Interviewing, Gerasimos Kamplies, the owner and founder of bet-gate.com, an online gambling directory in English language located in Greece, was a pleasure. Migrating his data from an old website and making the best use of the Emblem Directory theme, he has expressed thoroughly, his experiences while building the site. He talks about his goals, his plans and how he executed it. Introduce Yourself & Your Site My name is Gerasimos Kamplies and I am the owner and founder of bet-gate.com. Bet-gate.com is an online gambling directory in English language located in Greece. Here you can find many remarkable websites related to sports betting, casino and poker, submitted in proper categories and sub categories. There is also a specific category with gambling affiliates programs for those webmasters who have owned a gambling website and want to gain some extra income from it. In September of 2005 I created my first website bet-gate.gr, a greek sports betting directory. About 15 months later added categories with casino and poker links. The website was fully translated in English but as it was growing rapidly I decided to create a new gambling directory in English language with it’s own domain name. And then was born bet-gate.com in 2008. Few years later me and my team decided to make a renewal in our websites. We wanted a new website more professional, modern looking and friendly with mobile devices. After an extensive research on the internet I found the Emblem Directory theme from templatic and I think that it was what exactly we were looking for. We built our bet-gate.com website on Emblem theme and bet-gate.gr on Emblem Directory theme. What are the challenges you had to overcome while developing the site? The first challenge we had to face was to transfer successfully all our existing listings of our directory and to enrich them with additional details because the previous format of our directory was simple enough. That was the most difficult and time consuming part of our work. We had to add screenshot images to every single listing whilst we added many additional listing details such as e-mail address, facebook-twitter-google+ profiles, videos and others in several particular listings. One more difficulty we faced was to manage the price packages for sponsored listings. We hadn’t offered this option before, so we had to specify parameters as price, duration and payment method. We had some... Read more »
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