I’ve said all along that if Vegas gets the chance to go online it will all but wipe out the aff market as we have come to know it.
imagine how the ads will saturate both online and off; and what purpose will an aff portal have to serve if you are constantly hit with the reminder to type in MGM.com (as an example)?
people simply won’t have a need for us. Sure there may be aff programs offered but unless you are offering some type of unique content interesting enough to readers to bring them to your site they simply won’t bother to visit.
gone will be the days of listing only reputable programs to save people from signing up at casinos that don’t pay. I’m sure Vegas’ first advertising angle will be how they are US regulated and sure to pay.
very few people will be foolish enough to stray from such claims (at least in the states) when they have such a guarantee as that it is US regulated to offer fair-odds games and to pay winners. IMHO.
Vegas going online will be very bad for aff marketing IMHO. And btw if you don’t think these places will hire the best SEO experts you’re kidding yourselves. Yes its possible people with good natural rankings may do well at first but I predict their competition from the Vegas casinos will all-too-soon be an incredible force to have as competition. Especially when they will have the ownership of the very sites many will be searching the SEs to find. (again MHO)
If the landbased casinos get their cartel, the affs are
doomed. If they don’t succeed in blocking the “offshore”
operations, we still have hope and might even hit historic
highs given a more ligitimate environment.
:blush: