What are best traffic sources for newbie affiliates?

[bleety.com]

Hey everyone

Just got my site up with couple of affiliate programs and are wondering what are best traffic sources for newbie affiliates/websites?

Should I go the route of SEO and target the niches?
Advertise on other gambling portals?
Pursue some kind of bootstrapped online guerrilla marketing strategy trying to find individual experienced players to try my site?

Thanks, Vic

 

[MacCOR]

I will second the question if you don't mind
I just started dealing in affiliate programs recently and I'm still feeling a little overwhelmed. Any tips and/or guides will be very appreciated!

 

[KasinoKing]

Honest answer?
You need to build you website first. I had a look and you have an extremely basic home-page and 4 pretty poor casino review pages.
For me, Playtech casinos are TERRIBLE for attracting players - and that's all you have.

Build a big, informative, well laid-out site - wait 6 months and the players will come eventually.
Sorry, but there's no easy route into making money being an affiliate - it takes a LOT of hard work.

Good luck.
KK

 

[KasinoKing]

I will second the question if you don't mind
I just started dealing in affiliate programs recently and I'm still feeling a little overwhelmed. Any tips and/or guides will be very appreciated!

First tip: Look at the programs listed in the lower part of this forum (start from the forum home page): Work with the Sponsor / Certified ones if possible, and be VERY careful if looking to work at any "Predatory" or "Rogue" ones below them.
(Some of these are OK IMO)

When looking at a new program, these are the first things I ALWAYS look at:
Do they have NCO? (Negative Carry-Over) - if they do, I won't work with them.
Do they have ANY minimum quota rules? Vary bad news for small or start-up affiliates.
What is the minimum commission payment? If it's over £/€/$100 I won't work with them.
If possible, look at how the casinos treat their players. Good casinos usually have good affy programs, and vice-versa.

KK

 

[kazinoportal]

Honest answer?
You need to build you website first. I had a look and you have an extremely basic home-page and 4 pretty poor casino review pages.
For me, Playtech casinos are TERRIBLE for attracting players - and that's all you have.

Build a big, informative, well laid-out site - wait 6 months and the players will come eventually.
Sorry, but there's no easy route into making money being an affiliate - it takes a LOT of hard work.

Good luck.
KK

Very correct answer

 

[MacCOR]

Thanks KasinoKing, I'll definitely check that out.

Small offtopic: I saw your first post in the topic has a 'like', but personally I don't see the option to like and I wanted to show my appreciation Is this only available after a specific number of posts or something?

 

[Guard Dog]

Thanks KasinoKing, I'll definitely check that out.

Small offtopic: I saw your first post in the topic has a 'like', but personally I don't see the option to like and I wanted to show my appreciation Is this only available after a specific number of posts or something?

The 'Like' is now off to the right under 'quote', 'reply'. It probably wasn't there before, I just upgraded your account to 'AGD Member'

 

[Viriatu]

Aside from the obvious part of choosing the right partners, that seems secondary now in your case, i would sugest starting to make a list of question you have on the player side and provide the answers in serious articles, make some review, solid partners only of course, so your crowd can reach the info, then wait a year always rinsing and repeating and you will be on the right track.

Dont expect it to be an easy ride.

 

[bleety.com]

Honest answer?
You need to build you website first. I had a look and you have an extremely basic home-page and 4 pretty poor casino review pages.
For me, Playtech casinos are TERRIBLE for attracting players - and that's all you have.

Build a big, informative, well laid-out site - wait 6 months and the players will come eventually.
Sorry, but there's no easy route into making money being an affiliate - it takes a LOT of hard work.

Good luck.
KK

Thanks for honesty and great advice KK!

We plan to add tons of reviews and new features as well - we are just not sure if anyone will use them

As first step we would add more reviews and then slowly introduce some social features we had in mind.

Once again thanks for great feedback!

Vic

 

[muffincrumbs]

SeO is the best bet, but as you know, it doesn't come with out a lot of hard work. It is sometimes pretty random, but stumbleupon can deliver some serious traffic. One of my pages has been stumbled over 7k times. Getting that many means you have to have submitted a lot of good content, but I find that it is worth getting into because of the value of targeted traffic alone. Best bet is to put a blog on your site and stumble articles. I don't bite and I follow other online gambling affiliates back http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbler/muffincrumbs

 

[SEOmike]

You have to build your website first, but I think waiting 6 months may be a bit overkill... You can wait and just build content and be relatively succesful sure, but there's no need to do that, you can make a good quality website in a month, just make sure to keep updating it and don't stop there.

For traffic, I would recommend SEO, but target very low competition keywords at first. And longtails. Even if a term only brings in a couple of visitors a day, it's still valuable to a new affiliate, and you can target several and slowly build your way up into the more competive keywords.

 

[Guard Dog]

great advice guys. I think I might take some of this in also

 

[SEOmike]

To add, I just saw your website and it seems you don't even have meta tags yet? You need to read up on on-page SEO first and improve your site a lot if you wish to go the SEO route for traffic.

 

[honestgaz]

Im sorry but majority of this advice is like 1990's, which doesn't work anymore. The stumble one might I've never tried stumble.. But building a site and waiting doesn't do it any more. Going for long-tail seo also is majorly hit and miss. There are so many factors involved it's ridiculous, plus the competition is beyond fierce in every aspect of the sector. Seems competitors are getting better and better and better at ranking too.

 

[Guard Dog]

The whole point of long tail is dead right... a new site won't rank for 'online casinos'. Just not going to happen due to aged sites, authority sites, and linked-up sites. But long tail gives you the ability to hit some lesser terms and rank. It's completely valid and not a 1990's idea. Do it right.. pick the right terms and it is easy.

There are lots of factors for sure, but it isn't impossible. Just look in the engines and you will see some new-ish sites creeping into your ranks.

 

[SEOmike]

Im sorry but majority of this advice is like 1990's, which doesn't work anymore. The stumble one might I've never tried stumble.. But building a site and waiting doesn't do it any more. Going for long-tail seo also is majorly hit and miss. There are so many factors involved it's ridiculous, plus the competition is beyond fierce in every aspect of the sector. Seems competitors are getting better and better and better at ranking too.

Not true. Just because you can't do it doesn't mean it doesn't work. If you go for really low competition keywords you should have no problems at all.

Plus, what would you suggest he does?

 

[honestgaz]

I challenge you to give me 1 long tail keyword that would convert. Because in my experience it just doesnt convert at all.

 

[Guard Dog]

I challenge you to give me 1 long tail keyword that would convert. Because in my experience it just doesnt convert at all.

I don't think 'Give me your converting keywords' is going to fly bud I know I am not going to give you any of mine, lol. Maybe someone will, but why? So someone else can outrank them right away with an aged site? I don't think so.

 

[muffincrumbs]

Here one very good converting long tail keyword. "Mobile Casino Party" try it!

 

[lalalaenhund]

I challenge you to give me 1 long tail keyword that would convert. Because in my experience it just doesnt convert at all.

"Where should I bet grandma's inheritance?"