The Online Poker Industry

The online poker industry is a mug's game.  Maybe a few seasoned pros have won some cash, but the house always wins in the end, and no outsider has ever made any serious money at it.  Right?  Wrong!  There is a very simple and very effective way to make money from the online poker industry, that's entirely legal and doesn't involve you playing a single game.  This article will show you how.

Online poker and affiliate marketing

The online poker industry is certainly a growth industry, with poker sites proliferating all over the web at a frightening rate.  But have you ever wondered how people actually find these sites?  Websites, like all goods and services, have to be marketed.  This is where you come in, as an online marketing affiliate.

As an affiliate, you're basically acting as an online salesperson for the poker websites.  Most of the big sites have an affiliate program that you can sign up to, usually for free.  This will give you access to all the tools you could possibly need, such as banners, text links and so on, which you can place on your website or use in your online advertising campaigns.  You also get a unique identification code, which tracks the number of visitors you direct to the main site.  

So how do you earn money from this?  Basically you get a commission for each visitor from your site or ad campaign who signs up to the main poker site.  This can be a one-off payment, or some affiliate programs pay you a percentage based on the total amount of money your referrals generate throughout their membership of the site.  Remember, the online poker industry is worth millions of dollars each year.  People spend a lot of money on poker sites, so the earning potential is huge.
This is a win-win situation.  The poker sites get a constant stream of new players and revenue, and you get almost unlimited scope for earning money through advertising somebody else's service.
Of course, you need to attract visitors to your sites and ad campaigns before you forward them on, but this is a skill that can be learned with dedication and practice.  Affiliate marketing is a low risk way to make the online poker industry work for you, without gambling huge sums of money.