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What to do with inactive Polish poker forum?
In 2003, I created forum.pokerzysta.pl, which became Poland's largest poker community. I quit playing poker about 8 years ago and lost interest, especially after online poker and its advertising became illegal in Poland. The forum is now inactive but still attracts some traffic:
- 25,000 registered users (about half likely spam accounts)
- Last 28 days: 1.35K clicks, 50.5K impressions, 2.7% average CTR
- 25,000 registered users (about half likely spam accounts)
- Last 28 days: 1.35K clicks, 50.5K impressions, 2.7% average CTR
Most searches are for poker chips and uncommon poker variants. Interesting, the forum also ranks for unrelated terms like "broken ribs forum" (3rd in Polish search results). It's all long-tail traffic - even the top query only got 14 clicks in the last 28 days.
I'm paying $30 monthly for hosting. The first step is moving to a cheaper $5/month VPS to cut costs.
Given Poland's legal restrictions on online poker, I'm unsure how to proceed. One idea is to repurpose it as an online store for poker chips and accessories.
Do you have other suggestions for using this domain and its existing traffic?
I don't want to sell it, as I'm concerned about giving others access to user PMs and emails, given the legal situation.
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How about making an affiliate deal with a legal casino operator in Poland?
What's the DR? The easy one option it's to sell the website and use the cash somewhere else.
Seems more like a liability than an asset. Maybe try and sell it without the user accounts?
There's probably easier ways to make money than reviving an old site in a difficult niche
It seems that the best for this project is to sell it to some poker company trying to capture Poland's market.
If you have time (like, years) to develop the project, among the ideas you've already shared (a store for chips/accessories), you could turn it into the tips&tricks website, news, and everything else around poker (in Poland, so without direct advertisement of poker clubs to avoid any restrictions on you).