Borderline Blind Links....

MadMax · 2005-09-29, 08:26 PM

Looking for opinions from the community on this one. I tend to be tougher on blind links than most, and I'm trying to decide if I'm weaving too far right on this.

Lately, it seems like I'm seeing more and more sites with big ass links that have a paysite name for the anchor text and nothing else.

Example: "Backdoor Boys" when the paysite is backdoorboys.com

Example: "Her First Lesbian Sex" for herfirstlesbiansex.com

I'm trying to decide if I'm going to start calling these blind links. Every time I see one (which is daily at this point) my gut tells me it's blind, but the rules-lawyer in me wants to let it slide.

While I know that "Her First Lesbian Sex" is a paysite, Joe Surfer probably doesn't. A good portion of LL traffic comes from surfers using search engines to find porn and they probably don't know it either, and the essence of the "blindness" of a link is what the average surfer would think.

Usually these links are NOT surrounded or immediately adjacent to banners or other sales text, and more and more I'm feeling like this is how some webmasters are trying to rules-lawyer blind links onto their sites.

Opinions?

2005-09-29, 08:26 PM	#1
MadMax "Without evil there can be no good, so it must be good to be evil sometimes" ~ Satan Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Motor City, baby, where carjacking was invented! Now GIMME THOSE SHOES! Posts: 2,385	Borderline Blind Links.... Looking for opinions from the community on this one. I tend to be tougher on blind links than most, and I'm trying to decide if I'm weaving too far right on this. Lately, it seems like I'm seeing more and more sites with big ass links that have a paysite name for the anchor text and nothing else. Example: "Backdoor Boys" when the paysite is backdoorboys.com Example: "Her First Lesbian Sex" for herfirstlesbiansex.com I'm trying to decide if I'm going to start calling these blind links. Every time I see one (which is daily at this point) my gut tells me it's blind, but the rules-lawyer in me wants to let it slide. While I know that "Her First Lesbian Sex" is a paysite, Joe Surfer probably doesn't. A good portion of LL traffic comes from surfers using search engines to find porn and they probably don't know it either, and the essence of the "blindness" of a link is what the average surfer would think. Usually these links are NOT surrounded or immediately adjacent to banners or other sales text, and more and more I'm feeling like this is how some webmasters are trying to rules-lawyer blind links onto their sites. Opinions?