To Sell or Not To Sell ?

[esquirexx]

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[Expert]

I don' t want to give the name in public, as here are my competitors in my country, and this one will may be banned too.

I pm' d it to you.

[TheGooner]

Originally Posted by Expert

I don' t want to give the name in public, as here are my competitors in my country, and this one will may be banned too.

I pm' d it to you.

So you think that you need to keep your site secret in order to succeed ?
Why on earth were you spending so much money on links then?


A strategy built around non-publicity is very strange.

[Expert]

Yes, we' are asking the visitors their ID before they login to our site : )

I write a message at GPWA. My competitors know my nick. After I mentioned my site here, they complained about it to legal departments. And my site closed, because of the rules on my country.

Now if I say that I own xyzcasino.com, they may complain it to legal deparments again, although it is now in English language. And this one will be closed, too.

[LuckyLove8]

Originally Posted by Expert

Yes, we' are asking the visitors their ID before they login to our site : )

I write a message at GPWA. My competitors know my nick. After I mentioned my site here, they complained about it to legal departments. And my site closed, because of the rules on my country.

Now if I say that I own xyzcasino.com, they may complain it to legal deparments again, although it is now in English language. And this one will be closed, too.

i'm going to keep assuming good faith here..

have you thought about hosting outside your country? There is very little power your local legal departments have if it is hosted overseas.

[Expert]

it was already outside. But it doesn t change anything. Even youtube is closed here.

[TheGooner]

Ah - I see.

Yes - when I was travelling through Dubai to the last world cup I saw that they'd banned a lot of "undesirable gambling sites" including my GoonersGuide.com site.


If you're living in a country that does ban sites on the net (China, Turkey, Greece, parts of asia and middle east) - and targeting those countries - then you need to avoid being included in that censorship.

However, by buying links and getting SERPS and traffic, you are going against that idea. It seems to me that these links are a total waste or spend, if you're planning to operate in secret and a "word-of-mouth" basis.

That also counts against long term business though as it could be zapped overnight - unless you've built a whole lot of duplicate sites ready to simply email your members and give them the new location ... but even then links are a poor spend - as the SERPs is valuless if you relocate.

So I think it's a good idea to end those links.

[WagerX]

I think your content should draw natural links (at least that should be your goal). So the $4000 / month in link ongoing link payments probably not necessary.

I'd keep it and see what happens.

It would probably hard to sell it until you have revenue stream that's more or less consistent.

Good luck.

[masontech]

You sure have invested a lot into a site very early on. You either have a large cash reserve or large dangly bits!

Is it good business sense to invest so heavily into such a competitive area as ours?

I would cut the ongoing expense and ride the wave with what you already have, which sounds like a lot. Google rewards good sites, so fingers crossed that your investment pays off.

[penny-slot-machines]

Would I be right in thinking that if you invest to heavily in link-building, especially early-on it can have a damaging effect on your SERPS?

Especially if they are paid-for links and google detects that...

As far as I'm aware, google wants to see slow and steady growth (i.e. natural). Too many links too quickly appears unnatural and so can make a site look like it is buying links, which they do not like.

Have I got that right, or is the general consensus that quick link-building is actually OK with google?