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Growth we can put a number on

Real campaigns, real metrics, one vertical. Here is what changes when the people running your search programme also run their own iGaming properties.

iGaming onlyWe take no clients outside the vertical
Operator-ownedWe run seven of our own properties
30-day rollingNo annual lock-in, ever
You get the operatorNo account manager layer
$X.XM
REVENUE DRIVEN
+XXX%
AVG. TRAFFIC LIFT
X,XXX
PAGE-1 KEYWORDS
XX%
CLIENT RETENTION
Crypto Casino · Curaçao licence

Breaking a provably-fair casino into the hardest niche in gambling

A crypto-native operator with strong product and no organic presence, competing against affiliates who had owned the terms for years. We led with trust content rather than bonus content.

  • Provably-fair and verifiable-RNG content cluster built from scratch
  • Withdrawal speed and chain-support pages targeting the real objection
  • Forum and community reputation work across Reddit and Discord
  • Tier-1 digital PR to close the authority gap
+401%
ORGANIC TRAFFIC
DR 31 → 72
DOMAIN RATING
+2.9×
FTD VOLUME
weekly organic clicks · 6 months before, 12 months after
Online Casino · Tier-1 EU market

From page three to category leader in eight months

An established operator stuck below the fold for every money term it cared about. The catalogue was the problem: thousands of feed-generated game pages diluting everything above them.

  • Game catalogue rebuilt as templates with genuine content on the top 300 titles
  • 42,000 thin and duplicate URLs removed from the index
  • Bonus and wagering-terms pages rewritten to clear compliance first time
  • Sustained authority link programme pointed at the money pages
+312%
ORGANIC TRAFFIC
+612
TOP-3 KEYWORDS
DR 24 → 68
DOMAIN RATING
weekly organic clicks · 6 months before, 12 months after
Sportsbook · LATAM

8,200 new betting keywords live before kickoff

A sportsbook whose odds tables rendered client-side and were invisible to crawlers. We fixed the rendering first, then built a content engine timed to the fixture calendar.

  • Server-side rendering specified for odds and market tables
  • Event and fixture architecture that retires cleanly at season end
  • Rapid indexation framework for time-sensitive fixture pages
  • Free bet and sign-up offer pages built for comparison shoppers
+8,200
TOP-10 KEYWORDS
+187%
ORGANIC SESSIONS
+64%
NEW REGISTRATIONS
indexed top-10 keywords · weekly
Comparison Affiliate · UK & IE

CPA revenue multiplied 5.4× in under a year

A comparison portal with healthy traffic that had plateaued commercially. Traffic was not the constraint — the toplist structure and the conversion path were.

  • Toplist architecture rebuilt so commercial ordering no longer cost rankings
  • Review templates rewritten around stated criteria and methodology
  • Parasite and host placement while the domain matured on head terms
  • Programmatic expansion into long-tail brand and offer queries
5.4×
CPA REVENUE
+243%
ORGANIC CLICKS
+118%
CONVERSION RATE
monthly CPA revenue
Sweepstakes Casino · US

State-eligibility content that tripled qualified signups

A sweepstakes operator drowning in generic promo content and converting almost none of it. Players were not looking for coin offers — they were trying to work out whether the model was legal where they lived.

  • State-by-state eligibility pages covering every operating market
  • Sweeps coin and redemption mechanics explained for a confused audience
  • Legitimacy and payout-proof content addressing the real objection
  • Geo-gating built in so pages can be pulled if a state's position shifts
+3.1×
QUALIFIED SIGNUPS
+276%
ORGANIC TRAFFIC
48
STATE PAGES LIVE
monthly qualified signups
GEO & AEO · Multi-brand operator

From cited in no AI answers to cited in six of ten

An operator with solid classic rankings and no presence in AI answers at all. The models were citing three affiliate comparison sites and a forum thread, none of which mentioned the brand.

  • Citation audit across four engines, producing the target domain list
  • GPTBot and PerplexityBot unblocked at the WAF — both had been silently refused
  • Entity and schema layer rebuilt so the brand resolved to one coherent thing
  • Placement campaign on the exact surfaces the models were retrieving from
0 → 6/10
PROMPTS CITED
+58%
BRANDED SEARCH
4
ENGINES TRACKED
prompts returning a brand citation · monthly, out of 10

How we turn an audit into deposits

Every result above followed the same sequence, adapted to the vertical, the market and the competition.

FIRST

Find the gap

Technical, content and link audits, plus an AI citation baseline. We work out what is actually holding the site back before anyone writes a word.

THEN

Build authority

Content clusters on the pages that take deposits, direct publisher placements, and the entity and schema work that feeds both search and AI retrieval.

THEN

Convert and scale

Optimise the funnel against first-time deposits and lifetime value rather than sessions, then expand into the next market or the next vertical.

How we work with you

Four commitments that apply to every engagement, written down so you can hold us to them.

Every link named and priced

You see the site, the anchor and the cost before anything is bought. No monthly link count standing in for a strategy, and nothing we would not point at our own revenue.

Reporting on deposits, not sessions

Dashboards tied to first-time deposits, cost per acquisition and lifetime value. Rankings are an input we manage; they are not what we ask you to judge us on.

We will tell you when the answer is no

If the audit says you do not need an agency yet, or that a migration you are planning is a bad idea, you will hear it. A retainer that was never going to work costs us more than it costs you.

No conflicts inside your market

We will not take two clients chasing the same head terms in the same market. If there is a conflict you will hear about it on the first call, not three months in.

Your numbers could be on this page.

Start with the free audit: technical debt, live link profile, the keyword gap against the operators beating you, and where you currently sit inside AI answers.

Request the free audit