Another way to look at it is to treat his service like an AVS.
AVS make their money by charging admission to the network. Just because you did not refer the sale for the admit does not mean you've lost all your income opportunities. The pass holder can access your site and your banners then upsell him to your sponsors.
The advantages, it seems with this tgfind, is similar to an AVS:
1) qualifies your traffic -- aggregates a pool of paid customers with credit cards
2) targets traffic to your site because users will use the AVS internal link directory sytem using keywords/categories to find you.
It may be a WIN WIN situation....as long as he doesn't link directly to your pictures and skip out on your banners entirely.
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Originally posted by thefreakybeaver
Is this something that we shouldn't want? I found this from doing a search at google on my domain name! This site is using our galleries as content to charge for access to his site.
At first I think, well extra traffic but then I am thinking it's just not right! Seems he is linking to the galleries themselves but if someone pays him to access our galleries, what's the chance they are going to sign up for one of our sponsors anyways? And, using our branded names to get hits from google.
http://www.tgfind.com/
He allows 3 free preview and then you have to pay to get access. Any thoughts on this??
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