Sponsor links on the warning page

[Greenguy]

If the sponsor has no softcore banners, make up an ad yourself by cropping a pic or 2 from the content that doesn't show any nudity & throw it in a table with some text (just don't make it look like a thumb)

[Useless]

The sole purpose of the warning page on a free site is to have a place for reciprocal links and 3 more ads. The moment SEs drop all internal pages and only bot/cache pages named 'index.html' I'll believe it serves an actual warning function on a free site seventeen directories deep on a domain.

I only use animated close-up double penetration banners, even if it's a purely softcore lingerie site.

[Jel]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

The sole purpose of the warning page on a free site is to have a place for reciprocal links and 3 more ads. The moment SEs drop all internal pages and only bot/cache pages named 'index.html' I'll believe it serves an actual warning function on a free site seventeen directories deep on a domain.

I only use animated close-up double penetration banners, even if it's a purely softcore lingerie site.

I gotta agree with UW here. I prefer to call them entry pages rather than warning pages, because to me that's what their primary focus is these days (to me, anyways). Also when you say a 'lot' of LLs say no hardcore on the warning/entry page, I think you'll find it's actually only a very few that have this rule in place.

Again as stated either use/make a softcore banner, or make your own text 'banner' by way of a table - these are very often a far better tool than a graphic banner

[Mr Exotic]

I have a ton of sponsors that have either little or no banners, or all their banners are hardcore. I find myself having to make my own banners or edit sponsors hardcore banners nearly everyday. Yeah mine look like shit alot of times, so they aint pretty like the sponsor's professional looking banners, but they make sales.

Of course its always nice when sponsors have alot of banners both hardcore and softcore, saves me alot of time. But really when it comes down to it I notice no difference in clicks and sales to my ugly amateur looking banners to the professional sponsor banners.

[Licker4U]

I haven't done the math but about 90-95% of my click-throughs to sponsors are from my index pages. If your sponsor doesn't have softcore banners, and you don't have the software to edit hardcore banners, don't use them. Like Greenie said, make your own with an image and text. I just use sentences to try and get the surfer interested, then "Click here to check out One Armed Lithuanian Midgets.com"

Originally Posted by Greenie

If the sponsor has no softcore banners, make up an ad yourself by cropping a pic or 2 from the content that doesn't show any nudity & throw it in a table with some text (just don't make it look like a thumb)

How do you not make it look like a thumb? I've tried that with sponsor images, even made them kinda large, 200x300, and got declined for having linked thumbs.

[Mr Exotic]

Dont link the thumb, only link the text. Or if you want to link the thumb make it a banner and put some text on it.

[Licker4U]

Originally Posted by Greenie

If the sponsor has no softcore banners, make up an ad yourself by cropping a pic or 2 from the content that doesn't show any nudity & throw it in a table with some text (just don't make it look like a thumb)

Originally Posted by Mr Exotic

Dont link the thumb, only link the text. Or if you want to link the thumb make it a banner and put some text on it.

I'll try that