Is Twitter planning a similar move to de-index or remove porn? I don't really follow twitter so I'm somewhat unfamiliar if any changes are planned.

WG

Thumblr??? Come on... may be before 10 years.

What you said about Tumblr above was spot on. I had lots of inbound links from them at one point and then they vanished when Tumblr made that change.

I've heard talk about Twitter de-indexing porn but we'll see if it ever happens. Like every other platform, banning porn means lots of lost visitors and revenue. Their links as you know are shortened and I'm not sure if that devalues them or not, but I've changed and no longer count on social media links as I see my efforts will be wasted in the long run.

The only links I try to get now are one from authority sites, which aren't easy to get, or even buy.

Absolutely Tumblr mattered, it was an enormous collection of adult links that was around for 5+ years. Once they de-indexed these pages, their links would have a trickle down effect that would take several months to feel.
WG

I honestly can't think of any authoritative adult site that allows do-follow links in 2018. For purchase or organic. When Tumblr changed from a full link to a link shortener and then made them no-follow it was a major change, but when they de-indexed via robots.txt, that was the final nail in the coffin for Tumblr. Adult marketing in 2018 is surely going to be a rough one.

WG

As long as Twitter is not profitable they will not ban Adult. But as soon as they figure out how to monetize Twitter the clock will start ticking.

Facebook faced similar issues early on. You used to be able to post softcore non-adult non-nude "sexy" photos but they ban anything that looks sexy now. Twitter will follow suit but it's not on the immediate horizon. I hope. LOL

that´s exactly my overall point !

to understand rankings and short and longterm effects you have to see the whole thing.
cause and effect are sometimes so far away from each other that you miss to see the connecting point and that leads to conspiracy theories what are nonsense.

if someone really understand the gaussian equal distribution he really understand already 50% of the necessary to understand streams and markets.

streams and markets are waves and waves are ups and downs - but ups AND downs are energy what one can use.
in regards to google it means that traffic is not gone but it have changed.

at the moment there are MANY reasons for what we see. one of them is indeed googles new chrome browser and it´s relation to the coalition of better ads.

as far as I can see now this thing is going on since a while because yesterday the first editor results came out and that gave me a huge AHAAA effect.

this thing will change the complete internet - it is the biggest earthquake in the internet´s history and I really do not know yet HOW google wants to handle that issue.
but the strategy google have is now very clear for me.

it will not effect the small sites with few traffic that much as it will effect the big ones but BECAUSE it is hitting the big ones it will have the same trickle down effect to everyone shortly.

so for my opinion google shows at the moment a status quo what is not really reliable because they HAD TO "pause the time" to realize what they wanted to realize.
that explains the slow actions google took in the past months and much more of the mysteries we have seen.

this change will give us all a hard time but I see it positive in long term.

so my recommendation for now is not buy and not sell but HOLD.

Well all this sounds very cryptic. :) So what was the AHA moment you had? What is Google's Big Plan? What is this earthquake that will rock the Internet of which you speak?

Yes I agree traffic is not "gone" but rather it has shifted. Like when people asked why paysite sales were down while cams and dating were up. Same thing, the customer just shifted from one to the other, or new technology enticed them to change.

But I do not see how Google serving up shit results is doing to help anyone.

well that´s not in short words to explain but if you are a bit familiar with "better ads coalition" and the new chrome browser you know that google is on the way to crate a
(long overdued) standard for advertising.

if you look at the rules of this coalition you will understand fast that this can not be done by an algorythm. and now it is a fact that ALL this thousands and thousands of publishers who received already mail from google yesterday have been proven MANUALLY.

i really don´t know how many editors google have for that but the number must be HUGE because EVERY EDITOR ACTION is proven with a VIDEO !!!!!
you can see with your own eyes how a human editor went over your domain to check every thing by hand and some of this videos are up to 30 minutes long.

EVERY issue is decribed with an additional screenshot and a manually notice.

now think about that. to check the whole web this way is IMPOSSIBLE !!!!!!

google can only check the top traffic sites (what is already a HUGE number)

next logic:

IF there would be changes between the top rankings in that time - it would be a neverending story to finish that because if a top rank is replaced by another domain they would have start the same thing again every day and never come to and end.

beside that google CAN reach the effeect they want when they are only targeting the top sites. they are doing 80% of all traffic and the rules they need will be the standard everywhere and for everybody because every network and every advertiser will have to go with their rules if they wan the traffic.

that means: they need to drive the car in the garage while they work on it - what means "to stop the time" OR "click on pause" to keep the top results in the position.

as one can see on the results google shows you you can see that this is not a new process. the oldest reviews i´ve seen are from early september last year - the newest ones where reviewed yesterday.

SEPTEMBER !!!!! - do you see the connection ???

I have actually information from over 200 domains what are reviewed manually - all of them are domains with more than 20 k users per day and a major traffic part from google.

smaller sites are all status "not checked yet".

is it clearer now what i mean?

There are thousands of hotlink farms out there wich stealing and redirecting your se pic traffic.

Best Regards

their days are counted when google is done with this issue !

When Google Human Editors do a manual review they are also training a Neural Network / Machine Learning platform. Many reviews are done by this platform and not a human. As the Machine Learning gets better, less human reviewers will be needed and greater scale will be achieved.

By authoritative I meant other adult sites and blogs that have been around a long time, that are popular in their own respective niches and are seen as 'Brands.' Kind of like Rabbit's or Voyeurweb etc... But I agree that top authority sites like Twitter/Tumblr are gone for good.

Yes, 2018 will be a challenge.

nope - not as far as I saw up to here.
I have seen a review of ONE DOMAIN with 22 videos and a few dozend screenshots with descriptions (where you can even see writing mistakes)

If you have any high traffic site you will find this soon in webmaster tools.
80% of my publishers and 100% of my high traffic publishers see that already for ALL hightraffic sites we have in the network (and that are not few).

I would say that 50-60% of all banners what are used in Adult and 95% of all banners used with CPM ads will not be accepted anymore and the spot will be blocked from the new Chrome.

good days for banner designers !

The first one hit with that is tumblr itself. It tumbled from 40 to 57 on Alexa. That is a huge loss in traffic. More than half of their traffic is gone.

well that is possibly the huge number of webmasters what are not uploading there any more. so maybe the rest of the traffic is real good user traffic :1orglaugh

it does not really matter if a link is follow or nofollw for the site what is linked there.
with nofollow a site only does not make this link to it´s own content. also there will not be a TR or PR given but the importance of TR and PR is anyway
very small meanwhile and does not have a significant effect.

means: if the link is bad it will not effect the site what gives the link - if the link is good it will also not give the positive effect of this link to the given site.

The way serps are moving you will be going to a car garage to get escort service :-)

I agree, I can only see Xvideos, Pornhub, Xhamster, XNXX from my country. I swear, no other porn site except that 4 adult site.

Is Tumblr still good for NON-ADULT SEO?

Also, anyone use CLICKING services like serpclix to boost RANKBRAIN profile scoring?

Lol, you dont know anything about this right?
This guy is scraping every site ranking in top serps... He uses a random domain, scrap top ranked sites on google, outranking them and redirecting via 301 after that to what you call: "great for users, easy to navigate, clean, tagged with tons of self hosted content"

Yep, this is a fucking nice approach.. anybunny dot mobi is a great simple site like you said lol