Matt’s Meme: Name Three Indespensible Sex Sites/Blogs
In all that discussion of machine vs. human search, this sort of got buried in the preveious post, so I’m pulling it out for a post of it’s own. Google’s Matt Cutts askes:
I think it would be a great question to open up to your blog. Maybe a good way to do it would be to ask people what their favorite three sex-industry sites are?
Here’s my answer:
Violet Blue’s Tiny Nibbles
As far as I’m concerned, Violet is the internet’s most passionate voice for sex being treated in an intelligent, adult and fun-loving way.
Adult DVD Talk
ADT is giant repository of viewer-written reviews of all sorts of porn, erotica, and adult films (pick the name you like). I rarely read them. I am, however, addicted to hang out in the ADT Discusion Forums. Purile enough to make things fun, smart enough to keep things interesting.
Blowfish.com
It’s where I shop when I want something new to shove up my ass.
Here’s an answer from Drew Black at ADT:
Here’s three recommendations for quality businesses in the adult DVD retail sector: adultdvdempire.com, xrentdvd.com and bushdvd.com. These three companies are class acts and constantly improve their sites to the benefit of their customers.
We’re still waiting on Matt’s list, but I’m not sure how comfortable he is with sharing his sexual proclivities with the world. But I know lots of you delight in sort of sharing (just as much as we delight in reading it!), so please do – either here, on on a blog if you have one!
January 1st, 2007 at 7:31 am
It’s reassuring to know that there is the possibility of talking to a human being at Google.
I’m wildly curious about what sorts of things you shove up your ass, Tony.
January 2nd, 2007 at 12:15 pm
I’ve listed more than three, but I believe these are a few quality sites on the sex toy retailer side of things. They offer education, innovative ideas and many quality products.
Blowfish
Babeland
Come As You Are
Good Vibrations
My Pleasure
Here at Good Vibes, we’ve been hit hard by the turn in Google results! I know most of our peers/competitors have also been feeling the heat. Search results are bound to fluctuate a little, but not appearing in organic results for ones’ own namesake is certainly frustrating (not to mention costly, as these terms typically have high conversion rates). Right now we’re seeing slightly improved placement, but we’re still not showing up for critical terms like Good Vibes and Good Vibrations.
Certainly a lot of rank is dependent upon who links to you and how/where you’re linked, and you can adopt practices to make your site more digestible by robots (sitemaps, meta, alt and h* tags, etc), but I wonder how qualities/quirks particular to adult site content can make a difference.
One example may be many sex/porn/sexuality sites use an age confirmation page at the site root to inform users that they’re about to enter a site with content of a sexual nature. Could these pages be tripping filters used to catch spam-laden ‘doorway’ pages? Are these pages seen as either something skeletal or too SEO/keyword oriented?
Dana