Where do you feel that TGP?s fall on the scale for webmaster / program importance?
 

With the recent onslaught of Syndicated content mechanisms, I have noticed a lot less buzz regarding TGP, both from webmasters on boards and from programs.

I fully realize that ?people still make a lot of money from TGPs, and TGP submissions.? I am speaking more in terms of ?new and innovative investment time.? Many people still make a lot of money from AVS signups, but you don?t see programs coming out with new tools geared toward AVS webmasters or tons of public buzz over AVS sites.

In recent months we have beefed up our TGP program. However our main focus has been heavily on the wave of syndicated content trends, this point reflected by the recent launch of our RSS Feeds, flash games, and embed content features.

In all honesty, I get very few request from TGP people.

Are TGP guys set in their ways? They have what they need?.

Are signups down in that market?

Has syndication replaced it? Will replace it?

Will the resources programs devote to the TGP market decline?

Discuss.

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haha it disturbs me as well. That is the graphic used in our DVD review blog. The guy reviews each of our DVD and awards them a number based on whether he loved it, thought it was ok, or hated it.

It may not answer any of your questions but I personally feel there is an erosion factor in place.

Whatever useful medium or new promotional method that comes out such as blogs or content feeds ect. Webmasters seem to naturally erode them into a TGP format.

Case in point; blogs are great and they were based on text rich content, hopefully unique and updated often. Webmasters caught on, tossed the text since they feel giving pictures away is a better method to get someone interested. Then walla many so call blogs suddenly became another type of TGP. Hell people are actually trading traffic and I suspect skiming soon as well.

could never crack the tgp nut.

end up with a billion hits and 0 sales

A lot of bloggers are still using thumbnail galleries as promo tools on blogs, when the user clicks on the picture it still goes to the gallery. So I guess bloggers are still using the same tools that the tgp guys were?

Obviously, this is for people who are still manually updating their blogs..