Critique these Poker Dealing Banners for Affiliates

I am in the process of having banners created for our texas holdem dealing course and wanted to get some feedback. This is the 1st revision of the banners. I can’t change up the text as what it says but I can revise the images the colors and things of that nature. They are designed to grab the attention of the poker player and show them an opportunity to make good money doing something they are interested in already. Feel free to post your thoughts in the PAL thread requesting a critique of these poker dealing banners.

My thoughts are that pretty much these are about what I expected and I’m fairly happy with them. I think they will flow from the banner through the landing page fairly well even if the green colors are a little off. I think they should stand out being something a little different, they are not ‘too annoying’ but should get noticed. I think I need to change the roulette background image to something more poker dealing related…

What do you think be brutal, I have 5 free revisions I can work with so I would love feedback.

After awesome advice and critique from the members over at the PAL Forums, I revised them and they turned out like this: Poker Dealer Affiliate Banners

Testing a geo-targeting CTA Plugin

This is just a test to figure out how to utilize the newest plugin.

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“PooP’s” Posting Rules

Oyes, one of my favorite writers just made my day.

Ahh, the subtle mockery. I love it.

POOP’s Forum Posting Rules

CAP, PAP, Cardspike Drama Comes to a Head

Oh the irony

oh the folly

of Lou Fabaino

and Warren Jolly.

Well, who couldn’t see this train wreck coming a few months back?   With claims of embezzlement, millions stolen,  admissions and accusations,  we are proud to deliver the following:

• An “Email fro Lou” claiming Unauthorized Actions by Warren Jolly
• Warren’s post called ‘The Truth’ over at CAP
• Randy Ray Retires from PAP – good timing
  
• CasinoMeister’s Forum Thread on the subject
• Gambling Portal Webmasters Thread

I think this about sums it up the best.

Fuckin’ Cardspike and PAP

Man what the hell…CardSpike has gone all to shit or was always has been shit.  Gotta go blacklist the piece of content i did for them… PITA.  I.  Don’t waste your time or monies promoting them.  Long story short is they haven’t paid affiliates in forever.  Dealer Dan sums it up nicely again and stories have been appearing on the big poker media outlets like G911 and 2+2. Also props out to Kaus aka the online slots content producing machine for rounding up a ton of good articles on the situation.

And now to PAP…aka “prof’s house”

I pretty much stay out of the debates like these in the forums but the PAP dudes, other than Randy Ray, seriously can suck it.

Jeremy confirms what we all knew anyway…  c&d bs… lawsuits threatned… really?  That really what you want to do now?  Your best bet would be to just go quiet and let Randy Ray salvage what is left of the train wreck you created.  Whatever you are paying him, it isn’t enough.

It was you assholes who went on a banning spree.

It was you assholes who deleted threads for no good reason.

It was you assholes who went and fucked up your forums.  The PAP forums, when Randy first took over, were going great.  Sincerely… I mean Randy Ray had thoughtful, productive, and engaging content that had the forums going nearly about as best as they ever had been.  Then you guys start going all commando style ‘profs house’ bullshit.  Just suck it PAP, you blew it.  Morons.

Suck it PAP and suck it Cardspike.

the end

So Much Drama at the P.A.Peeee

With so much drama at the P.A.P, it’s kind of hard being Snoop d o double gee.

Holy shit did it hit the fan at the PAP forums the week before Thanksgiving.

Professor, Lou, and by proxy Randy have hit the ‘reset’ button on the PAP forums, deleting a shit pile of posts and banning tons of users for expressing negative opinions.  The only thread I can see left is this one by some dude named wemege who is wondering why all the threads are deleted.  It might be gone before you get a chance to read it.

Now if you haven’t heard, Jeremy Enke retired as the PAP admin a while back.  Not too long after, a new poker affiliate forum was launched and it is by invitation only so you’re going to have to know somebody to get in.  It’s already probably the most active poker affiliate forum on the market.

I don’t know the details of what happened to cause the huge rift, but I do know Lou and the Professor went apeshit on posts over at PAP, deleting and editing posts and for some unknown reason, someone on their staff posted as Jeremy on their forums for some random reason. What they hell ever made someone on PAP think it was a good idea to log into Jeremys account (which he was banned from) and make a stupid ass post like ‘yes thank you’ or something to one of ‘professors house’ post is beyond me.  I don’t get it.

It pissed off some of the affiliates at PAL and a shit storm went to brewing.  Props to the man Dealer Dan for snagging some of the great posts that were deleted in the frenzy.  Dealer Dan’s PDF file of the action.

So, along with that it now seems that Greg has been released with his contract with CardSpike.  Looks like they are turning out to have some serious issues and I’m looking to remove them from my top 10 list on one of my sites.  Previously I had opted to add them in as Greg’s reputation in the industry.

Personally, I’ll still be reading posts over at PAP on occassion but my posts will mostly take place on PAL going forward.

Here is some of the best imagery to capture the drama:

Credit to RSS Poker for the photoshop.

Nice effort from My Poker Corner.

If you’re a member of PAL, the threads that mostly relate to this are here:  Get Banned from PAP Contest, CAP/PAP Post under Jeremys Name

A few cool things have resulted from all of this.  First and foremost the new forums at PAL seem like they are really going to be something special.  If you are a serious poker affiliate you need to be there.  I also love that there are now multiple poker affiliate radio shows to choose from.  Production value and timing of the hosts goes, hands down to the guys at Affiliate Life Radio.

Some Poker Domains You Can Buy

I have enough poker domains but I still love the hunt.  Here are some that I had on my ‘consider’ list that I just can’t purchase because I have enough going on.  Looking for a keyword rich domain?  Take a look…

poker-promo-codes.com
holdempromocodes.com – bought this one
holdempromo.com
best-poker-codes.com
best-codes.com
validpokercodes.com – snagged this one, too .
pokertopcodes.com
top-poker-codes.com
poker-codes-online.com
toppokerstar.com
referral-codes.com
pokersiteusa.com
instantbonuspoker.com
pokerinstantbonus.com
pokerdownloadsite.com
downloadpokersite.com

*more added on 11/4/08

listonlinepoker.com
listpokeronline.com
list-poker.com
pokerchaironline.com
chairpoker.com
onlinepokerseat.com
online-rules.com
rulesonlinepoker.com
strategypokeronline.com
pokerstrategyweb.com
pokerwebtips.com
tipsholdempoker.com
tips-holdem.com
tipsonlinepoker.com
pokergamesstrategy.com
pokeronlinenet.com
poker-cow.com
pokergeekonline.com
locatepoker.com
locatepokeronline.com

If you found a good poker domain name in this list we would really really appreciate a link to this site please!  Thanks Guys and Gals!

Full Disclosure, we use this tool to find these domains and sometimes when we go to register one they are gone. You can also get discount Godaddy Domains from them. Also props to Toronto SEO for putting us on to the domain tool in the first place!

Enjoy the list and good luck with the domain hunting!

The End of an Era – Jeremy Enke Retires as PAP Admin

Jeremy Enke, the driving force behind the community and poker affiliate forums announced on 10/14 that he was retiring as the administrator of the PAP forums.  Jeremy led the forums from their infancy, leading the way posting on the forums as well as recruiting new forum members.

He is the single reason that the forums have became as successful as they are today, and he is the only one that knows the whole story about how the forums ended up as they have now! Let’s just say it has sometimes been a bumpy ride .

Jeremy, thanks man… you are an inspiration and a friend.

Can’t wait to see what you bring out next.

Poker Leagues – Managing Points Video

One of the most popular and recurring theme on the poker affiliate programs forums is the idea of incorporating a poker league into the mix…

Poker leagues are a great way to keep players playing over a period of time, but as many league managers have found out, it is difficult to keep track and display your league results, which is a KEY to maintaining interest in your league.  One of the tools we developed that we are offering our readers free of charge is the Poker Leaderboard Points Management Software, available at Poker-Leaderboard.com.

Poker-Leaderboard Points Video

One of our users, a guy by the name of RC with the Atlanta Poker Club was kind enough to put together a video tutorial on how to enter points using the Poker-Leaderboard points manager. He did it for the tournament directors at the APC but you can see how it works yourself with his video.

Enjoy the video and I hope this video helps save you time!

Did you know? You can send your friends or league players a link to Full Tilt Poker and if they click it, become a real money player and earn 100 FPP’s you will earn $125 bucks? Yep, it’s that easy, and you can also promote other online poker rooms all from one interface. Click Here for Current Commissions

Quality Wordpress Plugins

A few of the online marketing forums I frequent listed out their favorite Wordpress plugins.  I haven’t tried all of these and honestly I just needed a place I could quickly find the links to the plugins whenever I need em, so here goes.

• Wordpress Plugins thread from Poker Affiliate Programs Forums
• My Famous Website Wordpress Plugins

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