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Originally Posted by Head Boy
I think one reason that TGP galleries have bad conversion ratios is that the rules are often designed not to sell. A sale from a sunmitted gallery is a lost trade for the tgp owner.
The bad conversion ratios cause some of the less competent gallery builders to turn to cheating, and this is a far worse problem than the odd lost surfer to trade.
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Well, this starts to make you wonder where tgp owners are making their money. Are they making it from surfers? Or are they making it from the webmasters that submit? lol...here's the theory that I've come up with. Some big tpgs are selling gallery spots $600+ right? If those spots were worth that much why wouldn't the tgp owner make a gallery themselves and just use that spot? Right...that's what I thought.
Still I think there's a lot of good tgps out there. I just think it's moving away from the tgp owner making money on surfers and maybe more of their revenue coming from webmasters.
As a mainstream webmaster and as with other webmasters that just make regular pages...we don't give content of that level away for free. If we do give content away for free people pay for it with popups, popunders, interstitials, etc.
What would make sense would be:
Fewer photos
Lesser quality photos (some places want 50k sized photos...the max should be 40k and 30k on the low side).
Even allow maybe 1 popup per webmaster.
Now if all tgp's did this the users would have to grin and bear it...you get what you pay for...if you pay nothing for free porn then you really have to bear some annoyances...i.e. fewer photos, lower quality, and maybe a popup, lol.