All,  or at least, most of TWs and no-shows that I had came from Viva street, not to mention wankers. Had one or two legit clients only.
 Again, that is my experience.
Probably depends on which area youre operating in, your rates, etc.
I found it to be waste of time and money. 

I am glad I am not the only one who found Vivastreet a waste of time x

I had an ad on it for London, and definitely share the majority view that its a great way to waste money and time- lots of calls, and hardly any bookings. The couple of bookings I did have were from totally green guys... And if you charge much past ?100 it's definitely not the place, or so it seems!

I live near two small cities and advertise on there all the time with success.

I would't be without it although ?60 a month is a lot to fork out but AW is too quiet for me these days on its own.

Pru, have you read through this thread? There's more details of the updated rules and some contact info too .

I find VivaStreet does make my phone ring, but primarily with twats. I have gotten bookings from it, and I guess enough to make it worthwhile.

They have apparently loosened their strict rules and we can now put a URL to our websites and be a little more explicit about what we do.

As above, there's a detailed VS thread in Spamming with all the relevant information about their advertising rules plus customer service contacts. I suspect you're right about the Google ranking (and I don't use it as I don't have the patience) but whether letting folk include more info will help, only time will tell .

The people looking are not the more knowledgeable sorts who are using AW[...]

There's a sentence you don't see every day .

I treat Vivastreet in the same way as I've treated the Daily Sport in the past - a lot of idiots, a lot of "details please" calls and a lot of stupid texts (I had three texts over a week from the same number all asking if I'm interested in botox - ummm). The Daily Sport actually yielded some of my nicest clients when I hadn't lost the plot after hours of bollocks phone calls, and I've had lovely clients from Vivastreet. I still got calls from AW where they clearly thought "tits she's got big tits I like big tits" and somehow managed to bash their knuckles against the phone sufficiently well enough to call me so Vivastreet isn't really any different to me. I do think with Vivastreet calls you have to be a lot more quick on the ball with your TW radar, and I treat it as a meeting in the middle of my AW/website profile and DS advertising - my VS ad has my rates and name on it, so if they don't ask "hi is that X" and ask me what my rates are (clarification is fine, asking outright is not), they get binned. But I don't mind saying what services I do and don't provide as it doesn't allow me to say on there - I don't want a guy turning up expecting OWO as standard, CIM, A and whatnot when one is at a tight discretion (usually regulars only) and the others aren't provided. Plus I don't think its fair on a client to not know what he's getting either.