Elliot Crane

Elliot Crane

Founder & Managing Director

🎓 10+ yrs operator-side acquisition · founder

6 Published articles

About the author

Elliot Crane founded GamblingSEO.agency after a decade running acquisition for offshore casino and sportsbook operators. He built the agency on one promise operators actually care about: SEO measured in deposits, not vanity rankings. He has overseen campaigns that drove 500+ deposits a day from organic search and now sets the strategy across link building, verticals and grey-hat-literate growth.

Expertise

gambling seo strategyigaming acquisitionseo vs ppcoperator growthroi measurement

More from Elliot Crane

Casino Link Building: The Complete 2026 Guide guide

Casino Link Building: The Complete 2026 Guide

A founder-level breakdown of casino link building for 2026, how many backlinks operators actually need, how to buy them safely, and how to tie every link back to deposits instead of vanity metrics.

⏱ 18 min read
The Perfect Anchor Text Ratio for Casino Backlinks (Data-Backed) guide

The Perfect Anchor Text Ratio for Casino Backlinks (Data-Backed)

A data-backed breakdown of the anchor text distribution that keeps casino and sportsbook backlink profiles ranking in 2026, straight from an agency that measures SEO in deposits, not vanity metrics.

⏱ 20 min read
Google Gambling Penalty Recovery: Step-by-Step for Operators landing

Google Gambling Penalty Recovery: Step-by-Step for Operators

A step-by-step gambling penalty recovery framework from an operator-side SEO who's rebuilt casino and sportsbook rankings after manual actions and algorithmic hits, built to restore deposits, not just traffic charts.

⏱ 14 min read
Slots SEO: Ranking Slot Review & "Real Money Slots" Pages landing

Slots SEO: Ranking Slot Review & "Real Money Slots" Pages

A field-tested framework for ranking slot review and real money slots pages in 2026, built on content architecture, link velocity and E-E-A-T signals that convert traffic into deposits, not just rankings.

⏱ 16 min read
NFL Playoffs & Super Bowl SEO: Capturing Peak Betting Search guide

NFL Playoffs & Super Bowl SEO: Capturing Peak Betting Search

Rankings for Super Bowl week are worthless if they don't convert. Here's the timeline, link structure and measurement framework I run for operators who want NFL playoff and Super Bowl search to show up as deposits, not just impressions in GSC.

⏱ 16 min read
Doorway Pages & Cloaking in Gambling: The Risk Calculus guide

Doorway Pages & Cloaking in Gambling: The Risk Calculus

A frank breakdown of geo-cloaking and doorway pages in gambling SEO, how the tactic works, what Google's detection stack costs you in deposits, and where compliant geo-routing actually pays off.

⏱ 17 min read