Warningpages.com as exit link

[CatsEye]

I've been building under the belief that an exit link does count as one of your three outgoing links per page; while I'd rather not have an exit link, a lot of LLs don't specify whether they require one or not, so to be safe side I have been using one, and just linking to one of my non-adult mainstream blogs or sites so far.

Haven't researched enough yet about non-adult pay per click sponsors for exit links, but glad I learned here to not consider warningpages.com.

-CatsEye

[CrazySy]

I have a question regarding exit links, why would anybody want one? After all we bust our asses building a site, submit it to links lists for traffic, we get the traffic and on the first page of our site we offer them to leave? LOL

I used them a few years ago when I did AVS sites as it was requierd, I used them on a few of my first freesites until I found out I didn't have to have one which at that point I just dropped it. If a surfer goes thru the links on a link list looking for porn and find your site, you have a better chance of selling porn than anything else.

Just my 2 cents

[MrYum]

Yea, you're absolutely right Sy...they're not required by most lists.

But, the purpose of the exit link isn't really to generate revenue. The purpose is ostensibly to provide an exit for surfers who are either not of age, or stumbled onto porn accidently (yea, right!). The mindset being that providing a way for surfers to exit (much like having a warning page)...shows the webmaster is attempting to protect those that shouldn't see porn.

Realizing the link is a traffic leak is why many webmasters use some minor mainstream revenue generating item. Hell, I had GIANT fishing lures on mine for a while

Almost forgot...I heard from a little birdie that warningpages may be looking into the trapped back button issue

[kenny]

I don't use exit links - if they want to leave they can go out the way they came in