Hi Rui,
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- What do you think its going to happen to the "tgp industry" with most tgp owners getting all their spots sold, exclusive partner accounts and FHG's, that leave out of the equation lots of good webmasters.
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I don't think you can grow your site if you fill it with sold spots and fgh's.. It hurts the traffic in the long run. That is why I always strive for a combination of sold/ fhg and submitted galleries. Al4a was gaining on us one year after we bought worldsex, but when al started using fhg's mostly, his traffic dropped quite some (although he made more money, and that is what we're all in for ;-). So doing so has always good and bad sides. I believe that if my site will grow bigger (when we bought al4a.com, it had about 800k, now it has on some days 1.2 million), the money will come as well.
Partners accounts are something I can see the use for, it helps fighting cheaters. I wouldn't use strictly exclusive accounts, but I am working on a paid option (premium accounts). Where a webmaster would pay for extra service and increased listing chances. Webmaster would still have the option to get listed with a free account though, they just have to wait a bit longer, for example:
When we closed down the partner application form for al4.com we were reviewing applications for 2 months afterwards.
So if people want to get approved within 24 hours, get decline reasons for every submitted gallery, want to be reviewed ahead of everybody else etc..then I have to hire people for it as well, so thus will make it more costly for me. As I want to get rich too, I want to ask for a monthly fee.
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- Also in your opinion do you think that most tgp traffic belongs into a "monopoly" of a few selected ones (like yourself)?
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I think we all share most of the same traffic. People who visit worldsex, might also visit the hun and some other sites probably. If I was a surfer, I would. Surfers probably buy of a site they feel most comfortable with (I assume).
It helps to be big, as we then corner a big share of the market ;-)
hope these answered your questions.
regards
Pierre