As with just about everything else in the industry, there's a right and wrong way to do it. And there will always be idiots who do not understand the numbers or psychology behind it, do it wrong and wonder why they aren't making any money.
I try to preach the same thing to anyone who is building a site, especially if they want to trade some traffic with me. I dont care whether you're building TGP galleries, submitting to picposts, building free sites, AVS sites, whatever... You need to design it to upsell to paysites.
TGP Galleries or MGP galleries should basically be glorified FPAs or mini-tours.
Why do you think sponsors give away hosted galleries? Are they just donating content to the surfers and TGP webmasters? No, of course not. They know how to market their own sites, so they're producing galleries that market them well and removing the TGP submitter from the mix and going straight to the TGP webmaster.
And yes, it would be nice if there were less free porn on the web. But it aint gonna happen. And yes, there are some TGP owners that are morons and wont accept a gallery that someone might actually make a buck off of. But most of the people I see here really screaming about TGPs obviously have never run one or haven't done so lately. The power of traffic management and sponsor promo in the latest software out there is VERY impressive. And unless you think random blind links are friendly, they definitely dont coddle the surfer....
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06-24-2004
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