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Optimize your Conversion Rate

One of the most if not THE most important aspect of an affiliate partnership is making sure you are optimizing every effort to convert your players on the first visit to a particular site. There are a number of ways to accomplish this and it is up to both partners (the Affiliate and the Gaming Site) to get the most bang for your buck when it comes to converting players into registrations and real money depositors.

 

First of all it is extremely important to keep updated banners on your affiliate site, it not only keeps you the affiliate updated on new promos and events so that you may promote them, but it gives your potential clients the most recent information on a site and can help sway them into signing up with a certain website based on an available event, deposit bonus or tournament that strikes their fancy. A lot of what impacts the decisions you make for posting which types of banners should correspond to what your SEO strengths are, if your getting hits from keywords such as “poker deposit bonus” then obviously you want to have the most current banners displaying the most current deposit bonuses on them. When you’re choosing the partners you want to work with make sure they are continuously updating their creative, if they do not, then they are not fulfilling their end of the partnership and not providing the tools you need to be successful. Also placing those banners in the right spots is very important, far too many times have I seen banners from 20 different sites placed all over the affiliate site or down the left and right sides of the page allowing you to scroll down for what seems like a mile as if the affiliate has the intention of just bombarding their viewers with a barrage of banners and letting the numbers pan out and determine their conversions, this is wrong. One, you are not doing targeted marketing you are simply slinging banners around until something sticks. Second, you are more likely to get a registration that never deposits rather than a quality signup that generates revenue for the partnership. It is more effective to create your own original content that searches well and place a bonus code with a hyper link text or a banner within an article that pertains to the specific content. One, if the viewer takes the time to read your content then they are generally more interested in the subject and more likely to signup and deposit if all the equations are to their liking. Second you are targeting a viewer with specific content and the road you are leading them down is like driving down the autobahn with no traffic in site, it’s very clear and laid out for them without all the clutter and congestion of multiple banners of multiple sites that may distract and ultimately deter them from signing up. Read more

Absolute Poker’s Liv Boeree Wins Major European Poker Tournament

Hey Poker Players

Look out guys, looks like the ladies are playing some great poker these days. Liv Boeree is on a role and Absolute Poker’s UK Ambassador has taken first place in Ladbrokes European Ladies Championship. Congratulations Liv!!!
If you’ve ever dreamed of playing Texas Hold’em against one of Europe’s best female poker players, look no further than Absolute Poker. Liv Boeree, the online poker site’s UK ambassador, finished first among a field of 53 players in the Ladbrokes European Ladies Championship last weekend.

“I’m utterly over the moon about winning the European Ladies Championships,” stated Liv Boeree. “It was a fantastic tournament with a great sense of camaraderie and a really tough final table that I enjoyed playing from start to finish. This is also a great boost to my confidence going into the World Series of Poker* which is drawing ever closer.”
The land-based poker tournament, held on May 3rd and 4th in London, featured some of the best female poker players on the continent including Annette Obrestad, the winner of the WSOPE Main Event. Liv Boeree placed first in the tournament, securing a commemorative trophy and $30,000 in cash.
In February 2008, Absolute Poker signed Liv Boeree, a former astrophysics student and aspiring 23-year-old pro poker player, to represent the online poker site in the UK marketplace.
Boeree began her poker career on the television series UltimatePoker.com Showdown in August 2005. There, she learned some valuable tips from Annie Duke, one of the poker world’s best female players, and caught the attention of popular online poker site Absolute Poker.
Most recently, Liv reconnected with Annie and gained additional insight and playing tips from the world poker champion – an experience that no doubt helped her conquer the Ladbrokes European Ladies Championship.
In a little over two years, Liv has amassed several top-10 finishes in Texas Hold’em tournaments across London including multiple first place wins.

Liv Boeree is featured in Absolute Poker’s UK marketing communications pieces and can be found playing in tournaments across Europe as well as online at AbsolutePoker.com.

UltimateBet Hires Annie Duke to Manage New Tournament Schedule

Online poker site recruits world poker champion to enhance tournament schedule and overall poker offering

Miami, FL (PRWeb) April 22, 2008 – Leading online poker site UltimateBet.com today announced a groundbreaking new tournament schedule while welcoming one of the world’s greatest poker professionals as its new Cardroom Consultant. The online poker site has taken the bold step of handing over the management of its tournament schedule to Annie Duke.

“Annie Duke has a proven track record of not only playing the game, but also knowing exactly what online poker players want to see in a tournament schedule,” stated UltimateBet spokesperson George MacLean. “We’re confident that her unparalleled insight will significantly enhance our poker offering and strengthen our online poker community.”

The world poker champion is no stranger to the UltimateBet brand. Duke was a key player in designing the UltimateBet software and was a consultant for the cardroom several years ago. She is excited to be back on board to build a schedule that will attract old and new players to the site.

“I opted to accept the Cardroom Consultant position after spending time with UltimateBet’s new senior management team,” notes Duke. “I am extraordinarily pleased with their commitment to wanting what’s best for the poker player and I have a renewed sense of enthusiasm in the future of UltimateBet.”

Highlights of the new schedule, to be launched on April 28th, include:

• New Sniper tournaments with massive guarantees
• $1.2 million in weekly guarantees
• Nightly DeepStack tournaments where players start with 5,000 chips for tourneys with buy-ins of $100+9 and above, and 3,000 starting chips for tourneys with buy-ins under $100+9
• New Short, Super Short, and Mega Short Stack satellites allow online poker fans to qualify so many new ways, all the way up to one hour before an event
• Lots of ways for players to qualify for their WSOP seat – including a 3-seat guaranteed tournament on Sunday and a 25-seat and 50-seat guaranteed event
• New $1 Turbo Rebuy $5,000 guaranteed tournament where poker fans can win their seat for as little as 6 cents
• New Sit and Go satellites for all major events on the site
• $200,000 guaranteed tournament every Sunday

Online poker players can also expect a host of new promotions and leader board competitions that will solidify UltimateBet as the most exciting, most lucrative place for Texas Hold’em fans to hone their game.

More information on the new tournament schedule can be found at www.ultimatebet.com.

About UltimateBet
Designed with the assistance of the best poker players in the world - Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke – UltimateBet provides the best poker games available on the net. Players can download the free poker software, play in free ring games and tournaments and get tips from these pros to learn the sport or to enhance their playing strategy. UltimateBet currently has over 2 million registered players.
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UltimateBet donates 2008 Aruba Poker Classic prize package to charity

Hey, affiliates and poker players…you care about our planet? Well looks like UltimateBet does, they are giving away an Aruba Poker Classic Seat at the Kentucky Derby worth $8,500 this weekend!

UB recognizes the effects of climate change by donating Aruba Poker Classic prize package to charity poker tournament

UltimateBet.com has sweetened the pot for online poker players looking to make a difference on planet earth. The online poker site today donated a 2008 Aruba Poker Classic prize package to the Kentucky Derby Poker Championship, a charity Texas Hold’em tournament created to raise the awareness of climate change and its impact on all communities, particularly those that are poor and underdeveloped.

The Kentucky Derby Poker Championship takes place at Caesars Indiana on Saturday, May 3rd at 8:30pm. Poker players can buy in to the tournament for $2,500.

The charities that will benefit from the tournament’s proceeds include the international Red Cross / Red Crescent Climate Centre, the Health and Climate Foundation, and the Robby Albarado Foundation.

The second place finisher in the charity poker tournament will secure the $8,500 Aruba Poker Classic prize package featuring a Main Event seat and money for travel and accommodations. The 2008 Aruba Poker Classic takes place from September 27th through October 4th. With 750 players expected to descend on the island for the 2008 Aruba Poker Classic, UltimateBet.com is anticipating an estimated prize pool of over $4 million. The online poker site has announced a guaranteed first place prize of $1 million.

The Aruba prize package won’t be UltimateBet’s only presence in the tournament. Phil Hellmuth, one of the online poker site’s top pros, is slated to host the charity event.

About UltimateBet
Designed with the assistance of the best poker players in the world - Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke – UltimateBet provides the best poker games available on the net. Players can download the free poker software, play in free ring games and tournaments and get tips from these pros to learn the sport or to enhance their playing strategy. UltimateBet currently has over 2 million registered players.
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Optimize your Affiliate Website

Top o’ da morning to all the Chipleader affiliates or maybe afternoon or late evening if your on the other side of the pond, whatever time it is you can rest assured that its always a good time for a cocktails(nk nk nk) especially on Friday.  Anyways I have been going through alot of the affiliate accounts in the last couple months and it seems that there is alot of missed potential out there.  I see alot of really good looking sites with good content on them but they are not producing any numbers that would justify the time put in to building the website.  I want to give you guys a couple pointers on optimising your sites and hopefully improve your traffic which translates into $$$, which is why we all got into this buisness in the first place right?

Blog

Blogging is an easy, efficient, low cost way to drive traffic to your site.  Develop a blog and then register it with a bunch of blog search directories for example, Digg, Blogger, Technorati.  These are all great directories and help readers find exactly what they are looking for. If you write a blog on folding a certain hand when faced with certain situations say “Folding 9 10 Suited” based on position at the table or being reraised or whatever it may be you can bet that someone will find your blog and be intrested enough to read it all because I’m sure that everyone that plays poker has had to fold a 10 9 suited or stayed with it chasing the inside straight and got busted.  So now that you have reached someone intrested in what you have to say you can now stear them to your site by placing hyper link text in your blog leading back to a certain section of your website. So if your site has a section on pot odds and calculating odds then when you discuss that you can link for example, “your pot odds on playing a hand like that,” you hyperlink that so that they click on it and it takes them to your site.  Once you have them at your site you can then try to convert them into a player at either AP or UB I hope (nk nk nk).  The point is that its an easy way to increase the traffic to your site and the blog directories basically do all the SEO for you and its ALL FREE!

Google Analytics:

This is a free tool that the SEO Czars, Kings, Maharishis, Sultans and some would say Mythical Gods at Google have provided for all of us for FREE! Simply signup a gmail account and you are then entitled to a plethora of tools to help you increase your searchability (not sure if thats a real word but after using plethora I get a freebie).  After you setup the account you are given a HTML code that you have to embed on your site for tracking to begin.  The metrics provided are incredible, you can track what countries people are coming from, the average amount of time they are on your site, the number of pages they view, the keywords that are being searched that you are being found on as well as the search engine that sent the visitor, the reporting features are not endless, but damn near.  You can create goals as well to measure the effectiveness of an action your are trying to make the visitor take such as signing up an account so if you had a registration page on your site you could set a goal to measure how many times people went to the page as well as how many times they completed the registration which in turn would give a conversion rate.  This is just one of the many aspects of Google Analytics that can help you be more effective in driving real money players and get your MGR up up up!

I will be posting more little tips on optimizing your sites and generating more revenue in the near future and perhaps beyond depending on how enlightened I become, sometimes there are dryspells.  I will leave you with one last little tip and then I’m done, “Impress someone today with Verbal Acupuncture” think about it……..

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