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  • Liquid_cash
    So Fucking Banned
    • May 2004
    • 165

    #1

    Why are people buying TGP spots?

    TGP traffic burns serious bandwidth and doesnt convert very well. Opt in mailers from legit companies are much cheaper and convert better. So why are people paying $1k per month plus for the TGP spots?
  • TDF
    Triple OG nigga on GFY
    • Mar 2002
    • 27296

    #2
    ever heard of surfer confidence?
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    • Spunky
      I need a beer
      • Jun 2002
      • 133978

      #3
      Because they can...

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      • Crypt
        Confirmed User
        • Apr 2004
        • 2225

        #4
        Originally posted by Liquid_cash
        TGP traffic burns serious bandwidth and doesnt convert very well. Opt in mailers from legit companies are much cheaper and convert better. So why are people paying $1k per month plus for the TGP spots?
        If you need to ask, you are not in the good business

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        • Lane
          Will code for food...
          • Apr 2001
          • 8496

          #5
          Tell that to GTS

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          • MikeVega
            **Porntrepreneur**
            • Jul 2004
            • 12788

            #6
            Originally posted by Liquid_cash
            TGP traffic burns serious bandwidth and doesnt convert very well. Opt in mailers from legit companies are much cheaper and convert better. So why are people paying $1k per month plus for the TGP spots?
            Dude ....we know your selling lists just get to it.....


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            • Groove
              Confirmed User
              • Jan 2003
              • 3852

              #7
              They buy them 'cause they like the bling

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              • Slick
                Confirmed User
                • Feb 2001
                • 7338

                #8
                Aparently those people buying the spots must be making a profit on buying those spots, otherwise they'd be throwing their money away.

                It's all about the sponsor an the galleries that you're using. If you get the right combo, you can get good conversions.

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                • fris
                  I have to go potty
                  • Aug 2002
                  • 55816

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Liquid_cash
                  TGP traffic burns serious bandwidth and doesnt convert very well. Opt in mailers from legit companies are much cheaper and convert better. So why are people paying $1k per month plus for the TGP spots?
                  without people submitting galleries each day their would be no tgp's
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                  • Liquid_cash
                    So Fucking Banned
                    • May 2004
                    • 165

                    #10
                    I dont understand...If the spot on the TGP is worth $2k why sell it for $1k? Why dont they just have free hosted galleries there and keep all the cash?

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                    • BlackCrayon
                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                      • Jun 2003
                      • 19634

                      #11
                      probably because opt-in lists are very expensive and most don't have the know how to get the mail out anyways.
                      you don't know you're wearing a leash if you sit by the peg all day..

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                      • FlyingIguana
                        aspiring banker
                        • Mar 2002
                        • 10870

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Liquid_cash
                        TGP traffic burns serious bandwidth and doesnt convert very well. Opt in mailers from legit companies are much cheaper and convert better. So why are people paying $1k per month plus for the TGP spots?
                        because they make money?

                        and also a spot may be worth 2k to someone who can convert it. hosted galleries are crap and overused and won't make anywhere near as much as a good fresh gallery. the tgp owner is good as building and maintaining tgp's, but maybe not at creating galleries. so he can maximize revenues by selling spots to people who can make galleries better than he can, not to mention giving surfers more variety.

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                        • NickB.
                          Confirmed User
                          • Aug 2001
                          • 8865

                          #13
                          I've been sending traffic to a sponsor from a non-sold listing, they contacted me about them willing to buy the spots and make more profit.

                          It's all about converting and doing some research

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                          • michel
                            TheHun's Yellow Pages!
                            • Mar 2002
                            • 3420

                            #14
                            Originally posted by FlyingIguana
                            because they make money?

                            and also a spot may be worth 2k to someone who can convert it. hosted galleries are crap and overused and won't make anywhere near as much as a good fresh gallery. the tgp owner is good as building and maintaining tgp's, but maybe not at creating galleries. so he can maximize revenues by selling spots to people who can make galleries better than he can, not to mention giving surfers more variety.
                            Well said

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                            • foolio
                              ICQ: 178725656
                              • Nov 2002
                              • 12366

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Crypt
                              If you need to ask, you are not in the good business

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                              • Video-Post
                                Selling short ICQ numbers
                                • Dec 2001
                                • 1118

                                #16
                                Originally posted by Liquid_cash
                                TGP traffic burns serious bandwidth and doesnt convert very well. Opt in mailers from legit companies are much cheaper and convert better. So why are people paying $1k per month plus for the TGP spots?
                                Because they make money on it, stupid.

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                                • Kristian
                                  Confirmed User
                                  • Aug 2003
                                  • 3733

                                  #17
                                  TGP can convert better than SE. You need to get the right timing, sponsor, content and design. If a spot costs $2k, I'd expect it to generate $4K to $8K, depending on the above criteria. TGP owners sell spots so they have a certain degree of fixed - as opposed to variable - income; extending their revenue streams.

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                                  • stocktrader23
                                    Let's do some business.
                                    • Jan 2003
                                    • 18781

                                    #18
                                    What kind of question is this?

                                    To humor you, because they make a profit....


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                                    • polish_aristocrat
                                      Too lazy to set a custom title
                                      • Jul 2002
                                      • 40377

                                      #19
                                      Originally posted by Slick
                                      Aparently those people buying the spots must be making a profit on buying those spots, otherwise they'd be throwing their money away.

                                      many people spend money on PPC SE's and lose it. But then new guys are doing the same.

                                      I would expect only slightly more than 50% of PPc Se's listed sites to make profit. The rest are just webmasters experementing with it and hope it's easy money. I am sure many people who bought gallery spots don't even make their money back.
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                                      • digifan
                                        The Profiler
                                        • Oct 2002
                                        • 14618

                                        #20
                                        Originally posted by Kristian
                                        TGP can convert better than SE. You need to get the right timing, sponsor, content and design. If a spot costs $2k, I'd expect it to generate $4K to $8K, depending on the above criteria. TGP owners sell spots so they have a certain degree of fixed - as opposed to variable - income; extending their revenue streams.
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                                        • David!
                                          By the wrath of Agamemnon
                                          • Apr 2004
                                          • 6501

                                          #21
                                          Originally posted by Liquid_cash
                                          TGP traffic burns serious bandwidth and doesnt convert very well. Opt in mailers from legit companies are much cheaper and convert better. So why are people paying $1k per month plus for the TGP spots?

                                          Dude !!! I'm getting a Dell
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                                          • Tipsy
                                            Confirmed User
                                            • Jul 2001
                                            • 6989

                                            #22
                                            Originally posted by Kristian
                                            TGP can convert better than SE. You need to get the right timing, sponsor, content and design. If a spot costs $2k, I'd expect it to generate $4K to $8K, depending on the above criteria. TGP owners sell spots so they have a certain degree of fixed - as opposed to variable - income; extending their revenue streams.
                                            TGP traffic will never convert better than SE traffic if you have the ability to market to both. TGP traffic can make good money but give me 100k of se hits or 100k of traffic from any TGP and I know what'll make me the most every time.
                                            Ignorance is never bliss.

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                                            • Kristian
                                              Confirmed User
                                              • Aug 2003
                                              • 3733

                                              #23
                                              Originally posted by Tipsy
                                              TGP traffic will never convert better than SE traffic if you have the ability to market to both. TGP traffic can make good money but give me 100k of se hits or 100k of traffic from any TGP and I know what'll make me the most every time.
                                              In most cases, on the whole, this holds true. However, I've spent a lot of energy honing tgp traffic, and my above criteria is true in my experience. It essentailly boils down to filtering and defining a presently desirable (or hot) USP.

                                              SE traffic is good becaus of intense filtering mechanisms. I use it myself every second of the day. The trick is to hone TGP to such an extreme. Don't take my word for it, but it can be done...

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                                              • Crypt
                                                Confirmed User
                                                • Apr 2004
                                                • 2225

                                                #24
                                                Originally posted by Tipsy
                                                TGP traffic will never convert better than SE traffic if you have the ability to market to both. TGP traffic can make good money but give me 100k of se hits or 100k of traffic from any TGP and I know what'll make me the most every time.
                                                i concur

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                                                • Tipsy
                                                  Confirmed User
                                                  • Jul 2001
                                                  • 6989

                                                  #25
                                                  Originally posted by Kristian
                                                  In most cases, on the whole, this holds true. However, I've spent a lot of energy honing tgp traffic, and my above criteria is true in my experience. It essentailly boils down to filtering and defining a presently desirable (or hot) USP.

                                                  SE traffic is good becaus of intense filtering mechanisms. I use it myself every second of the day. The trick is to hone TGP to such an extreme. Don't take my word for it, but it can be done...
                                                  You're still very wrong. If you're 'filtering' then it sounds like your waffling on about ratios. That's not the same thing as sales.

                                                  Again take 100k of TGP traffic (we're talking raw traffic here, not 'filtered') and 100k of SE traffic and the SE traffic will make more every time.

                                                  If you're going to pre-quality and filter traffic first then you could also take the SE traffic and do the same to that before sending it to a sponsor. You have to compare like for like. For raw hits to a single page on my server anybody with the ability to market to both will make far more from SE hits to a page optimised for the traffic than TGP hits to a gallery.
                                                  Last edited by Tipsy; 09-15-2004, 03:44 AM.
                                                  Ignorance is never bliss.

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                                                  • Kristian
                                                    Confirmed User
                                                    • Aug 2003
                                                    • 3733

                                                    #26
                                                    Originally posted by Tipsy
                                                    You're still very wrong. If you're 'filtering' then it sounds like your waffling on about ratios. That's not the same thing as sales.

                                                    Again take 100k of TGP traffic (we're talking raw traffic here, not 'filtered') and 100k of SE traffic and the SE traffic will make more every time.

                                                    If you're going to pre-quality and filter traffic first then you could also take the SE traffic and do the same to that before sending it to a sponsor. You have to compare like for like. For raw hits to a single page on my server anybody with the ability to market to both will make far more from SE hits to a page optimised for the traffic than TGP hits to a gallery.
                                                    Tipsy,

                                                    To say that I am wrong, point blank, is both arrogant and rather thoughtless. I also object to you saying that I waffle. Your rudeness, however, is more than expected (given my experience on GFY thus far).

                                                    I agree with your point on the whole. I'm merely pointing out that, through considerable effort on my part, I have been able to hone tgp traffic to an extent where it is as useful to me as equally well-honed SE traffic.

                                                    Your theory on the whole is, obviously, correct. We all accept the supremacy of SE traffic. That's a given. I just wanted to point out my experience with tgp traffic.

                                                    In my opinion, instead if insulting me, you might have asked "how"? I'm one of the more helpful webmasters you could meet, because I have had much help myself.

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                                                    • Brujah
                                                      Beer Money Baron
                                                      • Jan 2001
                                                      • 22157

                                                      #27
                                                      Originally posted by Liquid_cash
                                                      TGP traffic burns serious bandwidth and doesnt convert very well. Opt in mailers from legit companies are much cheaper and convert better. So why are people paying $1k per month plus for the TGP spots?
                                                      cause TGP Owners gotta eat too.

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                                                      • EscortBiz
                                                        Fuck Checks, CASH only!
                                                        • May 2002
                                                        • 19422

                                                        #28
                                                        One of 3 reasons

                                                        a) they have their galleries rejected because they are shit so they decide to pay (and mostlikly lose money)

                                                        b) they had their galleries listed on a regular listing and it did shit so they assume paying for a top spot will change things (wont do much for them)

                                                        c) they had a gallery that did real well and decided to get more traffic to it from the same TGP so they pay for a better spot (will mostlikly pay off)

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                                                        • Spunky
                                                          I need a beer
                                                          • Jun 2002
                                                          • 133978

                                                          #29
                                                          Originally posted by fris
                                                          without people submitting galleries each day their would be no tgp's
                                                          Get your head out of your ass...

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