14 July 2010 GPWA Times Newsletter
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July 14, 2010 |
  Mark is a "house husband" and a "full-time" affiliate. Read why this Englishman believes affiliates should stay away from programs that have negative carryover. Read the interview GPWA podcast on French regulationsGPWA Managing Editor Vin Narayanan is joined by Itsik and Dorrit from Everest Affiliates to discuss the new regulations for online poker in France and their impact for affiliates. Perspectives Weekly turns up the heat Summer has finally arrived in the Pacific Northwest, and J. Todd has hot stories on Harrah's, the World Series of Poker, and casinos seizing player's winnings. Income Access reaches deal with VueTec Income Access will provide VueTec affiliate marketing software to manage its affiliate programs. UB.com rewards German players The poker room is giving away three seats every Sunday for an event at the King's Casino in the Czech Republic. Maple Casino releases three new games "Argyle Open," "Dragon Lady" and "Lion's Pride" are three new video slots now available at Maple Casino. Platinum Play unveils new slot games The online casino has released three new video slot machines to its growing collection of games. Mega Moolah slot cracks $3.5 million mark The popular progressive slot machine is available at Sun Vegas Casino in four different themes. Sun Bingo giving away cars for a month Players have a chance to win a brand new Fiat 500 when they play at Sun Bingo as the site is giving away the cars every day for a month. Holyfield, Real Deal Poker a natural match Real Deal Poker, an online poker room that deals "real" cards to simulate online play, has signed Evander "the Real Deal" Holyfield as a spokesman. Butlers Bingo launches affiliate program Butlers Bingo's new affiliate program offers bingo, slot games, casino games and scratch cards. Casino Titan offering free no-deposit bonus The online casino is offering a free $7 sign-up bonus to players interested in playing its variety of games. Italian has "Fast Hands" at Scratch2Cash An Italian player won £50,000 on the recently launched "Fast Hands" scratch game at Scratch2Cash.   August 15 - 17Affiliate Summit East This three-day conference includes an exhibit hall with affiliate merchants, vendors and networks, as well as multiple tracks of educational sessions covering the latest trends and information from affiliate marketing experts.  August 27 - 30CBG Affiliate Weekend This weekend has been created with one goal in mind: Give active webmasters and affiliate programs around the world the opportunity to gather in gambling-friendly Canada. |
 UK advertisers spent £3.54 billion online in 2009, up 5.7 percent from 2008.
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Inbound links to a Web site are an important factor used by search engines to determine how high the page and the site being linked to should appear in search results. Almost all webmasters exchange links with other webmasters as part of a strategy to increase the number of inbound links to their sites because of that fact. What about you? Do you currently participate in link exhanges with other webmasters to increase the number of links to your sites? If you have exchanged links, how many current links do you have on that basis? View pollLast week's poll results: How did the second quarter of 2010 compare with the first quarter of 2010? View poll
Buzzy has been hard at work this week chasing down the latest industry rumors and gossip. Here's a quick look at Buzzy's top finds:
Nevada congresswoman calls UIGEA a "bust"Online site logos common in Vegas casinosItalian soccer league now named Serie bwinBetting on lower-tier tennis match questioned
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I have a link to another website (not an affiliate link) as part of an agreement. However, I would like to track the link to see if it worth to continue the agreement after the current agreement expire. I have a link checking program that changes the link. My question is will that compromise the backlink of that link? After all, the reason for the link is for a backlink. Will a search engine not see that link and the anchor text the same as it would if I would use the Web site's actually domain name? read more
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