So basically it would seem that it boils down to, to have the honour of being listed correctly in their search engine you need to provide value in your content that
google deem to be great content, its quite a scary proposition that not only do they control the search engines, but with that have the power to dictate what you need to write about on a website too.
You can happily have a website which has affiliates links provided that it is not the primary focus of the website, irrespective of whether this is what people who are searching for, want to find, and do find via the terms they are using to search for.
The main issues i have here are as follows,
Something that provide the user with a better experience,
Casino affiliates can be a shady bunch,
I regularly see "
casino reviews" on other affilate site that abuse rich snippets, the casino review, article always scores 4/5 or 5/5 or 98% in the review it even scores 5/5 and abuses rich snippets even if there isnt a review.., but these sites have gone untouched, and are still happily going about their business, do i need to throw my morals out the window in the name of great content?
The point here is, if i deemed a casino to be poor scorely why i would i bother listing it on my site in the first place, and it angers me that some of the big sites continue to do this.
I see articles that as a player when i read them i feel disgusted at the misinformation and bullshit posted, but are these the kind of articles i must write in order to be deemed as providing great content.
I could start a forum, but why would i when the central place of information is here, and even the big rivals to this site who have forums are a joke in comparison.
I could add a section with free to play slots, does google see this as valid content? as i player if i want to play slots in test mode i simply go to a casino and do it, maybe this is worth adding.
So for people who run similar sites it would seem you have 2 options,
Dont become too succesful and get noticed by google, i would recommend that all of the smaller sites that use that a simialr style to me use a redirect script, and sort your aff links so you arent a lighthouse to google, if you are using wordpress then something like
is well worth reading, and dont get confused by the term "cloaking", it will actually make your life 10 times easier once set up.
Start adding content, not for your users, but content which you think google will deem good content for your users, because if they dont deem it great nobody will ever get to see it anyway
And finally thank you to all the input so far, apart from Dunover
, I am very angry right now and generally a very stubborn person, but i have taken on board the comments posted here, and have come up with a few ideas in order to improve the user experiance on my site, whether this is good enough for the big G remains to be seen.