No .com on a link to paysite = blind link?

[PR_Tom]

Well Cleo, I respect your opinion but I disagree. IMHO there is no "more blind or less blind", there is blind or not blind.

If you click the text of your first example and land on the site named Downloadpass, then in what way was it blind?

By your example, shouldnt anything be blind that does not say "Click here for a paysite called DownloadPass where you cannot download anything for free, but once you pay to join and become a member, you can download movies"?

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Because Cleo, in both of your examples they cannot "download movies" at all until they join, and once inside they can in fact download or stream full length movies.

In any case, they are not "landing" on the members area, they are landing on a tour page, which IMHO again, should be simply true to the text of the link clicked.

So I think your example might be better illustrating 2 different styles of marketing text (both true in the example site), but not blind vs non blind.

At the risk of rambling too much, blind concerns the truthfullness of where they land.

Truth in advertising concerns the text of what is said/implied.