Most Other Online Gambling Portals
Most online gambling sites have one purpose and one purpose only--to get you to sign up for online casinos, poker rooms, or sportsbooks through their affiliate links. They don't generally care about what kind of user experience you have. Banner farms dominate the search engines. And a web gambler like you or me, who are actually looking for real gambling information, have to wade through mountains of online casino ads to get the information they're after.
Some Other Online Gambling Portals
Some gambling sites publish well thought out, factual information that's useful to their visitors. They research their articles carefully, and they publish gambling content that is original and available no where else. Many of them also want you to sign up for the online casinos, poker rooms, and sportsbooks they advertise on their site. But they want you to sign up for them because they've worked hard to earn your respect and your loyalty. We aspire to be like these sites.
My Goals
My goals with this site are simple: to be the #1 source of gambling information online. I want to run a gambling portal which is useful to every user who comes across it. I want to address any and every topic related to gambling under the sun. When I review an online casino, it's going to be an honest review relating my experiences playing at that online casino. When I outline a strategy for an online casino game, it's going to be the best, most logical, and most advantageous strategy I've been able to find.
My personal goal is to have no less than 100 #1 listings in Google and Yahoo for various popular online gambling keywords by this time next year. I plan to do that the old-fashioned "white hat SEO" way--I'm going to write the most comprehensive and best quality content I can on relevant topics, and my content will be so good that people will want to link to the information here because it will be useful to their readers too. And I'll link only to websites who I think will be useful to my readers. (Anyone who wants to support me by adding a link to your site, please feel free.)
What I'm Going to Do
I'm going to include articles about the laws of probability and how they affect (or should affect) which casino games you decide to play. I'll include links to news articles about the online gambling industry and the offline gambling industry too. And I'll include my honest comments. and opinions on these matters. I'll tell you where I'm playing and how much I'm winning or losing. I'll review casinos and poker rooms. I'll give the best info on gambling strategies that I know how to.
And I will run advertising. Like anyone else, I want to earn a living. I hope to earn my readers' loyalty and respect with the content I publish here, and as a result, they'll naturally support me by supporting my advertisers.
Why a Blog on Blogspot?
Mostly because I still have a full time job during the day and haven't learned Frontpage well enough to build a portal. And all the time spent coding and designing a site could be put to better use providing useful information and content to my readers.
Also--this is my grand experiment. Google claims that the keys to getting lots of search engine traffic lie in creating a great user experience, and discourage people from "manipulating" the search engine results. So I'm going to give it my best shot, be the best and most authoritative site on gambling that I possibly can be, and with any luck we'll all be better for it.
