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Originally Posted by ThePokerBank
Also, how come sportsbook visitors are more reluctant to click through affiliate links?
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Simple answer is way to many scams. Everyone will run into a bad experience if they bet long enough or will have a friend that does etc. Even losing bettors learn to be on their toes a little ways into their online betting careers.
Its a bit different with Euro focused sportsbooks where everything is more corporatized. Here there are plenty of shady sportsbooks none the less but many good ones and far less out right scams.
I'm not just calling books that are shady scams. BetUS, BetMania etc are just the more shady of shady books (borderline scams). Other books like Lazer Wager, Cascade etc weather or not it was their intention have reached the point of beng scams because they've become deposit only books that don't pay. There are many books that start off with this intention that never paid at all no had any intention to ever pay.
Its a very dirty industry where there is a lot more $ to be made as a scammer than there is as an honest affiliate.
My personal opinion is that taking the affiliate approach to making money off the sports betting industry (unless already long since established) to the American market is a bad idea unless your really passionate about sports betting - from a business standpoint there are many much better markets. Even if passionate about it I don't think affiliating is the best way to make $ either. You're better off becoming a tout - or building a big information site and using google adsense and other programs plus selling advertising to touts that don't market sportsbooks (in order to get in no trouble with google). If you build a profitable enough site off that where you no longer need Adsense - remove them and sell ads to sportsbooks - who by the way will spend a TON of $ for ads on established site.