One of the biggest overhauls with Poker Affiliate Solutions v3 has been SEO features. As many of you know on-site search engine optimization is one of the cheapest and easiest ways that you can drive traffic to your rakeback website. With PAS v3 your optimization job will be easier than ever.

Feature 1: Default SEO settings

When PAS v3 launches each page on your rakeback website will have… Continue reading

One of our biggest partners announced some changes this week that surprised, upset, scared and even outraged quite a few people.  The simple truth is that these changes will likely have a real bottom line effect on many of our hardworking publishers.  There isn’t much (if anything) most of us individually, or even all of us combined can do about this.  A petition would probably be ignored, a boycott… Continue reading

At PAS, we pride ourselves in giving you options. Why so much choice? Well, I like to think it’s because we are providing you with a tool-set that is capable of crafting a wide range of possibilities. Sure grabbing every single possible offer available is one way to go, but it’s just that, one possibility among many. Continue reading

I’ve recently done a survey of some of the larger players in the rakeback industry and I’m a bit disgusted with the lack of creativity on display. It’s very natural for there to be pervasive trends in web design, and that’s OK. Trends can indicate progress and may be a sign of competition catching up to a surge of rapid development, but trends can also be harbingers of staleness and monotony Continue reading

Hey all, my name is Tim and I am the new affiliate manager alongside Tony here at Poker Affiliate Solutions. I have been a rakeback affiliate since 2004 and in the spring of 2008 I became a Poker Affiliate Solutions publisher. Once I familiarized myself with the CMS there were a few things I did right away to make my site stand out from the crowd. These… Continue reading

Chances are that rakeback isn’t your passion.  Poker might be your passion and rakeback might even be your favorite or predominant source of income, but do you love it?

It’s hard for most to rise above the pack without being self driven, and it’s hard to get that kind of motivation if your not passionate about what it is that you’re doing.

So why not start fresh?  Make… Continue reading

It’s a good idea to keep up with promotions at your most popular online poker rooms. Especially around the holidays, rooms offer many great incentives in addition to your PAS rakeback or bonus offers to attract players. Additionally you may pick up some great ideas concerning how to write copy and market promotions. Continue reading

You don’t need advanced technical skills to make a blueprint. You just need vision, creativity, patience and the right tools. Wireframes Magazine chronicles many simple ways to organize your ideas into a blueprint for a website. There are so many methods that you can choose the one (or several) that works best for you. Continue reading

Most of us have to start out a new venture on a very small scale. Closely looking at an individual sign up, tracker or visitor may offer clues regarding how to attract the next hundred, thousand or hundred thousand visitors. It is those marketers who can discover, evaulate and capitilize on these small clues that will be the next to make the big money. Continue reading

It’s very easy to underestimate how far a little organization can go when it comes to growing your affiliate venture and padding your bottom line. Every new idea, spark of inspiration, or shared insight has the potential to put you ahead of the pack and generate steady, regular revenue – provided you don’t forget about it! Continue reading

We recently collected a library of screen shots showcasing the sign up processes for each website that PAS is currently partnered with. We are happy to make them available to you for your use on your websites. Continue reading

If you’ve courageously explored and tweaked your content (as we want you to) and suddenly came to the realization that something has gone very, very wrong, your not alone. We are always standing by to help diagnose and repair the error, but you will likely find that a solid approach will allow you to quickly fix the problem yourself and perhaps learn a little something in the process. Continue reading

It is cliche that the first step towards a solution is identifying the problem, but it may be so for good reason. Identify and articulate your strengths and weaknesses. Once you have done so, eliminate (for now) those weaknesses that you currently lack the resources to address. Whatever weaknesses are left represent your problem. Continue reading

The revision history is an important tool for both advanced and beginning web page developers… Not only does it allow you to undo mistakes, but it can take your page back to the state it was in weeks, months, or even years ago! Continue reading

This one isn’t so much a tip as a freebie.

I’m hosting a PSD file with many of the Poker Room logos I access on a regular basis for various design department tasks.  Continue reading

A faithful reader of our blog and forums will know that there are many other quality poker affiliate marketing websites on the internet. Not all of these resources will take kindly to attempting to grab some free ad space, but you can still use them to your advantage as a marketer. Continue reading

You’ve just built an architectural wonder of a store.  It’s on prime real estate right next to an infinitely large highway.  You’ve swept the aisles, organized your merchandise (and its good merchandise) and put on your best suit and hat.  You flip the the OPEN sign to face the public, flip the locks and throw open the doors to meet..  no one at all. Continue reading

The previous tip raised the topic of learning from your competition. I suggested that you also examine websites very different from your own. When doing so you would certainly be remiss to overlook the websites of online poker rooms themselves. Continue reading

Learning from other websites is one of the most important, and most misunderstood, tools in your development arsenal. There is emphatically a right way and a wrong way to use what others have done before you to get a leg up. Continue reading

Partnerships aren’t the right answer for every person or every project, but you owe it to yourself to consider the potential growth you might encounter by teaming up. Continue reading