Blogging right along...

I'm getting more used to blogging, this being my fourth day. I am beginning to see the logic behind the concept. I can better collect my thoughts, and go back and see what I am doing and how I am progressing. Kind of like my Captain's log. Also good for tax purposes. I can show that each day I have worked on my casino affiliate "business", and prove that it is indeed a business and not a hobby. Each day will be a summary of what I have done, what my goals are. Perhaps this too will help serve new affiliates who are also starting the casino affiliate journey.

Well, today, I am trying to unscrew my screw-up. When I changed hosting companies, I messed up my LinkMetro http://www.linkmetro.com database, and lost all my links. Now I have to go back and manually try to add them all back in so I don't lose all my link partners. There were several hundred links in that database, and I know who they are, just now I have to manually do everything because I screwed up. I do need those link exchanges to build my PR, which will drive my search engine placement, at least in the future it will. My goal is to spend 50% of my time writing content, 40% of my time building link exchanges, and 10% of my time for everything else (writing my blog included). I will say I have spent an upfront investment of my time, as I want links connected to me to "age", many speculate that an aged link helps out a lot. We'll see.

I also encountered a good site full of free casino content at http://www.gaming-articles.com I took a break from my link rebuilding, and help myself to as many goodies as I could. I am always interested in free web content. You can incorporate the free content into your site and build on it. I said build on it, most of the time you are not permitted to edit the article. I have on my site http://www.onlinebonuses.com a main pane, and a side bar. I import the contributed articles in the main pane, and do not touch or edit them in anyway to comply with the editors wishes (they do it for the link included at the end of each article). But the sidebar is mine, and I can add advertising, keywords, or my own writing. I like to add my "two cents" to each article, as if I am writing a summary of the article, and perhaps interjecting a few points of my own into my article. I have heard that the search engines normally read a site left to right, so my sidebar pane is located on the left. Goodie for me! I think just importing an article from somewhere else without any other content will not help sufficiently, using the side bar pane I think will work. We'll see.

Here are a few articles about poker you may find interesting:

How to enter free poker contests
http://www.onlinebonuses.com/articles/12-Free-Poker-Contests.html

Fairplay in online poker
http://www.onlinebonuses.com/articles/18-How-fair-is-online-poker.html

Summary of Poker Bonuses
http://www.onlinebonuses.com/articles/30-Poker-Bonuses-in-a-nutshell.html