Myspace banning users links to porn sites.

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Originally Posted by deviant

I've noticed that my site has been receiving traffic from links that users are sending each other on myspace. Myspace rewrites all of the urls that it's users send each other and it is these custom urls that I'm finding as referrals to my site. My site is a one man show, it's just me and there are no downstream affiliates or anyone with any incentive to post links to my site on myspace other than users who saw something they liked and wanted to share it with a friend. But when I click the referral links I'm greeted with a nice message from myspace informing me that the link was banned because it was either spam, a phishing attempt, or a link to a virus. None of which is actually the case. I have never posted anything on myspace in regards to my site.

Has anyone else run into this? If so did you do anything to rectify the situation? Contact myspace and inform them of their error? It's obvious to me that they banned the link because it led to porn. How do you feel about myspace prohibiting users from sharing links to adult material with each other?

Myspace probably isnt a good source of productive traffic at least in the conventional format.

Ive done some traffic work by advertising in spaces like that and the key is the page that you push a mainstream surfer on to. Its muck like the adult ads that used to run in magazines in the 70s like Rolling Stone.

The rates on those were high and they wouldnt have been selling them had they not been working.

I think theres some psychology in the sense of its "ok" to look I saw it on Rolling Stone.

However if you want to generate some bulk adult traffic then I would suggest getting a profile on Xpeeps.

Good question and welcome to Oprano.