Building authority for an adult website is one of the most difficult link-building challenges in SEO. The reason is obvious: adult websites operate in an environment where many mainstream publishers, brands, bloggers, media organizations and websites simply do not want to link to explicit content. A conventional SEO strategy might tell you to: write guest posts, contact bloggers, submit to directories, build digital PR, exchange links, create statistics, publish research, earn editorial mentions. All of those strategies can work. But adult SEO requires a different approach. You need to understand the adult webmaster ecosystem, adult-industry publications, webmaster forums, creator communities, directories, affiliate businesses, dating websites, sexual wellness businesses, technology publishers, cybersecurity/privacy publications, lifestyle publications, sex-positive media and niche blogs. Most importantly, you need to understand that authority is not the same thing as backlink cou...