This post was in response to the thread about AW suspending profiles who don't use the Available Today feature, in case anyone is interested.

AFairground, this forum is for sex workers only and as an advertiser, you may only post in THIS section.

Thank you.

PS Will you have tens of thousands of clients using your site within the next two months, since it's going to be such a serious competitor for Adultwork's position? It's not that I'm not really into the idea of Adultwork finally having someone challenge them, it's just that, as I'm sure you can imagine, we've heard all this sort of thing before... about a hundred times. Will you be launching a fully-featured site, or will we have to give you our details and our money while we wait patiently for a finished product?

Hi Paul.

Is your site going to support Trans sex workers?
If so, Transvestites {tv's} -men in dresses
are not the same thing as transsexual women {Ts's} 
So please don't put us all under the same category  {in the way AW does, clearly as an afterthought}
as it really is two very different types of provider.

Or worse still, just illegally bar trans sex workers ads like punternet etc. ?

That forum is one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen.

So you are categorically not an Adultwork clone, but you have a sister site called Adult@Work (by whom I vaguely remember being spammed before I blocked their email address), you are planning a 'booking system' and 'ratings', and the predominant colour of your site is purple apart from your 'Available Today/Now' soon-to-be-paid feature (sound familiar?) which is er, bright green...

Does this mean you will be charging people to show their mobile numbers too? Otherwise why bother with either - punters can just ring us and ask whether we are available or not, like they do now. Are you going to have provision for links to our websites, and will we have to pay for these too? How long are all these 'features' going to remain free, and how much will it be costing once they are not? Bearing in mind that the site has virtually no traffic, that is.

And as Ian has said, and like so many others, you seriously need a proofreader. To add to the list, pornstar has a 't' in it <----

"Adult Fairground"? Creepy. Would it be too much to ask for the site to be named something sensible that reflects the serious and professional nature of our work?

Then again, maybe "Whores4U.com" would at least be more direct.

What measures will you be implementing to make sure that service providers are not harassed daily by guys who are looking to get some free titillation? I hope we'll be able to write feedback connected to the usernames of anyone who wastes our time, or repeatedly spams us with stupid messages, or appears to be otherwise non-client-material. Perhaps if we could attach small notes that only other escorts could see?

Also, please don't make us pay to have the content of message sent on-site delivered to our proper inboxes. One of Adultwork's major flaws is that it tries so hard to keep service providers from being able to leave the bloody site - why should I have to visit the site and log in just so I can see that "MrSpankyWanks" has sent me a message saying, "hi babe r u free 2nite can i fuk u all nite 4 free thx"?

I really don't think that non-providers have any idea of the true volume of bullsh*t that we have to sift through weekly. If you make it harder for us to do this, we will have no choice but to hate your website.

And if you're going to implement verification (via scans of passports and things) why not make that essential for clients, too, eh?

A@W was a test site set out last year, a basic site which only was to test the market before large investment. Ranks for key-term "AdultWork" which 800'000 exact search terms a month. The sad fact is that in the escort industry the most search for key-term is "adultwork" and not "escort" so we had to optimise for what people are searching for to catch there eye.

This has nothing to do with the name of the site though. The site could be called Top Bananas for all it matters.

I find it odd too suggest punters search "adult work" for services not escort, cam shows etc...(looking for adultwork the site maybe?).

I don't believe for one minute that people typing 'Adultwork' into a search engine are looking for anything other than Adultwork. I get lots of hits from Google and the search terms are things like 'Scarborough escort', 'escort Scarborough' and so on - it seems a little odd to specifically market a site purely in order to try and pick some traffic flotsam from people who were actually looking for another site. Why not try and make a standalone one that will attract users because it's actually good?

'Available Today' and on-site 'booking systems' are not the industry standard, they are what is used on Adultwork and despite what you might think, the two things are not the same. Do you honestly think we are so thick that we would be 'confused' by you using different names for your features? How exactly will this help you not look like an Adultwork clone? No other successful directory I know of uses these 'features', and I get a lot more work from them.

You obviously have a fixation with the site, but AW is just one advertising directory out of countless others, and whilst it is a busy one their main advantage comes from the amount of traffic they get, not because the site is a particularly good one. I get little from it, and even most of the people using Adultwork don't use the booking form, they use the site as a location tool and just ring and book, and I'm fairly sure that even the Adultwork fans on here would agree. Why overcomplicate things? All we need is somewhere we can describe ourselves, our rates and our services and provide a phone number if we want to, and a link to our own websites if we have one.

I'm also interested by your proposed pricing structure - if the site is busy it will stay free; so if it isn't (and therefore nobody is looking at it) the advertisers are going to have to pay to cover the cost of you making a site people aren't using? You can spout whatever SEO twaddle you want. We do this for a living, and like you've said, we've seen it all before more times than I care to remember. Have a read of this thread if you fancy a real laugh.

My point wasn't about the keywords which have little do to with anything except you getting site traffic. My point was more you used the key word arguement to justify the "test site" being called Adult@work. Also doing a test site which pretty much sounded like an adult work clone sounds like a waste of time to me but each to there own.

I would also suggest forgetting charging services providers anything except whatever your commision will be until you're site is alot more established. The service providers are ultimately the people that will make the site, even record breaking traffic is useless without us ladies there working our asses off.

Personally I would like too something very different too AW. Social networking sites have gone nuts over the years but they dont work well for the adult indistry. Id like a site that can be more interactive ie let me post shouts, have followers, allow followers to comment on my shouts, photos etc. I'd also like it to be more the norm that the guys have there own profiles too.