Do You Use Warning Pages On Your Sites?

[Lee]

I was wondering how many of you folks still used warning pages on your sites, whether they are free, AEN or paysites?

For me i typically only use a warning page on a free site because for the most part, a surfer hitting a paysite of mine has done so from a free site or gallery or because they have been looking for porn via a search engine.

How many of you folks are currently using warning pages on your sites and if you do, do you treat them as just a 'warning' page or do you utilize them to potentially generate sales?

Regards,

Lee

[derekt]

We ALWAYS use them on anything that can show nudity, or even remotely showing sexual acts. Even if it shows a guys pubes, we use them.

[Lee]

We ALWAYS use them on anything that can show nudity, or even remotely showing sexual acts. Even if it shows a guys pubes, we use them.

What for?

Do you use them to warn about the content or as a sales tool?

Regards,

Lee

[CamCruise]

We feel strongly about this.
No one's going to say the we did not warn them.
We use them on every site we own.
As well as at the start of every video.
Even trailers.

[derekt]

This will help you understand...

www.GayBarebackVideos.net - This site promotes AEBN. It has a term that you have to be 21 or over, etc.

We have www.LiveGaySex.TV. This site does not have a warning page. It doesn't show anything but text. There's 1 banner that shows dick. But it's a banner promoting another site, and you really can't even tell.

We have www.EthanArmstrong.com - A membership site. It has terms.

Here's our DVD Store www.SebastiansStudios.net - It has a brief paragraph containing terms.

[maxx68]

I plan on using them for all my sites. I'm too chicken shit not to. I would rather be safe then sorry.

I will be using them for advertising also. My exit link most definitely will point to something non-adult, Evidence Wipe probably.

And I will have some links to other sites , etc...

I also heard that you should populate your warning page with some good SEO content, perhaps a erotic story or such that contains some or all of your keywords.

[rawTOP]

Don't use them myself, but I do use a Javascript warning alert that doesn't show the page at all if they opt out.

IMHO, warning pages are pointless if you have people deep linking into your site that never see the warning page (e.g. organic traffic). On my site less than 15% start at the home page of the site. So a warning page would be less than 15% effective. Compare that to 95%+ effectiveness using a Javascript alert.

[Titanmen]

Don't use them myself, but I do use a Javascript warning alert that doesn't show the page at all if they opt out.

IMHO, warning pages are pointless if you have people deep linking into your site that never see the warning page (e.g. organic traffic). On my site less than 15% start at the home page of the site. So a warning page would be less than 15% effective. Compare that to 95%+ effectiveness using a Javascript alert.

You do realize you can set up your warning page, or overlay, to display no matter what page a user enters on?? So, a warning page can easily be 100% effective in terms of hiting all traffic no matter what page they enter on.

It's just the right thing to do.....

[rawTOP]

You do realize you can set up your warning page, or overlay, to display no matter what page a user enters on?? So, a warning page can easily be 100% effective in terms of hiting all traffic no matter what page they enter on.

It's just the right thing to do.....

Overlays are still Javascript based, so they're not more effective than a Javascript alert. (My 95+% was because about 5% of people run with Javascript off). Plus I've never seen one I like. At least with alerts you can just hit enter/return and be on your way.

[HunkyLuke]

warning pages have NEVER been proven in a court to give you any legal protection or 'good will' and IMHO are a total waste of time, not to mention they add a huge bounce rate to your site causing you to lose quite a lot of potential income. If you want to be responsible, label your site.

[msm]

I've seen this question come up on other boards a lot (and I've asked it myself) and the consensus seems to be not to use warning pages for blogs or tgps but if you have a pay membership site to use one.