GPWA Times Magazine - Issue 41 - July 2018

had some earnings already. I think it was about $12 in total, but the fire was lit. Lots of links posted wherever I could post them back in 2004 quickly went to top 10 rankings for a few good keywords, got me moving forward. When did you start launching oth- er sites? Once I learned that I can have all my data in a database, this was a game-changer for sure. A new site back then was a simple as a logo, some colors and throw in the database! You can see by my old sites that have not been updated what they looked like back in the pre-2010 era, such as bonuscasino.ws . So with this in mind I made a bunch of sites, and one with a no-deposit casino URL did so well for no reason that it was sold for a quite a large sum at the time. Are you a full-time affiliate? I am now a full-time affiliate. I think I quit my job in 2011 or 2013 – I really cannot remember at this point. When work was getting in the way of me making more I knew it was time to leave, but it was still a scary process with two young children at the time. Your sites cover a variety of ver- ticals. What are the benefits of covering a lot of verticals rather than specializing in just one or two? As far as many verticals, because Allfreechips covers them all it’s all just one process for me, while allowing for some specific sites like Hotslot. It’s really just a byproduct of the data I have for Allfree. The big challenge right now is finding out some casinos are either gone or renamed, or the links just no longer work. My method is to have all casinos listed and let the players vote openly on them, giving them a real us- er-based guide for others to read. I do step in when I get a complaint, and if I feel that the casino is not holding up its end, they find their way to my growing rogue section. What makes your sites unique? In 2004 this was simple. I loved sites with tables of information, and then I loved the sites with forums. So I combined them together to make AFC. At the time, to me this was a new way of doing things. Although I found there were a couple of others like this already, such as casi- no-crush, AFC has always seemed to be unique for some reason. I try to keep up with design changes and technology, al- though as a one-man show things move a bit slowly for me, but I am building some software to eliminate most of my concerns with multiple sites. Learning early on that you cannot stress about things you cannot control is the largest lesson learned . . . A big affiliate closing the doors , or Google no longer loving your site , are all things that getting upset about won’t do any good . 51 W W W . G P W A T I M E S . O R G