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Originally posted by Battuss
They all should go for paid spots / paid partner passes only.
This will weed out the newbs/losers/scammers/idiots on the submit side and this will weed out the shitty 2k tgps (whos gonna pay for them) and the tgps with crap traffic.
And im not talking about outrageous prices but just something to stop certain people from submitting.
Fuck im smart.
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You described a perfectly reasonable strategy that some already follow, but a) not everyone wants to work the same way, nor do they have the same objectives and b) why would a "shitty TGP" or one with "crap traffic" want to weed itself out (if your strategy would in fact make that happen)?
I don't see how this is "The solution for all the free porn..."? If you could persuade all the small TGPs to self-destruct, by definition that isn't going to make a whole lot of difference to the amount of free porn surfers actually see (500 "small" - by your definition - small TGPs = 1 The Hun).
And so on...
I was submitting galleries to TGPs for maybe 3 years before I ever operated one. I doubt I would have a submit list together yet if I had actually tried to measure the worth of TGPs and their traffic. Apart from the time involved, most sponsors do not have the facility of tracking codes and if they did, to which of the 3-4 TGPs to which I have submitted a particular gallery should I attribute the sale?
I could try an educated guess about traffic quality, but then I would have to ask myself whether it is likely that a TGP which leverages most of its traffic from bookmarkers, trades with other heavily bookmarked TGPs, banner exchange exposures, etc., is going to be as good as one which gets its traffic primarily from submitting galleries to promote itself?
But if you are honest, these aren't educated guesses, just guesses. You don't know if a 50K TGP is carrying 30K of Chinese traffic, or whether a 5K TGP is getting 1K niche targetted hits a day from the SEs. We end up focussing on traffic numbers because they are all we can identify.
Several times a week people w.rite that this TGP sends great quality traffic, or that another sends rubbish. Knowing the practical limitations on measurement, you know that the vast majority of such statements are simply hot air.
The bottom line is that you may not make a sale from 100K hits that one TGP sends you. The single visitor from another might earn you $35. You just don't know, so in the end you settle for whatever approach suits you and as long as it makes money, who can tell you it's wrong?