text versus thumbnail links

[golden_boy69]

Which tgps tend to do better? Those using text links or thumbnail links? I have a new site www.dreamy-girls.com that uses thumbnail links and I think it might be too graphic intensive. And also I don't have enough space to put in all the categories that I want.

I was thinking about maybe mixing it up with some thumbnails for the daily galleries and archived text links on the same page.

[Tempest]

Go look at what the top 100 sites are on sextracker, sexlist etc.

50% or so of the surfers still use dial-up. No matter what you do, TGP, galleries etc. you always need to design for that as you need tons of traffic to succeed.

[cruelmoney]

Use better text links

[Bendox]

i think too text links are better

[crax2k]

A picture says more than a thousand words...

[scottie0779]

Originally posted by crax2k
A picture says more than a thousand words...

Agreed. As a surfer/recently turned adult webmaster - i'll tell you I ALWAYS closed out pages of nothing but text links. I want a thumb preview (as a surfer). I hear lots of people talk about how much text links work better but that's my pref.

I would also never give time a day to any site that jscripted their status bar. If i can't see the url i'm going to when i point at it... i won't click it. MMM100 turned me off of that blind-linking bullshit LONG ago, again, from a former surfer standpoint.

[netstarz]

I have had luck doing both. I use enough thumbs to catch their attention then have the text links as well. I make sure my text links are not in the same tables as the thumbs so if they have a slow connection the text links are visible as the thumbs are loading.

[Tempest]

Originally posted by crax2k
A picture says more than a thousand words...

Not to a search engine.

[mardigras]

Have some thumbs to catch the surfer's eyes and some text links to catch the search bot's eyes