Originally Posted by Forkbeard

Quality content is necessary but not sufficient. It used to be sufficient, back in the day when Google would honestly surface whatever enough people were searching for and linking to. Nowadays, to say "content is king" just shows that you aren't keeping up on the challenges of adult content marketing in the social media era.

Now we live in the era when Google, FaceBook, Amazon -- anybody big enough to be corporate and have a search engine as part of their product -- refuses to surface porn honestly and fairly. Some ban it outright, some refuse to allow links to it, some just degrade the quality of their search results to hide or bury adult stuff. This is all independent of the quality of that stuff. The "porn" or "sex" or "nudity" or "adult" label -- often applied by stupid machine algos -- is enough to get your stuff blacklisted, brownlisted, or buried. It doesn't matter whether your adult shit is good or popular or amazing. The stacks (Google, Amazon, FaceBook, half a dozen others) don't care, and they have effectively all the traffic.

Colin's not asking "can I sell a shitty movie with reviews". He's asking, as I parse his post "Have y'all had any luck using reviews to entice porn-hostile media into giving attention and traffic to a good porn movie? Because it seems to be working for me, and I'd like to swap tips on making it work even better." Very different focus.