Now 2USD is hardly the lottery, but it’s easy, the ebook is free, and interesting anyway, so you download that, either read it or skim it, link back to it (because that’s how you get paid for the review), and bam, an easy 2 bucks, now what do people like more than easy money? Free money. Sorry man, it’s true, nothing in life is free.

Now let’s say your ebook is about getting the best rakeback, or MTT strategies, or whatever you feel like writing about. (Here’s a hint, at least 10 people WILL use the two examples I’ve given, so you might want to try something else.).

Now from within your ebook, you’ll use examples, like the PokerStars Sunday Million, step by step you’ll walk you’re readers through the process of profitting, and among those steps will be  downloading, using this particular link to obtain this particular bonus or rakeback amount..

Math’s not really my thing, but Pedro has 166 comments  that include paypal  ID’s, so  160+ people have downloaded the ebook,  and  sent  Pedro traffic from their websites. Their ebook is offered in their blog posts, along with the opportunity to make 2 bucks, and it’s off, viral link bait with affiliate links inserted.

After giving that some thought, I’ve come up with what I believe to be a pretty decent way to break into the industry, tried and true by me. learn and create value, for you future domain all at once… for free.

I really think the best first steps for someone looking to get into the industry .. without spending any money, and without a whole lot of pre-learning as far as site creation goes would be to go for it full bore with blogger type sites.

Start with a  blogger.com site, or a wordpress.com site, then work your way into an angelfire.com basic editor site.. If you get all of these making just a little bit of money.. then you should be able to save and buy a design, a domain name, and some hosting (though there are some decent free designs out there, so don’t put tooo much emphasis on that. . . here’s one of my new favorites), however, if you go with word-press, there are literally thousands of templates to choose from.

In the meantime…

You get the experience of creating content, building search engine results, learning your way around website statistics, and all those other things that gambling affiliates face without that initial investment.

At the same time, you’re building future backlinks.

I guarantee you if you stick with it there will come a day when you want your own domain name, and you’re going to have to host it somewhere. Once you’ve done that though, you will have all these other web places in which to promote your new domain name, you’ve built them up, gotten them PR (you’ll learn about that pretty fast) and search engine rank, now you can give yourself immediate quality backlinks from within quality content, located on various domains.

That may not make a lot of sense to you at this point, depending on your previous experience with website promotion, however, take my word for it, it will make a lot of sense when it comes time for you to want those backlinks.

This is a backwards way to go about it, I’m certainly not suggesting it to anyone that is ready to go to Godaddy and pony up a couple bucks for their domain name, in fact, there are lots of Godaddy Coupon codes out there, you can probably get your domain name for about 2 bucks.

For new affiliates, that may want to try several website ideas, I suggest Hostgator, later on, you’ll probably want to look into dedicated hosting.

Note- You can also start a forum but at this point I really don’t suggest that, forums are hard to build, hard to keep active, and to valuable to start on free servers.

Step 4 -Articles for Submission x 10 - Submission articles can provide you many backlinks. Write 10 solid articles, link your keyphrase within them, throw in an affiliate link wherever you can get away with it, and ship em. I usually try to spread my submissions out, one article every two weeks. No reason, I just do, if you have a winning formula, please do share. In addition to sending my article to article submission websites, I generally either offer it or post it in popular gambling affiliate forums.

On topic sites definitely being the best, I’m gathering up gambling Article submission sites, if you have one, feel free to leave me a link in the comments section. We’ll see if we can’t get a decent little list going here.

There are also about 5 people I’ve made arrangements with to write for in exchange for backlinks, I may get some of those knocked out with the promotion of absolute as well.

On a side note, many of you probably know about my real estate project, the sad and neglected one, in addition to that, I’m really putting some effort into a Bingo site, and going to put to use a bunch of online dating content I wrote quite some time ago here very soon. I’ll likely blog those out in other categories.

Submit Poker Articles:

OG Paper
Poker Article Submissions
Poker Articles and News Submissions
Gambling Strategies -original only-
Submit Poker News
Sports Investing Article Submission
Triumph Gambling Articles
Max Links Gambling Articles (Great site, kinda slow)
Content Dig
Directory Style

The above is what I uncovered during my search for submission sites that specialize in free gambling articles, or otherwise allow you to post an article for a backlink.

I didn’t include the major article directories, their smart guys, they know SEO, if you want to find them, searching google for “Submit Article” or something similar ought to do the trick

I think I will be writing about 10 articles for submission for Absolute Poker actually, using some of the article submission sites specifically geared toward gambling above, as well as some from the WAC list, and then I’ll ask my partner real sweet and nice to submit another article . . . or 3 using submission software. Aside from the articles that will be submitted utilizing submission software each submission site will get one unique article. Additionally I’ll hit up Kaus and see what I can do in her blackjack area towards the promotion of AP’s blackjack, and I’ll get back with MPC and see what he’d like for me to write.

After all that, I think I need to work on finding some affiliate programs that might like to sponsor.. THIS site. Phew busy days.

I scowered the net for news last night, got a few ideas, and emailed Absolute Poker for their press representative info. I’ll be moving onto the next step today, adding mentions of the review to my own small sites, like blogspot, an old angelfire site I still have, i’ll probably blog it in myspace.. I’ve already stumbled it..  So on to Step two.. full speed ahead!

The draft for Full Tilt is also complete, I’ll be posting the page in the template tonight, it should be right behind Absolute in my promotion schedule, everything looks great so far!

My content business has been busy, I’m not sure if it’s all year end taxes, if this page has something to do with it, or if there’s just a general buzz, but wow, i’ve been typin lately! I’ve also managed to keep Donna, Tj Kelli and Sadonna all pretty dang busy. We’ve recovered from Christmas, now the 4 of us, and Steve.. who just returned from Vegas, need a vacation!

In addition to content I’m also considering the possibility of selling a bit of space on the pages. I’m thinking 3-7 links per page, still gathering advice and ideas on that thought. It would be awfully nice to get the pages earning their authors. But not at the cost of their rank.. I am really anxious to see 4flush support itself, with the way the traffic is increasing and boggling my mind I think I’m being a touch impatient maybe pushing a bit.