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First click to gallery is almost detrimental to a small TGP unless your overall produtivity is extremely high.
In order to grow your site you need to grow your trades. Bookmarkers aren't as productive as people seem to think. They're mostly just traffic that you can count on to be there. You can't get bookmarkers without a lot of traffic anyway .. bookmarkers will either come out of search engine traffic or traded traffic .. so either way you're forced to grow your trades if you want to grow your site.
Lets do some math to see just how much first click to gallery affects your trades. For our purposes, let's say your overall productivity is 170% and you get 100 surfers. Here's what will happen:
Of those surfers you get 170 clicks (hence 170% prod). Your sending first click to gallery and only 70 of those surfers haved clicked twice, so you're down to 70 clicks that might go to trades. Of those 70 you're only sending 40% to trades (your skim is set to 60).
40% of 70 is 28. Therefore, out of 100 surfers you are sending an average of 28 back to trades.. your TRUE skim is only 28% because of first click to gallery.
Now you might say .. "but if first click goes to gallery I'd probably increase my overall productivity .. more people will click twice." But it isn't so. Your productivity is affected mostly by where your traffic is coming from and by how much surfers like your site.
Search engine traffic is by far the most productive .. follwed by hard link clicked and bookmarkers (tied) and then skimmed traffic that hasn't been skimmed much yet.
If your TGP is a thumb preview then the thumbs featured also greatly affects productivity.. which is why it's a good idea to get a TGP script that will track clicks on thumbs and put your most clicked thumbs at the top.
Sites like bunnyteens, puppykibble, teeniesxxx etc. all trade skimmed traffic and they get 100k + in bookmarkers daily. So unless you're a pure CJ site with no content .. I think the myth that surfers get annoyed by being redirected to trades is just that. Most of my non-webmaster friends whom I've talked to about skimming say they don't mind it .. it just gives them another new free porn site to surf. But that's why it's important to screen who you trade with.. you want to send surfers to trades that they will like.
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