Posts Tagged ‘poker blogging’

Yeah, a little sad that we have to ask directly, but Thinking Poker currently has a grand total of 19 friends on facebook, making us look bad in front of our close friends and family, who coincidentally, make up a good portion of that 19.

Please fan ThinkingPoker on Facebook so our friends and family don’t look at us so funny when we try to tell them how popular the site is.

To those of you who are already fans- thanks! Right now we haven’t been updating that page too much, but we’re thinking about doing a weekly update or so- how would you like us to use the facebook page? Do you appreciate updates, or do you usually keep up with the blog by making regular visits or following a feed?

As you’ve probably noticed, I haven’t put much effort into promoting my blog as a money-making vehicle. I’ve browsed some of the literature on search engine optimization and such, and while I find it interesting/impressive that some people are essentially able to be professional bloggers and earn a living off of ad revenue, I’ve got no interest in that. I’m sure my time is worth more at the tables than it is swapping links with every other poker blogger on the ‘net.

I do, however, use an amazing free program called StatCounter to track some basic data on how many people visit my blog in a day, what link they followed to get here, etc. While browsing this info today, I saw that I was getting a fair number of referrals from a site called PokerTips. Turns out they ran a little piece recently on a few notable poker blogs and were kind enough to list mine along with those of Eric “Rizen” Lynch, Shannon Shorr, Terrence Chan, and Shane “Shaniac” Schleger. Here’s what they had to say about me:  Read the complete post...