imo.
Negative?
I find it ironic that many of the sites displaying CAP logos were and are promoting sites which have been involved in fraud and theft(if it were, they would have some clause in the display of the logos – maybe sites which want a cap logo should have to drop programs which have been proven to be untrustworthy? Obv cap is not judge and jury i guess..)
don’t get me wrong, for me CAP is more of a gambling webmaster community (with good links to Affil managers and the companies we tend to deal with a lot), and it’s all good. I just don’t see any benefit displaying a cap logo on my site (in fact, what do i wanna do? lure my punters to CAP so they find out about affiliate marketing and next week they are my rivals? haha) The logo doesn’t do much for me personally and it’s certainly not a mark of Quality assurance. (same with GPWA logo btw). Most webmasters can make better use of the screen real-estate for banners etc, which is prob why we don’t see so many logos on member sites.