Reviews and information regarding tools, software or online resources that will hopefully prove useful to both players and casino affiliates alike. If you know any that deserve mentioning - including tolls for online poker players - then please get in touch and I’ll take a look for worthiness ;)
For players or affiliates looking for background information on online casinos that can’t always be gleaned from simply reading the casino website, a unique new web application has been launched that makes life a little easier.
The A-Z of Online Casinos contains a wealth of information on some 150 of the most popular, safe online casinos revealing information such as ownership info, cashout times, licensing jurisdiction and more. The emphasis is on cashouts with players able to compare cashout times, reverse times and see which online casinos offer the ability to request a manual flush and have cashouts processed at weekends. It also provides some extra emphasis on online casinos that take US players.
Most experienced online gamblers will be familiar with Neteller, the eWallet that is accepted at just about every sportsbook, casino or poker room going. Excluding US residents of course. Well anyway, they just launched an affiliate program which may be of interest - Neteller Affiliate Program - with a bounty for every new account holder on their first succesful transaction. Frankly, it’s not a great bounty at £20 a throw, but at least it’s something.
I’ve used Neteller for years and apart from the odd frustration, it’s served me well. It’s generally the quickest way to get money in and out of the merchants and can be treated like an offshre bank account to a degree. They are based in the Isle Of Man
affCAFF is a free system for webmasters that allows them to plug in bonuses, promotions and news from over 200 (at last count) online casinos, poker rooms, bingo sites and sportsbooks. It works by putting a line of Javascript or PHP, depending on which you prefer, into any page on your website and then it updates the bonus or promotion in real-time as soon as it is updated.
It also has an RSS feed integration tool too so that feeds from the casinos, poker rooms etc can be integrated into webmaster sites without any knowledge of RSS required.
In all the above cases, it lets the webmaster wrap the line of code that provides the feed in their own affiliate links too. Very neat and very easy to use. Visit affCAFF…
During the course of the last few years, I’ve come across some useful bits of software and tools that can help both players and casino affiliates. Actually, I’ve also found some prety crap ones too, but I won’t be listing those here. Many of these are free, one or two are shareware, and the odd one is a commercial application, although being a skinflint I’ve not often bought any, so there won’t be many here.
So here’s the most useful ones I’ve found so far:
Poker Freeroll Tournament Feed
A number of different RSS feeds in fact, the most popular one being the freeroll feed. They get updated every day with all the online poker tournaments from all the major poker rooms and are a great way to keep up with all the main tourneys, including WSOP and WPT qualifiers among others. Also a very useful resource for webmasters and bloggers to put them on their websites.
affCAFF Real-time Webmaster Feeds
affCAFF is a free system for casino affiliate peeps that integrates the latest bonuses and promotions from a large number of online casinosand poker rooms with a website. Also allows the webmaster to include their own afiliate links and updates the info every hour or so.
This is an excellent shareware tool that helps video poker players work out the best hands. The free version works pretty well, but an upgrade is also worth the money IMO.