If you believe certain major sites providing services to webmasters, Nudist Day is an adult site. Adult equals porn. Yes, our site has a few photos of naked people, a few of which are of attractive people, but none of which could be construed as being remotely erotic. Neither do we touch human sexuality as a subject, except to say it’s got nothing to do with nudism! We will not knowingly link to, and certainly not publicize any site that has sexual content. We take great pains to stress that this is a family-oriented naturist news site, but try to convince the likes of Google!
Google has rejected Nudist Day as a news source, classifying us as being an adult site, of course! They again rejected us, for the same reason, for their Google Ads, thus depriving us of the opportunity of generating a tiny bit of income.
It doesn’t end there! We also submitted our candidacy to a half dozen press release distribution sites, including the top one, PR.com. You guessed it! We were roundly rejected as being purveyors of adult content! Additionally, sites that publish third party articles have also turned us away on the same grounds.
The curious thing is that some of our competition, including some that DO have sexual overtones, has managed to get by the sentinels of the above mentioned sites. This indicates to us that either we were victims of random judgment calls or their original policy was more reasonable pertaining to nudist sites. Whatever it is, we intend to fight it.
What all of this means in tangible terms is that Nudist Day has potentially lost tens of thousands of new visitors per month. We achieve good numbers just from the brotherhood of nudist sites as well as our regular readers, but if we’re to continue growing and for this to ever become a viable enterprise, we need to achieve wider visibility. As a free site with no income whatsoever, we simply don’t have the budget for expensive ads in nudist magazines or other venues.