BetFair Predicts (a blog run by BetFair) titled “-The Power Of Objectivity”- a post giving the latest odds produced by BetFair on the race for the White House.
The real “-objectivity”- would have been to quote the odds produced by the other prediction exchanges, too —-InTrade, Iowa Electronic Markets, Betdaq, NewsFutures, HubDub, etc.
Midas Oracle is the only blog that lists prices and probabilities from all the prediction exchanges. No wonder, our daily readership is much, much bigger than the audience of all the other prediction market blogs combined. A blog that gives the odds of one exchange only is like a dead end —-no one trusts a dead end.
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Promoting competitor sites wouldnt really be in their best interest. It`s is in your interest as a blog to be a comprehensive as possible, but a promotional tool disguised as a blog has to serve its objective.
BetfairPredicts seems to be very USA orientated with the introduction of NFL, makes you wonder if they have a feeling that the Legalities could be changed in the near future and are getting the Brand out in the market.
“Promoting competitor sites wouldnt really be in their best interest.”
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You are partially right, but readers on the Web do favor sites that link externally a lot. Paradoxally, people who do link a lot to the outside are very popular on the Web —see the Drudge Report, more popular than the New York Times according to Nielsen.
If they want to be more popular, I would say that they should link out more.
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They probably think that the new majority in Congress will legalize the betting exchanges. Maybe. However, many Democrats are opposed to Internet gambling and Internet betting. Good luck to BetFair. (Some hope that this new law would forbid the operators like InTrade-TradeSports that contravened the US laws by promoting to the Americans. I understand this viewpoint, but disagree with it. They don’t care about my opinion, though.)
There might be a current legal aspect to the linking, the quick look I didnt actually see a link to Betfair itself, just logos. Perhapps, maybe, somebody in your rss feed knows more about this.
The US could go the same way as the UK and other countries in issuing licences which would put those law-breakers at a disadvantage from being unable to do “real life” promotion.
“There might be a current legal aspect to the linking, the quick look I didnt actually see a link to Betfair itself, just logos.”
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Excellent remark.
Promoting competitor sites wouldnt really be in their best interest. It`s is in your interest as a blog to be a comprehensive as possible, but a promotional tool disguised as a blog has to serve its objective.
BetfairPredicts seems to be very USA orientated with the introduction of NFL, makes you wonder if they have a feeling that the Legalities could be changed in the near future and are getting the Brand out in the market.
“Promoting competitor sites wouldnt really be in their best interest.”
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You are partially right, but readers on the Web do favor sites that link externally a lot. Paradoxally, people who do link a lot to the outside are very popular on the Web —see the Drudge Report, more popular than the New York Times according to Nielsen.
If they want to be more popular, I would say that they should link out more.
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They probably think that the new majority in Congress will legalize the betting exchanges. Maybe. However, many Democrats are opposed to Internet gambling and Internet betting. Good luck to BetFair. (Some hope that this new law would forbid the operators like InTrade-TradeSports that contravened the US laws by promoting to the Americans. I understand this viewpoint, but disagree with it. They don’t care about my opinion, though.)
There might be a current legal aspect to the linking, the quick look I didnt actually see a link to Betfair itself, just logos. Perhapps, maybe, somebody in your rss feed knows more about this.
The US could go the same way as the UK and other countries in issuing licences which would put those law-breakers at a disadvantage from being unable to do “real life” promotion.
“There might be a current legal aspect to the linking, the quick look I didnt actually see a link to Betfair itself, just logos.”
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Excellent remark.