Ever wanted to learn how to submit galleries to a TGP?
Are you so new to the industry that the acronym "TGP" confuses you? No problem! In this article you will learn from the ground up what a TGP is, and how to build and make money from galleries.
Let's start at the beginning. What does TGP stand for? "Thumbnail Gallery Post". A TGP is just a website with a bunch of pictures that link to "Galleries". Galleries are a collection of pictures also. But the gallery is made by someone for the purpose of sending traffic to a sponsor. Epiccash for example is a sponsor.
Let's see an example of a TGP and a Gallery.
TGP:
http://www.epicgals.com/tgp/
Gallery:
http://www.epicgals.com/cam24/affiliates/?
The idea is that the surfer goes to the TGP, and clicks a link and goes to a gallery. Once at the gallery your surfer will decide if they want to go to the sponsor website or not. They may do this to see if they can get more free content or they are interested in signing up to the sponsor- you will get your commission from the sale once they do buy.
If you're interested in getting started making galleries there are a few things you will need to get going.
1. Content (you need some pictures to be able to submit)
2. Gallery designs
3. A sponsor to send traffic to!
Another term you should know is "niche". A category basically- that your content belongs in. For example Teen girls are in the Teen niche.
Some sponsors will allow you to just download a zip file that has content and gallery designs it in with your sponsor ID in it too. While this is very handy it is not always the best route. Why? If there are hundreds of affiliates using the same content and the same designs surfers will get used to them and they will lose their effectiveness.
You can ask your sponsor program if they have content available for you to use.
If you need help with gallery designs, ask on your favorite adult message board for a gallery designer. They are very reasonably priced and then the designs are yours forever.
The hardest part about galleries is "submitting". That just means getting your gallery listed on TGPs. A couple more things before we go further. Most TGPs when you submit to them require a "reciprocal" link (or recip for short). All you need to do is take your gallery template, make a new copy and save it as another html page. On the new page, use the code they supply for the recip and put it at the top of your gallery. Typically you would put 3 recips at the top of your page. What this means is that gallery is good to submit to 3 TGPs. Then you make another copy and put up 3 new recips for other submissions.
The easiest way to find TGPs is to find one and then follow its "trades". At the bottom of the page (sometimes the top) etc there are links to other TGPs. Go through the list and save the sites. Then follow THEIR trades. Pretty soon you will have a massive list of TGPs to submit to.
Normally at the bottom of every tgp there is a webmaster area where you can trade traffic, or submit your gallery. Follow that link. Once you get to their submit page you are ready to go!
Now comes the really important part... the rules! The adult industry has some rules and TGPs are no exception.
1. Do not put any popups on your galleries
2. Do not put any "dialers" on your gallery
3. Don't put anything malicious on your gallery
4. Follow the "KISS" rule. Keep it simple silly. Don't complicate things. Just put on the gallery what you need, links to your sponsor and the content. Don't try to make an extra buck.
Why are we telling you the rules? Because all it takes is ONE person to complain and your domains will be blacklisted and you won't be able to submit anymore. So play fair and if you have questions and are unsure of something ASK someone. Don't be shy!
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