Tag Archives: BetFair Predicts
InTrade has a higher PageRank than BetFair. No change.
Google has just updated its external PageRank servers. (The PageRank is updated internally in a continuous way, but Google updates its external servers once a quarter or so.)
- InTrade is 7/10. BetFair 6/10. HSX 6/10. HubDub 6/10.
- BetFair’s blog (Betting @ BetFair) is 5/10, proving, once again, that it is a mediocre publication run by [...]
BetFair on Twitter
- BetFair Predicts @ Twitter
- BetFair News @ Twitter
- BetFair Canada @ Twitter
- Mike Robb @ Twitter
- Michael Owen @ Twitter
- Pete Nordsted @ Twitter
- ??? – ??? – ???
The one word missing in BetFair’s Michael Robb’s résumé
Michael Robb @ LinkedIn:
Summary
I am a communications professional with a broad mix of experience. My strengths include media relations, campaign management, corporate communications, digital communications and creativity.
Specialties
Print, online and social media, digital and online PR, corporate communications, marketing PR, experiential PR, direct marketing, research, stakeholder engagement, strategic partnerships, online activism, online campaigns, political campaigning, project [...]
The very good little secrets of one of the BetFair SEOs —and why you should not apply them.
Slides here. Download this post if your feed reader does not show you the embedded slides:
It is a good theoretical material. The only thing: The BetFair SEOs have been incapable of raising the PageRank of both Betting @ BetFair (PR5) and BetFair Predicts (PR4). So, if their advice are so precious, why can’t they get [...]
*Years* later, the BetFair blogs are still *not* taking off.
- Google PageRank of Betting @ BetFair: 5 / 10.
- Google PageRank of BetFair Predicts: 4 / 10.
- Number of feed subscribers at Google Reader for Betting @ BetFair: 29.
- Number of feed subscribers at Google Reader for BetFair Predicts: 17.
All this in spite of the 45 part-time writers and the SEO experts (or so [...]
Why BetFair and InTrade as media can’t be trusted
TechCrunch:
As a consumer, when’s the last time you read an advertorial and walked away inspired or informed?
Never.
And this is my version of the question:
As a consumer, when’s the last time you read a post by BetFair Predicts and walked away inspired or informed?
Never, as for moi. Do give your answer in the comments. Commercial companies [...]
Cheltenham Festival 2009
As I said the other day on the other blog, our British readers betting on horses might be interested in following the coverage of this horseracing event by Mike Robb at BetFair Predicts.
Best of luck to you.
PS: BetFair Predicts, which received much criticism from my part in the past, is now under a new direction. [...]
BetFair penalized by Google?
I have surveyed the PageRanks of the main prediction exchanges.
- InTrade: 7 / 10
- BetFair: 6 / 10 — It was 7 / 10, at one time, in the past.
- Iowa Electronic Markets: 6 / 10
- HubDub: 6 / 10
- NewsFutures (US): 6 / 10
- Hollywood Stock Exchange: 6 / 10
- Betting @ BetFair (a [...]
In-House Vs. Outsourcing
BetFair Predicts is paying a social media consultant.
The Hollywood Stock Exchange / Cantor Exchange is paying a community service provider.
HubDub’s community services are performed in house.
Should community building be a core constituent of a prediction exchange? I’d say “yes”. It is not something to outsource.
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Previously: Cantor Exchange
Previously: Should the Hollywood Stock Exchange become a real-money [...]
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