swami - Yes, it is easy to spam the search engines with shitty jump pages. I've done it before. I know all about cloaking, dynamic spider delivery, and about a zillion other shady ways to get top listings, but I don't agree with you on your defininition of "hero". Yes - it is possible to dominate the SERPs for serveral months at a time through spamming techniques, but once you have gotten your spam hit from surfer - that's it...you're done.
Spam SE pages may take some of my good rankings from time to time, but every so many months the spam is purged and I will take my listings back.
Most importantly: When a surfer finds Jays XXX Links on google - they will think - "Hey this is a pretty cools site....", bookmark it, and come back. They will *NEVER* do that with one of your spam warning pages.
For whoever commented on the "word of mouth thing" - well that seems to be working out for me too:
Top 30 of 14656 Total Referrers
# Hits Referrer
1 1328162 15.73% - (Direct Request)
2 264843 3.14%
http://www.google.com/search
3 159248 1.89% Yahoo!
4 141396 1.67%
http://search.yahoo.com/search
5 47660 0.56%
http://aolsearch.aol.com/aol/search
6 34858 0.41%
http://www.google.ca/search
7 25592 0.30%
http://www.google.de/search
8 12889 0.15%
http://search.netscape.com/ns/boomframe.jsp
9 12424 0.15%
http://www.google.co.uk/search
10 11804 0.14%
http://www.google.com.au/search
11 11052 0.13%
http://www.freepicseries.com/
12 10452 0.12%
http://www.google.fr/search
13 7947 0.09%
http://www.sex4free.co.il/heb_htm/cat/video.htm
14 7712 0.09%
http://www.google.co.in/search
15 7564 0.09%
http://www.google.it/search
16 6157 0.07%
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search
17 5987 0.07%
http://search.earthlink.net/search
18 5232 0.06%
http://216.239.39.104/translate_c
19 5037 0.06%
http://aolsearch.aol.co.uk/web
20 4934 0.06%
http://www.google.nl/search
21 4741 0.06%
http://www.google.be/search
22 4729 0.06%
http://www.google.com/custom
23 4685 0.06%
http://216.239.37.104/translate_c
24 4466 0.05%
http://www.google.es/search
25 4339 0.05%
http://www.4freepornmovies.com/free_porn_movies.php
26 3970 0.05%
http://www.google.pl/search
27 3850 0.05%
http://www.altavista.com/web/results
28 3741 0.04%
http://www.google.ch/search
29 3668 0.04%
http://jays-xxx-porn-list.com/tgp/index.html
30 3228 0.04%
http://www.avantbrowser.com
My #1 refferer of traffic is direct requests / bookmarks.
Yes - I get around 70K a day average (this is only one of the 100+ sites that I operate), I do make a killing, and I just paid cash for a 37K Ford Expedition today...not only am I hero on two counts - I'm a mutha fucking gangsta!
Ok -- enough with the ego shit - I was want to conclude by saying that "I disagree".