Originally Posted by TheDoc

A self made gallery, uploaded gets X traffic, gets X clicks, and produces X sales. The total amount of gallery traffic, is high and normally not exposed to anything but the Gallery and back to the Gallery Post. A tube has so many more benefits, it's hard to list them.

A Tube, allows the traffic to hit the main site, offers the people other areas to click into, and can mix up advertising methods differently because of that. It's more people, on the source site, for more time.. staying on one site longer too.

If you are doing hosted galleries or allow submits, the gallery post splits the traffic with others and with submits, the money. With a Tube, it's all contained in one spot until the Visitor clicks to the sponsor. Giving traffic controller more abilities to convert the traffic, offer them something unique, and not send it to some place they don't control.

Then most decent tubes that can hold traffic, don't have blind trade scripts that rip the person away from what they are really wanting. So in the end, clean tubes give surfers more porn and faster than even the average clean gallery post ever could.

This increase in attention, produces more sales.. Not more free content viewers, more sales.. More happy people, not being jerked around.. happy to spend because they aren't pissed.