Originally Posted by Rick Diculous

What he says.

I try to mix it up. I sometimes have the pic link to the paysite tour and sometime it links to a gallery hosted on my blog (this helps with time spent on site and pageviews)

Ratios were better when I was linking directly to the tour, but now with the changes made by Google, I try to keep the surfer longer on my site. This has improved my SERPS a bit, but not my ratios