on the thread of guys who are too dumb to use reviews ... it's my impression that TER, and the "other" review sites, are not well integrated into the ad sites (eros, lovings, cityvibe, etc.) where the rovers come looking for ladies in the first place.

the key here is helping the newbies to be better informed from the get go, and that means that they don't see provider ads without being made aware of the review sites.

have any discussions taken place with the ad sites on the issue of cross linking, ad barter, etc., in ways that would bring them into closer cooperation? added benefit: search engines such as google rank pages according to the number of other pages that link to them. making TER more visible on ad/provider sites would also make it more prominent in search engine results.

for the cheesy ad sites and provider web pages, this won't be interesting, probably. for the largest sites and high end minxes this should be a no brainer: they don't want dissatisfied customers any more than LE wants rip off complaints to muck with.

(i noticed today that lovings has a prominently displayed appeal to help stamp out bogus provider photos. exactly the kind of thing cooperation between sites could address.)

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There used to be a link on the ladies ads that said see my reviews on TER. There might be some legal considerations in this type of partnership, which I'm not familiar with. But for the time, it was great. This is, in fact how I found TER.

I really appreciate that lovings.com is making the effort to get the fake pics off their site. I should think this would quickly earn them a reputation for being a reliable place to find what you're looking for, much like the reputation enjoyed by southcoastvip.com in the LA area.

Of course, southcoastvip makes the efforts themselves, to verify the photos, lovings requires that we all participate in making the site fake-photo-free.