Archive for December, 2008

How to Choose a Good Web Directory?

Search Engines are the most important source of traffic for gambling/poker websites. High search engine ranking (SERP) can boost number of your visitors and in turn leads to increase in sales (Real Money Players). The best way to get top search engine placement is to improve link popularity by having one way inbound links from related sites or pages, with different optimized anchor text, from different IP Class blocks and domains. This can easily be achieved by buying web directory listings.

directories

Before buying directory listing; you must check the following points to ensure that you are going to get what you need. Most web directories offer you a similar service. However, do choose ones that has some the following characteristics:

  1. Human-edited:
    Either free or paid for listing, choose a web directory that is human-edited with a strict quality control. This way, the member websites are screened for quality.
  2. Offer business guides, advices, blog and other resources:
    Choose a web directory that is not only offering listing service, but also offering guides, advices, news, blog and other valuable business resources.
  3. Offer clean and family-friendly listing:
    Avoid a business directory that has illegal or questionables listings. If you submit your business website in such directory, your business might get a bad reputation being listed in a bad neighbourhood.
  4. Consider web directory with paid listing:
    Although no guarantee, a paid web directory listing naturally screen out low-quality listing. Moreover, paid web directories are offering paid listing for a reason – better quality, traffic and strong links. Read the rest of this entry »

Compare 888 vs Ladbrokes

Second compare post. Which is the popular on Google according to Google Trend? Below is a chart to helps you.

Ladbrokes updated the market for the four months ended 30 April 2008. The company said that profits* (excluding profits* from High Rollers) had increased by 13%, with gross win increasing by 16% (34% including High Rollers). Profit from High Rollers was £40 million but Ladbrokes said that their activity had recently fallen to de minimis levels.

British online gaming company 888 Holdings Plc said its second-quarter operating income rose 36 percent, helped by growth in casino gaming revenues, and its chief executive told Reuters the group is mulling takeovers. Online gaming firm 888 reported a 24 percent rise in total operating income to $68 million (46 million pounds) in the third quarter. Despite external adverse economic conditions we are confident in our business model and strategy,” said Chief Executive Gigi Levy in a statement. In August the company reported a 39 percent increase in its first-half pretax profit, boosted by a strong performance from new products.

888, Britain’s second-biggest listed Internet gaming group, 888 had 214,725 active customers using its online casino and poker games in the second quarter, up 3 percent on the same period last year, the company said.

-Market Leaders-
Ladbrokes: United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Finland …
888: Denmark, France, Spain …

Offical Websites:
http://www.ladbrokesplc.com/
http://www.888holdingsplc.com/