Complete TGP Guide: Beginner to Intermediate

[zzgundamnzz]

Also take this into account. If you skim 60% to galleries. 20 x .6 = 12 go to galleries and only 8 go to trades. To get 8 people to go to trades you had to give 20 out clicks. Which will cause you trouble later.

[Buncha]

If any newbies are thinking of giving this a try, I'd recommend High Country Hosting. When I read through this tutorial about 2 months ago, I signed up for a basic plan under $10 and they installed the Comus and TTT scripts for me (free/skim versions). I was up and running in about 24 hours.

After a few weeks, I decided that a TGP wasn't the route I wanted to go, and I've been doing free sites instead. But this tutorial was very helpful. Big thanks to the author and all the contributors. I know I'm going to come back to this and give it another try in the future.

Anyways, if anyone is looking for cheap hosting and can't handle installing scripts, check these guys out. I'm sure if you drop them an e-mail and mention you're from the GFY boards, they'll give you a good price.

http://www.highcountryhosting.com/

[Sickthing]

Hi!
We run many TGP's and we know what you need:
http://www.highcountryhosting.com
Hosting comes with Comus, TTT, Image Magick, Ads Script and more...and all installed and running for your pleasure!
Nik

Are you still offering all of this. I didn't see specific mention of it. Is this offered with both your virtual and your dedicated plans?

[Sickthing]

Gunda,

You may be sick of praise by now, though I never would be. LOL I've been on a lot of boards, even before their was an internet and I've never been interested enough to read though 8 pages of post. Took me a while but I did.

While going through the thread I noticed about half the sites that people setup after this thread started were still up. Many of the sites that had links here are gone. Not too bad really, especailly since every failure is in some way your fault. (I'm kidding just commenting on some your frustrated post.)

One thing question has been formost on my mind, you said you've been at this for 2 years. I've learned that networking is key to making any money on the net. Why are other sites going to want to trade with me? It appears to be about quality traders. I just wonder how I'm going to make that happen starting out?

I wonder if those two years have a lot to do with your sucess. Clearly you understand the concept of giving in order to establish relationships. Giving without expecting anything in return like you did here.

Although other opinions that were posted here helped me a great deal, anyone slamming you for posting links with your referral code is offbase and calls their credibility into question, at least in my mind. That was wrong.

Thanks,

Sickthing

[zzgundamnzz]

Why are other sites going to want to trade with me? It appears to be about quality traders. I just wonder how I'm going to make that happen starting out?

Sickthing

Simple answer to that is People want to grow. Well if you're starting out and have zero traffic to trade out I would suggest buying traffic to your site.

The Concept:
Imagine if your site is you're heart. Buying traffic is like buying a Blood transfusion. Now that blood isn't going to be as good as the stuff already in the body. So imagine that the various body parts are your traders. They already have blood. You're going to want to circulate the not so good quality transfusion blood into multiple body parts. Now that you have the various body parts creating the chain by giving blood and dilluting the bad quality of the transfusion the heart can now sustain istelf. Then you work on chaining more body parts to the heart and growing the supply of blood.

[Playa-Deak]

VERY nice. Thnx for taking time out of your life to share with wealthy info sir

I'm gonna apply these methods.. I'm gonna have questions and hopefully you're still kind enough to answer them...

[Darkhorse]

Or you could go with these guys

http://www.adultscriptservice.com/prices.html

They'll do it for $15...

Or go with Package 2 where they'll install and run the script for you for two weeks while finding productive trades.

Not too sure if these guys are around anymore though. Try them on ICQ.

Thanks for the plug mate, We have been offline for a while now due to personal issiues but have been back online for the last few months so give us a holla if you need any work done we are very flexible and easy to work with.

[zzgundamnzz]

Thanks for the plug mate, We have been offline for a while now due to personal issiues but have been back online for the last few months so give us a holla if you need any work done we are very flexible and easy to work with.

Nice to see that you're back

I still remember how you helped me when I was first starting out It was very much appreciated

[Darkhorse]

Ya I remember that mate, by the looks of things you could teach me a few things these days.

[juve20]

hi zzgundamnzz

Great guide. keep up the good work.

thanks
tony

[karlm]

Hi zzgundamnzz do you have icq i can hit you up on got a few Q

Thanks karl

[Sickthing]

Simple answer to that is People want to grow. Well if you're starting out and have zero traffic to trade out I would suggest buying traffic to your site.

Blood transfussion ehh? LOL, Yea I'm going to buy traffic due to what you've said here and from the people you recommended. As I understand it, I want to give most of that away? Hmmm maybe I don't understand that part, how am I going to give it away when I have no traders. LOL

There's a lot here to learn and remember. I'm going to contact that site offering the programs already installed right now and see if I can get in that way.

Thanks again!

[sinnerscorner]

Sorry I do not have the time to go through the whole
thread and maybe this is already answered and I am completely missing the point but I have a question though.

Is it "wise" to cut the skimming to say 90% at a given
stage assume the tgp reaches 100k uniques daily in order to try to get more people bookmarking your site?

[karlm]

Please check out my site linkfuck.com
my prod sucks do you have any tips

[sinnerscorner]

zzgundamnzz can you respond to my q?

[Sickthing]

Wow, now that I've seen inside the beast called Comus, I really thank you Gunda for your tutorial!

[Sickthing]

- Have one built for you or buy a Template

http://www.dynamixxx.com (They'll build you a custom TGP page for $55)
http://www.sexzity.com/templates.html (Sexzity has premade templates starting at $15)
http://www.galleryguy.com/

(D. Comus Thumbs Template)
To get the full Productivity template grab it on the Comus Thumbs Forum

This is similar to what I personally use:

The above is confusing me. And I hate to be a complete dummy but....

Two templates? So I'm planning on buying a cheap template from one of the sites you've listed cause my web building is just not up to par. How the heck does Comus "know" how to work with my template? I'm very confused by this idea of two templates. I hope where I'm confused is clear. I'm having trouble putting it into words.

Thanks again ZZ for all your help!

[Buncha]

So I'm planning on buying a cheap template from one of the sites you've listed cause my web building is just not up to par. How the heck does Comus "know" how to work with my template? I'm very confused by this idea of two templates.

If you're going to buy a TGP template, you might want to check out these guys:

http://tgpfactory.com/index.php

They offer to integrate Comus & TTT into the TGP template.

I personally haven't tried them, but I've seen them recommended quite a few times.

[Sickthing]

If you're going to buy a TGP template, you might want to check out these guys:

http://tgpfactory.com/index.php

They offer to integrate Comus & TTT into the TGP template.

Thanks, on my way there now

[zzgundamnzz]

Sorry I do not have the time to go through the whole
thread and maybe this is already answered and I am completely missing the point but I have a question though.

Is it "wise" to cut the skimming to say 90% at a given
stage assume the tgp reaches 100k uniques daily in order to try to get more people bookmarking your site?

If you have a 100K site. You're probably doing ~4100 uniques per hour. If you werer to suddenly cut your skim to 90% you would see a huge decline after the hour you change the skim. Eventually after a few hours your site will decline even more because your trades don't get enough back they won't send very much or will just kill the trade.

You probably won't have time to build up bookmarkers since ~4100 times how many hours your trades will keep sending is your time span.

It would be better if you just went gradual such as 2-5% every few days. That way you can make bookmarkers while keeping your site stable.

[zzgundamnzz]

The above is confusing me. And I hate to be a complete dummy but....

Two templates? So I'm planning on buying a cheap template from one of the sites you've listed cause my web building is just not up to par. How the heck does Comus "know" how to work with my template? I'm very confused by this idea of two templates. I hope where I'm confused is clear. I'm having trouble putting it into words.

Thanks again ZZ for all your help!

Yeah you need to integrate the comus code into your html template. BTW dynamix is the same guy that runs tgpfactory. If you look at his portfolio my sites at the bottom.

<html> 
<head> 
<!-- 
{{prodbooster}} 
{{setquery-new-" periodsshown>-1 order by periodsshown,if(used,-rating,-99999999),refreshdelay DESC,rand() "}} 
{{setquery-stage1-" periodsshown>0 order by clickperiods "}} 
{{setquery-age1-" periodsshown>0 order by periodsshown,(clicks/clickperiods) desc "}} 
{{setquery-age2-" periodsshown>1 order by periodsshown,(clicks/clickperiods) desc "}} 
{{setquery-age3-" periodsshown>2 order by periodsshown,(clicks/clickperiods) desc "}} 
{{setquery-best1-" periodsshown>3 order by periodsshown,(clicks/clickperiods) desc "}} 
{{setquery-best2-" periodsshown>4 order by periodsshown,(clicks/clickperiods) desc "}} 
{{setquery-best3-" periodsshown>5 order by periodsshown,(clicks/clickperiods) desc "}} 
{{setquery-best4-" periodsshown>6 order by periodsshown,(clicks/clickperiods) desc "}} 
{{setquery-best5-" periodsshown>7 order by periodsshown,(clicks/clickperiods) desc "}} 
--> 
{{include-rollovers.tmpl}} 
</head> 
<body><center> 
[Your site header img here]<br> 
<table> 
{{all-thumbs-1-7-query-best1}} 
{{all-thumbs-1-7-query-best2}} 
{{all-thumbs-1-7-query-best3}} 
{{all-thumbs-1-7-query-best4}} 
{{all-thumbs-1-7-query-best5}} 
</table> 
<br> 
[banner here] 
<br> 
<!-- {{all-thumb-1-query-new}} Hidden Thumb for new stuff --> 
<table> 
{{all-thumbs-1-7-query-stage1}} 
{{all-thumbs-4-7-query-age1}} 
</table> 
<br> 
[banner here] 
<br> 
<table> 
{{all-thumbs-5-7-query-age2}} 
</table> 
<br> 
[banner here] 
<br> 
<table> 
{{all-thumbs-5-7-query-age3}} 
</table> 
<br> 
[Toplist here ] 
</center> 
</body> 
</html>

This thread in the comus help forum should explain it.
http://www.nibbi.net/scripts/comus/f...pic.php?t=1854

[zzgundamnzz]

Please check out my site linkfuck.com
my prod sucks do you have any tips

Sorry can't help you. Not familiar with Remote Thumbs.

[zzgundamnzz]

Once again I am going to ask people to ask questions via this Thread. Can't help everybody through ICQ. If you want help please don't ICQ me. Found that I can't even take piss without hearing my ICQ go off.

Thank you,

[SkyRunner]

Please check out my site linkfuck.com
my prod sucks do you have any tips

Doesn't look too bad to me. But you can do sth. about your thumbs. They don't have to be 8000bytes large, when they're only 88*88. 4k should offer the same result but your page loads a bit faster...

And put more thumbs into each table. 7 rows with each 7 pics should work better.

[nmcog]

Found that I can't even take piss without hearing my ICQ go off.

[fenrir]

Hi all, (my first post)

I started reading this thread a few days ago, as I was browsing for a TGP setup/hint/tricks guide, and I quickly found zzgundamnzz's input to be very helpful, factual and inspirational. Just wanted to say thanks, and wish you a good fortune.

I'm building my site now, a comus/ttt-c combo, and have just feed 15k (choker hits) , 5k a day for three days, to do a test run. I found that it's difficult to find good trades, out of ten, only three are returing hits, guess I need to look around for quality trades before I push more hits. Anyway, thanks again, and have a nice day!

[zzgundamnzz]

Hi all, (my first post)

I started reading this thread a few days ago, as I was browsing for a TGP setup/hint/tricks guide, and I quickly found zzgundamnzz's input to be very helpful, factual and inspirational. Just wanted to say thanks, and wish you a good fortune.

I'm building my site now, a comus/ttt-c combo, and have just feed 15k (choker hits) , 5k a day for three days, to do a test run. I found that it's difficult to find good trades, out of ten, only three are returing hits, guess I need to look around for quality trades before I push more hits. Anyway, thanks again, and have a nice day!

You might wanna distribute your bought traffic to last longer so you can get the hang of trading.

[shageman]

any idea on how to increase prod on http://www.teenangelsexposed.com/ its at 1.2 and thats killing me, comus and tm3 are the scripts

[NTSS]

why the fuck you gonna post shit like this for any lil newbie to come along and read...

I learned a lot from it

[zzgundamnzz]

any idea on how to increase prod on http://www.teenangelsexposed.com/ its at 1.2 and thats killing me, comus and tm3 are the scripts

I really wouldn't know how to get your site up unless I saw your comus template.

Could you take a screen cap of your TM3 stats too.

[zzgundamnzz]

This threads going to be 1 Year Old in June

Going to release an updated 2005 version of this tutorial if enough people are interested.

[lucas131]

How to put toplist in my page http://www.hollygalleries.com ?? I use awgtrade script maybe someone use same script?

I read in instruction to make template so i make file template.html and i write there:

#~QU11 <BR>
#~QU11 <BR>
#~QU11 <BR>
#~QU11 <BR>
#~QU11 <BR>
#~QU11 <BR>
#~QU11 <BR>
#~QU11 <BR>
#~QU11 <BR>
#~QU11 <BR>
</td>
<td>
#~QU11 <BR>
#~QU11 <BR>
#~QU11 <BR>
#~QU11 <BR>
#~QU11 <BR>
#~QU11 <BR>
#~QU11 <BR>
#~QU11 <BR>
#~QU11 <BR>
#~QU11 <BR>


How can i put this template to my page?
I installed script in my server but i dont now it working or not?
Wheni click in some of my thumbs i see cx.php page in href, not out.php is it wrong??

In page i add only <?php virtual("/cgi-bin/awgtrade/tradecnt.cgi"); php?>

I configurate my script, plz for help indocumentation i catn found this informations that i need...

And 1more qestion.
Where can i change and configurate my skim?

[SkyRunner]

How to put toplist in my page [url]
How can i put this template to my page?

Put <!--#include virtual="top.shtml" --> whereever you want the toplist to appear (don't know if it's called top.shtml by default, but AWG has the filename in it's toplist-manager)

Wheni click in some of my thumbs i see cx.php page in href, not out.php is it wrong??

No, this is cool. Comus handles all the stuff, as long as you put the correct values in its setting-area.

Where can i change and configurate my skim?

Comus -> Categories. You can set a value for each category here. Or put a #xxx# with the skim-ratio in front of a thumb-macro if you don't want to handle it by categories: {{#50#all-thumb-9-query-best}} for examlpe.

Sky

[SkyRunner]

Going to release an updated 2005 version of this tutorial if enough people are interested.

That sounds like a great idea. Go ahead

[zzgundamnzz]

That sounds like a great idea. Go ahead

Already started writing it. Going to take a while to finish though.

[nmcog]

I think you've covered everything to get setup in this current one and nothing really changed.

You should explain the art of trading more in your next tutorial.

[lucas131]

dont work yet toplist
i put in page <? include("http://www.hollygalleries.com/template.html"); ?>
path is ok,
when i want add thsi to awg i have error: Warning: Unable to open http://www.hollygalleries.com/template.html.
Why? I see this page.

[mailman]

This is a great thread

[zzgundamnzz]

I think you've covered everything to get setup in this current one and nothing really changed.

You should explain the art of trading more in your next tutorial.

Yep going to write a text book on that

[Playa-Deak]

Bump^^^

Need this for reference

Yo, wtf happened to the search function?

[zzgundamnzz]

Bump^^^

Need this for reference

Yo, wtf happened to the search function?

Another bump so this thread doesn't go into the abyss.

[BigBen]

Volume 2 coming?

[lucas131]

I was register to a lot of sponsors, i waste a lot of my tme to check al stats, clics etc.

Know somebody page where can i add posnsors and check on 1 page all my stats? For free?

[Isidoro Cañones]

Get Statremote

[fireorange]

I was register to a lot of sponsors, i waste a lot of my tme to check al stats, clics etc.

Know somebody page where can i add posnsors and check on 1 page all my stats? For free?

www.statsremote.com

[Yahook]

Very good article!

[Al Gomez]

Sorry if this is a dumb question but I couldn't find any mention of it. Actually, I have 2 quick questions:

1) Does Comus run well on Cobalt servers?
2) I plan on using affiliate codes that link to galleries hosted on the content providers' servers. Will this eliminate the need for any scripts?

Thanks for your help. Great thread, and very generous of you all to share so much useful info.

[zzgundamnzz]

Sorry if this is a dumb question but I couldn't find any mention of it. Actually, I have 2 quick questions:

1) Does Comus run well on Cobalt servers?
2) I plan on using affiliate codes that link to galleries hosted on the content providers' servers. Will this eliminate the need for any scripts?

Thanks for your help. Great thread, and very generous of you all to share so much useful info.

1. I really have no idea. You should ask the maker of comus.

2. What do you mean?

[lucas131]

I want to buy 100k exit traffic in fpctraffic. Is it good choice?
fpctraffic convert well with TGP?
How many send traffic per hour to my tgp? How many trades may i add with only big tgps like 50-100 k or smaller?

[zzgundamnzz]

I want to buy 100k exit traffic in fpctraffic. Is it good choice?
fpctraffic convert well with TGP?
How many send traffic per hour to my tgp? How many trades may i add with only big tgps like 50-100 k or smaller?

FPC traffic was ok back when I used it last year. Not sure about the quality now.

Take whatever trades you can get that can send you 500 uniques a day.