Escort Directory Banners and rethinking my site's "Links" page

I've been rethinking the "Links" page on my main escort site.

Traditionally escorts' links pages have consisted of a stack of banners for escort advertising directories, and perhaps a few linking off to the personal sites of other independent ladies. Now, you may or may not be aware that those escort directories usually give the independent a free basic listing, on the condition that the lady places their banner (which works as a return link) on her site.

Then the biggest hitters (ie. the directories which send most visitors to each escort's site) started insisting their banners were placed on the "Home" pages of ladies' sites. That's fair enough in my opinion, for 2 perhaps 3 directories that send me hundreds of visitors each week, and don't require a penny in return.

The trouble is, more and more directories started demanding a Home page banner. In fact, it's got to the point now where, bar the odd one or two, the only banners found on the Links page of escort sites belong to those directories which have got double greedy and demand a banner on the Links pages AS WELL AS the Home page.

I say "enough of the madness!" I've decided to reclaim my Links page, and make it into a page with content worth reading. Then hopefully it will add value and interest to my site. Oh yeah, and banners are strictly forbidden!

The directories are welcome to the bottom of my Home page, underneath the "Enter Site" button and my adult content warning. That page isn't even included in my site's main navigational menu - once the "Enter" button has been hit that page is redundant, unless the user hits the back arrow on their browser, which is quite funny when you think about it.

Now before any directory owner who happens to stumble over this post starts turning red with indignation, I will add a very complimentary descriptive text link to their directory on my Links page, if it's one that does good things for me. I'd imagine that'd be worth far more value than another bloody banner, and lo, sanity, natural order and the original function of my Links page have been restored!