Online Gaming Market continues to grow in the Asia-Pacific Region:
The new "Asia-Pacific Online Gaming Report 2012" by Hamburg-based secondary market research firm yStats-com compiles up-to-date information on the online gaming market in the Asia-Pacific region, excluding online gambling aspects. This includes a brief introduction about the region as well as an analysis of the markets China, Japan, South Korea and Australia.
The online gaming market is rapidly growing in the entire region of South East Asia. Revenue generated in this market is expected to more than double between 2011 and 2015. Especially social gaming has become a significant trend, drawing more and more new users and generating more revenue.
Read more here: Research and Markets: Asia-Pacific Online Gaming Report 2012 - Business Wire - SunHerald-com
It looks as though the proverbial floodgates are about to be opened in the online gambling debate. Nevada has already passed a law and New Jersey is likely to follow soon, according to Pillsbury lawyer Jim Gatto. He adds that Hawaii and California are also considering bills to legalize online gambling.
Up until last year, online betting was considered illegal. Then the Department of Justice issued a memo green lighting it with some restrictions. The state has to allow it, the betting takes place within state borders, and no sports betting is involved. If all 3 of those criteria are met, then it is A-OK!
The Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria group (CED😎 has said the online gambling tax levied on operators in the country was to fall from 15 percent to six or eight percent according to Focus-Fen.net.
The move is as a result of the realization within the country that the high rate was a significant barrier to entry for foreign operators.
A source from the Parliamentary Budget and Finance Committee said, “… no foreign operator would come to Bulgaria, because the taxation would be very high. In practice the tax in Bulgaria is twice bigger that in France or Malta.”
In March this year the Bulgarian parliament passed a law to block foreign online gambling operators ahead of expected regulation in the market.
There aren’t many things in the world that have changed society more than Facebook, which sounds ridiculous when you think about it, but just go back and figure out when the last time you visited the site was, either on a computer or via your phone….that’s what we thought. It’s pretty recent.
Facebook is now how people stay in touch with relatives after they’ve moved, it’s now used more than email and it’s become a tool of communication for daily activities. And millions upon millions of others just use it to waste time.
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Creator Mark Zuckerberg has decided to go public with the company and it could be valued at around $100 billion dollars; not bad for a network that was started in a dorm room at Harvard and has since spawned Academy Award-winning films on its creation. The company will officially go on the market on Friday, and Bovada has posted a slew of props for the event (and other Facebook stuff).
What will be facebook's opening trade price on May 18th?
Over $60 -120
Under $60 -120
There are a variety of props surrounding Facebook hitting the stock market, for example: you can wager on whether the closing price on Friday will be inside of 10% of its opening price (+150) or outside (-200). Right now, the lines are split at -120 as to whether the opening price will be above or below $60, and there is also a prop pertaining to Facebook’s closing price on New Year’s Eve of this year as opposed to Friday’s price: if it’s $10 higher (or more), that pays -130 and for under $10, it’s -110.
Who will Mark Zuckberg admit to be in a relationship first?
Actress 2/1
Musician 3/1
Professional Athlete 5/1
Facebook employee 3/2
Bovada odds makers have also set lines on Zuckerberg, who is favored at 3/2 to announce he is in a relationship with an employee of Facebook (as opposed to 2/1 for an actress, 3/1 for a musician and 5/1 for an athlete). He is also famously casual in his clothing, and it is favored at -200 that Zuckerberg will wear a sweatshirt or hoodie when Facebook goes public on Friday as opposed to a suit jacket at +150.
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SEO Tip #12 Long tail keywords.
Trying to rank high for very competitive keywords eg. “online casino” can be a losing battle. Try building back links for long tail keywords containing the competitive keyword eg. “top online casino games uk” as part of a bigger phrase. It might have less competition so ranking higher for it will be easier.
SEO Tip #11: Traffic is as important as back links.
Remember that 1000 back links to your site, but no traffic to your site will count negatively in Google SERP. Quality, optimized content will ensure traffic from “real” users and coupled with enough back links will ensure good rankings and authority.
SEO Tip #10: Beware of repetitive keywords usage.
Google has recently made it clear that it will downgrade sites and pages that are “too” highly optimized for search engines. Amongst the biggest culprits are links with the same keywords used in an unnatural frequency. This includes back links on other sites to your site. Tip: use long-tail keywords to spice things up.
SEO Tip #9: Don’t over SEO.
Google and the other search engines are getting smarter by the day. Google will penalize sites that it perceives as over optimized. The answer is balance. Put a few keyword on some pages and none on others - mix it up. Google is looking for good, natural, normal looking content.
SEO Tip #8: Interlink your pages.
A very important step which a lot of people forget is to interlink all the pages on their site. All search engines love to see pages on a site linking (logically of course) to other pages in the site. It helps them determine context, meaning and overall content value. Also remember to add logical title attributes to these links.
SEO Tip #7: Broken links.
You need to regularly scan your site for broken links or missing pages. Missing pages should be fixed or 301 redirected to a suitable alternative. Broken links can affect your page’s Google rank significantly so clean house regularly.
SEO Tip #6: Page meta description length.
Keep every page’s meta description unique and within 100 to 160 characters. Any shorter and Google will complain. You can use Google Webmaster Tools to check for issues on your site, specifically meta description issues.
SEO Tip #5: Website loading speed.
The speed it takes a user’s browser to load and display your site is critically important to search engines. A typical search engine spider doesn’t waste too much time waiting for a page to download before it tries to index it. It makes sense to make your page light - less or highly compressed graphics - and only enough information to deliver your message. In this case, less is more. If a page loads too long it might not get indexed for months. Use standard HTML tags like H1’s, , etc and CSS instead of heaving loading graphic images.
SEO Tip #4: New content and comments raises your value.
Google loves fresh, topical content on your site. Keep adding new posts or articles on a regular basis. There’s no hard and fast rule for this as long as new content is added, Google will visit your site more regularly. Try and get as many feedback or comment posts on your pages and articles as possible. A fresh, topical site that has lots of “action” on it is more valuable than a static site with no obvious readership. Topical comments can be used to generate valuable “backlinks” to your other web properties and can be used to create “linkwheels” (We will cover this next).
SEO Tip #3: Original content is king!
ALWAYS user fresh new content on your web site. Google frowns on duplicated and copied content. You WILL lose rankings if you copy text from another page. If you struggle with new content, you can buy new content online. There are numerous services where you can pay someone to write an article for you. Another option would be to manually spin existing content.
SEO Tip #2: The importance of back links.
To ensure better Page rank, you need to create back links - links to your site - on other, high quality sites. You can do so by commenting of other blog posts and leaving your site’s address in the comment section of that blog. Try commenting on high ranking sites for more link juice !
SEO Tip #1: Remember your link attributes!
When you create links on your site, remember to create each link complete with all the attributes a search engine will look at: HREF, Title(A short description of the link’s purpose), anchor text (the keywords you are targeting on search engines, exact keyword or long-tail keywords).
Exact keyword - the exact keyword you are targeting on search engines eg. Online casino
Long-tail keyword - less exact keywords which can still capture traffic eg. Casino games online
The U.S. Congress is too badly divided to act on Internet gambling, so individual states will start approving it on their own within the next two years, panelists at a major casino conference predicted Thursday.
Speaking at the East Coast Gaming Congress, casino and political leaders predicted online gambling will become a reality on a state-by-state basis. New Jersey hopes to become the "Silicon Valley of Internet gambling," and its legislature is working on a bill to legalize it.
"Those who think the U.S. government will pass a law, a federal Internet gambling law, that's naive," said Richard Bronson, chairman of US Digital Gaming. "In a Congress that can't agree on what day it is, the thought that they're going to agree to put casino gambling in every living room in America is ridiculous."
He and others at the conference predicted that individual states will pass their own online gambling laws, approving it in much the same way that state lotteries have since they spread to 43 states in the absence of a single national lottery.
From The Detroit News: Panel: Individual states likely to pass laws on online gambling | The Detroit News | detroitnews-com
The Legislature has plenty on its plate this session with budget issues and Medicaid and pension reform, but Senate President John Cullerton has piled more on with a plan to legalize online poker.
Cullerton (D-Chicago) wants to create a gaming division within the Illinois Lottery to oversee Internet gambling that he said could attract players worldwide and bring the state many millions in annual revenue. The lottery started selling tickets online in March, the first state to do so.
Those lottery sales and other forms of Internet gambling became possible after the Justice Department announced in December that it would no longer enforce the federal law against such wagering, except for sports betting.
Read More: Expanding Internet gambling deserves OK - Southtown Star
India could be missing out on as much as $1.5 billion in lost tax revenue by not regulating online gambling. This is the conclusion reached in an in-depth report conducted and published by a leading online casino portal.
Despite a booming middle class and a rapidly expanding internet user base, only the state of Sikkim has made any meaningful efforts to regulate online gambling in India, the report said. On a national level, there seems to be little desire to regulate this lucrative market – even though an ever-increasing number of Indians gamble online, it added.
Read More: Numbers Of Indians Engaged In Online Gambling Surging | Link Newspaper
According to US Internet Gambling Regulatory Tracker, a new legislative monitoring service from GamblingCompliance, nine states so far this year have taken up legislation authorising or prohibiting some combination of online poker and casino gaming, which is up from seven states in 2011.
“With 19 state legislatures and Congress still in session, this calendar year - during which more states have considered internet gambling legislation than any other in history - could yield even more legislative activity,” said Chris Krafcik, research director North America at GamblingCompliance.
Read More: US legislative activity to increase | News | i-Gaming | InterGame
We’re down to the final tow contestants on the 11th season of American Idol, and the duo that has dominated the competition since the beginning are left standing, while the third-place performer would have probably went further in another season.
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20-year-old Josh Ledet was next to exit American Idol, although there are a number of “experts” and fans that feel he should have gone on to win it all with his soulful sound. However, Ledet, who is from Louisiana, was undaunted by his elimination and feels as though he can be successful without winning American Idol, and he definitely showed what he could do with performances of Etta James’ “I’d Rather Go Blind”, John Lennon’s “Imagine” and Mary J. Blige’s “No More Drama”; that’s a lot of variety and that could have opened a few eyes.
But we’re left with 16-year-old Jessica Sanchez and 21-year-old Phil Phillips, and the latter received a few song choices that were right up his alley: “Beggin’” by the Four Seasons, “Disease” by Matchbox Twenty and Bob Seger’s “We’ve Got Tonight”. That led a few fans to insinuate that Phillips is destined to be the next American Idol as he was given songs that were suited to his pop/rock sound. Sanchez had Mariah Carey’s “My All”, “I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing” by Aerosmith (who is headed by judge Steven Tyler and he said Sanchez’s version was better than the original) and “I’ll Be There” by the Jackson Five. Again, these choices seemed to be suited to Sanchez’s big-room voice, which angered some Ledet fans.
Stay tuned for next week when the 11th American Idol will be decided. Males have won the last four editions of the show and six times overall, so Phillips may have a slight edge going into the finale.
Illinois is not alone in the rush to expand legalized gambling to the Internet.
According to U.S. Internet Gambling Regulatory Tracker, nine other states are reviewing legislation dealing with Internet poker and online casino gambling.
That’s up from seven states in 2011 and the number could grow, the tracking service noted in an advisory issued last week.
“With 19 state legislatures and Congress still in session, this calendar year, during which more states have considered Internet gambling legislation than any other in history, could yield even more legislative activity,” noted Chris Krafcik, research director for GamblingCompliance, which operates the tracking service.
The growing number of states hoping to reap the potential billions of dollars from online gambling is one reason Senate President John Cullerton is urging quick action by the legislature on a plan he unveiled Monday.
Read More: Illinois not alone in pursuing online gambling : Pantagraph-com | Central Illinois
The recent Gaming in Spain Conference has come and gone and with better thatn expected results being reported by all those who attended. The 200 plus attendees who were present at the Palacio de Congresos from May 9 to 10 witnessed the gaming legislator’s first public presentation. Come June 1, 2012 the Spanish gambling industry is about to blossom with a great deal of excitement.
Gambling operators are readying themselves for what is shaping up to be a very competitive market that will hopefully prove lucrative enough for them to stay functional. While much of the two day conference dealt with various regulatory aspects of the online gaming industry other topics were also put on the table such as social gaming and marketing which the industry will utilize to gain an edge over other jurisdictions.
Read More: Gaming In Spain Conference Provides Wealth of Knowledge
Ralph Attarian, a 47-year-old caddy, puffed cigarettes as he played a penny slot machine in Philadelphia's SugarHouse Casino, adding to the pot of money that has helped Pennsylvania reap more tax revenue from gambling than any state for three years running.
"I just come here to kill some time," he said one weekday morning as he tried his luck 2,500 miles from the Las Vegas Strip. Players such as Attarian are proving a windfall for Pennsylvania, which is using the revenue to diversify its tax base and ease property levies.
Read more: Pennsylvania's take in gambling tops nation - News
The Vikings stadium deal is unleashing the biggest expansion of Minnesota charitable gambling in 25 years while ushering in electronic gaming on a scale not seen anywhere else in the country.
Vendors of the new electronic pulltabs and bingo games already are visiting the Twin Cities, hoping to nab a lucrative contract. Distributors are hawking their services to the state's 1,200 nonprofits and charities that hold gambling licenses.
The stakes are high. Minnesota's $1 billion-a-year charitable gambling industry, which funds everything from softball teams to VFWs to fire departments, is being counted on to generate $348 million in taxes to underwrite the state's share of the cost of a new Vikings stadium.
Two key state lawmakers involved in gambling legislation last week flatly predicted the legislature will vote on an expansion bill before the end of the month.
The question is whether Gov. Pat Quinn will soften his opposition to slot machines at horse racing tracks and sign a bill that contains slots if it reaches his desk.
“There will be something, and it will be before May 31,” said Sen. Terry Link, D-Waukegan, a reference to the General Assembly’s scheduled adjournment.
“We think we’re going to pass the bill,” Rep. Lou Lang, D-Skokie, said of Senate Bill 1849.
The bill would allow new casinos in Chicago, Rockford, Danville, near Waukegan and in the south Chicago suburbs. It also would allow slot machines at racetracks, although not at the Illinois State Fairgrounds and also not at airports. Existing casinos also could expand their operations.
Read More: Gambling expansion expected to get another look in legislature - Galesburg, IL - The Register-Mail
They draw hundreds of people each day, but after the upcoming primary vote on May 29, gambling along many of Cameron County’s 8-liners could be one step closer to becoming legal.
"The hope is that legislature looks to alternative revenue sources to be able to adequately fund the school system," said Gilberto Hinojosa, the chair for the Cameron County Democratic Party.
That is the intent behind Proposition 3, a non-binding initiative on the Democratic ballot to legalize, and tax, gambling.
But this proposition will likely face tough resistance, not just in the Valley but from voters statewide.
"I would be against it," Celia Aguilar said. “How many kids, or adults, or youth would lose themselves to gambling?”
Legalizing it, and what it would mean for the 8-liners in the Valley, is also a big concern for law enforcement groups.
Read More: Democrats to vote on legalized gambling : News : ValleyCentral-com
The Latin American online gambling market is potentially very large but as in many parts of the globe the laws regarding gambling have not caught up with the internet gambling trend. Chile is one such country where the laws need to change to accommodate the online aspect of the gambling industry. With a population nearing seventeen million there is are many opportunities for new operators. Gambling in Chile is completely legal and very popular. Chileans can enjoy casinos, sports betting, state lotteries, horse racing, among other entertaining venues.
Read More: Chile Proposes Legal Reforms for Online Gambling
Facebook successfully made its stock market debut on Friday, but analysts warn that its crucial revenues could be at risk because of growing scrutiny by American regulators of online gambling.
Shares closed just above the $38 float price after its first day of trading, valuing the social networking site at $104billion (£66billion).
Online gambling is illegal in America, but some states are considering allowing internet companies to provide casino-style games.
Read more: Facebook at risk from US gaming laws as authorities up scrutiny of 'social' gambling' that uses virtual money | This is Money
Illinois is not alone in the rush to expand legalized gambling to the Internet.
According to U.S. Internet Gambling Regulatory Tracker, nine other states are reviewing legislation dealing with Internet poker and online casino gambling.
That’s up from seven states in 2011 and the number could grow, the tracking service noted in an advisory issued last week.
“With 19 state legislatures and Congress still in session, this calendar year, during which more states have considered Internet gambling legislation than any other in history, could yield even more legislative activity,” said Chris Krafcik, research director for GamblingCompliance, which operates the tracking service.
A measure to legalize and regulate online poker in Iowa was brought up but failed to clear the Iowa Legislature this spring.
Read More: Illlinois racing to be international hub for Web gambling : Quad-City Times: Quad Cities, IA/IL
The new "Asia-Pacific Online Gaming Report 2012" by Hamburg-based secondary market research firm yStats-com compiles up-to-date information on the online gaming market in the Asia-Pacific region, excluding online gambling aspects. This includes a brief introduction about the region as well as an analysis of the markets China, Japan, South Korea and Australia.
The online gaming market is rapidly growing in the entire region of South East Asia. Revenue generated in this market is expected to more than double between 2011 and 2015. Especially social gaming has become a significant trend, drawing more and more new users and generating more revenue.
Read more here: Research and Markets: Asia-Pacific Online Gaming Report 2012 - Business Wire - SunHerald-com