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Originally Posted by Graham
Write a post about the positives and negatives of spending a lot of time on a poker affiliate forum.
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I'm not sure I can make a long post out that, but good idea.
I have major short attention span but work a lot of hours per day, so for me it helps a lot that I work for 20 minutes, stop cruise the few forums I have bookmarked on the tool bar for 10-15 get up walk around for a few minutes to keep the blood flowing and then work 20 min more. My days pretty much a cycle or working 20 minutes, taking 20 minutes off repeated through out the day. (this for me is the positive).
The negative for me is probably different than for most. I find myself getting worked up more than I should over what other sites do. Personally I find it disturbing sites that SEO "Poker Site XYZ Bonus Code" because I feel these search terms add no value to the poker rooms and are only scalping other affiliates referred players. Oddly enough I don't at all feel the same way about SEOing "Poker Site XYZ Rakeback" as this is an open game the card rooms let us and actually in many cases encourage us to participate in (and for the record, I think its a stupid business model, I wish all rooms would do away with but in the meantime I'm going to keep offering it because its the best deal for the players) - and the players searching for this specifically are only signing up with a rakeback site. I guess the big difference is when players are SEOing to offer something that the player does not need them for (Most the bonuses are the same no matter whose code is used - and the interntion of most SEOing this is to capture players who see that section on the registration form: Honestly who searches for Full Tilt Referral Code, or PokerStars Marketing Code unless they found it on the form - its certainly not a natural thing to search). This is only one small example of the things I get worked up over from time to time (i'm getting better at just accepting them) but as an affiliate that first priority is the players and second is servicing the poker rooms best interest which in exchange I'm rewarded with fair compensation - things that deviated from that and are money first driven irritate me.