This was originally published at http://www.igbaffiliate.com/magazine/continental-shift

Asia has been a market of significant interest for many in the iGaming sector for several years. With growing wealth, internet connectivity and a long time gambling culture it seems as though there is great potential for expansion. This is of course true in many ways; however there are a unique set of pitfalls and challenges to operating in these markets. This piece could be seen as something of a crash course in the market place and sets up for future more in depth looks at the individual markets.

Once again I’ll be frequenting the stage at the Barcelona Affiliate Conference. This is of course one of the better conference of the year for iGaming affiliates and a fantastic networking experience.

I’ll be talking about Yandex and how Read more

Whilst I realllllly hate the angle that this was filmed at (couldn’t possibly be less flattering, who looks good in profile from below after a days travelling and an iGaming party the night before to boot).

However as I’ve been really lazy when it comes to updating this blog lately and this is a nice piece of video content I thought I’d slap it up. So it’s basically me waffling on for a few minutes about Baidu and the Asian markets.

So I’ll be on the international search panel at SAScon, not really too much more to say about that.

http://www.sascon.co.uk/sascon-uk/about/speakers/mike-litson/

Other than SAScon is obviously a great event, long standing in the industry and I look forward to seeing Read more

Ok well this is in Russian….. (Published in Login Casino Magazine and available online at their site here)

So I doubt many people on here can read this.

And it was translated across so if anything does sound a little odd to a native blame Igor Krestov from Blueclaw who proofed it.

I’ll be on the affiliate marketing panel at ionSearch, shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who knows me that I’d end up on something at this one. Should be a good one though; we have Garner and Reilly on the panel and a mystery panellist yet to be announced.

At the 2013 CBG I’ll be running some private SEO consultation workshops/clinics. These will be one to one sessions where you’ll get actionable feedback as well as be able to ask any questions that you want to, but let’s keep it about marketing 😉

I’ll be speaking at the SNCE in Moscow with Sean Walsh (Head of Social at Blueclaw and Author of Digital-Football.com) this April, the conference dates are 11-12 of April, the even promises to be quite interesting. Whilst the presentation title is not confirmed yet we’re looking at a presentation based on the use of big data in social media.

I will be speaking at the iGaming Super Show in Amsterdam on Wednesday 12th June at 10am. The topic is Online Marketing for iGaming in Asia, it will mostly be focused on SEO, but I will probably dip into social media and some key design variations as due to increased manual review in Naver this becomes more important.

At 11am (GMT) on Wednesday December 19th I will be running a 2 hour webinar in association with the guys over at RACE on Yandex and Google SEO. This will be a dual language webinar being translated into Russian as I go.

https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/433516831