But yeah, it's sad that Google are doing this, but they can get away with it because they don't have any real competition - Bing sucks too. Somebody call Richard Branson? Virgin Search? Lol.
For Bing, you just need many links. There's no negative SEO there, at least not really. But if you want to rank in Bing, you pretty much have to spam, there's no way around it. The good thing about that is that if your sites get attacked by a negative seo campaign, they suddenly start ranking on...
You want to make the website as easy to read as possible, and most websites use a right side menu, therefore most people are used to a right side menu, so that's what you should use.
Google is trying to force more and more people and small businesses to use adwords, that's more money in their pockets. Previously, many companies were able to rely on SEO for a steady flow of organic traffic. Things aren't so easy anymore.
Google now considers almost any kind of SEO to be...
Not true. Just because you can't do it doesn't mean it doesn't work. If you go for really low competition keywords you should have no problems at all.
Plus, what would you suggest he does?
I believe a big reason why there's more and more BH sites in the SERPs is simply because google is allowing negative SEO to work. So the higher the value of a keyword, the bigger the risk of getting neg seo'd becomes, especially in a niche like gambling... So professional affiliates are giving...
To add, I just saw your website and it seems you don't even have meta tags yet? You need to read up on on-page SEO first and improve your site a lot if you wish to go the SEO route for traffic.
It's called cloaking I believe and it is in most cases against their rules. However, Google is usually pretty qucik to catch these guys anyways so I wouldn't worry too much about it, I mean you still rank #1.
You have to build your website first, but I think waiting 6 months may be a bit overkill... You can wait and just build content and be relatively succesful sure, but there's no need to do that, you can make a good quality website in a month, just make sure to keep updating it and don't stop...
For me, march was great revenue-wise ... most of my players came in february, but they won a lot of money then so I got almost nothing, now they came back to lose their winnings in march! However, I do need to work on keeping the traffic flow consistent.