Very informative post, ShadowHawk. Good points raised.
My question is, aren't most TGPs using scripts to manage their listings? Don't these scripts check the listings to see if they have changed?
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Originally posted by ShadowHawk
I so desperately want to repond by saying that you're all mad at the wrong people, but I don't know how to explain it without writing a book worth of shit. Basically, TGPs have all those rules in place to try and limit cheaters and make their lives easier. Too bad they don't know the truth. I have a couple of TGP sites and get anywhere from 400 to 1200 submissions a day at each of them. On average, over 80% of the submissions come from 3-4 people...and all of those will redirect first time uniques away from the galleries. Unfornately, most TGP owners have no way of detecting these "cheaters".
The real problem with these guys is that they are submitting really nice galleries with lots of high quality pics. Those nice galleries are hard for the average submitter to compete with. Or...some cheaters just go out and find nice galleries that were created by talented webmasters and copy them. They submit the copy and then, once it's listed on a TGP, will start to redirect traffic from that gallery. (I mean, how many times have you seen webmasters complain that they've found their stuff copied? And you were wondering why you're sponsor code...or your work...has been blacklisted!!!)
Anyone figured out why all the hoops yet? It looks to me like there are just a few outfits out there that are submitting tons of quality content and they can afford to do it because they're redirecting traffic, etc.
If anyone has any suggestions or questions, I'd really like to hear them. Would really like to know how to block out these big guys and give my links space to the average webmaster who has worked his butt off to make a $.
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