Er.... no.
A good listing will get you 250k over a three day period. That is what I saw last week.
Depending on your gallery set up, you will average 1 to 1.5% click throughs. Of course higher numbers are achievable... regardless of what the bullshitters say, 10% click throughs is rare as guys in this biz earning $10 million per year, for example...
But don't forget if you're promoting Amateur Pages, you'll need to be using BOTH the partnership program and the click through program. The reason for this is simple...
Initially, you'll see a surge of shitty traffic. No matter what people say - whether Hun's quality is better than anyone else - it is a fact that 99.83% of tgp surfers are freeloading cheap ass bastards. Let's say 2k banner clicks over the three day period, at a 0.8% click ratio (this may be higher because of the Amateur Pages banners... I don't know, it's just an example!) In this, you may have three signups, good enough for you to be paid 0.06c/click.
After this, you'll see a HUGE drop, because you're just not getting the traffic any more. This is when you change your page... no, don't blindlink the fuck out of it cause you'll get banned - you just change the banner links.
The reason? You'll start to see SE traffic, and that gallery will start to convert like crazy generate unbelievable sales ratios. You want be be converting at 1:90 and have Lensman pay you 90*0.06= $5.40 per signup? Fuck that shit... change the linking codes to the partnership program after a week.
The only tgp I know of that will remove your link for changing the page is Richard's Realm - but fuck it. Nobody minds, I'm sure that Hun wouldn't give two fucks if you change just the destination URL of the banner from AP clickthough to AP parnership... you're never going to be banned for something like that, it is insignificant. Besides... the only reason that RR will remove your link is because of their "robot"... but like I said fuck it, he doesn't send ANY traffic after a few days anyway... ZERO, O, NIL!
You'll see traffic from Hun's archives, about 100-200 people per day. This is just the same free loading crowd, don't expect it to be any better quality.
Besides that, I have a rant. I look at sites like Snakes World, AL4A... and I want to yell in their ear, "WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE SELLING MEMBERSHIPS, YOU DUMB FUCKING MUTTS!"
Alright, blind links and a million consoles are one things... but three text links are another. "You must have no more than 1 fucking text link, banners must be such and such..."
Please understand that I have nothing against Snake or AL4A, but let's see... Snakes World has 7 banners and 23 sponsor text links. Besides that, a shitload of free porn, so few banners that I imagine it's hard to make sales. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know... but I've experimented with AL4A before submitting clean galleries, and I made ZILTCH!
Why don't these people realise that they're screwing themselves out of business? For example... I can submit what they would consider to be a "dirty" site to The Hun - big glossy hardcore animated banners, big fuck off text links, and 15 pics... and be listed, receive $300 for my hard work. Tell me I'd make more with a single three word text link on an AL4A listind and I'd call you a liar. Why? Because I've done it before. I don't like their rules, I don't submit there anymore. Fuck 'em.
But it's true - all tgps are centres of shit sucking traffic - there is money to be made, but not a lot. Why do people bookmark? To come back and look at FREE porn... they don't come back to look at fucking banners. You aren't going to earn $10 million year from from tgps like search engine guys can... submitting galleries four hours per week sounds easy - but these se guys are getting a high fold more and doing fuck all for it, no worries. I'm submitting galleries four hours per week, these fuckers are out playing golf, don't even have to do anything to receive their $11,000 daily.
But one last thing. How many shops, malls, supermarkets do you know of that can have 250,000 visitors in one day, and only make $300? What if all those places gave unlimited samples of whatever they were trying to sell? 30 sample Mars Bars sir? No charge - and if you're still hungry after that, we'll sell you another for $30.
With very few exceptions, all TGP and link list owners are as dumb as fuck. I'm sure I'll be called on this one, there are very few intelligent owners out there - I'd count JJJ, Hun and a few others to be pretty damn smart... but the rest of them are dumb as fuck stupid "head up ass" bastards. If they had any balls then they'd be running pay sites.
All TGP traffic is shit sucking piece of shit traffic... well, why do I submit? Because it's extra income - for 4 hours per week, it's an extra $600 weekly in your pocket. But then there is bandwidth, content... and you have to watch your ass, you can get upsidedown so fast that your head will spin.
Thank God for free hosts.
That kind of went off on a curve, but you've got the idea. I'm getting into circle jerks... I've had enough of giving the surfers a free lunch. Fuck it, fuck them. I'll circle jerk the fuck out of them until they fucking buy or at least click on something... fuck 'em. If they aren't going to flash that credit card, run that dialer, click on my blind thumbs... then they can fuck off to someone else via the script. For me, the free lunch is over. I'll let my pending submissions go through, but that's it. The surfers aren't getting any more free shit from me. I'm tired of having 10 guys pay for the other 240,990 surfers to see free pics. It isn't fair and isn't right... the rest can pay too or they can fuck off... I'm happy building an avs/cj empire and sitting on a $5 million wad of money year after year... I'm never going to make that with tgp!
The sooner I start, the sooner I make it. Fuck the old plans - this is the new million dollar scheme.
[This message has been edited by ldinternet (edited 04-28-2001).]