LOL these guys are unbelievable .. I’m so glad I stopped promoting them a few months ago and concentrated my traffic elsewhere …
I’ve already blacklisted these guys a while back – after all the complaints I had about them before …
As for blacklisting, I have a few ‘suggestions’ which you might like to consider / for what it’s worth.. my 5 cents worth lol
If you want to really hurt them in the search engines – then the only way to do this is to ensure ALL links to their sites are removed.
I did a database query to search for any posts with ‘grandprive’ / referspot (yep the old ones too) and all the direct links with their casino URLs, and found well over 700 forum posts with links to their sites. These have now all been removed (and any future links are automatically deleted).
I’m sure they’ll still be paying ‘marketing’ (spammers!) to post their links on forums!
Also, many static pages with reviews where I had ‘winning screenshots’ – where it mention the casinos by name, there were links there.
As I use an ad-server and most links are now re-directs I’ve now just pointed any remaining banners to the http://www.casino-crush.com/grand_prive_casinos/ warning page I created. (I’d be happy to change this page / increase the words etc if others have better suggestions or if someone does a template kind of thing that search engines will find better)
Writing them up in a BlackListed page, of course has some benefit – but if you still have old links in old forum topics – they will still be getting referrals from you (I’m sure all their grandpriveaffiliates.com links will still re-direct to the casinos even if you’re not being paid).
I believe ensuring all your links are removed is really the best way to ensure you’re not helping their cause any more than necessary..
Cheers,
Geno/CC