Advice

[xYassassinYx]

Hey guy's just after some advice from you expert's lol

So I am about to get back into poker affiliating after a very hectic few months. One thing I have been really struggling with this past week is deciding whether to go the rakeback route or rev-share/cpa.

This will be for a main site which I will update every day and will be able to focus all my attention on. I've never dealt with rakeback before but I assume I would need a lot of players to make a decent amount per month due to the percentages? (as far as I have noticed the average % seem's to be 3-10%) or would I just be best building a player base on rev-share?

Any input will be really helpful so thank's

[MJ]

I'll start off:

CPA will be your fastest route to meaningful income, unless you get lucky or can target high value players somehow.

I'm personally a revshare kind of guy, I only get CPA's at Stars. It's tougher to make a lot of money at first, but it adds up especially if you focus on a couple of well established rooms that don't offer rakeback.

Rakeback - I personally feel like you should always offer your players the best deal, so if a room offers rakeback you should give it to your players. This too will add up, although it's getting difficult to get high value rakeback players anymore and search engine rakeback signups seem to have much lower value than referrals or players you can recruit offline.

In the end, you have to build the business that works best for you. If I was just starting out after all the mistakes I made I'd be taking a niche that most people would say would say is a "minisite" but actually build it out to 50-100 pages so I could literally dominate the market.

Even if it only signs up a couple players a month, it will add up in time. Way too many affiliates are building 10 page sites and moving on to the next site, without really building anything that good.

Others will chime in...

[Unknown Webmaster]

I would advice you to listen to MJ, he wrote some really good advice.

One thing though, I would chose a very generic sounding domain name for the site, so the domain won't place restrictions on what you can put on the site.

When you build a big site targeting a small niche you don't really need keywords in the domain anyway, and after 1-2 months there simply won't be anymore you can write about the topic, and you will want to expand into other areas.

[xYassassinYx]

Yeah, thank's for the advice guy's I'm just trying to plan as much as I can before I begin the site lol

[Randy Ray]

If you can sell advertising for a flat fee, then that's the best way to go. You can get your money upfront and reinvest a portion of it into your site. That will enable you to grow your site faster.

Failing that, CPA is the next best thing. You get a flat fee for every depositing player you refer who qualifies. Lifetime MGR SOUNDS like a good deal, but you don't get your money all at once; it's spread out over months and years. Would you rather have $100 now, or $200 spread out over the next 48 months? I'll take my $100 upfront, thank you very much.

I never messed with rakeback. It always seemed like an unnecessary headache to me.

[CK]

I like Randy's reply and agree 100% with that. I don't care for rakeback. Call me greedy whatever but it takes a lot of players to work up enough for Rev share let alone taking that extra cut that affiliates take to offer rakeback. So if your only making 3% - 10% how long is it going to take you to build a player base that's solid enough to really profit from.

Certainly someone who's been at that niche for the last couple of years is making money, but for MYSELF Im not even gonna bother with it. Not to mention all the other issues and players bouncing from one skin to another etc..

meh CPA just seems to make more sense. I get paid.

[xYassassinYx]

Yeah CPA seem's to be the best option for me, certainly at the moment anyway.

As for Randy's comment about selling advertising, do you mean banner ads or links or what? Would people really pay even though it will be a newly created site?

Thanks for all the input it's really helped

[Tower1987]

Hi man!
I am a beginner affiliate and i just bit can speak english.
I would like ask that when will be this money?
How many poker rooms advisable to advertise?
Is it recommended to rakeback or not?