Poker Games and Poker Events on PokerDIY - What’s the difference?
PokerDIY has poker games and poker events. This can be a little confusing so I am going to explain the difference as they serve slightly different purposes. Poker Games (middle icon on top ) are like poker game ads - ie. the intention of holding a poker game, looking for players, leagues etc. Here is an example of a proposed poker game in Manly, Sydney. You can drill down by location, search by distance from your closest town etc. As you can see, it is essentially an ad (always free for a poker game or league to try and get players or to find a game. Poker Events (main menu bar under Find) are useful for poker league managers to schedule, manage and organize an ACTUAL poker game, event or tourney. For example, you know you are definitely playing a poker tourney next Thursday as part of you [...]
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PokerDIY breaks into the Alexa 100k website list - Traffic/Growth Stats
With the steady growth and new users it was bound to happen sooner rather than later – Alexa puts PokerDIY at 98 906 as of the 26th of November, 2008. This really is exciting and shows that poker players are finding value in our free service.
Original post by PokerDIY and software by Elliott Back
My brush with Google death, paid links and the affect on the little guy
I had a very real brush with Google Death recently and I thought I would share my experience out of interest.
I run PokerDIY.com, a social network for poker players that allows you to manage your poker league and find local poker games and players. You do not play poker on PokerDIY, it is a service for connecting poker players with league management (think Facebook + Craigslist for poker). All this is free of course.
My prime revenue stream is online advertising. I just want to state now that I do not ever want to be an affiliate-driven poker site – i.e. I send someone to an online poker room and I get $50 (they probably lose $500) – most of the large poker sites operate on this model but my long-term vision is to have a successful social network and provide a respectable, useful, free service (I started PokerDIY because I [...]
Original post by PokerDIY and software by Elliott Back