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SPORTING EVENTS / GAMBLING REPORT / 2016 TRAFFIC We also tracked the top 10 performing sites by visibility in Google UK, based around the following search term groups: Euros, Premier League, Grand National, Olympics, Paralympics, Ryder Cup, Tennis US open, Tour De France, World Cup and generic gambling. As you can see from Figure 2, William Hill performed best with 68% of the most valuable gambling terms, appearing in positions 1-10. Next we looked at who performs best in SEO for the most-searched ‘sports event gambling’ terms, which are ‘Grand National betting’ and ‘Premier League odds’. ‘Grand National betting’ was searched 74,000 times in April 2016. So who were the top performers? As shown by Pi Datametrics Position Explorer Chart in Figure 3, top operators in order from the most recent date are: William Hill, Ladbrokes, Paddy Power, Betfair, Oddschecker, Coral and Sky Bet. As for ‘Premier League odds’, this term was searched 127,100 times during the Premier League season 2015 - 2016. As shown in Figure 4, the top performers for this term, in order from the most recent date, are: Oddschec