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This is one of the best posts I’ve read on CAP in the past several months. Good advice coming from the members here and it’s cool to get a mix of AM’s and affiliates both.
I agree! With the Micro leaving I think we are about to see some hard core marketing efforts and to stay ahead of the game we are going to have to take on new ways to market to players to stay in the game.
OK.. this will be a long one.. read on…
First and foremost, understand that being an affiliate requires persistence & work in all of its forms.
If you go for a website – You will need to do research (Keywords, design and call to action content), you will need to sacrifice (for a good cause) time, and eventually you will have to spend some money… once you realize & accept these, you’re already in the right direction and ready to go forward.Research & research (and research):
First, understand the basics of affiliate marketing. Don’t skip this stage and rush forward.
Understand terms such as PPC, CPM, Pay per lead & LEARN pay per sale (CPA / Rev-share %) into detail.
It will give you an edge later on when you will (hopefully) look for side-ways to promote your website. (That aren’t SEO).Then, understand what you want to do, what you want to promote & HOW you want to promote it.
Do you want to collect email addresses? Or you want to build a traditional affiliate reviews website? These are critical when you engage design and keyword research.More on research……
• Use google to learn from veteran affiliates (but don’t copy content..).
• Participate in forum discussions, and be involved in the industry.All of the above are much more important for newbie affiliates than backlink tricks and quick SEO tips (in my opinion… atleast).
When all is ready, find the affiliate program that suits YOU:
If you have German traffic, you should pick a program that promotes a casino that is strong in Germany. (appropriate website language, appropriate Client, and the Appropriate payment methods). The conversion rates will be higher if you have the right tools.
Understand how online casinos and poker rooms work, what are the revenue-models their programs offer, and how is revenue collected (CPA baseline, Revenue-share negative carryover – YES OR NO?).. this is very important.
Does anyone reply your emails?
If you signed up, and got a welcome message a week later, you are probably not at the right place.Is the affiliate manager helping you in person? Do you get personal treatment or you get a blast of general email templates with 4 different fonts caused by outlook copy pastes? I have seen things (NONE from CAP certified, to clear the air).
Finally, many affiliate managers were and still are affiliates (to some degree).. and that’s a good stop for assitance.Finally #2 .. don’t give up.. it’s fun..
Cheers.
Finally #2 .. don’t give up.. it’s fun..
I can agree on that there is never a dull moment in this biz!!:tongue:
Blimey, Shay! You write longer messages than me! Good advice though, matey.
I’ll second your very good advice about Google. It’s a fantastic tool for seeing what your competitors are doing. Check other competitors’ keyword profiles, and clean up where they have missed something in their site. Blogs and forum posts (ahem) help a great deal for track-back URLs.
Blogs are really working great for many of my friends and for me as well :hattip:
bonustreak;187057 wrote:Blogs are really working great for many of my friends and for me as well :hattip:Working great for SEO or for Conversions..?
jonathan_market-ace;186139 wrote:Blimey, Shay! You write longer messages than me! Good advice though, matey.
I’ll second your very good advice about Google. It’s a fantastic tool for seeing what your competitors are doing. Check other competitors’ keyword profiles, and clean up where they have missed something in their site. Blogs and forum posts (ahem) help a great deal for track-back URLs.
:wink-wink
We use it more for SEO right now and will incorporate our weekly newsletter into the blog really soon for conversions.
@Shay-LuckyAcePartners 187095 wrote:
Working great for SEO or for Conversions..?
People use blogs for a lot of reasons. One is it’s a simple platform to add content, pictures and links for whatever type of site they operate. Another reason webmasters like blogs is because they do seem to get indexed quickly and it’s much easier to get backlinks through the ‘blogosphere’ that through traditional trading and buying 1 ways. Social media sites crawl blogs all the time and easily find linkable content due to the clean code and ‘seo’ plug-in tools available from WordPress and Blogger.
Social media sites crawl blogs all the time and easily find linkable content due to the clean code and ‘seo’ plug-in tools available from WordPress and Blogger.
Nice bit of info there, I never even thought of it that way, time for me to look at doing more with my blog
:hattip:Greg;187170 wrote:People use blogs for a lot of reasons. One is it’s a simple platform to add content, pictures and links for whatever type of site they operate. Another reason webmasters like blogs is because they do seem to get indexed quickly and it’s much easier to get backlinks through the ‘blogosphere’ that through traditional trading and buying 1 ways. Social media sites crawl blogs all the time and easily find linkable content due to the clean code and ‘seo’ plug-in tools available from WordPress and Blogger.Its Fantastic for content managing.. but I personally dont think its too brilliant when it comes to Conversions………………
