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Originally Posted by rowan
I can see some advantages of this model. If the webmaster has a traffic source outside of the TGP "circle" then they've already helped push the surfer along towards the ultimate goal of signing up at a paysite, rather than just looking at free pr0n all day. Both the TGP webmaster and sponsor save on bandwidth since the freeloaders only ever see the tour for the TGP.
The one sticking point is that the TGP webmaster is using sponsor content to generate direct income. So long as it's a reasonable price (eg a few bucks - and not competing with a paysite by promising 100,000 images for $19.99 a month) the qualified traffic sent to the sponsor should make that content issue moot. IMHO.
I toyed with this idea a few years ago, including trading qualified traffic with other webmasters running similar sites, but I don't really have any alternative sources of TGP traffic.
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I think the screening out the freeloaders might be good, but it also might cut out a lot of educated surfers that are too smart to pay for tgp galleries but would still buy something if it struck their fancy. so you will loose them because they will just go elsewhere.
I guess the part that makes me feel a bit uneasy is that they make money off of sponsor content by charging for it.
Sort of like a 3rd party webmaster setting up a shareware download site of all the shareware programs but charging access to it.
or I guess it could be compared to a webmaster building AVS sites out of sponsor content, which is pretty common, (or used to be), but usually only one sponsors content is on an avs site. and I don't really allow avs sites to use my content these days.