Warning pages...

[Xeno]

I've been doing lots of thinking about this and wanted to get the opinions of others on this delema...On the subject of warning entry pages for link sites, at first it seems to be a requirement but if you think about it, it really has no purpose. I bet 99% of visitors will always click through anyways and for those under 18, I highly doubt they will click "Exit" ...

I am seeing others updating their sites and removing this entry page now and thinking about doing it as well. It doesn't really do well for helping SE ranking either.

[Useless]

What are you asking?

[Greenguy]

It's the "good faith effort" practice that a lot of people have put into place a long time ago (and is approved by ASACP)

Plus it's another page where you can place ads & since, as you say, 99% click thru, it's not really hurting anything by having this simple safe-guard in place.

[WarBot]

They may not keep minors out or whatever but they do give you a chance to sell to the surfer before they hit the free stuff. I think once they hit the free content your chances of selling to them go down quite a bit.

How a warning page effects search engine listings these days I dont know but I think youre right about it not doing well with the search engines. And Im not a lawyer but I dont think it would protect you from being prosecuted for any kind of obsenity charges.

Hell... I may remove mine too

[Useless]

Oh, I get it now. I wasn't sure if he was talking about warningpages.com or exit links or something like that. It's early folks.

If your index page isn't performing well in the SERPs, that's your fault. It's a page like any other. There's shouldn't be anything there that detracts from its chances of producing SE traffic.

[Evil Chris]

I'm indifferent about warning pages.
I don't generally use them (on my TGPs anyway).

If someone makes their way to your front door, it's because they were looking for you.

*Warning: you're preceisly where you want to be.*

*shrug*

[MrYum]

I'm with Greenie...it's a good faith effort thing.

Kinda like having a bouncer at the door of your strip club who lets everybody in. But before doing so, he warns them there are naked ladies inside

Really no reason for it to have detrimental effects on se traffic, since a lot of traffic comes to interior pages anyway. And nope, no bouncer on these pages...he can't help it if they sneak in the side doors

[spazlabz]

I agree good faith and the appearance that at the very least we are informing minors and persons surfing from locations that have porn illegal that what they are about to see is inappropriate for them

Who knows, a type in for asian midget hardcore beasty good times.com might be someone innocently looking for oriental equestrians that are short in stature and throw a good party!


spaz

[tickler]

I always liked The Huns comment about warning pages.
"We don't want entry sites, warning pages, disclaimers, stuff like that. You don't have to warn people that they're going to see porn. Trust me, they kind of expect that when they come from the Yellow Pages."

[spazlabz]

Originally Posted by tickler

I always liked The Huns comment about warning pages.
"We don't want entry sites, warning pages, disclaimers, stuff like that. You don't have to warn people that they're going to see porn. Trust me, they kind of expect that when they come from the Yellow Pages."

that may be true but the hun isn't sending hits to freesites or paysites from his links


spaz

[tigermom]

Interesting comment by the Hun there. I always wondered about freesites myself. I mean, if they get through a linklist, then they've already supposedly went through a warning page, or at least they should be only too aware by now that this is porn.

I don't mind the warning page myself, as mentioned here, it looks to me like a good sales page, and another filter before they reach the free porn, I just wonder about the logic behind demanding it as a LL.

[Useless]

Fuck the Hun. He also lists beast stuff. So again, fuck what he thinks.

[spazlabz]

Originally Posted by tigermom

I always wondered about freesites myself. I mean, if they get through a linklist, then they've already supposedly went through a warning page, or at least they should be only too aware by now that this is porn.

I think it is a case of 'thats how its always been done' it just happens to be a nice coicidence that it can work out great for SE traffic
it also, in my mind, is just a way to trying to convince a surfer that they are actually seeing a 'site' for free, instead of a 4 page ad

spaz

[diggz]

Warning Page = Modest attempt at "self regulation" ... something the adult industry needs, to help avoid US Government intervention.

As for the hun's comment on warning pages, he is simply referring to galleries. Don't put a "warning" page on the entrance to your gallery, that would just be silly.

-Warning pages at the root of your domain give you the benefit of being able to use an FPA that is seen by your bookmark base.

-A warning page gives you the ability to at least make an attempt to keep minors from accessing porn.

-IMO a warning page shouldn't damage your rankings in the serps. As long as your onpage SEO & incoming links don't change. Just make sure your entire site is still easily spiderable through a sitemap.

[Tommy]

if you go to the congress website and search for porn you will come across a few bills that are require adult sites asking for some sort of age verifaction before showing ANY porn

if something like this ever went down it will be a lot easyer to change your sites to whatever if you already have a warning page

[Viper]

There's no reason why the warning page couldn't be left as is, but the "main" page done away with.

However.. LLs and Free sites are all about SE traffic. Having 4+ pages per free site is nice.. (I'd almost rather the free sites be made into 6+ pages so that gallery pages were like TGP2, but that will never happen) The more pages on your own domains the better IF you're making them work for you properly and 90%+ of the free site builders don't. How many of them ensure that EVERY page on all their mirrors etc. have different titles and header text etc. and are crawlable from their own site(s)?

[Xeno]

weird I didn't get any notification of these replies...lol..anyways, I just realized i do need an entry page because 69toplinks is split into two markets (gay and straight -- a homepage for each) and it makes it difficult to have both market content in "one" homepage if I were to take the warning entry page out. But thanks for the replies

[ecchi]

Warning pages, if used wisely, can improve your search engine traffic. For example use your keywords eg:
"Warning this is a lesbian sex site full of pictures of lesbians. If you are under eighteen, or live in an area where it is illegal to see lesbian pornography ......"