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This past month I have done very little work and to be honest I don’t expect to become too productive until the summer is over.  I have several more trips planned and with many of my buddies not working it’s just too easy to go out and party.  That being said, I am doing a little work here and there on a new sports betting site I am working on.

I am currently just creating content.  I have about 20 pages done and I’m looking to get at least 30 more done before launching the website.  Then I will be adding daily posts with odds, predictions and sports betting news.

I have pretty big plans for this website and for this reason this will be the first time I hire a web designer to create my template.  I have a pretty good idea of what I want and I’ll hopefully be able to have the template ready and start adding some of the content soon.

The website domain I’m going to go with is sportsbetlistings.com.  It came down to sportsbetlistings.com or choicesportsbetting.com and in the end after talking to many people I decided to go with sportsbetlistings.com because it sounds more official and trustworthy.

This isn’t much of an update, but I haven’t been doing too much lately and most of my work time in the near future will be focussed on this project!

So far my summer has not been very productive in terms of online affiliate marketing.  I’ve only been working about one day a week and to be honest I’m not too upset about that.  I wanted to enjoy my summer and get outside for a lot of basketball, beach volleyball, soccer and blading and so far I’ve been able to do a lot of that and also hit the bar on occasion.  After about a month and a half of slacking off the urge to be productive has hit me and I am considering creating a large sports betting website.

The World Cup really pushed me in this direction because I really have no website that will benefit from all of the World Cup attention around the globe.  I have a champions league betting website, but that won’t generate sign ups and neither will my various nhl and nba websites.  This fact along with what I’ve been hearing about google possibly giving better rankings to larger branded sites rather than the super targetted mini sites I’ve been making has really made me consider creating a large sports betting portal.

At the moment I’m trying to figure out a great domain name that is brandable and memorable and I have enlisted the help of friends and family to give me their take on some domain names I’m considering.  If I do make this website I want to do it right so I will also be buying a custom made template and will be writing over 50 pages of content pre-launch.  I just think there are so many extra things you can do with a large website that you can’t really do with a minisite (contests, mailing lists, etc).

In other news I’ve been plugging away at the CPAlead websites and have been making ok money.  It’s enough for me to continue pumping out the websites, but it’s nothing spectacular like I was hoping it could be.  The websites don’t take long to create or rank for though so it’s still worthwhile for me now until I find something that takes up that time and is more profitable.

Also, this month I’m going to be trying to build more links to my PKR bonus code and Full Tilt referral code websites.  They are both at the bottom of the first page or top of the second for their main terms and I hope to improve on that by the end of the month.

Anyways, that’s enough for me right now.  I hope everyone is enjoying the nice weather and your websites are doing well…even if it is without much TLC at this time of the year .

I haven’t posted in a while so I’m going to start off by referring back to my last post which was dedicated to my ranking goals for the end of April and early May.  To start off, I did try to get a few more links to my NHL betting website by writing a couple articles for friends websites and doing more link exchanges.  However, I seem to have dropped a little bit in the rankings.  Hopefully once the links are found Google will adjust the rankings and I will be bumped up.  It could be a little too late though, with the NHL season almost coming to a close.

If you read my last post you’ll also know my NHL bracket is completely busto.  I had the Caps vs the Red Wings in the finals…..enough said.  My NBA Odds website is tops in Canada for its main keywords and 4th in Google USA.  I’ve been getting my best traffic numbers ever to that site so I’m happy about that.  I would still like to move up in the USA Google though because thats where most of the NBA searches will take place.  My NBA betting lines and NBA spreads traffic have been down though, so I’ll need to work on getting some more link to those sites.

The Kentucky Derby site I partnered with Kevin for exceeded both of our expectations!  It didn’t look good coming up on the Derby, but the weekend removed all doubts.  We’re now working on a Bet Belmont Stakes site for the third race of the triple crown.  Hopefully Super Saver can win the Preakness race so there will be a ton of interest surrounding Belmont and if Super Saver can win the triple crown!

This month I will also be trying to improve my calls to action on the majority of my websites.  I haven’t used buttons yet, but seeing how well the button converted on the Derby site made me realize that they were definitely worth the investment and the time!

CPALead hasn’t been doing as well for me lately and it’s making me consider getting out of the movie site niche after using all of the domains I registered.  The first two movie sites I created have done very well, but since then I haven’t been able to rank in the same fashion.  I’ve been doing things pretty well the same way and it’s making me think that there is just more competition now for those terms.  I also like the idea of a website being able to make me money year after year and the movie sites do dwindle to near nothing a couple months after the release.  It’s something to think about anyways.

This month I have been kind of slacking off a bit thanks to the school year winding down.  I’ve been spending most of my time hanging out with friends, studying for a few exams and watching the start of the NHL playoffs.

I have a few SERP goals that I want to meet by the end of April, so I’m going to be trying to build a few more links to these sites over the next few weeks.  First of all, with the NHL playoffs starting I’m going to try to build some more links to my NHL betting website.  NHL betting hasn’t been a big earner for me over the course of the season, but I’m hoping it will pick up now that the meaningful games have begun.  For anyone who is interested my pick to win the cup this year was the Washington Capitals.  I have them defeating the Red Wings in the finals in my playoff bracket.  The Wings are in tough against the Coyotes right now though, so my bracket could be busted fairly early.

The NBA playoffs have also begun, so I’m going to by trying to build some links to my NBA odds website.  I currently rank about 4th for the main key terms, but I would like to break into the top 3 by the end of the month.  In the NBA I have the Orlando Magic as champions.  We’ll see how that pans out.

Finally, the Kentucky Derby is coming up and that is a huge event for converting new online sports bettors.  For this years Kentucky Derby I have partnered up with my buddy Kevin from PAL.  He built a bet on Kentucky Derby site and we have been building links to it for the past month in an attempt to rank for the Derby.

This is a great time of year for sports betting with the NHL and NBA playoffs in full stride with the Kentucky Derby right around the corner.  In order to cash in on the sports betting that will be taking place I have to buckle down, build some links, write some content and try to move up in the SERPS.

Over the past couple of weeks I have seen first hand the amount of money that can be made from CPALead.  For people who don’t know CPALead is an affiliate company that pays out affiliates for getting visitors to fill out surveys in order to unlock content at their websites.  A page will be locked on a site and the visitor will have to complete a survey in order to be able to see the page.

There are a ton of websites that CPALead can be successful on.  Here are just a few types of niche sites that could work with CPALead:

• Movie Sites/TV Show Sites (This is what I am getting into at the moment)
• Download Sites (ie, ring tones, files, games, etc.)
• Incentive Sites (ie, game sites where players can earn game dollars by filling out surveys, a site where a player must collect a certain number of points to buy prizes by filling out surveys)
• High Quality Content pages (something like NBA trade rumours could work if the user has to fill out a survey to gain access to the site for a month or something)

There are a ton of ways you can get visitors to fill out surveys and rake in the cash.

Here is my subaffiliate link for CPAlead if you decide to sign up.

My CPALead Projects At The Moment

At the moment I’ve been making movie sites for most of the big upcoming movies.  I also made a Watch Blue Mountain State Online website where visitors have to fill out a survey in order to get access to the entire first season.  I was very happy to get the www.watchbluemountainstate.com domain and I think that it will prove to be a profitable site because that show is absolutely hilarious.  If any of you haven’t seen it you should definitely check it out.  Just post a comment with your email and I’ll send you the link to bypass the surveys if you want.

So far I’ve only had 2 movies be released that I have sites for and I’ve already made over $400.  I think this could be a great market and I’m going to explore it as much as possible.

One of my upcoming movie sites is Watch Date Night online.  I think this movie, featuring Steve Carell could really take off.

CPALead Signing Up

Anyways I really think everyone should give CPALead a shot.  I’ve given a lot of methods to make money using their program in this post already.  Hopefully I didn’t create some competition for myself .  If you do sign up at CPALead because of this post I would really appreciate it if you signed up through my subaffiliate link.

This past week I decided to look for some more “bonus code” type domains for some of the newer online poker rooms or casinos.  I’ve found myself doing this more, using the keyword search on google to find some bonus code terms that get a few hundred searches a month and then finding some exact match domains on godaddy.  I then just threw up some quick content and sites, grabbed a few links and am waiting and hoping that they rank well for the specific terms.

Here are the sites I made in the single day:

PKR Casino Bonus Code – The PKR casino is relatively new, but I have heard that they are attempting to make it the only true 3D casino online.  I believe in the PKR software and I think this casino could take off in the next year or so.  I’m hoping people will search for “pkr casino bonus code” instead of just “pkr bonus code” when they are signing up for the casino.  If they do, then this exact match will definitely be an earner soon if I can get near the top of the first page.

I also created a William Hill promo code site and a Ruby Bingo coupon code site.  Each of these sites are exact match domains and I’m hoping to get a couple sign ups a month from each.  A couple sign ups doesn’t sound like much, but for such simple sites that only took a few hours to create I will take it.  I’m not sure if I will be able to get these pages ranking well with the few links that I’ve obtained, but I’m going to wait and see and grab some more links if necessary.

Simple sites like this that get maybe 1 or 2 sign ups a month may seem like a waste of time, but considering the amount of effort they require I find them to be well worthwhile.  If you consider a sportsbettor/poker/casino player worth ~$100 (they are probably worth more) and a bingo player worth ~$50 then 1 sign-up/month at each of these 3 sites would result in ~$3000 per year.

Little bonus code type sites are quick to create and if the terms aren’t too competitive they are easy to rank for.  Then they can start earning you a nice little income with hardly any upkeep.  These numbers may be a little bit off, but you get my idea.

The websites I created don’t look very good and I will have to try to improve this when I start to get some traffic, but even the way they are they will likely convert because visitors will be looking for a specific thing (the bonus code), which my websites will provide.  That’s the great thing about bonus code terms.  It’s very easy to convert when the traffic you receive is already planning on signing up at the casino/poker room.

I’ve been reading many of the top poker affiliate blogs for several months now and I finally decided to create my own.  I’m planning to use this blog to track my successes and failures, which will hopefully inspire new affiliates to try to make some money online.  I’m also hoping that this blog will keep me motivated to success in the online gambling industry and to continue to explore new niches.

How I Got To This Point

Some of you who will be reading this probably already know a little bit about me, but I’ll take this opportunity to just give a brief overview of my life as an affiliate so far.

When I started at the University of Ottawa about 4 years ago I was really into poker and I was making some ok money just playing poker online.  I think this is how a lot of people got started in the poker affiliate industry and I was no different.  I knew there was money to be made as a poker affiliate so from here I made my first online poker forum (which is now long gone) and ran freerolls, while also trying to get my players to sign up at new poker rooms.

This was a lot of fun, but I still had no clue about how to be a successful poker affiliate because I hadn’t yet found PAL (or PAP or PAW, whatever was the place to be at the time).

After I had closed down my forum I was still trying to get my friends to sign up at poker rooms to collect the CPA’s, etc.  I then stumbled upon Poker Affiliate Programs and I was hooked.  I now am always surfing Poker Affiliate Listings (the new place to be), to try to stay up to date on the happenings of the poker affiliate industry and to work with the other members to improve our sites.

I would still call myself a small affiliate, but I’m continuing to grow.  I’ve been moving into the sports betting industry over the past year and I now have close to 40 sites in online gambling.  I’ve also been starting to test the waters of online movie sites with cpalead.  So far I’ve had fairly good results (I’ll be looking at this in my next post).

Why I Do It

I absolutely love being an online entrepreneur.  I always planned to work for myself, as I did pretty well all through high school and I love the challenge and freedom of running my own business.  So I’m planning to be around for a while!

Check back for posts often as I plan on updating about 2 times a month.  I’ll be updating with tips, observations, goals and anything else I can think of.