More writers and more affiliate coaches will be on board. Keep an eye out for the new design and relaunch coming soon.

At Gaming Affiliates Guide the new site is being restructured both for a new design but also for better content and an improved layout. For existing affiliates or new webmasters we expect to provide enough information to help your online business and get to the level you need to be at.

According to the seller the website is about gambling and in a few months produces $1500/month while getting 2500 unique visitors per month. The deal for the website was supposedly at a bargain paying 24 months up front but at a rate of $1000/month instead of $1500/month. $24,000 is a lot of money to pay for a website with content. So in 5 minutes time I was able to do my research to assess the value of this domain. I won’t disclose any information about the person or domain but perhaps you can learn a trick or two about finding out what a website is worth.

Domain Research Tools

Whois domain information

Checking whois.net information: Domain created mid July, 2010 expires 2011. This means the domain was bought recently but since it expires in 1 year this person might not be as serious about this website. If you make $1500/month you will pay a bit more $ to secure it for more than just 1 year.

Traffic Analysis

Checking compete.com and Alexa stats shows that this website has virtually no visitors at all.

PageRank Checker

PageRank was 0 as expected

Backlinks Checker

Using Yahoo Site Explorer shows the website has under 20 links pointing towards it, which of course all links were rather weak ones.

Search engine testing

I tested the domain to see if it ranked for it’s own keywords since the domain was keyword1keyword2.com type format and it just doesn’t show up at all.

Copyscape and stolen content

I searched for some of the content on this site to see if it existed on other sites and the whole website is copied. There was no original content put up on this website at all.

Conclusions

This person is attempting to rip people off with this website. It would take approximately 4 hours to reproduce a website in the same manner with copied content and that certainly isn’t worth $24,000. Based on the above information this website isn’t worth $20. Having copied content on your site is a good way to ensure that you’ll never show up in a search engine and you may risk having your website host shut down your account or have affiliate accounts banned as well.

Last but not least this person said they were selling the site and needed the money to pay for surgery in an EU country they live in. If this person actually lived in europe they would know that the country in question has public health care.

One final point a gambling website with 2500 uniques per month is worth a lot more than $1500/month in income!

Affiliates concerned about epassporte funds

Affiliates are posting on forums about how they can find ways of getting access to their money. Some affiliates have money on the visa debit card which seems to be frozen. Others are worried about getting the money in the first place out of their epassporte accounts.

Merchants send epassporte notices

Online merchants and operators of affiliate programs are on alert sending notices to their clients and affiliates that they might want to switch their payment methods.

Overall the news doesn’t sound good for the company as it seems that if people can withdraw their balances they will do so completely. This could spell the end of one of the top rated online wallets. It is unknown if this problem has anything to do with Visa or with their banks that may have lost their ability to take out credit.

Perhaps this news will give the program a chance to clean it’s image when it was announced that former founder Russ Hamilton was caught cheating players by having access to a super user account that could see hole cards. According to the Russ Hamilton profile on Wikipedia over $22 million USD was given back to players dating from May 2004 to January 2008. The news has certainly hurt the networks chance to challenge for the largest on the net.

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Allen’s patent troll company called Interval is claiming brilliant patents like searching for information through a browser (wow), enabling adverts while user is doing some other activity (he’s so smart), and letting users know when items of interest appear. If his patents have made such good contributions to technology today why would he want to destroy that with his patents? It is most likely due to money, fame or both.

Paul Allen patent troll

Microsoft wasn’t named in any of those patent lawsuits.

Read more from the BBC

wikipedia: Patent troll

The new competition will be called Diaspora which is Greek for a movement or migration of a group of people, hinting that these users will leave Facebook for an open sourced website that respects the users privacy.

For online marketers it is important to know the trends before they happen and there is a good chance many users will make the switch who are fed up with facebook.

More news on the subject from the BBC

Affiliates are risking losing tracking if links are not updated. This is yet another reason why affiliates should create redirects for all of their links such that if you need to update links on 300 pages you only have to update 1 file.

If you need help with 301 redirects send a message back

The news comes after Allan Leonard passed away as another long standing casino affiliate.

Gaming Affiliates Guide would like to send out our condolences to Lou and his family.

Many affiliates have complained about the Everleaf backend that doesn’t seem to be as friendly for players or affiliates. Victory Poker has invested heavily with many poker pros and hot poker girls to promote the website.

Poker affiliates promote Cake Poker.

• Adult industry Q&A
• Conversion seminar
• Billing seminars
• Webcams and dating
• Speed networking
• Parties to get your networking done

Visit the website at www.qwebec.com