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So that we get this all in one post and hopefully take some of the mystery out of what is meant by Hosted Free Sites and their benefits - here goes.

A hosted free site is very similar to a hosted free gallery that you provide to your TGP affiliates to put in their TGPs with their own affiliate code - it is never used (or at least should not be) by regular gallery builders to submit to a TGP, as in every case of TGP owners I know they would never accept them.

The difference with a hosted free site is that you are providing that little free site to the Link List owners to list on their lists - again it would never be accepted as a submission from a free site submitter.

If you would like to see a list of at least 21 sponsors that are already providing these hosted free sites - http://www.greenguysboard.com/resour.../database.html and click on the header that says "sites" which will put the sponsors that offer them at the top in that column.

A hosted free site is very simple to build - it consists of 4 pages total - each page would have three advertising spots for your paysites - text or banners or combo - and is merely a warning page, a "main" page and two galleries.

The warning page can have advertisements and should be the first major attempt to get the surfer to your paysite - of course should have a warning, and then a large "ENTER" towards the bottom of the page.
The main page again can have three ads, and the two links to the two galleries
The two galleries can easily be two of your "matching content" premade hosted free galleries - so most of the work is already done if you use galleries.

Why provide hosted free sites when I already offer hosted free galleries?

Take a look at the traffic you get to hosted free galleries - just use the raw/uniques and figure out your ratio of freeloaders to buyers - if my numbers on my TGPs are normal, which I believe they are, you should be getting around 1:1300 at best for hosted free galleries.

Now take that hosted free site that is well written and has quality content, put it on a Link List and, again from my own numbers, you should see way under 1:100 conversions (normally around 1:30).

Why the big difference?

Most Link Lists provide pretty highly targetted Search Engine traffic and trusted bookmarkers, wheras TGPs (in most cases) are running traffic trades and CJ to get their traffic numbers high.

Now think about the bandwidth that you are burning for the TGP galleries and think about the cost of a hosted free site design compared to a hosted free gallery (a quality hosted free site goes somewhere around average $30 each in batch purchases)

With tons of good Link Lists out here that have some good quality traffic (given its not the same as TGP trafic - but then neither is the quality) it doesn't make economical sense to not use the hosted free sites.

If you have any questions about this and dont feel comfortable posting the questions, PM myself, MrMaryLou or Greenguy and we'd be glad to explain it further.