AmateurFlix

What the TGP owners want isn't as important of a factor as what the affiliate programs deliver for them to make use of

Most affiliate programs offer FHG's (which didn't used to be as prevalent as they are now). FHG's are made to look like the same style of gallery that gallery submitters have been making, i.e. 15-16 pics, 2-3 links etc, nothing really optimized for sales.

The idea of a gallery way back when wasn't something that submitters would make money from, it was supposed to be a page of free stuff with a minimum of advertising that would encourage bookmarkers, who would hopefully buy something from a banner ad on the TGP, not from the galleries. This is why they have such stupid rules with the large number of pics, the low number of links, very small amounts of advertising, must have tiny headers, can't have pics on an html page, don't use links that say 'more' if it leads to 'more' content on a tour etc etc...

Some webmasters (myself included) have made very good use of the galleries even under these restrictions and gotten them to convert decently in this crippled state, however the fact of the matter is that it's a poor method of advertising and it is intended to be a poor method of advertising. The TGP owners weren't listing these galleries just to be nice and share traffic all these years...

If the paysites would wise up and quit trying to copy this existing standard of gallery for their FHG's, then TGP's would list the other format (whether that is TGP2 or something else) because that is what they would have available to use.

So it's not really the TGP owners that would need to agree to something like this, it's the individual affiliate programs that would need to start making these types of galleries for this to work very well; most sites don't list submitted galleries anymore and don't make their own galleries either, they just use what is available.

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