Request for Review: www.droptherake.com

[DropTheRake]

Hello,
I am new here, and while I read as many of your posts as I can, I would appreciate it if you could please take a moment to browse my poker affiliate site:
Best Online Poker Rake Back Site, Open to U.S. Players, Now With On-Demand Payouts!

Any comments, suggestions or questions are appreciated.
Thanks,
DropTheRake

[CK]

Yes Ill be blunt - build your own site and stop using those auto generated, non-customizable CMS systems the rakeback providers offer. They suck 100%.

I really can't review the rest because your site is 1 of 100 or maybe even 1000 using the same layout, same structure, same everything, including the content. Which means your site looks like everyone else's and I would be very surprised if you were making any money in 6 mths or close to what you could if you didn't have such an out of the box site

I'm not trying to come down on you, but I see so many of you rakeback guys post for site reviews and nobody fixes what's broken.

So from now on I will just say it - the rakeback templates suck and to move on from them. Im sure you can still use RE, PAS, RU or whatever company you want with the backend, just hire a proper designer and code if you want to make some money.

As for what you can do to help yourself - don't use the reviews that they gave you (assuming you have as the content is published on multiple sites). Write your own. You can't expect to put up a website in a matter of 30 minutes and expect to make money from it. That would be easy

[jdwanchalk]

That. I never understood how new RB affiliates expect to get new players without tons of content and whatnot. You can't just stick up offers and expect players to come by in droves. Maybe in 2003, but not in 2010.

[addaminsane]

i think the main problem with these premade sites is duplicate content and no seo control. At this point, i think if alot of players end up at a site that solely revolves around rakeback, they will google rakeback, end up at rakeback.com, and all you've really done is filtered a very provocative looking program a new player.

i was thinking about looking at PAS for a site, but if i cant have complete control over most of the page content and title tags and have it as a subfolder, its hard for me to want to spend any effort on integrating it into a website. PAS looks pretty great on deuces cracked though.

[kushmoney]

i think the main problem with these premade sites is duplicate content and no seo control. At this point, i think if alot of players end up at a site that solely revolves around rakeback, they will google rakeback, end up at rakeback.com, and all you've really done is filtered a very provocative looking program a new player.

i was thinking about looking at PAS for a site, but if i cant have complete control over most of the page content and title tags and have it as a subfolder, its hard for me to want to spend any effort on integrating it into a website. PAS looks pretty great on deuces cracked though.

Let me step in and say yes you can change all those things. Most new affiliates have no idea what they doing so they just roll with it and start building backlinks. Most fail to realize what a unique design does for a site. Even some affiliate managers fail to realize as well.

For my PAS site, I have added unique content, change the content on the rakeback sign up pages, and added my own title, keywords, and description tags to all my pages. I also bought a custom design and logo which should be added to my site this week.

All in all, it comes down to what you know and what you willing to do to make your site a profitable rakeback site. So for the OPer, get a custom design and logo. Add unique content, change any content you can, and most importantly find a niche or market to focus on and not just be like every other rakeback site that only offers Rakeback! Build a community, teach players how to play a poker game, or something. Come up with something!

Just my 2 cents.

[CK]

I would be interested to see your site kush - not to critique it but to see if you've really been able to get away from the out of the box, ready to go rakeback site. I wouldnt even comment on anything - just to see really.

imho, the majority of rakeback sites suck because they are all the same, and I've yet to see one of the PAS or RE sites that isn't nearly identical to the other sites within that network.

*This along with the other posts on this forum from rakeback affiliates asking for reviews or help with the cms should be a huge wake up call to the main rakeback providers*

[kushmoney]

pm sent Kaus

[Tea Flow]

I would be interested to see your site kush - not to critique it but to see if you've really been able to get away from the out of the box, ready to go rakeback site. I wouldnt even comment on anything - just to see really.*

Bettr.ru

Does that look like any other PAS site you have ever seen? Designs like that are possible within our CURRENT CMS with no assistance from PAS staff.

Oh, and special thanks to Kush for stepping in.

[kushmoney]

I would be interested to see your site kush - not to critique it but to see if you've really been able to get away from the out of the box, ready to go rakeback site. I wouldnt even comment on anything - just to see really.

The link is in my sig. now

Oh, and special thanks to Kush for stepping in.

You welcome