How comes i dont see this in the poker affiliate industry?

[Squizzel]

Ive made websites in a few other industries before and im kinda baffled that this doesnt happen in the poker aff industry like many other industries. What am i talking about? Trading traffic.

and by trading traffic im not talking about, linking to other sites on your blogroll. What im talking about is groups of websites getting together with good content and sending traffic to other peoples content, tracking the traffic and returning traffic back based on what the other party sends.

I think this is where poker sites fail in a kinda of way because visitors will leave your website at some point. Wouldnt it be better to have some control over that? Send the traffic to your assosiates and then get something back you previously wouldnt have.

And before anyone says "why would i send my traffic to competition" well an even more competitive online industry has been doing this for years to great sucess.

[PTC]

an even more competitive online industry has been doing this for years to great sucess.

you mean porntube?

You are effectively just converting users in some way. Poker traffic is more valuable than porn id imagine and if you are good enough to convert people, why would you send them to a site where the only benefit is the same # of people in return traffic? You would have to find a sucker to send you more valuable traffic than you are sending them.

What are you gonna do once they send you traffic in return? from what you say, it will just be the same number of reciprical visitors coming back to you and you'll just have to convert them instead of the original visitors. So your net gain in traffic is basically zero and all you have done is piss off a few googlebots and gotten yourself flagged.

[Squizzel]

say you have links at the bottom of your page or halfwaydown your page in a sidebar connected to a tradescript. People who get to looking at this point are less likely to want to buy something so why not send to someone else.

Just because you dont have something that will interest someone doesnt mean other people wont.

I understand that people have xyz google traffic they would not want to start sending there visitors to other sites without it. But sites with similar quality traffic could benefit from this kind of thing.

[Unknown Webmaster]

say you have links at the bottom of your page or halfwaydown your page in a sidebar connected to a tradescript. People who get to looking at this point are less likely to want to buy something so why not send to someone else.

I have a lot of visitors who scroll all the way to the bottom of the page, and then go to one of the sites I promote.

[Squizzel]

I think thats unlikely, but i guess it depends on your definition of alot. Most clickouts to sponsors will happen above the fold.

[Unknown Webmaster]

@Squizzel
Even though your conversions may happen above the fold, it doesn't necessarily mean that the people who scroll down won't be converting. The data from my sites suggest that they read the content and then continue to "get rakeback now" and stuff like that.

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Anyway, to get back on the topic

I personally don't think that a traffic trade script that put semi-random links on my site would be able to perform as well as when I put up affiliate offers that are related to the content on a page.

[Trikkur]

I think this could work for sites that are promoting different things. A site that sells something like physical poker items (tables, chips, cards, etc) would be a good person to trade traffic with I would imagine.

It might take some work to make it profitable, but it's not impossible.

[Squizzel]

I think this could work for sites that are promoting different things. A site that sells something like physical poker items (tables, chips, cards, etc) would be a good person to trade traffic with I would imagine.

It might take some work to make it profitable, but it's not impossible.

yeah that could definitely work.

[Squizzel]

I think i came off wrong, what i was trying to put across is: Isnt it better to have control of how your visitor leaves your site if its not too a sponsor? Why not get a visitor back for nothing instead getting nothing from that surfer.

The hard thing is determining if that surfer is a browser or a buyer i guess. If they are eventually going to signup through your aff link you dont want to send them off to one of your "competitors" so they can get the sale.

So i guess its a fine line which most webmasters in this niche have decided to bypass completly.