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Technical SEO for iGaming

Gambling platforms are among the worst technical environments on the web. Odds tables render client-side, game catalogues run to thousands of near-identical URLs, and the CMS is usually locked down by the platform provider.

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

THE PROBLEM

Your platform provider controls the templates, your WAF blocks half the crawlers, and nobody has looked at what Googlebot actually receives on a market page in two years. Meanwhile forty thousand thin URLs are eating the crawl budget that should be going to pages that earn.

How we approach it

We start here on almost every engagement because it's usually where the cheapest wins are. Removing fifty thousand junk URLs from an index costs nothing in content or links and routinely moves the pages that matter.

Everything here runs on the same reporting as the rest of our work: first-time deposits, cost per acquisition and lifetime value, with rankings treated as an input rather than the result. You will work directly with the person doing the work, and you can end the engagement on thirty days' notice at any point.

What's included

  • Crawl budget and index bloat across large game and market catalogues
  • JavaScript rendering audits — what the crawler actually receives versus what the player sees
  • Hreflang and international architecture across every market you hold a licence in
  • Core Web Vitals on pages carrying heavy third-party tracking and game embeds

Who this is for

What actually lands, and when

No discovery phase that produces a deck. The first deliverable is in your hands inside two weeks.

Week 1

Crawl, render and log analysis — what the crawler gets versus what the player gets

Week 2

Prioritised fix list with effort and impact estimates against each item

Weeks 3–6

Implementation, or specifications precise enough for your platform provider

Monthly

Crawl health, indexation ratio and Core Web Vitals tracked as a trend

Questions we get asked

We don't control our platform. Can you still help?

Yes. Much of the work becomes specifying exactly what your provider needs to change, in language their engineers will accept — which is a large part of the job in this vertical.

How long does a technical audit take?

Two weeks for the audit, with the first fixes specified inside the same window.

Do you implement or just advise?

Either. We'll implement where we have access and specify where we don't.

How much traffic does index bloat actually cost?

More than most teams expect. On a large catalogue we routinely find the majority of crawl activity going to pages nobody should ever land on, and reclaiming it moves revenue pages without a single new link.

Can you work with our in-house developers?

That's usually the fastest route. We write the ticket, your team ships it, and we verify. Nobody needs to hand over repository access for that to work.

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.

Send us your SERP. We'll tell you the truth.

A free audit covering technical debt, your live link profile, the keyword gap against the operators beating you, and where you currently sit inside AI answers. You keep it either way.

Request the free audit