The usual site review thread

[stevencachia]

First of all I would like to congratulate you for a fanatastic forum. and site Never imagined that such a forum existed and such people willing to share information existed. I've been doing a website called Planet Poker Guide and I would love to have some feedback. I know that my biggest issue is that it's seems I don't have a niche market but I do have something up my sleeve so hopefully (when the time is right) I'll target my niche market. Anyway, thank you very much and I hope to have some comments.

Regards,
Steven

[Georgia Poker]

It's a good looking, clean site. Looks like you're using Mambo to run it?

How do you plan on marketing this site? I think your biggest challenge will be standing out in the crowd of general poker sites. You mentioned you have a niche idea, I'd strongly suggest going after that. Nearly all of my sites target a niche and I learned way back that general poker sites are very difficult to establish in today's market.

Good luck either way, you're off to a good start.

[SunPoker.com]

I agree, that's a nice start to your site. I like the Moneymaker feature story on your homepage and feel that helps you stand out a bit from the pack. A first time online poker player would be very interested in that story. Nice job.

Mark

[stevencachia]

Thank you very much for commenting. During the next week I will be adding more original content to the site and hopefully work on SEO. At first I will be trying to target the minor keywords; Planet Poker, Poker Guide and Poker Strategy and then work my way up to the major keywords.

Once again thank you for taking time in replying back.

Regards,
Steven

[hoursurfing]

Originally posted by stevencachia@Feb 21 2006, 04:59 AM
At first I will be trying to target the minor keywords; Planet Poker, Poker Guide and Poker Strategy and then work my way up to the major keywords.

Those keywords are not minor keywords and are very competitve.

[stevencachia]

Originally posted by hoursurfer+Feb 21 2006, 11:12 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (hoursurfer @ Feb 21 2006, 11:12 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-stevencachia@Feb 21 2006, 04:59 AM
At first I will be trying to target the minor keywords; Planet Poker, Poker Guide and Poker Strategy and then work my way up to the major keywords.

Those keywords are not minor keywords and are very competitve. [/b][/quote]
I guess you are right on Poker Strategy but for the other two I think it's not hard to be near the top. Planet Poker is searched almost 5,000 times per month on overture (yahoo) which I guess that makes it around 15,000 searches on google. The competition for 'Planet Poker" is 7,870,000 sites on google and the top site is the Planet Poker Cardroom with a Pagerank of 5 while the other sites listed on the top page are sub pages which is a big plus. I'm not saying it's going to be easy but I think I have a good shot at being in the top 5 for Planet Poker.
Any comments?

regards,
Steven

[psmoney]

i would suggest not sharing what keywords your thinking of using you never know who could steal them right out from under you

[chrisptp]

i'm taking them!

kidding. it's a clean site. and easy on the eyes. that's a +

as for the moneymaker article, i'm not sure if he'd appreciate you lifting his bio directly off of his site. recycled content is a drag. i really think people should focus a bit more on unique content, but i guess until the search engines really start rewarding it or punishing sites that just recycle, there won't be much drive to do so.

chris

[stevencachia]

Originally posted by chrisptp@Feb 25 2006, 02:11 PM
as for the moneymaker article, i'm not sure if he'd appreciate you lifting his bio directly off of his site. recycled content is a drag. i really think people should focus a bit more on unique content, but i guess until the search engines really start rewarding it or punishing sites that just recycle, there won't be much drive to do so.

Thanks for your comments,

chrisptp: I agree 100% on that but when I read the Moneymaker article bio for the first time I was simply inspired by the story. Yes, I can re-write it, but most probably I will end up removing the 'magic' of the story. Apart from that I left the full links and actually left the link for his book (without any affliate link) so I guess it it's not blatant copying. Mind you, don't get me wrong, I will be looking more in detail about this and hopefully I'll come up with something better.

cfpokermoney: Any half decent webmaster can see what keywords you are targeting. For example I can see you are targeting; poker tournament strategy| poker betting strategy | texas holdem poker strategy

Regards,
Steven