I've never taken a submission and always ran FHG's on my tgp. Now, more than ever, i'm building my own galleries while working with the paysite owner to get the "freshest" content they are willing to give me. My ratios stay below 1:350 this way. My traffic is less than 10k per day but it's a helluva lot easier to manage and analyze. I also don't depend on my tgp to live so that helps as well. lol

The problem is that most hosted galleries, to put it as lightly as possible, SUCK!

TGP owners also want fresh content, new gallery designs and something decent to offer to their surfers so they keep comming back for something NEW.

This just can't be acheived with hosted galleries alone.

Sure I use hosted galleries .. but I use them so I can make more money off of my low traffic TGPs. I don't get enough submission to list only submitted galleries .. and I wouldn't want to anyway because I want to maximize my profit. But that doesn't mean I don't need submitted galleries .. because they are what offer my surfers something different.

There are also those who are still growing with 100% FHG. (500k+ sites, im not posting any urls but if you look around you will see them for sure).

But obviously adding fresh gals is much better. I think we will see more and more tgp owners making their own gals...

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