Escortdeck (UK Escort Search Engine) - NOT a directory - Guest posts for Indies

[amy]

Hi Amy, not sure what paid feature you refer to? Anyhow, we pull ads no matter if they are "featured" or not on the source website.
If the tourer appears in search results and you don't, it might be because the tourer has a fresher ad on one of the websites, and/or you have an outdated ad (or a "not available" status on AW). Sorry but without more details I can only speculate.
As per the "show the name" issue, I personally agree and I will suggest it to the devs.

Paid features are things like the green 'Available Today' light you were referring to earlier. It costs six pounds a day to show it, so many people who don't get that much business through the site don't bother with it when it's money that could be better spent elsewhere.

You are right. Technically, it is not a directory, and you'll probably agree with me: no sign up, no profiles "hosted" on us, only links to ads on external websites. It's a vertical search engine, otherwise defined as an aggregator.
The tagline will be probably changed. It's like that for simplicity ATM. I titled the thread in a way that it would reflect what the website actually is. Apologies for the confusion.

Well it's all very well having no signup and you may not have full 'profiles', but you do have listings for individuals with photographs and prices so as far as punters are concerned it looks like a directory. Is there a form/procedure where people who do not want to be included can get themselves removed? Even Bestcorts (who were the last lot to do something similar, IIRC) managed that eventually.

[Escortdeck]

Paid features are things like the green 'Available Today' light you were referring to earlier. It costs six pounds a day to show it, so many people who don't get that much business through the site don't bother with it when it's money that could be better spent elsewhere.

Well it's all very well having no signup and you may not have full 'profiles', but you do have listings for individuals with photographs and prices so as far as punters are concerned it looks like a directory. Is there a form/procedure where people who do not want to be included can get themselves removed? Even Bestcorts (who were the last lot to do something similar, IIRC) managed that eventually.

Here I am Amy:

• Punchline has now been edited and reads "escort search engine"
• Thanks for pointing out about the "green light" as a paid feature on AW. We're looking into that.
• There will be a "flagging" system. Users will be able to "report" certain ads if they seem offensive.
• There might be the option for single escorts to request their own ads not to show up (by reporting them). We have to figure out some kind of verification system, otherwise people will start shutting down their competitors' ads... - in the mean time, please use the "opt out" feature of adultwork, if you don't want to appear outside of AW - for all of you using AW

Anyone seen the Mirror story, and care to share their view? Would you call us "pimps"? xx

[Just An Escort]

I think the Mirror are rather over-stating your site's technical prowess with lines like "the site is believed to be the most sophisticated online sex service ever operated in the UK" - hardly, I think Adultwork already has that crown.

Well done on the free advert via faux-outrage though

[Wailing Banshee]

I'm not one of the 56 escorts in my local town, yet I am on AW, have my own website and appear in a number of directories. If one googles "*my town* BBW Escort"my website comes top and there are several other hits of me via other directories on the first couple of pages.

So, how are you a better search tool than google or AW for potential clients?

[Jezabel]

I'm not one of the 56 escorts in my local town, yet I am on AW, have my own website and appear in a number of directories. If one googles "*my town* BBW Escort"my website comes top and there are several other hits of me via other directories on the first couple of pages.

So, how are you a better search tool than google or AW for potential clients?

Simple: he's not and won't ever be, since there are enough established search engines and large escort advertising sites that all do these jobs so much better already.

[Mirror]

Listing the same Escorts several times, from different sources can lead to multiple calls, which annoys both seeker and provider.

[Just An Escort]

Listing the same Escorts several times, from different sources can lead to multiple calls, which annoys both seeker and provider.

Also clients won't go through many pages of results if they keep seeing the same escort showing up over and over on earlier pages. When I first checked there were about 9 or 10 pages for my city with many repeated girls and I was on there once on one of the last pages even though I am on every directory this site claims to check.

[Escortdeck]

ladies, the devs have done some minor and major tweaking over the last couple of months keeping also in consideration the bugs and usability issues you've pointed out in this thread.

if you feel like and you have a minute, would you try and do a search, and see if things have improved?

Thanks a million for this but most of all thanks for all the notes you've left in the thread.

xx

[ladyinred]

Escortdeck

No one wants to use your crappy "engine"
Get over it

[amy]

Shall we bear in mind that feeding trolls just makes them keep coming back?