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    Good Morning!

    My name is Alex and we recently launched

    https://megabonuscasino.com/

    Megabouscasino is a new casino & sports affiliate portal, dedicated to advertising deposit bonus offers, our target is to advise players on the best bonus and promotions to extend playtime and have a positive player experience.
    Our target markets, for now, are Canada, and Australia.

    We are welcome to suggestions that can help us grow in any way.
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    I am sure you will get more detailed reviews, but first thing I saw was really slow response times. You also had a few images that were fairly large, but they would have less of an impact with a faster server.

    For ideas to help with speed, you could try a few tests at places like
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    First thing I noticed was heavy keyword stuffing. On the New Online Casinos page, you have "new online casino" phrase in virtually every sentence. And there is just 200-300 words on the entire page.

    You will need to produce much better content and add keywords sensibly if you are ever going to rank for such a competitive phrase. The casino reviews are also quite thin on content, don't know if you plan to expand them in the future.
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    I echo the above, site looks nice but it is slow.

    Where is the depth of content to give you an edge? The pages are pretty much all commercial, even the blogs are mainly aimed at commercial terms with a frequency of around one a month. If you want to get organic traffic you are going to need to come up with a solid content plan that is relevant to users, interesting and unique.

    The only thing I could find that resembled an article was an online casino guide that is just boilerplate stuff about claiming offers and a rather thin FAQ.

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    Apart from what has already been said I can add a bit about your casino reviews. Review pages in general have the potential to get you some visitors, which are genuinely interested in registering with the casino in question. I've had a look at a couple of review pages (top casinos from your rating) an they are desperately lacking content when you compare them side by side with another review, that would rank for top positions.
    Probably the best approach in your case would be an iterative approach: research your competitors and refine what you have based on your findings, give it some time and repeat it over and over again.

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    Actually - if it's your first attempt - to me it's not a bad effort. But that's coming from a perspective of being a reproduction of hundreds, if not thousands, of very similar sites. As stated, you will need to improve the content in general to have any outside chances...and when you have the core casino subjects fully covered, then find (ideally) unique ways to tackle other related subject matter.

    Loading speed yes seems to be a problem.

    I think you've gone too broad by including poker, bingo, sportsbetting on a site that implies (by its name) that it's casino focused. I think you know that, and that's why they're thin.

    You'd have been better off focusing on and building up the casino content and then (probably much later) maybe adding the others as extra options for your casino visitors, rather than trying to kill all birds with one stone at the outset.

    Glancing at the blog page, there are one or two posts which arguably would be better as core subjects.

    Other than that, only looked at home and FAQs page.

    The grammar needs work in places (improper use of commas as an example), some keyword stuffing is evident though not overly so in the sections I skimmed.

    Personally I think you did a reasonably good job with higher level FAQs and tried to keep the answers as succinct as possible. That can work against you (because some are better within longer/more explanatory content). But if your target is the real novice casino player then they're OK. Anyone clued up probably wouldn't be reading them anyway...and note you are never likely to rank for them, 15-20 years worth of very strong competition will already have covered everything you have (across the whole site in fact).

    The other thing that struck me was ''Our target markets, for now, are Canada, and Australia.''

    Not sure how you're doing that - and maybe I'm just missing it - but I couldn't see anywhere anything which suggested it might specifically appeal to (or be targeted at) players from either of those two.

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    well, actually i find it a very good start of your website. i can clearly see you put in a lot of effort, so props for that. I agree with lots of the comments here, but building a site costs time, lots of it. In that point of view i think you have a nice start, and now its a matter of finetuning, filling the website and enhancing current pages to give it your personal touch.

    Offcourse this also depends if this is your main site or just a fillup, part of a big plan or network. Anyway, as you are using a standard wordpress theme, which lots of others use as well, its key to stand above others by adding something unique or extra...

    ps. sites loadingtime is fine here... with some small tweaks it can be as fast as a rocket. saying that, try wp rocket or similar cache if you havent used that already.
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    Site layout looks good in general, though the pages loaded a tad slow for me (not too bad though). The reviews seem a bit sparse on information. The content could read a bit better.

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    Welcome to the GPWA, Megabonus. Good to see you here with us

    Nice looking site. It's formatted well, along with a great presentation.

    It seemed just a little bit slow when it was loading up for me on my iPhone, but you've done a good job with your site. Well done.

    I also like the picture of the pig that's dressed as a guy on your index page. It looks 3D and it's pretty cool. That picture also makes your site feel more inviting to come along and play IMO.
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    Thank you, Rick, for the valuable inputs. We are constantly trying to improve the website and iron out basic issues. We have recently moved to a faster server!

    Quote Originally Posted by Juan Roman View Post
    First thing I noticed was heavy keyword stuffing. On the New Online Casinos page, you have "new online casino" phrase in virtually every sentence. And there is just 200-300 words on the entire page.

    You will need to produce much better content and add keywords sensibly if you are ever going to rank for such a competitive phrase. The casino reviews are also quite thin on content, don't know if you plan to expand them in the future.
    Thank you Juan for the honest review. I admit we need much better and deeper content. We'll be on it.

    Thanks for replying Mattbar. We'll be expanding the current content and also add relevant, detailed articles. Off to a slow start!

    Quote Originally Posted by PaulEchere View Post
    Apart from what has already been said I can add a bit about your casino reviews. Review pages in general have the potential to get you some visitors, which are genuinely interested in registering with the casino in question. I've had a look at a couple of review pages (top casinos from your rating) an they are desperately lacking content when you compare them side by side with another review, that would rank for top positions.
    Probably the best approach in your case would be an iterative approach: research your competitors and refine what you have based on your findings, give it some time and repeat it over and over again.
    Thank you, Paul, for your insight! We'll be making the review pages a lot more detailed in the coming time.

    Quote Originally Posted by chaumi View Post
    I think you've gone too broad by including poker, bingo, sportsbetting on a site that implies (by its name) that it's casino focused. I think you know that, and that's why they're thin.
    Thanks Chaumi for the detailed analysis! I admit, we're spilling over somewhat with varied topics instead of focusing on a core subject. We may have to rethink our strategy. The priority is writing quality, detailed content on pages we have already made.

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    ps. sites loadingtime is fine here... with some small tweaks it can be as fast as a rocket. saying that, try wp rocket or similar cache if you havent used that already.
    Thank you mediapartner for reviewing our site. We have switched to a faster server., and have a caching plugin And yes, it's a work in progress, and what you see is just the start, in terms of content.

    Quote Originally Posted by popopdc View Post
    Site layout looks good in general, though the pages loaded a tad slow for me (not too bad though). The reviews seem a bit sparse on information. The content could read a bit better.
    Thanks popopdc for noting that. Yes I agree, the reviews, and indeed most of the pages, need a lot of quality content.

    Quote Originally Posted by Cash Bonus View Post
    It seemed just a little bit slow when it was loading up for me on my iPhone, but you've done a good job with your site. Well done.
    Thank you Cash Bonus for replying! We've upgraded our hosting and using the Autoptimize plugin. I think the site is much faster now. Glad you like the design!

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    Dear Affiliates,

    I've been working on my site's content and stuff... meanwhile could you kindly recommend which operator programs are good for the Canadian traffic? Would appreciate your feedback. Thanks.

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    Sorry guys, didn't hear back from you...could you please tell me, or recommend me some good Canadian casino brands to promote?

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    Megabonus, Mainstreet Affiliates accept Canadian traffic. They’re decent and worth checking out.

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    Thanks, Cash Bonus, for the tip!

    I was wondering what are the best converting registration offers to promote - free spins/free chips? Is promoting no deposit offers generally a good idea?

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    @Megabonus - I would personally consider using attractive welcome offers requiring deposits instead of using free spins and free chips, along with not using no deposit traffic. This isn't the best idea, because there will always be players who just want to take advantage of them just for the fun of it and you won't really profit anything in return as you'd like to see. Better to avoid using them.
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    I think it's a very easy-to-understand site with ranking points, good points, and bad points.

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