The Adult Webmaster

Self Regulation by Labeling

The availability of porn on the Internet is pretty much equivelant to sand at the beach. Nearly any search done through the portals, results with at least one result having to do with porn, even if you were looking for “toys”.

Unfortunately many unsuspecting viewers may accidentally stumble upon a porn site, without realizing what they were about to witness. Just imagine the results for “Barbie,” when nearly every stripper from the 80’s used some variation of it, as her stage name.

It is the accidental viewing of porn that has many government officials looking to regulate how adult material is delivered online. This kind of attention looks bad on the adult industry as a whole.

The only way to avoid being clamped down on by overly conservative regulators, is to actually self-regulate our sites. If we leave it up to someone else, they may be overly restrictive (.xxx tld).

Personally as a best practice, I feel that all sites need to be rated and should also have a warning page.

Warning pages actually increase site depth (SEO bonus), help prevent minors from accidentally accessing adult material and show that access was consented to.

Nobody wants a minor accessing an adult site anyways, afterall they don’t have credit cards.

Are you labeling your pages yet?

Related Links: Restricted to Adults | ASACP

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