Affiliate disclosure

The short version

Padelbets.eu is a free site for readers. We make money through affiliate commissions: when you click a link from us to a bookmaker, sign up, and place a qualifying bet, that bookmaker pays us a commission. You don't pay anything extra — the price you see at the bookmaker is the price you'd see if you came directly. Our commission comes out of the bookmaker's marketing budget.

That's the whole model. We don't accept paid placement, we don't inflate ratings in exchange for higher commission rates, and we cover bookmakers that don't pay us at all (see our comparison page — several of those entries earn us nothing). What follows is the longer answer for anyone who wants to verify.

How affiliate links are marked

Every outbound link to a bookmaker on this site is tagged with rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" in the HTML. This follows Google's guidance on disclosing paid relationships and is the same convention used by most major UK comparison sites. You can verify it yourself by inspecting any "Visit site" button on this site.

Some bookmaker brands are listed without our affiliate relationship — for example, those on our no-padel pages. Where there's no commercial relationship, there's no affiliate flag.

What affiliate revenue does not do

• It doesn't change rankings. Our four-weight scoring methodology (explained on /about/) is applied identically to every bookmaker, paid relationship or not. If a non-paying bookmaker scores higher, they rank higher.
• It doesn't buy positive reviews. The cons section in every review is real. We will downgrade a bookmaker we partner with if testing shows their padel coverage has worsened or their payout speed has slipped.
• It doesn't buy homepage placement. The 3 top bookmakers shown on the homepage are the 3 highest-rated by our scoring, not the 3 highest-paying.
• It doesn't come with editorial strings.No bookmaker has approval rights over content about them. We don't share drafts, we don't take edits, and partnership agreements explicitly preserve editorial independence.

What affiliate revenue does do

• Pays for the team to test bookmaker accounts (we deposit and withdraw real money during reviews).
• Pays for hosting, domain, and tooling.
• Pays for the time to update the schedule, refresh bookmaker reviews quarterly, and respond to reader feedback.

Without affiliate revenue, this site would either need to be subscription-based or run on banner ads — neither of which is better for readers, in our view.

Conflicts of interest we declare

Where a bookmaker offers an unusually high commission rate or promotional terms (e.g. a launch incentive), we treat that as a conflict and either:

• Decline the offer, or
• Accept it and add a footnote inside the bookmaker's review naming the elevated commission, so readers can factor it in.

As of May 2026 we hold no such elevated commercial arrangements requiring footnotes.

What you can do

• Compare independently.Check our scores against other UK comparison sites — we're not the only ones. If we're wrong about something, the wider market will surface it.
• Check the rel attribute.Right-click any "Visit site" button → "Inspect" → look for rel="sponsored nofollow noopener". That's us flagging the affiliate relationship.
• Tell us when we're wrong. Contact us — we will issue dated corrections rather than quietly editing.

Regulatory framework

Affiliate marketing of gambling is regulated jurisdiction by jurisdiction. We follow the local advertising code in every country we cover — the UK CAP Code (section 16) on UK content, DGOJ rules on our Spanish version, ADM on Italian content and so on. Bookmakers we promote must hold a current local licence in the country whose readers see them. If a listed bookmaker ever loses its local licence, we remove the affiliate relationship and update the page within 24 hours.

Questions about anything on this page? Contact us.