Webmastering a free adult site comes with a certain responsibility. Because your page is free to enter, your page is free to enter. Unfortunately there's not physical barrier between your site and unwelcome eyes. With a paysite, the free surfer can only go so far into the web before they are required to spend their money. This stops multitudes of underage surfers from seeing content they are not ready for. It helps prevent those who are not legally allowed to view your content from getting to it. The identity and security measures that come with using a credit card online weed out a great deal of unwanted traffic to a paysite.
The free site owner doesn't have that tool to aid them in screening their traffic. They have to depend on proper keywords, search engine listings, compliance with filtering services and the warning page.
Even if your free site is on a domain with a name that is obviously adult, you need to establish to the surfing public that your page is not for children. While the strength of the warning page has yet to be challenged in court, it is still the adult webmaster's best defense against those who would shut us down. By posting a clearly written alert to visitors telling them that they are about to view adult content, the webmaster puts the responsibility of entering upon the surfer.
Just like a television network warns parents of offensive programming, a warning page warns of offensive content. A warning page will not keep out those who defy authority, but by affixing one to the front of your free adult site, you show yourself to be a concerned and responsible adult webmaster.
This lesson instructs you on how to make a warning page for your adult site. You are NOT limited to these instructions and can make your warning page look however you wish. Just bear in mind there are certain elements the majority of warning pages contain. These elements can also help your site to achieve better search engine placement and higher-quality surfers. Features your warning page should have are:
Whether you embed the text on your page, make an image out of it or put it in a scroll box, you must apply some words to the first page of your free site that warns visitors of your mature content. Your first page is your index.html page or primary URL. This is where your warning text belongs. There is no standard text for this disclaimer but you should
make clear that your site is not for those below legal age or those who cannot legally view your content.
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Some webmasters get creative by phrasing their warning seductively. Others call their warning text an agreement and even pop up a Javascript box where the surfers either chooses to agree or disagree to the webmaster's terms. Place your warning so that the surfer sees it immediately upon entering your site.
After your adult surfer reads your warning, you want to give them a link to click on so they can see the rest of your web. You also want to give those who do not belong on your page a place to go when they leave. Many adult webmasters will put a URL to a site like yahoo or disney in the tags of their exit link. What they don't consider is the moneymaking
possibility of that exit link.
If you have a non-adult site or a non-adult sponsor to promote, you should send your exit traffic to them with that link. Every link on your adult site should lead to either content or to some place that might make you money. Never let a link go to waste. Your enter link leads the surfer to your main site.
A method adopted by many parents to protect their children from viewing porn is to use filtering software. When a porn filter is turned on, all the adult websites within the database of the filter will be blocked from the surfer. The adult webmaster submits their site to the different filtering software site's databases and applies linked buttons to the filter sites on their warning page. That way, an adult who visits your warning page is furnished with a link to filter sites and you get added to a database that will help your link popularity on search engines.
Having a warning page is becoming a requirement for listing on many of the web's search engines and directories. Having a warning page is already a requirement for many free hosts and AVS affiliate webmasters. Having a warning page is not a law but it is a good idea.
To find links to adult filtering software, visit our Legal Listings and check out Filtering Programs in the Legal section. You should also scope out the Legal Help guide on Cozy Frog.
Here are some links to a variety of different warning pages:
You should never COPY another websites warning page. These links are for reference ONLY!