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Old 12-30-2003, 09:12 AM   #1
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Thumbs Vs. Text Links

I see more and more sites are moving towards the 'thumb style'.

I keep wondering about this issue. What is your expirienced with text links compares to thumbs? What is more productive?

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Old 12-30-2003, 09:17 AM   #2
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you mean thumb tgp vs a text tgp?
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Old 12-30-2003, 09:18 AM   #3
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I see more and more sites are moving towards the 'thumb style'.

I keep wondering about this issue. What is your expirienced with text links compares to thumbs? What is more productive?

Cdx.
I think if you have a niche type TGP site, then thumbs work well. The surfer see's what he is going to get. But if you have "ugly" looking thumbs (not part of your niche, compressed too much, etc...), then you will get low productivity because the surfer might simply keep passing up the thumbs.
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Old 12-30-2003, 09:22 AM   #4
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Use Both. Give the surfer the option to view your tgp is either.
It's working for my tgp and I have talked to about 20 other tgp owners, they are switching to this system too.

I posted about this last week but here it is. www.bonerthumbs.com
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Old 12-30-2003, 09:46 AM   #5
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you can also make two diff main index pages one thumbs and one text so that you can trade also with a varoety of sites
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Old 12-30-2003, 11:56 AM   #6
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I use a combination of both
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Old 12-30-2003, 12:33 PM   #7
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yeh a combo is the best... all thumbs gets too crowded and all txt is not attractive... so use both!
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Old 12-30-2003, 12:36 PM   #8
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A combination of both is the best for me, but if you have to make a choice go for thumbs
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Old 12-30-2003, 12:46 PM   #9
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text tgps still rule. high prod, better traffic + surfer pay more attention for ads.

plus thumb tgps waste a load of bandwidth.
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Old 12-30-2003, 01:09 PM   #10
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Use Both. Give the surfer the option to view your tgp is either.
It's working for my tgp and I have talked to about 20 other tgp owners, they are switching to this system too.

I posted about this last week but here it is. www.bonerthumbs.com

looks good,

can this be easily incorporated into autogallery pro?
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Old 12-30-2003, 01:45 PM   #11
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a combo works best.

text links pull a lot of click-thrus and that means better productivity/ more traffic
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Old 12-30-2003, 01:46 PM   #12
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text is better for traffic
thumbs are better for conversion
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Old 12-30-2003, 01:49 PM   #13
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We also were using thumbs on our CJ2 sites and they have just outstanding prod. even if most of them were done in a same style. Just take a look at these ones for example to see that I'm talking about:
http://tranny.picz.org
http://shemale.picz.org
http://teen.picz.org
http://18sex.picz.org
http://anime.picz.org
http://toon.picz.org
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Old 12-30-2003, 02:01 PM   #14
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can this be easily incorporated into autogallery pro?
You would have to do a fuck of alot of reviewing I think because once there is a thumb attached to the listing it shows up as a thumb not a text listing.


Anyways somebody mentioned they are a waste of bandwidth. At .40 a gig or less, if you can't make your money back with a thumb preview you shouldn't own one.


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Old 12-30-2003, 02:18 PM   #15
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Personally I prefer to save the few thumbs I have on my txt tgp's for my sponsors
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Old 12-30-2003, 03:06 PM   #16
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can this be easily incorporated into autogallery pro?
Don't know, never used AGP. Always wrote my own scripts.
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Old 12-30-2003, 03:32 PM   #17
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We also were using thumbs on our CJ2 sites and they have just outstanding prod. even if most of them were done in a same style. Just take a look at these ones for example to see that I'm talking about:
http://tranny.picz.org
http://shemale.picz.org
http://teen.picz.org
http://18sex.picz.org
http://anime.picz.org
http://toon.picz.org
etc..
on your signup page for the teen.picz it says you only want to trade with anime cj2. is that a typo?
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Old 12-30-2003, 03:36 PM   #18
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text makes more dollars
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