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BOX 3.1 | Youth, Pornography, and the Internet | Dick Thornburgh and Herbert S. Lin, Editors | Committee to Study Tools and Strategies for Protecting Kids from Pornography and Their Applicability to Other Inappropriate Internet Content | Computer Science and Telecommunications Board | National Research Council


Box 3.1
Methods for Increasing Traffic to One's Adult Web Site


Online Methods

  • Sending unsolicited e-mail ("spam") that advertises the site
  • Placing advertisements for the site on other Web sites
  • Paying search engine companies for more prominent placement in their search engine's results
  • Acquiring domain names with sexually oriented words in them
  • Acquiring domain names based on common misspellings of non-sexual Web site addresses
  • Acquiring expired domain names that have acquired some reputation for generating traffic
  • Pay other Web sites to obtain their exit traffic (otherwise known as mousetrapping)
  • Mailing list subscriptions (for which a user must make an explicit "opt-in" choice)

Offline Methods

  • Advertising in print media (e.g., an adult-oriented magazine)
  • Advertising on TV and radio
  • Advertising through cooperating partners (e.g., a store associated with adult entertainment)




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