haha ok. I noticed that it was a "thing" so thought I'd follow the trend. Paranoid is good. I swear by my paranoia.

I've been lucky enough to have had some great clients from the site, but there any many timewasters. I think if more people moved there though it'll get better by word of mouth, then higher in Google due to more traffic but your concern about it not coming up in Google right now normally is a great concern.

For those of you who don't know, Tryst is run by the same people who run Switter and I believe it was the next step in development after Switter's ad tags were completely overwhelmed with use.

Personally, I hate Switter as a community space because it is run "by sex workers for sex workers" in a radical way that makes those of us on the other side feel unwelcome. I was one of the people who immediately jumped on the platform after it started a few years ago (I think I joined on day 4 or something) but soured a few months later after dealing with the moderators multiple times (while being treated completely differently when they assumed I was an SW versus a heterosexual male client).

However, my issues about switter do not translate to Tryst... And, in fact, help bolster the argument for them as an advertising platform. However, where Tryst fails miserably is in the support of our community. Although a Domme can choose to say she is a Domme, it treats that information like a service offering rather than moving her into a separate category like craigslist/backpage used to... Or that Eros does now (DickieVirgin classifieds are dedicated to us).

That makes it next to impossible to use as a D/s, BDSM or fetish client to find Dommes. Add in the fact that it is so little known within both our community, and the general population of men who might be clients, and it's terrible search engine results, and what you end up with is the best run/built advertising site but one that is generally useless for Pro Dommes.

The good news is that the people who run Tryst are generally open to good feedback and are continually improving but until there is a cacophony of requests/feedback from the Pro Domme community about needing a separate area nothing will change there. Keep in mind that overall we are a niche market within the SW world and the background of switter/Tryst is sexual escorts and their sexual politics, so our concerns don't resonate with them naturally in the way that things from escorts or LGBTQIA+ do.

YMMV,

Asp

The interface could use some work but you can find BDSM-exclusive people on it. Click on the box that says, "enter city or postcode." A menu will pop up where you can deselect escort, fbsm, and online providers, and the remaining list will be BDSM exclusively.

I'm really impressed with the inclusivity of tryst. There are a lot more Black, non-binary, and other people historically underrepresented on the big advertising platforms.