Standards
Editorial Policy
Our job is to describe how search engines treat casino and sportsbook websites accurately enough that an engineer can act on it. These rules apply to every page.
Read more about the publication on our about page.
Accuracy first
- Facts about search engine behavior come from the search engine's own documentation, Search Console Help or published standards such as RFC 9309.
- Quotes are copied from the source and dated. Paraphrase is never put in quotation marks.
- Every guide shows the date its sources were checked.
- We say what we could not verify. "Not confirmed" is a valid answer.
Examples and data
Constructed examples use hostnames ending in .example, a domain reserved for documentation, and are labeled "Example (constructed)". We do not present examples as observations, and we do not publish crawl statistics, rankings, traffic changes or case results unless they come from real data we are permitted to share. See our case analysis standards.
Claims we will not make
- We never say that discovery guarantees crawling, that crawling guarantees indexing, or that indexing guarantees rankings.
- That a technique is approved or endorsed by Google unless Google's documentation says so.
- That any operator, vendor or tool is compliant, safe or best.
Independence
We do not accept payment to publish, change or remove content, and we do not sell links. The publisher's commercial interests are explained on our disclosure page. Links in our guides go to primary sources because they help the reader, not because of any arrangement.
Use of AI tools
We use AI tools to help gather sources and draft text. A person reviews every page, and every fact, quote and date is checked against the original source before publication.
Corrections
Report an error to hello@casinocrawlsignal.online with the page address and a primary source. We aim to review reports within five working days. When we change a fact, we update the "sources checked" date on the page and note substantial corrections at the end of the page.
Keeping pages current
Search engine documentation changes often. In late 2025 Google moved its crawling documentation to a new site, and Google restated limits such as Googlebot's fetch size in 2026. We recheck each guide's sources at least every six months, and sooner when a documented change affects it.