Blogging Lecture at Affiliate Summit
January 12, 2006
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I attended a blogging workshop at the Affiliate Summit in Vegas. Dave Taylor was the speaker.
The presentation was compelling. Those who know me also know that I am very vocal at presentations – I didn’t say a single thing here. Why not? I agreed with everything.
Dave’s opinions about how to run a successful website were exactly the same as mine. Like me, he built his sites on content and pretty much ignored SEO except for basic spider friendliness.
Games and Casino makes extensive use of blogs as of late, although our web presence is built on the site. With Dave it is largely the other way around, he built things mostly on blogs.
I found the lecture truly inspiring – I left there vowing to take better care of my blogs.
Another decision I made is to open up this blog to public posting.
I came away completely convinced that blogs are the best thing since sliced bread. The simplicity, the search engine friendliness, the great opportunity they provide for affiliates to express the important attributes of their offers – what else can you ask for?
Ok, off I go to figure out how to open this up for you guys to post.
Thanks, Dave, for an inspiring talk!
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Thanks for attending and for your kind words. You are blogging in an interesting space – there are lots of compelling reasons people would read a gambling/casino related blog, but there are zillions of people trying to game the search engines (ironically!) to get better placement. Good luck!
I recently became very interested in blogging. I don’t yet have a blog of my own, but I am planning to set one up soon. I will probably use WordPress to power the blog, since WordPress is offered by my webhost. I might also set up a Blogger blog.
When i relaunched my affiliate ventures i decided to concentrate solely on blogs. The built in blog features such as trackbacks, pinging and comments such as this one lend themselves to good solid seo. My traffic has grown considerably in a reasonably short time.
This is not to say that blogging makes things any easier. You still need to write good content, and it takes a lot of discipline to post every day. A couple of my blogs have fallen by the wayside, and to tell the truth i struggle with the discipline.
With the re-invention of the internet to Web 2.0, its essential for gambling affiliates to grab the opportunity by the horns and take action now. The new internet is much more interactive, personal and very connected (shock, horror, your visitors may even get to know your name).
Blogging is very much a part of Web 2.0.
One of the problems we gambling affiliates have is guarding our links with our lives. Every outgoing link is worth gold to us, so the concept of allowing links left, right and center in the form of comments and trackbacks is almost sickening. Unfortunately it is this feature that makes blogging so successfull, and if we dont accept it we are going to get left behind. I’m sure there will be some diehards that will never open up their blogs for fear of losing control of their outgoing traffic.
Welcome to Web 2.0.
Well i think blogs are a really good way to gain some traffic also to increase Linkpop to your other sites…
But as for linktrading i think we must have them allways in mind…
of course there are a lot of scammers…
so i whould advise to check your trades from time to time
I also have just re-entered the industry and have to agree that blogging is the way to go to jump start revenue potential. However, it is not as easy as it looks. Best of luck to everyone on this. On a side note, hope you get well soon, Dom.
Dom, I always enjoy reading your contributions at CAP, and have been very helpful to a new affiliate like myself. Never really thought of blogging until reading this, and after doing a little research on my own, it does look blogging has some great potential. Keep up the great work.