Get Bonus buttons explained
The green Get Bonus buttons pay for this site. Here is what that means, plainly. The publisher, Korsouwave Publishing N.V. (Pletterijweg 43, Willemstad, Curaçao), is also the party that signs the commercial agreements with operators.
What happens when you press one
The button points to a /go/ path on topuscasinos.biz itself. Our server notes an anonymous visit number and passes you on to the operator’s sign-up page. If you register or fund the account for the first time, the operator may count that toward our commission. Your cost does not change, and you see exactly the deal you would find by typing the operator’s address yourself.
Which links are commercial
- every Get Bonus, Play and Sign up button;
- operator names in comparison tables that link through
/go/; - app store links that pass through
/go/.
All of them carry rel="sponsored nofollow". Links to regulators, studios, testing labs and our own articles go straight to their destination and earn nothing.
How operators pay
- a one-time fee for a new player who deposits;
- a share of net gaming revenue from players we referred, for the length of the agreement;
- a hybrid of a smaller fee and a smaller share.
State regulators require affiliates of licensed operators to register or be licensed themselves, and some states restrict revenue-share deals; the model therefore differs from state to state and from operator to operator.
What the money changes
We will not pretend it changes nothing: operators we have an agreement with are placed higher in our lists. After that, order reflects bonus terms, payout speed and how widely the brand is licensed.
What it does not change
- Figures are taken from the operator’s terms or a regulator filing, with a date, whether or not we earn.
- Weak points — heavy playthrough, slow withdrawals, missing states — are written up for partners too.
- Nobody can buy a review, a rating or a place in a list for a fee, and we do not run third-party banner ads.
How we pick partners
We only work with brands that hold a licence from a state regulator we can check in its public register. We do not list or link offshore casinos, however generous their commission, and we drop a partner whose licence is suspended or whose payouts stall.
Who gets paid
The publisher, not the writers. Authors do not see what any operator pays and earn nothing per click, so a review reads the cashier and the terms as they are.
How to spot one on a page
Rest the pointer on a button first: a status bar reading topuscasinos.biz/go/… means a commercial link, and the same goes for an operator name in a comparison table that resolves to /go/. Links inside the text to other articles on this site, to state registers or to game studios point directly at their destination.
Why we publish this
FTC endorsement guidance asks for paid relationships to be stated plainly, near the recommendation itself, and several state regulators add rules of their own for marketing affiliates of licensed operators. But the plainer reason is trust: a comparison site that hides who pays it gives readers no way to weigh its rankings. Saying it openly is the price of being believed.
When a partner lets readers down
If an operator starts holding withdrawals, rewrites terms after the fact or loses a state licence, we update its pages, move it down or remove the /go/ links altogether. What it pays has no say in that: a reader who lost money on our recommendation costs the site far more than any commission brings in.
What the operator learns about you
Only the anonymous visit number. We set our own cookies mz_vid and mz_src, plus two technical ones on /go/; names, email addresses and IP addresses are not passed on. Details are in the privacy and cookies policy.
Operators also run their own tracking once you land on their site; that is covered by their privacy notices, not ours.
Opting out
Type the operator’s address yourself or block cookies, and no referral is recorded. Every page reads the same either way.
Questions
Spotted a commercial link without a label, or curious whether a particular brand is a partner? Write to [email protected]. Our general limits are in What we cannot promise.