SEO & development services for casino affiliate sites

Technical SEO, traffic recovery and monthly SEO for casino, sports betting and poker affiliate sites on WordPress — and custom affiliate theme design & development for your own brand. Every SEO project starts with a free audit.

Who it’s for

Casino, sports betting and poker affiliate sites on WordPress, built with PokaTheme or any other theme. It’s especially for:

  • Sites that lost traffic

    After a Google core or spam update, and need to know why.

  • Sites resting on a few pages

    Traffic that depends on one or two pages or a single keyword cluster.

  • Sites ready to grow

    Established sites moving toward bigger, more competitive commercial keywords.

  • Teams that write their own content

    Owners who want specialists on the technical and structural SEO while their team writes.

SEO services

Clean up, recover, then expand

New content published on a site Google is holding down just sinks with the rest. So every project follows the same order: diagnose, fix the foundations, then keep improving and grow.

  1. 1 Free SEO audit Diagnosis, plan and quote
  2. 2 Recovery & technical project One-time, scoped from the audit
  3. 3 Monthly SEO Ongoing, no lock-in
Step 1 · Free for everyone

Free SEO audit & traffic-drop diagnosis

Find out why your site lost traffic, or why it never took off, and what to fix in what order. Free for everyone, with no obligation.

You get

A written diagnosis with the root cause, a recovery plan in priority order, a realistic timeline, and a quote for the work.

We need

Search Console access with Full permission. Also helpful: GA4, WordPress admin, hosting access, Ahrefs or Semrush exports, rank-tracker exports, and a list of keywords you used to rank for.

Request your free audit

Send us your site’s address through the contact form and, if traffic dropped, roughly when.

What we check

  • Search Console review: manual actions, security issues or hacks, the exact timing of any drop, and which pages and queries were hit
  • Google updates: traffic drops matched against confirmed core and spam updates
  • Ranking vs indexing: were pages removed from the index, or are they still indexed but buried?
  • Thin and low-value content: “crawled – currently not indexed” pages, pages with near-zero impressions, and over-reliance on a few pages or one topic
  • Crawl waste from auto-generated URLs: tag, date and author archives, RSS feeds, affiliate and redirect link URLs
  • Technical health: speed, Core Web Vitals, crawl errors
  • Backlink profile: link spikes, low-quality and nofollow links, and whether links are a factor at all — no knee-jerk disavowing
  • Inventory: a sitemap-by-sitemap list of what the site already has — sections, reviews, bonus and payment pages
Step 2 · One-time project

Recovery & technical project

Scoped and quoted from the audit findings, so you know exactly what will be done before work starts. Most sites need several of these, in this order.

Technical SEO & Core Web Vitals fix

A fast, crawlable, cleanly structured site, measured on what real visitors experience — not only on lab scores.

Included

  • Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) measured on real field data from Search Console, not just lab scores in PageSpeed Insights
  • Render-blocking CSS and JavaScript, unused code, font-loading strategy
  • Modern image formats (WebP/AVIF) and lazy loading
  • Caching, CDN and server response time
  • WordPress-specific work: page-builder and plugin overhead, theme bloat, object caching
  • Crawlability and indexation: robots.txt, XML sitemaps, canonical tags, redirect chains, orphan pages, and hreflang for multilingual sites
  • Semantic HTML and a correct heading hierarchy

Indexation & crawl-budget cleanup

Stop Google spending its time on URLs that should never be in search, and deal with the thin pages that drag the whole site down.

Included

  • Every URL Google flags, with a proposed action for each: keep, improve, merge, noindex, or remove and redirect
  • A “Needs your input” shortlist of URLs where your knowledge counts: history, backlinks, old campaigns
  • Noindex for tag, date and author archives, and their removal from the XML sitemap
  • Fixing RSS feed URLs that eat crawl budget
  • Keeping affiliate and outbound link URLs out of the index
  • Merging or retiring dead and thin pages, with 301 redirects for anything worth keeping
  • A redirect map as a CSV (Old URL → New URL → Redirect type), ready for bulk import into the Redirection plugin

You get: The cleanup spreadsheet, the redirect CSV and an admin change list — or the changes applied directly if we have access.

Nothing runs before your written sign-off.

Keyword research & topic map

What your market actually searches for, and an agreed list of what to go after — before anything is built.

Included

  • Keyword research based on search volume, keyword difficulty and search intent, done in your site’s own language
  • SERP and competitor gap analysis: what the strongest sites in your market invest in, compared with what you have
  • A topic map that groups topics into pages and categories: what you cover today, what competitors cover, and where we would put the priority
  • Gap findings: missing sections and page types your market searches for — a dedicated slots page, for example
  • An approval sheet where you mark each topic Approve / Later / Not interested and add anything we missed
  • An “Excluded” sheet, so topics you don’t want are on record

You get: A topic map spreadsheet to approve before anything is built on top of it.

Site architecture, internal linking & money-page rebuild

A structure built around the commercial keywords you want to win, with authority pointed at the pages that earn.

Included

  • Category architecture built around your target commercial keywords, so later expansion doesn’t need another rebuild
  • An internal linking plan that points authority at the money pages and demotes topics you want to keep small
  • Page templates for money pages: reviews, bonus pages, comparison lists, payment methods, game categories
  • Trust signals on key pages
  • Structured data (Schema.org): Organization, Breadcrumb, Product or Article, and FAQ where it applies
  • Title tags and meta descriptions written per page, not templated
  • Semantic HTML and heading hierarchy per template

Content briefs & page structures

Everything your writers need to produce pages that fit the plan.

Included

  • A brief per page: target keyword and intent, heading outline, sections, internal links and schema
  • A page structure your writers can follow
  • Assembly of the finished page once your copy is in, if we have access

Your own team writes the copy from the briefs. We don’t offer copywriting.

Step 3 · Ongoing

Monthly SEO

SEO is a monthly cycle, not a one-off project: competitors move, Google updates and content ages.

Monthly SEO management

We keep watching, fixing and improving the site, and show you what changed.

Included

  • Search Console checks: performance, indexing, Core Web Vitals, manual actions
  • Google update tracking, and what each update means for your site
  • Rank tracking on the agreed keyword set
  • Backlink monitoring
  • Monthly optimisation work: changes and fixes
  • A weekly progress update while project work is running
  • A monthly report: positions, impressions, clicks, Core Web Vitals status, what we changed and what’s next

No lock-in: you decide month to month whether to continue.

Search Console & GA4 setup

Measurement you can trust from the first month.

Included

  • Search Console property verified and configured, with sitemaps submitted
  • Google Analytics 4 configured properly

Expansion into competitive keywords

Grow into the bigger commercial keywords once the foundations hold.

Included

  • New sections and pages from the approved topic map
  • Built on the architecture from the money-page rebuild
  • Starts once the site is stable — expanding while a site is being held down wastes money

No fixed packages. Sites differ in size and complexity, so every project is quoted individually after the free audit.

Request your free audit

Why work with us

  • Built for affiliate sites

    We know the page types: reviews, bonus pages, comparison lists, payment-method pages and game categories.

  • Diagnosed from your own data

    Decisions come from your Search Console data, not from guesses or generic checklists.

  • WordPress specialists

    We build PokaTheme, so we know WordPress performance and structure inside out.

  • Language-aware keyword research

    In heavily inflected languages like Greek, search volume splits across word forms. Research is done in your site’s own language, not an English workflow run through a translator.

  • Realistic timelines

    Recovery from an algorithm update takes months, not weeks — and we tell you so up front, even when it’s not what you want to hear.

  • Confidential by default

    Your figures and strategy stay private, and we never publish client work without your permission.

How we work

  1. Free audit first. You get the diagnosis, the plan and a quote for your specific site before committing to anything.
  2. The right order. Audit → cleanup → rebuild money pages → monthly management → expansion.
  3. Your sign-off. Nothing is deleted, merged or redirected without your written approval — you get the full old → new list first.
  4. Updates. Weekly progress updates during project work, and a monthly report during monthly management.
  5. Security. Credentials are shared through a secure channel, never by plain email.

Two ways to work

Hands-on

You give us WordPress admin and hosting (cPanel or SSH) access, and we implement.

Spec-only

For teams that keep production access in-house. We deliver exact specs — a redirect CSV, a precise admin change list, written template and schema requirements — and your team implements them. Access can be revisited task by task.

What we don’t offer

  • Copywriting. Your team writes the content from our briefs.
  • Link building.
  • Disavow files, unless the backlink review shows they’re actually needed.
Theme design & development

Custom themes, and everything around PokaTheme

From a fully custom affiliate theme to a free PokaTheme installation. If it runs on WordPress and earns from affiliate links, ask us.

Custom affiliate theme design & development

A WordPress theme designed and developed for your brand, your markets and your data — built from scratch, or on PokaTheme’s code when that gets you there faster. Casino, sportsbook, poker, crypto or esports.

PokaTheme is developed by Redshift, a WordPress agency in Greece. The same people design and build your theme.

Request a quote for a custom theme

What you get

  • A design for your brand: layouts, templates and components made for your site, not a skin on a demo
  • Your data model: operators, bonuses, payment methods, licences — whatever your niche compares
  • High-CTR money pages: reviews, comparison tables, bonus pages and landing pages
  • Geolocated content and multilingual sites where you need them
  • SEO and speed from day one: Core Web Vitals, structured data, clean heading structure
  • White-label: you own all of it, and nothing on it says PokaTheme

Free setup with demo content

Every PokaTheme 5 licence includes installation. After your purchase, send us a WordPress login through the contact page: we install the theme, import the demo you choose and set the compliance profile for your market — usually within one working day, at no extra cost.

Upgrade from PokaTheme 4 to 5

Existing customers get PokaTheme 5 at no cost, and its migration tool shows what it will change, with a dry run, before it touches anything. Rather not do it yourself? Contact us with an administrator login and we run the upgrade for you.

Custom features and integrations

New blocks and templates, extra operator fields and taxonomies, affiliate-network feeds, deeper Slots Launch integration, child themes — developed only for you and kept upgrade-safe, so the next PokaTheme release does not undo the work.

WordPress maintenance and troubleshooting

Hosting migrations to a LAMP server, WordPress and plugin updates, backups, and fixing whatever broke — on PokaTheme or on any WordPress site. Speed problems are covered by technical SEO & Core Web Vitals.

Start with a free SEO audit

Tell us your site and what happened. You get the diagnosis, a recovery plan and a quote for your specific site — before you commit to anything.

Request your free audit