Want FREE poker advertising, SEO benefit and traffic? Try these:

• Write a poker blog and review your poker site or plug your product
• Advertise for free in our Poker Classifieds section
• Fill in your poker player profile with more about your website
• Schedule a poker event and link to your site
• Post some blurb about your site in our Members Websites forum
• Start a Poker League or Set up a new Poker Group for for your area
• Add PokerDIY as a link on your site and we'll put you up in our PR4 Poker Link Directory

Finally there is the FreePokerDir.com, where you can list your poker site for free (we also sell ads there!). You can use any of these methods for long-term, free advertising.

 

We average between 400 and 500 unique visitors a day (12 838 per month), with each visitor averaging around 3 minutes per visit giving around 1400 page views a day (we use AJAX heavily so this is not a good metric). Since PokerDIY's launch in November, 2005, growth has been phenomenal - we now have almost 9000 poker players  - see the stats on the right handside for up to date figures.

Demographics
Our main visitors are obviously poker players with an interest in home page games, poker leagues or interest in playing in our exclusive freerolls. There is a good market for home poker equipment and general poker interests.

Average Visitor Profile:

• Age: Between 18 and 37 years old
• Sex: Usually male
• Salary: Income varies
• Education: Varies
• Interests: Online poker and live home poker games, sports, computers

Below is a Google Analytics snapshot for a single month (7th of July, 2008 to 6th of August, 2008).  As you can see, most of our traffic comes from search engines (Google in particular) and most traffic is from the United States.

 

468*60 Ads

Want good visibility AND SEO benefit? There are only ever 2 468*60 banners shown on PokerDIY at one, with direct linking for SEO benefit. These banners are at the bottom of the most popular pages - Home and Forums. due to demand you need to book these well in advance.

Sitewide Banner Ads
Poker banner ads must be 125 x 125 or smaller and will appear on the top right as indicated by the red rectangle. 4 banners are shown at a time on 90% of PokerDIY pages (all the main pages have banners on), and 8 are shown at a time on the Forums pages. The homepage displays 2 at a time with a 1 minute cache. There are usually around 5-10 advertisers at any one time so your advert will be cycled and shown a lot.

We only have a few hand-picked, high-quality advertisers, you will get a lot of impressions and a high click-through rate (note these do not contribute towards SEO as they use tracking - they are for visual effect).

Real example: The FreePokerDir banner ad has been shown 13262 times in the last 4 weeks, with 176 click-throughs (note - this was done when only 2 banners were shown per page).

Email Advertising Campaign

We also offer email adverts at the bottom of PokerDIY emails. For example, Event invitations are sent to members whenever someone sets up any event and invites a PokerDIY member. As an example - each time the PokerDIY Freeroll Invites go out they go to 1500 (and growing!) people at a time.

Emails are also sent every time ANYONE does a Friend Requests or sends a Private Message Notifications. Your link and description (10 words or less) will be in the signature area of all emails for the duration of your campaign. As you can imagine, you are sending your advert straight into the mailbox of a poker player.

Custom Page
You can do what you like with your page! Some people add FAQs and logos with lots of links to their site, while others keep it simple - it's up to you. We give you edit rights on the page so you can change it as often as you like.

All pages are put under the Poker Articles section with a nice listing to it and more links back to your site with a SE and human friendly URL like http://www.pokerdiy.com/poker-articles/rakeback.aspx

This is a great way of improving your SEO - here is an example of a long-term advertiser who has achieved a PR4 on their page! Your link will appear on our Sitemap (linked to from the homepage and all other pages) as well as in the main menu structure (ie. every page links to it). In the past a new page appears in the Top Ten results of Google within 3 days, but we obviously cannot guarantee this. 

Your page will also be included in our XML Google SiteMap to help Google crawl it.

Single Page Text Links
We offer direct text links for poker-related sites on various key pages such as the Home Page, Forums and Event/Group/UserProfile detail pages on the right-hand side. These are in prime view, are very popular pages (bear in mind that every time anyone looks at a UserProfile or an event they will see your text link!). These text links must be less than 25 chars / 3 words max.

Alternatively you may want 1 or more links in a Text Link Box on the home page. These get lots of eyeballs and have great contextual SEO benefit. These have a max length of 75 chars and can be any amount of words.

Advert Swap
We are always open to strategic relations with like-minded companies - let us know if you would like to swap adverts in a mutually beneficial arrangement. Your site must be of a similar size and popularity as PokerDIY, or an alternative arrangement can be made.

Custom Advertising
We are always open to suggestions for custom advertising options - contact us with your proposal and we'll discuss it!