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Originally Posted by shap
There are definitely a few ways. I think most tgps understand galleries need to be changed. What's important to remember is that messing with the traffic and pissing it off is the worst thing to do.
Sending it to a free site steals from the tgp.
Sending to a tour upsets the surfer.
I think there are 2 main options.
1 replace the gallery with another gallery of a similar niche which you have the legal rights to use. You make money and the tgp is happy and the surfers are happy.
2. is a straight 404. you lose nothing. The tgp just has a dead gallery. And the surfer isn't tricked or screwed.
Most other options trick the surfer or steal from the tgp. If you are doing that you are looking for trouble.
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option 1 isnt an option because when the surfer clicks on a desc or thumb of kates playground and gets teenkelly they wont be happy even if the ninche is simular. the description wont fit the gallery anyways, so i dont see the point. option 2 is quite difficult when you either lose the 404 traffic to your entire domain or make a custom 404 msg for each and every deleted gallerys subfolder. option 3, which i chose, was to replace each img and thumb with a solid blank, then made a list of each gallery changed and emailed the tgp owner to be removed. everyones happy and no one feels cheated.