Thanks for your comments Lou. I spoke for several hours with Mr. Hewitt (the owner of Ogrish.com) on the phone. He is not the type of person others would assume. He is extremely intelligent, well read, understands the internet, current events. He doesn’t have a ‘political agenda,’ and he claims that he is not associated with any terrorist or terrorist groups. What he does not like is how the media attempts to ‘beautify war’ and violence. In that scope, his site’s aim is to show the reality of war and violence, as graphic as it may be. ‘The naked truth’ he said to me…..
Depart from that, the Casino Affiliate Convention focuses on TRAFFIC. Over the last 2-3 years, sites like Ogrish have generated enormous amounts of traffic. More importantly, they also have extremely high levels of STICKINESS. Why are these sites generating such high traffic? What is producing the stickiness? Look at each of their alexa rankings. Ogrish.com was at 1500 last time I checked. They have been as high as 800. That’s more than Gambling911.com and most superaffiliate websites.
Whether you like the content of the site or not, I thought that there would be a strong possibility of something to learn here. THAT is the focus of CAC. Bad or good ideas, we want to hear it.
Sites like this are certainly of interest to online gaming. Party Poker is ALL over the website UselessJunk.com. There are many more examples. For most in the industry, they are paying attention to BRAVO and ESPN’s Poker TV shows, or other media on the web. Ogrish and sites like it are a trend on the web that many in this industry have not noticed. And for this industry not to notice something is RARE.
Marc Lesnick
Conference Organizer
Casino Affiliate Convention
http://www.cac2006.com
September 14-15, 2006
Stardust Resort & Casino