Hello,
The creation of this site was my idea. I started it by putting up highstakesreport.blogspot.com. I felt really comfortable with the idea, and I knew people will like it. I knew they would like when there is a lot of money on the table, and they don’t even have to watch it because of someone reports those games.
Well, I started it by using poker forums and poker softwares. This basically wasn’t spam, because of I didn’t do my own threads, if they talked about how “Patrik Antonius won $200k last night”, I would reply “I’m making reports of these games, you can find it here” and people would go to the site.
I had a little less than 1,000 visitors a day on the blogspot domain. Then, I decided to partner with ppokyh on this project (he would handle the SEO stuff) and we moved to highstakesreport.com. He started to work with the backlinks and keyphrases, I would do the reports.
In one month, we managed to increase the numbers a lot, and in the next month, even more. We have never used any kind of paid ads on other sites, this is traffic that has been coming from our keyphrases and a big part of it from people telling about it to each other. Soon we could see people on poker softwares and forums posting about the site (and that poster was not me or ppokyh, it was random people).
Like I said, people have spread the word which is a big part of the traffic. Our keyphrases are a big part of it too. All the keyphrases are 100% poker related.
If you have any other questions, please ask.