I find that gaydemon.com has really high bounce rates, thats on the main warning page.
Any idea why that might be? The warning pages gives very little away about what gaydemon is, so how can people be so quick in deciding gaydemon isnt for them?
Maybe the fact that there is a warning page actually is the reason why the bounce rates are high.
Bounce rates are when people leave the site straight away, right?
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Yes, and don’t go to any other site on your domain. If you use google for your stats, make sure that it’s displaying on every eventual page of yours they may go to.
I found that my bounce rate wasn’t right because I hadn’t installed the tracking code properly on my pages.
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I am not a believer in warning pages - I really see no need for them. After all, most of your traffic would come from people searching for gay porn related terms, or by clicking a link on a different gay porn page. I can’t see ANY people typing in gaydemon and expecting it to be anything other than naughty gay stuff.
And legally speaking, there has never been one case where a warning page has made any difference at all.
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[quote=HunkMoneyLuke;26155]I am not a believer in warning pages - I really see no need for them. After all, most of your traffic would come from people searching for gay porn related terms, or by clicking a link on a different gay porn page. I can’t see ANY people typing in gaydemon and expecting it to be anything other than naughty gay stuff.
And legally speaking, there has never been one case where a warning page has made any difference at all.[/quote]
But at the same time, they can be very useful for SEO.
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I don’t believe one must have a warning page. The more clicks a user has to make to get to where they are going, leads many to leave quicker then if the page they land on when typing in your url gets them to immediate substance.
There is no reason that a well done main page cannot rank just as high or higher SEO wise, than a site that offers a warning page.
We’ve been testing and learning a great deal about optimizing ones landing page and offering a quick call to action to the visitor.
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“The warning pages gives very little away about what gaydemon is, so how can people be so quick in deciding gaydemon isnt for them?”
You just answered your own question. It gives so little away as to what it is.
Warning pages are just not helpful for bounce rates.
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We dropped the warning page on the new HMBoys… though the prominent “ADULT CONTENT - ALL MODELS 18+” is at the the top right of every page. 2257 is at the bottom of the main index and is prominently displayed in our customer service section along with our privacy policy
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even if your warning page bounce rate is high, there’s a lot of search engine traffic coming to it that wasn’t clicking on your other pages, so you’re probably seeing a lot of fresh traffic that doesn’t bounce, too.
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Warning pages don’t help affiliates though.
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no, they don’t - but bjorn was talking about gaydemon initially, and so was i. i should have been more clear.
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[QUOTE=HunkMoneyLuke;26155]I am not a believer in warning pages - I really see no need for them. After all, most of your traffic would come from people searching for gay porn related terms, or by clicking a link on a different gay porn page. I can’t see ANY people typing in gaydemon and expecting it to be anything other than naughty gay stuff.
And legally speaking, there has never been one case where a warning page has made any difference at all.[/QUOTE]
I have no idea about the legal aspect of Warning Pages and whether they have saved any webmasters’ butts or not, but I do know I have to agree with “I can’t see ANY people typing in gaydemon and expecting it to be anything other than naughty gay stuff.” lol
Personally, I think Warning Pages are a royal pain in the ass. And yes, it would only make sense that the more clicks a person has to make to get to your main page, the tougher it probably is to get them to stick around.
But then there’s that thing called “the law” I suppose. 666
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[QUOTE=RDude_BarebackMasters;26613]I have no idea about the legal aspect of Warning Pages and whether they have saved any webmasters’ butts or not, but I do know I have to agree with “I can’t see ANY people typing in gaydemon and expecting it to be anything other than naughty gay stuff.” lol
Personally, I think Warning Pages are a royal pain in the ass. And yes, it would only make sense that the more clicks a person has to make to get to your main page, the tougher it probably is to get them to stick around.
But then there’s that thing called “the law” I suppose. 666[/QUOTE]
There is “the law” but as already pointed out a warning page never saved anyones behind in any of the cases that went before a judge, or at least avn/xbiz never reported it as a buttsaver for anyone …
so just having warning pages to keep “johhny law” at bay is probably not going to work at the end of the day…
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I agree, I dont really believe in warning pages anymore, instead I always make sure to use the correct labeling on all my sites with ICRA and RTA.
using those are more likely to stop any “unwanted” visits than a warning page. Self labeling it simply the best way to do what you can.
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Sorry, late in on this thread. Though a warning page may not have saved anyone’s butt, is there any value in having one to help demonstrate intent?
Meaning, should someone get in trouble they can say, “I did what I could. I use ICRA and RTA labeling, I only advertised with adult services, I had a warning page . . . etc”.
I have no idea, but I would think that being able to show intent might be somewhat helpful for minor issues if things go to court.
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on the one hand, some lawyers feel a warning page would help. on the other hand, to convince a judge and jury of your good intentions might require using .htaccess so that only the warning page can be seen first even when other links are clicked.
[quote=Johnny;27292]Sorry, late in on this thread. Though a warning page may not have saved anyone’s butt, is there any value in having one to help demonstrate intent?
Meaning, should someone get in trouble they can say, “I did what I could. I use ICRA and RTA labeling, I only advertised with adult services, I had a warning page . . . etc”.
I have no idea, but I would think that being able to show intent might be somewhat helpful for minor issues if things go to court.[/quote]
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Warning pages ARE a good idea - they help idiot parents feel better, and they help the 3 kids a year who aren’t looking for porn but find it accidentally escape before their pure souls are sullied and they have to tell mama Sarah that they hit a porn site…
Oh, regarding bounces - have you looked at the graphics load and program load for that warning page?
It loads FAST for me, but I have a cable connection on a rather fast node and I’m using a rather fast computer. Folks hitting it from a sluggish DSL thing with a rat-shitted computer might not get the image for a while.
Or…
There is this: It’s pretty much identical to all the warning pages you’ve had for the last 5 years or so.
You’ve harped at me about this regarding my freesites, so do you think your logo and color scheme could be sending visitors away?
I know it works the opposite for me…
Just a thought.
Ciao 4 Now,
Ray