Script wielding sharks are overrunning daily fantasy sports sites and that's just not good for business. To combat this legion of number crunchers the industry's biggest site, DraftKings has introduced measures it hopes will level the DFS playing field. Earlier this month, DraftKings announced that it would no longer allow players to use outside scripts…
The state of New Jersey gambling was put on stark display when the Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) released its final revenue numbers for 2015. These numbers told a story that could easily start with the words, "I've got some good news and I've got some bad news." On the good news front, revenue from…
Congratulations Google Panda, you've made it to the big leagues! Sometime in the past week or so, the fabled algorithm moved from being a standalone update to being a part of Google's core ranking algorithm. So what does that mean for SEO's and content producers? For the most part, it means that they'll never have…
Amaya Gaming is known for making big moves, so its no surprise that the Canadian company is going all in on its new BetStars sports betting site. According to published reports, Amaya has allocated a more than $14 million (USD) marketing budget on the massive new project. That money will be in the hands of…
Recent changes to PokerStars' VIP program were the inspiration for a recent boycott of the site by some of its biggest players. The results of that boycott were something of a mixed bag but the bottom is this, the online poker world is changing, no matter what the whales think. The genesis of the boycott…
Christiaan Alexander Van Dalen, an ex-affiliate manager with Bettson AB has been accused stealing more than $150,000 from the company via an elaborate re-tagging scheme. Van Dalen has been charged with seven crimes, including money laundering and fraud, and appeared before a magistrate in a Maltese courtroom late last week. (Van Dalen, who is Dutch,…
Yahoo! has struck a deal with Google that will have Google search results and advertisements appearing on Yahoo! SERPs. This arrangement, strange as it may seem, is a solid indication of exactly how dominant Google has become, and how far Yahoo! has fallen, in the search world. The new arrangement was announced yesterday morning as…
Has SEO finally died? In the light of Google's recent shift to an on-going, self-correcting Penguin algorithm update, that's a question that's definitely worth asking. It's also a question that SearchEngineLand.com writer Nate Dame answered in a recent posting titled, How Google Won the PR War Over SEO, and Why That's a Good Thing. While…
A long awaited real-time Google Penguin update is just about ready for launch. That announcement came directly from Google bigwig Gary Illyes at the SMX East Conference in New York City yesterday. Though Illyes was short on specifics, in the typical Google manner, he did say he expects the algorithm update to be fully launched…
Google has a warning for web publishers who repeatedly violate the terms of the Webmaster Guidelines; get in line ASAP or face severe penalties as being removed from the search results entirely. The warning was posted late last week on Google's Official Webmaster Blog and does not seem to be inspired by any specific event.…
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