Quote Originally Posted by marcjacob View Post
To make out that the ll's give all this traffic and take our sites as some sort of favour is missleading. People go to link lists for the list of porn sites.
Chicken or the egg?

Yes, surfers hit the LL's and TGPs to get their porn but, the submitters send their sites to those places because of the traffic they get in return. If a submitter didnt get traffic back, they wouldnt submit in the first place.

Ultimately what it comes down to is exactly what has been described above, for sites to remain profitable and highly trafficked, the quality of submissions needs to be increased, if they arent, that traffic flow will find somewhere else to get their porn, then everyone suffers, the site owners and the submitters.

Just a quick FYI too, 80% of all traffic that hits our free sites leaves on the page between the index and the actual 'content' area of the site, meaning an FPA or navigation page, the index pages function initially was to show 'good faith' on the part of free site submitters when it came to 'warning' surfers about adult content, so that if you ever got taken to court, you could show some 'due diligence' in at least attempting to stop children accessing pornography.

The fact is, as the adult industry has become flooded with more and more webmasters in the last 8 years the role of an index page has become blurred, they are now considered as prime real-estate for marketing, often showing highly graphic adult images and banners, thus watering down the effect of the 'warning' located on the same page, just something to think about.

At the end of the day, you submit your sites to get traffic, in order to provide you with that traffic, the LL and TGP owner needs your submissions, its an equal trade off.

Regards,

Lee