The Springboks are welcoming the All Blacks in their Rugby Championship at Emirates Airlines Park (former Ellis Park) this weekend and bracing themselves for an all out scrum war.

Pieter de Villiers, Springbok scrum couch said that it’s going to be a tough battle upfront. Aside from the mutual respect between the world’s top two rugby teams come Saturday there will be no love lost.

He said that the All Blacks had a great scrum for many years now and to underestimate them in this department would be a serious error. In their previous encounter South Africa won 27-25, a titanic battle in which the home side made a fast start but the All Blacks upped their tempo and piled on the pressure in the closing stages.

If the Springboks want to beat the All Blacks it’s important that they get the basics right. Although the Boks were less impressive …

Please take note Serena, Eugenie Bouchard is the tennis world’s most bankable star. One would think that the most marketable sports star would be someone like football sensation Neymar or irrepressible tennis champ Serena Williams.

Or what about charamastic sprinter Usain Bolt, Formula 1 champ Lewis Hamilton or soccer sensation Ronaldo? In their own right they are brilliant sportsmen but as strange as it may seem according to SportsPro magazine it’s Eugenie Bouchard that steals the limelight.

Sorry, Eugenie who? Most people were rather mystified when the gorgeous Canadian tennis star recently topped the well-respected British publication’s list of The World’s 50 Most Marketable people in sport. Eugenie is the first female athlete to achieve this honor.

If you’re not an avid tennis fan or don’t follow the game you might not have heard of her before. At this stage she’s ranked number twelve in the world and never won …

Texas Hold’em is the Rolls Royce of poker variants since it encapsulates the very essence of what the game of poker is all about.

I’m going to give you some handy tips when playing this wonderful poker variant be it online or offline. Since you can’t see your opponents’ pocket cards, the only indication you have of their hands is the manner in which they place their bets.

The number and experience of the players you’re up against will have an influence on the type of betting strategy you’re going to use. The more players there are at the table the greater the likelihood that there will be a couple of good hands. When there are a lot of players, try and cut down the competition as quickly as possible to ensure that those with mediocre hands fold before they get the chance to improve.

If you are playing against …

Domain authority and trust are closely related terms that determine how a portal casino is perceived by Google and its visitors. It is primarily concerned with the power of the domain name.

In this article I’m going to tell online casino webmasters how domain authority is calculated and how it can be accomplished. 

Domain Authority is accomplished by taking the following five factors into account:

The age of the domain. The site’s popularity. Who is linking to it? The sites your site are linking to. The size of the site. The amount of pages it contains and how long each respective page is. What Exactly Is Domain Authority (DA)?

Most visitors to a site are usually not aware of domain authority. In fact they are more concerned with user trust. User trust is something search engines traditionally had a hard time measuring. The best way they can come up with …

To outsiders it seems like a huge national celebration, in cities across Greece there was an air of jubilation. People took to the streets cheering, dancing and partying as if they didn’t have a care in the world.

The question one has to ask is what happened to put them in such high spirits? To be honest Greeks these days have very little to celebrate. Their country is on the brink of bankruptcy, ATM’s are running empty, people are scrounging for food in rubbish bins and elderly people are storming banks to withdraw their pension money.

In this article I’m going to discuss how Greece’s new left-wing government has plans for a regulated internet gambling market and how it could benefit the country’s ailing economy. But before I get to the gist of my article I’d like to give an explanation about the events that gave rise to and that …

The game of poker is particularly vulnerable to cheating since their are lots of ways a player can be duped. In order to ensure that the game is played fairly it’s best to play it in a legal casino.

If you play in private games you must be aware of the many methods players can use to cheat. In this article I’m going to explore just this.

Holding Cards

This is when the player steals a card from the deck, usually an ace and keeps it up his sleeve until needed. The cheat will always acquire the card from the hand that is folded. Instead of putting all the cards in the discard pile only one card will be kept. When it gets matched it’s switched into play. If you suspect this form of cheating, you can check for held cards by counting the number of cards in the deck.

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Search engines index billions of URLs whether they be good, bad or just down right ugly. The signals of trust, merit and intent plays an integral role to any website’s placement in the search results.

In this article I’m going to discuss how signals of trust determine onsite and offsite signals. Link citations, connections in conjunction with credibility aren’t going anywhere. If you had a billion dollars to spend on a search engine, what signals will you use to produce the desired results?

The links you depend on for both traffic and to rank your website better in the serps (Search Engine Results Pages) must be top-notch. If your link-building efforts is a watered-down version and not wisely chosen, the day will come when you will regret it. This is why the value of certain types of links cannot be underestimated.

”The more you can make your site like a …

Nothing satisfies a portal casino webmaster more than creating an article that the entire world will read. If you can accomplish this you’ll receive a truckload of shares and backlinks in return.

When people love what you’ve written they’ll stay longer, at the same token it will increase your page’s dwell time and bounce rate. Before you can get cracking you’ll need great content. Without content your site will be lost in a sea of other websites all competing for the same SERPS (Search Engine Ranking Positions) space as you.

To get your campaign on wheels there’s a few things you can do to spice things up a bit. If your article is trending and well-written it will get people talking and they’ll even leave some much needed comments. In this article I’m going to show you how to write an article that Google loves. Fasten your seat belts here …

At this stage internet casinos use three distinct types of software. Since there are players that are still not familiar with the various types, I’m going to discuss the pros and cons of each in this article.

What Are They? Download Software (Client-Based) Browser-Based Java 1. Downloadable Casino Software

During the embryonic stage of cyber gambling, the download software was the only software platform available. Many gamblers now regard this software as cumbersome yet it’s still widely used. What exactly does ”download” mean? Before a player can play the games offered by an online casino the games must first be pre-installed onto the player’s computer. Just like Mircrosoft Word and Excel, the casino’s software is stored on the hard drive of the computer. Once the software has been installed the player can interact with the casino.

Pros Of The Download Software? The speed of play is usually faster. Offers superior …

By re-defining global capitalism, Internet technology has shaped the prices of goods and services and exponentially reduced the cost of doing business for any would-be entrepreneur.

Strictly speaking it opened the door for small-scale venture capitalists that have access to opportunities they won’t necessarily have in the physical world. Suddenly the impossible is now possible. One can now justifiably talk about a ”New World”, a ”Land of Plenty” literally flowing with milk and honey. The Internet is now open to Joe Public, a domain once exclusively reserved to millionaires and major corporations. Now, anyone with a dream can now operate a business within the vastness of its space.

More than half of the Internet’s users reside in America, the shining beacon of global capitalism. Aside from Vegas, Atlantic City and certain autonomous Indian reservations, the business of internet gambling is still pretty much prohibited in the world’s greatest economy. In …