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

[Escortdeck]

there is the option to exclude your profile from affiliate and third part sites under the 'edit profile' tab. I suggest people unsubscribe from this if they don't like it.

Here we go, thanks for pointing that out - I suspect they had an option like that but didn't quite know where. Cheers!

[Littlemisslondon]

I would have thought as you  are 'Working' as an affiliate with AW that you would know this yourself ! But, it seems that what you have done is contacted them with an idea/project in the same way that any of us could if we wanted !! What is really really odd and I don't think that the OP has considered this....If they publicise our profiles from AW using the same profiles and user names etc, then we wouldn't be paying AW for our 'available today, 'display phone numbers' etc ! Seeing as thats one of the main sources of their income, I'd be totally and utterly astounded if they 'supported' your guide...

Lastly, if you were a true affiliate then you would know that telling us to 'Check you out' under affiliates and or developers, doesn't work, there is no 'list'.

Lastly, as Jezabel (xx) pointed out, this is OUR forum, and what you should bear in mind is that most of us Indies are completely responsible and happy marketing ourselves.... thats the whole point of being independent, we have a certain amount of control. I put my green light on and display my number when I'm working meaning I can plan my days/weeks around my family etc. If I need help marketing myself, the LAST place I would look is to someone like yourself !! I would look to people who have been working for years, have the experience and can accurately advise me, I like most girls would much rather pay for targeting advertising that brings results..... Any idiot can copy and paste into a new website, even Moi !

[Escortdeck]

I would have thought as you  are 'Working' as an affiliate with AW that you would know this yourself [...]

Just to be clear: we don't "work" with or for AW, we provide traffic to various websites, including AW.

Lastly, if you were a true affiliate then you would know that telling us to 'Check you out' under affiliates and or developers, doesn't work, there is no 'list'.

Sorry for the misunderstanding, but I've never said that we would be "listed" anywhere. I provided a link to their "developer" section as a reference, just to show that their API is public and anyone can develop third party apps using it.

Lastly, as Jezabel (xx) pointed out, this is OUR forum, and what you should bear in mind is that most of us Indies are completely responsible and happy marketing ourselves.... [...] Any idiot can copy and paste into a new website, even Moi !

Fair enough, I'm not here to suggest marketing strategies to you or anyone else, or to push you to advertise with us. In fact, we are not a directory, and you cannot create a profile with us as an escort. Actually, we don't have anything that requires signing up. I'm only opening up to the possibility of escorts guest posting in our blog (free of charge, with a backlink to us).
And trust me, the whole thing it's not a simple copy/paste job

[xw5]

You've quoted bits of T&C relevant to everyone else, but those Affiliate Promotion Pages are clearly not what you are.

AW also does indeed now provide a developers API, but if that's what you're using, you're using what it supplies in a way unlike any of the suggestions or other sites I can find using it.

Looking at your site, I see that the nearest city to me has one AW profile - snort - although more from other directories. I also see that...

Receiving an erotic massage is a pleasurable way to distress

Snort.

[BibiofLeeds]

Well I checked for Leeds and specifically Bbw's all you have is one lady posted twice.Not to blow my own trumpet but I'm a reasonably well known bbw who is on AW,has been on Viva Street and also Punternet and I have my own website with blogs on yet I am not on there and noone else I would say who is wellknown in my area is there either so not sure what exactly you are scanning?It seems to be mostly ladies who may or may not be on Viva next week on there rather than established women.

[Escortdeck]

AW also does indeed now provide a developers API, but if that's what you're using, you're using what it supplies in a way unlike any of the suggestions or other sites I can find using it.

That's right. We are simply trying to fill a gap - no one is aggregating escort ads in the UK.
There are job search engines, property search engines, car search engines... why not escort search engines?

Looking at your site, I see that the nearest city to me has one AW profile - snort - although more from other directories.

This might be due to the fact that we only request female AW profiles "available now", AND offering "escort" services (no cam, phone sex, etc). Not the whole grand of AW profiles in your area in general.

I also see that... Snort.

Yep, some content needs some polishing, I give you that!

[Just An Escort]

Quite a lot of results in my nearest city - but mostly tonnes of repeated profiles which would probably put any potential client off continuing to click through the results - I only carried on to the end in order to check for myself.

I'm only there once, even though as Bibi says, I am well established and listed on all of the sites you claim to be scanning.

[Jezabel]

Well I checked for Leeds and specifically Bbw's all you have is one lady posted twice.Not to blow my own trumpet but I'm a reasonably well known bbw who is on AW,has been on Viva Street and also Punternet and I have my own website with blogs on yet I am not on there and noone else I would say who is wellknown in my area is there either so not sure what exactly you are scanning?It seems to be mostly ladies who may or may not be on Viva next week on there rather than established

Ditto everyone single one in my area is lifted from Viva.

To the OP there are no escort search engines.......because they are not neccessary or needed, nor would they add anything to anyone looking for escorts.  Nor would anything you suggest.

[Escortdeck]

Well I checked for Leeds and specifically Bbw's all you have is one lady posted twice.

Thanks for this, I will forward to the devs. Not sure why that ad is duplicate.

Not to blow my own trumpet but I'm a reasonably well known bbw who is on AW,has been on Viva Street and also Punternet and I have my own website with blogs on yet I am not on there and noone else I would say who is wellknown in my area is there either so not sure what exactly you are scanning?It seems to be mostly ladies who may or may not be on Viva next week on there rather than established women.

Unfortunately we cannot (yet) display results based on how established or well known a lady is.
What I can say, is that if right now (or yesterday) you don't have an active ad on AW, VS or some of the other websites you see in search results... you cannot be found by us, and therefore won't be appearing. Sorry about that. You can still have a guest post in our blog if you'd like to.

[BibiofLeeds]

Well if you had read my post properly you would see that I just said I have an AW profile.The majority of us on here will have an AW profile or Viva profile or Punternet profile (proper Punternet not the rip off site Punternet.co.uk that you seem to be getting some of these profiles from).My point is that alot of the ads you are putting on your profile are in no way verified and quite frankly if I was trying to collate a seearch engine for punters then I would be going for the ladies who have obviously been around for a while and have reviews so that punters are not just searching through a ton of profiles of women that may not even be working next week or even have an active profile next week.
Punters can spend alot of time searching for an escort and wading through the scam artists and flybynights I doubt they would want to do the same on your site.
I really am not bothered about being on your site as right now I cannot see any real benefit to it.For a start all it is a picture (not even a name of the lady)and a box saying 'book now'.At the very least I would have thought it would be better to at least have the ladies name on it and something like 'Click here for details'.

[Escortdeck]

Well if you had read my post properly you would see that I just said I have an AW profile.The majority of us on here will have an AW profile or Viva profile or Punternet profile (proper Punternet not the rip off site Punternet.co.uk that you seem to be getting some of these profiles from).My point is that alot of the ads you are putting on your profile are in no way verified and quite frankly if I was trying to collate a seearch engine for punters then I would be going for the ladies who have obviously been around for a while and have reviews so that punters are not just searching through a ton of profiles of women that may not even be working next week or even have an active profile next week.
Punters can spend alot of time searching for an escort and wading through the scam artists and flybynights I doubt they would want to do the same on your site.
I really am not bothered about being on your site as right now I cannot see any real benefit to it.For a start all it is a picture (not even a name of the lady)and a box saying 'book now'.At the very least I would have thought it would be better to at least have the ladies name on it and something like 'Click here for details'.

I see what you mean - noted - these are good points.
Only one clarification, when I talk about "active AW profile" I mean your AW availability. From AW, we only pull ads "available today". That's why you might not be there today. Otherwise, there is something wrong somewhere and we'll have to investigate. Thanks!

[amy]

I don't mean to be rude, but I'm not here to talk about AW T&C and copyright issues. I would suggest you to do so in another topic.

And I'll suggest - in fact I'll insist - that you do not tell members here what or how to post. We will discuss your site and related issues (which certainly include copyright, since you don't seem to be aware how it works and when you're publishing somebody else's copyrighted work without their permission, that matters to us) as we see fit. Or at least other members will, as I've had a busy day.

I will say that for my town there are two profiles listed, neither of which are mine and one of which belongs to a tourer who's only here for a couple of days. Few people use the paid features in smaller places, because it's not needed. That means I'm not on this site and am unlikely ever to be which suits me fine, but I'm fairly appalled that you can't even include people's names on their listing.

The only other thing I'm baffled about relates to the title of the thread; why if it's 'NOT a directory' does the tagline on the main page say 'The largest escort directory in the UK'

[BibiofLeeds]

Alot of ladies that work fulltime in the one place don't bother with 'Available today' also if you are nabbing profiles from Viva Street and this fake Punternet site..there isn't an 'Available today' feature on them so that isn't totally how you are finding profiles is it?What exactly is the point in excluding profilea that offer cam and phone as well as escorting?The fake profiles tend to not offer those services and instead claim to offer escorting with a private gallery so they can make money from p.g sales.It's not really offering anything that google can't or that the guys can't get through browsing AW or Viva themselves.They can search via location and type just the same on the actual sites and all they have to do is put 'Leeds Brunette Escort' into google.

[Escortdeck]

I will say that for my town there are two profiles listed, neither of which are mine and one of which belongs to a tourer who's only here for a couple of days. Few people use the paid features in smaller places, because it's not needed. That means I'm not on this site and am unlikely ever to be which suits me fine, but I'm fairly appalled that you can't even include people's names on their listing.

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.

The only other thing I'm baffled about relates to the title of the thread; why if it's 'NOT a directory' does the tagline on the main page say 'The largest escort directory in the UK'

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.

[BibiofLeeds]

You don't need to be paying for the 'Available today' feature on Adultwork to be available!If you have a profile on there and a phone number showing then you are working.Some escorts don't even display a number but are still working or available.
Do you actually know how Adultwork works?
To have 'Available today' showing costs ?6 a day so alot of us won't pay for it every day.It doesn't mean the profile is inactive or we are not available if we don't have the green light on.More of us pay for local escorts instead or pay to have our phone number on instead.
There is no such thing as a 'Not avaialble' status on AW.If a lady is not available she will just take her profile down for abit.