Just 2 pence from Sir Rodney for both sides
Hello all; I'm Mike, the new editor for the review site Sir Rodney, the sister of Booble.com. I read as many of these replies as I had time for. Here are my brief thoughts on some of the highlights posted here amongst a myriad of verbal wanking between reviewer and producer.
1) Its true that it's easier to sell someone else's content rather than make and market one's own. I know, as I have owned and operated several adult sites for years now and could barely pay the overhead of getting head with the income. I also received a few mediocre reviews and know the feeling. This in conjunction with the occasional phone call from the police or some girl?s father makes filming the porn a somewhat risky and thankless job. However, it can be assumed that if you take the time to produce an enjoyable experience with the consumer in mind, the review sites will recognize this!
2) It takes nothing special to be a critic and simply doing it makes you one. There's really not much to it. There are over 150 noted review sites at present and they all say about the same things about the same sites. Large networks have raised the bar for quality and both reviewers and surfers have come to expect these higher production levels. As a result, lesser independent sites pale in comparison. This leads to surfers thinking your material is sub par and reviewers believing you don't care simply because you don't have $100,000 budget to build a site and produce content with. As an editor (and reviewer), I try to remember this and am working on revisiting some smaller sites that I feel were dealt an unfair hand.
3) A review site is your friend, not your enemy! A porn site has one or two relevant pages that get search engine traffic. A large review site has a 1000 pages. With a staff of 5 or even 10 people, a site such as Sir Rodney has someone working on SEO and advertising every day. In addition, without speaking for anyone else, Sir Rodney spends over one million dollars per year in advertising to consumers. It can go without saying that no individual site has this kind of budget. We send lesser sites much more traffic than they could ever get by swapping banners or paying for clicks. Even sites which receive poor reviews make money! Without giving specific examples (which I could) sites with bad reviews make several hundred dollars monthly from our nearly 2 million monthly viewers. This is money in a webmaster's pocket for just doing his or her job. Lastly, in keeping the consumer in mind, we tell our readers what to expect. With so many dishonest web sites offering stolen or third rate leased material, being reviewed with more than one sentence (rip off - scam - don't visit) is somewhat of a compliment. A good critique takes 1-2 hours of time, plus the membership fee as we rarely ask for a password, adds up to probably $75 spent reviewing your site!
In summary - I'm sure these well thought out words have managed to offend someone in some way - probably someone that read one sentance - total - and took it out of context. To everyone else, thanks for taking the time.
If you would like your site reviewed, or an existing review revised - please contact me directly. We do now require recip's.
Mike - sirrodney.com
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