In today’s post I’m going to reveal a simple, two-step plan for making $1 million in 12 months as a poker affiliate. Other plans exist; this is just one example:
- Find a poker affiliate program (or several poker affiliate programs) who will pay you a $200 CPA.
- Send them 5000 qualifying players.
Finding a poker affiliate program who will pay you a $200 CPA.
You may or may not be able to get a $200 CPAÂ if you’re a complete beginner or newbie. That’s okay. Start with whatever CPA you can get, $65, $75, $100, whatever. You can command a higher CPA when you’re sending over more depositing players. In fact, don’t limit yourself to a $200 CPA. When you’re sending enough volume, you can get $250, $300, even $400 CPA’s. You just have to send enough players to warrant that high a CPA.
Feel free to work with multiple programs. It doesn’t matter where you send the players (for purposes of this plan) just so long as you get a decent CPA.
Sending 5000 qualifying players.
The number 5000 is based on a $200 CPA, but if you can negotiate an average CPA of $250, you only need 4000 qualifying players. If you have the pull to negotiate a $400 CPA, you only need 2500 players.
Notice the importance of being able to negotiate a decent commission for yourself.
The next question is how to send 5000 qualifying players.
Let’s assume that if you’re reading this, you already have a poker site. That site has 10 pages and 10 backlinks pointing at it, and you sign up 10 qualifying players a month right now.
To sign up 5000 players in a year, you’re going to need ~416 signups per month.
Right now you’re signing up 1 player per page and 1 player per backlink per month. So in order to get 416 signups per month, launch another 410 pages to your site, and get another 410 backlinks.
Your numbers will differ. You might have a 20 page site with 10 backlinks and get 5 players per month. Plug in the numbers, do the math, and you too can make $1 million in a year as a poker affiliate.
The point I’m trying to make with this million dollar poker affiliate plan
The point is that you should measure aspects of your business, and some of the most important aspects to measure include:
- How much money you make per player
- How much money you make for every page of content you launch
- How much money you make for every link you build to your content
Those metrics will vary for everyone, but if you’re measuring them and increasing these metrics, then you can set revenue goals like “$1 million in a year” and create a reasonable plan for achieving those goals.
Your earnings are a function of how many pages you have and how many links you have. Want to make more money? Write more pages of content and get more backlinks.
Another approach would be to improve your onpage SEO so that each page you launch and each link you get generates more traffic and signups than it would have if your onpage SEO sucked.
So basic concept to make a million a year is more pages on site and more back-links to site. lol, that’s so funny
So the basic concept it to get more links and make more pages, silly
you can also attain significantly good revenues using less cpa and a small revenue share. the benefit being that a hybrid deal like this offers long-term revenue stream as well as a quick chunk of bucks.
good article.
cheers
Great article. I’m on my way to the million. I am already sending ~22 depositing players each month.
If anybody want $180 CPA deals just contact me. I’m szury on PAP forum
Interesting article. I already calculated the revenue per page and visitor to determine how much I can pay for visitors and articles.
Now I’ll do so for the links too. Thanks for sharing!
This is one of my favorite posts in this blog. I’m particularly proud of the content herein, and it seems to be pretty popular with some of the commenters too. Thanks to everyone who has commented so far.
If only I had the knowledge and words to type 410 pages I would be on my way to be a millionaire.
Very good article.
What an interesting way to look at it. 5,000 players at $200 cpa seems so achievable in a 12 month span even beginning from scratch. Thanks for the encouragement! Making a million dollars as a poker affiliate in 12 months has just become my new goal for 2009!
Andrew-
You’d be surprised at how much knowledge you already have. If you can write one sentence of content, then you can write two sentences. And if you can write two sentences, you can write three sentences.
If you can write three sentences, you can write a paragraph. And if you can write one paragraph, you can write two paragraphs. And if you can write two paragraphs, you can write twenty paragraphs.
And if you can write twenty paragraphs, you can write an article. And if you can write one article, you can write two articles. And if you can write two articles, you can write four articles.
And if you can write four articles, you can write four hundred articles.
Anthony-
I’m not sure if you’re being serious, or if you’re making fun of my post.
This is excellent advice. Often when I start feeling overwhelmed with the amount of work I need to get done I break the numbers down into months, weeks and days and it helps. Transferring this into thinking about what it takes to get to a million with poker affiliate marketing is a great idea. Thanks Randy.
LOL I would never make fun of your post!
This is really good stuff I think. Anyone looking at making a million dollars or $1,000,000 can be easily intimidated by the 6 zeros following the 1. But breaking it down to a mere 5,000 players is less daunting. That’s just over 400 players a month or if you get a $250 cpa deal just over 330 players a month. I think that’s a far less discouraging and far more constructive way to look at your potential as a poker affiliate.
Making a million dollars isn’t that hard if you’re willing to do the work. Most people aren’t willing to do the work though. I wish more people WERE willing to do the work. I can’t tell you how many people come to me for advice about how to make money, but then they don’t want to follow any kind of advice.
Definitely a very interesting article, and I agree that all it takes to make money is put in the work. Sometimes people complain that they work so many hours but are not making as much as someone else who works less. They need to learn how to work smarter, not harder.