Awesome post...
I tend to agree with you. However, 95% of the people in the business don't really know what they're doing and that's what makes the TGPs "suck".. Unless you're one of the "big guys", you'll only have a succesful text TGP if you write "good" text (along with content the surfer actually wants to see). What words do the surfers "like" and makes them click more? (i.e. do they click more on links that use the word pussy, cu nt, twat or???) What text gets them turned on enough to click on more links? Is the text vague enough that they HAVE to click to see what's there?
Now apply that to thumb TGPs. Almost every one I look at has thumbs that shows practically all the action or clear shots of the girl so the surfer knows who she is. So if they've already seen that gallery or that girl, there's no reason to click. Now if you were to think "tease" and be "vague" when you create your thumbs, you'd probably get more clicks. But even with that you need to test it.. Does the surfer click on more of the ass shot thumbs? face shot? pentration shots????
Having said that, I've only ever run text TGPs. I'm about to try a thumb one though so we'll see how I make out with it.
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