Poker Blogging For Long Term ROI & To Send RMP’s
Posted by: Jeremy Comments: (4) Date: January 14, 2008If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Over the past two years there has been an explosion in the poker affiliate market of blogs. Whether it be a poker blog or a personal blog, it seems like everyone has one several. I don’t think it is a big surprise that everyone is blogging on the wordpress platform either. With the various themes and plugins available, wordpress really is a turn key content management solution
The problem with most poker blogs however is that it is very hard to get loyal readers. Sure, if you’re a Tao of Poker
Bill Rinni, or Iggy, then you have a whole gaggle of daily readers. But these are some of the old timers in the poker blogosphere, and they have been writing for years.
Most of the new poker bloggers I run across have blogs up for one reason and one reason only, to generate sign-ups to online poker rooms. Let me be the first to say that this is fine. But if that is your goal, then do it proper. Generate enormous amounts of keyword rich content. Then integrate the best SEO plugins, and make sure to do a large amount of inter-linking amongst these keyword rich pages.
Maybe you’ll catch some loyal readers over time, but if you’re goal is strictly to send new players, then focus on driving your traffic from the search engines. One other thing that I see far too often is that bloggers will give up way to soon. Unless you are a content producing machine, you probably won’t make any money in your first few months. Remember, every new post you make is more content for our good friend googlebot. It may take several months and tedious amounts of posts and linking, but in the long term it will pay off.
When starting a poker blog, do it with the long term ROI in mind. Any poker blogger who blogs for profit will definitely agree, it’s a marathon and not a sprint. Happy Blogging!
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January 15th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Great point Jeremy, building a community feel is just as important to as it is to a forum. People want to feel like they are reading your true thoughts, not sales pitches
January 18th, 2008 at 5:32 am
[…] Jeremy over at Poker Affiliates Program has an interesting post on the difficulty of making affiliate money from blogging. I have commented on this many times in the past and Iggy, Pauly, and others have cried many a tear into our beers about the amount of effort that goes into blogging vs. the amount of money that we were making. But at the end of all these discussions we all agreed that regardless of the money we loved doing it. And that is the part that I think Jeremy sort of hints at but doesn’t really articulate. […]
January 18th, 2008 at 9:52 am
[…] Jeremy over at Poker Affiliates Program has an interesting post on the difficulty of making affiliate money from blogging. I have commented on this many times in the past and Iggy, Pauly, and others have cried many a tear into our beers about the amount of effort that goes into blogging vs. the amount of money that we were making. But at the end of all these discussions we all agreed that regardless of the money we loved doing it. And that is the part that I think Jeremy sort of hints at but doesn’t really articulate. […]
January 18th, 2008 at 11:06 am
As a poker blogger, I agree that sincerity is the key. If you are starting a blog to make money, you are barking up the wrong tree. Frankly, though, I don’t find that most bloggers have started their blogs to make affiliate money. In my experience, the vast majority start for personal reasons, and then later realize that they can add affiliate banners. That’s the point where a blogger can turn into a shill (although most do not).
But then again, maybe we run in different blogging circles.