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alright, i'm trying to understand the tgp business a bit better so i can cater designs more towards a clients needs. from what i can gather, a tgp should have a good identity, and should ideally hit you with that theme hard enough to get to either remember the url, or bookmark it.

from there you want to push clicks to the top links (sold spots, sponsors, etc..) and keep the rest as fresh as possible to again promote people to bookmark/return to your site.

from return traffic, and linking traffic, and bought traffic will generate more revenue for gallery makers, who will bring more money to you.

this said - the tgp is made solely to amass traffic and direct it at affiliates and sponsors (like the television show around the commercials) and drive it towards a harder sell (galleries, tours, etc...)

this said, wouldn't it be best to never link outward to other tgp's? and just buy traffic inward?

i could be wrong, i don't own a tgp, and i don't plan on it. but i'm just trying to get more of the theory behind them. I've designed quite a few of them, and this question just popped into my head.

oh well. cheers.

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