Too much hard shoots, pink and hardcore alone. Sponsors allow gallery makers - affiliates to use whatever number of pics they choose per gallery/page. (altho there are a few that we use that tell us the max pics)
The tgp's refuse the softer shoots in their quest to attract and hold more surfers. So the surfers are getting their thirst quenched in alot of cases. TGP's dictate to US, who if we weren't here, they'd wither and die in a week.
The sponsors need to refine their rules so that all the affiliates have to go by the same ones. IE: lower pic numbers 10-12. If they don't do that, then all the banding together the oldtime webmasters or knowing newer ones do, will fail. The newbies thinking they will get rich in a week will simply use high count galleries and will get placed over us on tgp's etc. And it will be status quo. Lowered signups and the knowledgable-skilled masters will get shoved aside. (Simple greed for traffic or cash will ensure the 20-100 pic pages will take over.)
Its a catch 22 since the sponsors don't seem to be hearing us. Example, one guy recently bragged he used 50-100 tn gals to attract and send his traffic to his NON adult sites. Mainstream sites from adult pages?!
I guess I'm not making alot of sense in this. Haven't had the time to actually put together my thoughts. I *do* know the hubby keeps going on with 10 pic gals, a few 12's or 15's. And some up to 20 on our freesites. Keep em clean and make em fast. But low count and not hi rez!