Well FDA, theres a few types of TGPs...
Fake TGPs, Regular TGPs and TGP2
So whats a Fake TGP?
Well simple, it's loaded full of FHG galleries that go right to sponsor, or basically your entire TGP doesn't allow for anyone else to submit a gallery into your TGP. What's the benefit to you? Well all your traffic goes to your sponsor FHGs, and doesn't leak out to anyone else, so you have the best chance at converting your traffic to sales. What's the downside? Well, you'll get no inbound links, so you'll need to work harder at working towards more inbound links, possibly through hardlinks, but that will be about it.
Regular TGP
You take other webmaster gallery submissions, review them and then post their galleries on your site. So what's the benefit to you? The recip link placed in the gallery, this helps your inbound links and Google pagerank because the gallery maker or "submitter" will link directly to whatever URL your script is set to check when the gallery is submitted, usually you'll see little buttons or text at the top of a gallery - that's what i'm referring to. Another benefit is you get to see what's new out there as well, so you can visit the site and sign up for the program yourself as well. The downside of course, is any sales from YOUR traffic on your site, goes to them, but then again, you need to weigh the value of using this method.
TGP2 (Credit:
theadultwebmaster.com)
Currently, TGP2 guidelines are few and simple. First guideline - TGP2 submissions must offer no more than five clickable thumbnail images per page. A clickable thumbnail image is defined as a thumbnail image that is linked to a full-size image. Fewer than five is acceptable. Second guideline - a TGP2 submission page may have no more than twenty thumbnail images in its entirety. Remember though that only five of those thumbnails may lead to a full-size image. The rest must be unlinked. Third guideline - there may be no links to standard TGP sites on a TGP2 page. TGP2 webmasters do not want to help surfers find standard TGP sites. The trick is to keep the surfer on TGP2 sites until that surfer has made a purchase on a sponsoring paysite. Fourth and final guideline - no exit/enter consoles or auto-bookmarking scripts. These final rules are intended to make TGP2 sites more enjoyable for the surfers who use them. The goal is to keep them coming page to TGP2 sites and away from standard TGP sites.
At this point there are likely quite a few of you reading this shaking your head and thinking things like ?it?ll never work.? The common criticism of the TGP2 concept? That somebody somewhere will continue to build TGP sites and steal all of the surfers. To a degree that?s indeed true. There will always be standard TGP sites? but that fact should not paralyze adult webmasters from seeking to limit the damage. TGP2 has the backing of key players in the adult entertainment field, including sponsorship programs, free site hosts and other services needed to make money with a TGP site. Look for these sponsors to stop accepting TGP traffic in the near future. Look for free hosts to start denying service to TGP gallery makers. As TGP2 continues to grow, making money with a standard TGP site will prove more and more difficult.