Poker-SEO.com - New Seo Site

[Jeremy]

Finally the industry will have a site that will track SERPS and openly discuss SEO in respect to the online poker market. I seriously cannot wait to follow the news and views on poker-seo.

Even better the person doing this site is a dinosaur in the industry and probably one of the most respected SEO's and consultants out there.

Although some of the forthcoming content will be opinionated, it is an opinion coming from someone whom most all of us guys that have been around for a while respect.

I urge you all to bookmark this site and check back often as it is still brand new. Since this is the first site of it's kind to discuss SEO specifically related to the online poker market, I imagine we will be having some discussions here at PAW about much of what is written.

Here are a couple links:

Poker-SEO.com

PAW News Release on Poker SEO

[Randy]

That's Steve Badger's site. (He runs Play Winning Poker, which is a search engine powerhouse.)

What was particularly interesting to me was this page about the top 25 poker sites and their rankings.

This is a site worth keeping an eye on though, for sure.

[Beanie]

that is very interesting data.

[PFO]

Might be very usefull to us in the future. I do have to say I do not like the design at all....but it is all about SEO and content I guess.

[rob3786]

When it comes to SEO it looks like this guy knows his stuff very good seo site!!! Dont like page layout but great SEO.

[SharkScope]

Originally Posted by Randy

What was particularly interesting to me was this page about the top 25 poker sites and their rankings.

I definitely like the Hitwise rankings

[PPP]

Sharkscope is definitely on the upswing. It looks like you are the one site hurt by the averaging of the Compete numbers since you were so much smaller a year ago than now.

Good ideas can still pay off.

[Jeremy]

The one question I would have about these top 25 poker sites and their rankings is in regards to sites with multiple languages.

For example PokerNews is in more languages than any other poker site I can think of. Likewise when I see the unique data even on our hitwise reports, it seldom adds up to the actual data that we see in our stats. I just wonder if multi-language sites are a bit more skewed than others on hitwise, compete, and quantcast. Because I know the actual data from our server and a fair amount of our traffic is international to the international sub-domains.

Overall this is kick ass data though for those that don't have 20 dimes to drop on hitwise.

I am looking forward to following these stats as well as seeing some of the interesting SEO discussions and talking points that will inevitably be brought up on this site.

[Beanie]

I have always been a big fan of retaining your customers. My new site is my first retail venue. So I am drinking up everything related to search engines. In the next week or 2 my marketing starts to rear its head. It will be interesting to see in action a lot of the stuff I have been reading about.

Its also good to see sharkscope do well considering. It shows the market likes good original thinking.

[Aidan]

No offense to Randy, and I'm sure he will not take any since he is 1000x more successful then I'm currently. But hey look out!

Playwinningpoker, poker-babes, and poker-seo.com have designs from 1999. Sure these sites are probably perfected for search engines, but what about the user. If I was an average user and came across one of these sites, I wouldn't even read the title. I would press back and keep looking in Google for something that looks appealing.

Why would anyone want to make a new site like, poker-seo.com which is a great idea and not use something that is current to 2007?

Wouldn't he benefit from re-designing all his sites? What is the reasoning behind using such old designs?