As a saavy gambling affiliate in the online poker vertical, it’s important to know where players congregate and talk shop about online poker. An ideal place to find where a great deal of poker players meet online is in internet poker forums. The Gambling Affiliate Marketing Showdown, is a special feature we have here at the GAM blog, where we use freely available web analytics tools to measure and research gambling affiliate marketing information, trends and new developments in related traffic.

Let’s start today’s showdown with a little tech talk. To simulate a random search as much as possible, we used Google to search for the keyword “poker forum”. Results may vary, and the top 3 ranked sites were:

Ranked #1 for keyword “poker forum” — The Poker Forum

Ranked #2 for keyword “poker forum” — CardsChat

Ranked #3 for keyword “poker forum” — Two Plus Two Forum

Now let’s use Compete Site Analytics to triangulate these online poker forums traffic and acquire some interesting marketing information!

People Count

Attention Daily

Pages per Visit

Velocity

Today’s champion of the Gambling Affiliate Marketing Showdown : Battle of the online poker forums is Two Plus Two Forum

Two Plus Two Forum took all 3 categories of People Count, Daily Attention and Pages per Visit. CardsChat gets honorable mention for the highest velocity during the past 45 days.

With a monthly subscription to the Gambling Affiliate Marketing Inner Circle, we’ll walk you through using Compete and other web 2.0 analytics tools to conduct in-depth research into gambling traffic, keywords and optimization. To learn more about The Inner Circle, visit here.