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Originally Posted by Lenny2
TGP's have definitely hurt "some" people in this biz....but they've been very good to me
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No one is realistically thinking that TGPs/MGPs will go away, but that doesn´t mean that TGPs will stop evolving. The Hun has gone from backdoor linking menace to traffic selling whale. If he had not evolved his business by accepting paid spots, then his empire would have been alot less today.
And thats the point - if TGPs/MGPs does not continue to look at the business side of things, then they will loose alot of found money.
TGP traffic have always had worse conversion and retention rates, then SEs, linklists etc. and the reason is obviously, because surfers at a TGP is there for the free content and not the paysites/datingsites/camsites/products which advertise there. So the question is how to improve the conversion and retention rates, not because we should compare TGPs with other types of traffic, but because it is possible to improve them and make more money for everyone!
IMHO - TGPs could make more money today with the same amount of traffic, if they catered just a bit more for the advertisers by ex. making their traffic more "potent" and kill some of the TGP dogmas (ex. no content on html, which might have worked when cheating was big, but today it makes every gallery look/feel the same on the entire TGP = boring for the surfer).
But just as when paysites introduced hosted galleries, then I´m sure it will be the advertisers that have to create the solutions, before TGPs can see the potiential. Not that is bad - just a fact of life in the TGP biz...