Hi guys,
I noticed alot of the big webmaster programs don't have free hosted galleries and it doesn't look like they are working on having them. I think that maybe it is because free hosted galleries oversaturate the paysite so fast because once you give them to the webmasters, everyone will add them to all of their sites and therefore it will be overpromoted so fast! Some webmasters might make a good profit from free hosted galleries BUT I believe that most of the webmasters just stick them on their sites and expect to get great signups while instead they get 1 signup with a ratio of maybe what? 1:3000. Now Those that download content and make their own galleries are the ones that know how to get sales. Of course it takes time to make the gallery and just being provided with a list of galleries with your code on them already would be much easier but think about it. You will have much better conversions even though the paysite itself and traffic matter on conversions because you will have content that has not been seen so much and the gallery template itself as well. This is just what I think, but my theory is free hosted galleries = quick overpomotion and poor conversions
Don't take me wrong. Free hosted galleries are a big plus for a lot of webmasters but in my opinion they are just a very easy way to fuck up conversions on the paysite. I am sure someone on this board has come up with something like this before but I just thought I should share my thoughts on it with everyone here
