The original concept -- still in some places held -- is link lists and TGP owners take a cut off the top (in customer sales) and passes traffic onto the surfer for linking the content.
Then, starting with Adult Buffet in about '98 or '99, the god-like overbearing dictatorial greedy rules began. And enough webmasters went with those rules.
So nowadays you have a mix, of the nutcase dicators, the good but very very strict owners, and those who with less restrictive rules.
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Originally posted by TheEnforcer@Jul 7 2004, 01:19 PM
One of the serious drawbacks that i have talked to TGP owners and such with hosted galleries is that a lot of people tell me the conversions suck donkey balls on them with most programs.
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Hosted galleries are somewhat for webmasters, but more for the TGP owners. Some TGP owners will accept submissions from them, some will only use them themselves.
It all comes down to the script. If it's totally static, the same one's appear too many places. 1) too many places so webmaster ones won't get listed 2) sometimes too many places that the TGP owners are all listing them. They don't like pure randomly generated ones, the owners, because they require they have gallery descriptions that remain constant. So why they might not convert to well has to do partly with content, partly with design and mostly with the limited and static numbers of them.
A good hosted gallery script has taken all this into consideration and offers up a way to have multiple content, design, banners, and still keep it static. This means thousands of galleries all different can be made by altering just a few elements and combining them. Some TGP owners will link these when they don't link others. And certainly TGP owners like them for themselves as well. Any sponsor who wants a script than can do all of this, just hit me up. Right now there are at least four top sponsors using it (and some smaller ones too) and getting good conversions too.
07-07-2004
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