Business SEO Legal or not for Escorts

9 years ago

So what's your question? Are you afraid that Google will go after your client? Haven't really heard that this was happening somewhere, but I guess the local authorities may force them. If escorts are legal in the target market, that's not much of an issue.

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agmccall

9 years ago

seo is not a crime, at least not yet anyway

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nettiapina 9 years ago

Originally Posted by agmccall

seo is not a crime, at least not yet anyway

No, but that's completely irrelevant. If you're doing SEO for an illegal activity it's possible that you're only expediting the removal from Google's results.

There's several threads about sites that are advertising "movie downloads". Some of the site owners have seen their SERP positions just vanish, and some have been forwarded a DMCA notice that the content owners have served to Google.

The search engine is an uniquely difficult position because they have to follow US and local laws to some extend, or face consequences. They're not going to fight any unnecessary battles. Those that they pick are the ones that they see as essential to their existence, or ones that they feel will give them a lot of goodwill in people's eyes. If your particular grey area doesn't fit their agenda there's not much that you can do.
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Slade556

9 years ago

I think the moral thing to do is to explain to these site owners what the problem is. Offering your SEO services to them isn't illegal, but it won't help them one bit, for the reasons nettiapina mentioned in this very thread: they will pay you, you will deliver the results and... they will probably get suspended. Isn't that a waste of money? But, again, this is entirely your choice.

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mirko76

9 years ago

Apart from the legal question don't forget that reputation is a huge factor in selling services. If seo for escorts makes you look unethical I'm sure you will hurt your business.

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Brent Stangel

9 years ago

Google doesn't seem to have much of a problem with it:

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Sid Hale 9 years ago

Hey Brent,

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Sid Hale

9 years ago

Seriously...

Is providing telephone service to an escort service illegal? How about mail delivery (the U.S. federal government does that)? Providing office space?

SEO is a service like any other.

You might choose not to take the business on moral grounds (personal call), but there's really no reason for anyone to know that you provided those services unless you decided it was in your best interest to solicit a testimonial from them.

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Kay King 9 years ago

independent escorts in hyderabad

What comes to mind is this:

A good percentage of the bot spam on this forum on weekends claims to be related bo 'escorts in hyderabad'.

Those are the spam threads with long numbers in them (phone #s?) and often there are dozens before mods can catch up and delete them.

Morality aside - as that's personal - the spam aspect would put me off working with this particular niche.
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Steve B

9 years ago

How protective are you of your reputation?

I'm not saying this will happen to you, but often online you are judged by the company you keep. So you will have to make the decision about the types of clients you serve. It might be an issue . . . or it may never come up.

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nettiapina

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Steve B

How protective are you of your reputation?

I'm not saying this will happen to you, but often online you are judged by the company you keep. So you will have to make the decision about the types of clients you serve. It might be an issue . . . or it may never come up.

I don't understand the issue here. Your professional relationships aren't something that you're required to publicize, and you usually have to ask the client's permission to even mention their company in your marketing. If you suspect that one of your projects would hinder your future prospects why on earth would you make it public?

For example, I know that an acquaintance of mine was doing some consultation to a porn site. He told me so in a private discussion where the main point was in the technology behind the site. I have no idea who he was working for at the moment, and I never saw any mention of this in the web. I bet most of his other customers didn't know this, and it's something that's not relevant to their projects.

As I said earlier it's about your feelings and what you think is moral. I would not touch anything that's related to escorting services.

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talfighel

9 years ago

If you feel like you are going to hurt your business if you work with these illegal websites, then don't.

If I had to choose whether to work with them or not, I wouldn't because I would not want to hurt my reputation.

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9 years ago

Google not friendly with escort content

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nettiapina 9 years ago

Originally Posted by xrobot

Google not friendly with escort content

Why are you saying that? What part of the world are you talking about?

I just google'd a service that was talked about and controversial in my home country a few years ago. It's still the top result. It's a site advertising escort services which could be seen as a form of pimping. Sex services are not illegal, but pimping is (along with buying services from a victim of human trafficing). This site is very questionable in this jurisdiction, and according to news stories they have trasferred their servers abroad to evade law, but they've got no apparent issues with Google.
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Gambino

9 years ago

I'm not sure why people say Google isnt friendly to escort services.. I just googled escorts in the closest city to me and 9 of the first 10 sites you can buy an escort. The other site was a escort review site. There were also 3 Google places escort services. Seems pretty friendly to me.

The question for me, would be if escorting is legal in the city you're promoting. If it's legal, I personally don't see any problem with promoting it and doing SEO. If it's illegal, I wouldn't want to be caught promoting an illegal activity.

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discrat

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Gambino

I'm not sure why people say Google isnt friendly to escort services.. I just googled escorts in the closest city to me and 9 of the first 10 sites you can buy an escort. The other site was a escort review site. There were also 3 Google places escort services. Seems pretty friendly to me.

The question for me, would be if escorting is legal in the city you're promoting. If it's legal, I personally don't see any problem with promoting it and doing SEO. If it's illegal, I wouldn't want to be caught promoting an illegal activity.

yeah, I am sure sometime down the road this will change. Law Authorities in the US will putt pressure on Google to scrutinize this more closely and make changes.

Having activity that is illegal in most of the States will get the attention of some lawmaker or Official wanting to make a name for themselves.

Just a matter of time

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9 years ago

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iAmNameLess

9 years ago

Originally Posted by AntonioSeegars1

My vote is no. You should not attach yourself to anything that is illegal in any shape or form. You don't want word to get out that you're working with escorts.

It's technically not illegal, it's the "extras" that are illegal.

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Scott Li

9 years ago

I'm surprised even the independent escorts in India knows about SEO and ready to invest in it ...on side note : Yes , you can definitely .

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Ryan W Milligan

9 years ago

Escorting isn't illegal. People pay to spend time with people, if anything else happens then that is consensual and is not a form of prostitution.

SEO for an escort service is perfectly legal.

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nettiapina 9 years ago

Originally Posted by Ryan W Milligan

SEO for an escort service is perfectly legal.

That kind of blanket statement serves no purpose here. Of course there's countries that have banned prostitution. Wether or not you think that's illogical or based on false information makes no difference. That's the law. Marketing illegal services is very likely illegal too.

However, in most jurisdicions this is just a case of your personal moral judgement.

I'm not sure why you people claim that SEOs somehow attach their own reputation to that of their clients'. SEO is a force that you can't see. It's not like you're standing in a street corner with a pimp hat.
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patadeperro

9 years ago

There is no issue making SEO for escort websites I have done it in the past

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Barry Unruh

9 years ago

I'd be pretty cautious about promoting escort services in India after reading this clip on Wikipedia:

In India, prostitution (the exchange of sexual services for money) is illegal, but a number of related activities, including soliciting in a public place, kerb crawling, owning or managing a brothel, prostitution in a hotel, pimping and pandering, are crimes. Prostitution is legal only if carried out in private residence of a prostitute or others

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Depending on a judge's interpretation, assisting in SEO for an escort service could be construed as "soliciting in a public place".

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