Poker Affiliate Solutions Archive

New Design Templates! PAS v3 Preview

A majority of our PAS v3 blog posts have focused on the new backend features. This post will focus on some of the new design templates that Craig and Mark have been working on. These templates will be available at the launch of PAS v3.

At PAS we understand the importance of a professional web design, and that is why we are offering these new templates.

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New SEO Features – PAS v3 Preview

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

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New User Friendly Interface – PAS v3 Preview

How is the new PAS more user friendly?  We’ve been asked this question a lot lately. I’d like to go over a few of the improved PAS Admin pages and show how they are now easier to use:

New Publisher Control Panel

Want to minimize time spent navigating your Admin? You can now customize your PAS Dashboard to set your favorite quick Continue reading

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Multiple Campaign Management – PAS v3 Preview

As promised in my last blog post Tony and I will be writing about the new features in the highly anticipated Poker Affiliate Solutions v3. For this weeks article I am going to cover some of the new campaign management tools we will be adding.

The campaign request page has been overhauled, giving publishers a full list of poker cpa and rev-share offers along with added information about… Continue reading

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Poker Affiliate Solutions v3 Launching in March!

After over a year in development Poker Affiliate Solutions v3 is ready to launch this month! The latest version of our software is the strongest yet. Featuring the same Ruby On Rails technology that powers TwitterBasecamp, and YellowPages PAS v3 will be the most powerful poker affiliate software around.

Starting this Friday Tony and I will be writing semi-weekly blog posts outlining the new features of PAS v3 and… Continue reading

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Victory Poker Launch Weekend Part 2

Poker professional and Rake Tracker player Tom Luts wrote part 2 of the Victory Poker launch party weekend on the Rake Tracker blog.

Victory Poker Launch Weekend Trip Report

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Who Does Your Business Depend Upon?

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

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Full Tilt Reduces Rakeback Affiliate Commissions March 1st

Poker Affiliate Solutions just concluded a meeting with Full Tilt Poker management. Effective March 1st Full Tilt Poker commissions on all new players will be set to 3%. This affects ALL rakeback affiliates of Full Tilt Poker. These changes are not retroactive and rates on existing players will be maintained.

As a result Poker Affiliate Solutions will be setting all publisher rakeback commissions on new sign ups to 3% at Full Tilt Poker effective March… Continue reading

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Victory Poker Launch Party Weekend Part 1

This past weekend Arthur and I flew to sunny Las Vegas to attend the Trash Talk Championship of the World hosted by Victory Poker at the Hard Rock Casino.

Friday morning I woke up at around 5am to shower and get ready for my flight out. Luckily my roommate Gerry was willing to drive both me and Arthur to the airport. For those of you not living… Continue reading

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A Radical Idea, Advertise Products You Use!

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

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Top Rakeback Website Trends of 2009

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

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PAS Rakeback site 101

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

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A home for Fresh Ideas

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

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Happy Holidays from PAS

In the states, as in many other places around the world, we are celebrating the years biggest holiday this week.  This Christmas season signals the end of a profitable and productive year at Poker Affiliate Solutions.

Poker Affiliate Solutions has grown in the literal sense this year, as we moved to a bigger office and added several employees to our roster.  It’s also been a banner year for the design department… Continue reading

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Goals VS Expectations

Publishers with expectations rarely do well.

They expect that when they make a website people will come. That when people come, they will sign up. That when they sign up they will play. That when they play, they will tell friends… Continue reading

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Online Poker Promotion Pages

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

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Start with a Plan

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

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Tip 36: Learn from the little things

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

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Tip 35: Getting Organized

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

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Tip 34: Poker Room Screenshots

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

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