Is skimming using hosted galleries thumbs legal?

Jason · 2004-08-14, 01:46 PM

I find this question to be pretty strange. Of course, everyone is talking about another thread that spawned this discussion and I missed out on that one.

I run a couple of 100k+/day tgp's and I can say I would be more than happy to pull any hosted gallery out of my rotation if a sponsor though it "illegal" or even it if it were legal and it just rubbed them the wrong way.

Everyone wants traffic, that's how we make money (all of us, yes, it's true).

Skimming is the only way a tgp will work these days. There's nothing more I would love to do than slap up a couple hard links and watch my traffic grow, but that isn't how it's going to work. The old school text link tgp's that have the great quality traffic, aren't willing to trade links with a newbie site, in fact, they aren't willing to trade period for the most part. There's a circle of about 20 of them that feed into each other and that's that. No outsiders allowed.

I'm not going to name names, but it's very clear that some of the posts in here are from people who know nothing about tgp's and how to build one. Having bookmarkers rocks, no two ways about it. But if you are only getting 2500 uniques/day... and you can HOPE for 1:2500 bookmark ratio... that is still shit traffic and you may as well take the sites down.

Remember, the purpose of TGP's aren't to give surfers enough free content to finish the job, it's to give them enough to get them started then get them to a point where they buy.

One way of doing that is to add some small annoyances like traffic redirects. I realize that there are some people here from the "Surfers Union for Hassle Free Porn" and think that sucks, but why buy the cow if the milk is free?

Now, I have a very small skim on my sites, I don't like CJ's but I understand them. Installing anything is bullshit, and I don't tolerate that at all.

If you find that some site owners are from the "Surfers Union for Hassle Free Porn" and don't like tgp's (thumb preview or text) using their content/hosted galleries for those sites. Please contact me via icq 19-530-65 and i'll be sure to alert all my friends. I get the feeling that the guys from nastydollars won't be beating down our doors to remove their sites.....

as i said... weird question but i'm not up to date on the history of the topic

2004-08-14, 01:46 PM	#1
Jason A woman is like beer. They look good, they smell good, and you'd step over your own mother just to get one! Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 58	I find this question to be pretty strange. Of course, everyone is talking about another thread that spawned this discussion and I missed out on that one. I run a couple of 100k+/day tgp's and I can say I would be more than happy to pull any hosted gallery out of my rotation if a sponsor though it "illegal" or even it if it were legal and it just rubbed them the wrong way. Everyone wants traffic, that's how we make money (all of us, yes, it's true). Skimming is the only way a tgp will work these days. There's nothing more I would love to do than slap up a couple hard links and watch my traffic grow, but that isn't how it's going to work. The old school text link tgp's that have the great quality traffic, aren't willing to trade links with a newbie site, in fact, they aren't willing to trade period for the most part. There's a circle of about 20 of them that feed into each other and that's that. No outsiders allowed. I'm not going to name names, but it's very clear that some of the posts in here are from people who know nothing about tgp's and how to build one. Having bookmarkers rocks, no two ways about it. But if you are only getting 2500 uniques/day... and you can HOPE for 1:2500 bookmark ratio... that is still shit traffic and you may as well take the sites down. Remember, the purpose of TGP's aren't to give surfers enough free content to finish the job, it's to give them enough to get them started then get them to a point where they buy. One way of doing that is to add some small annoyances like traffic redirects. I realize that there are some people here from the "Surfers Union for Hassle Free Porn" and think that sucks, but why buy the cow if the milk is free? Now, I have a very small skim on my sites, I don't like CJ's but I understand them. Installing anything is bullshit, and I don't tolerate that at all. If you find that some site owners are from the "Surfers Union for Hassle Free Porn" and don't like tgp's (thumb preview or text) using their content/hosted galleries for those sites. Please contact me via icq 19-530-65 and i'll be sure to alert all my friends. I get the feeling that the guys from nastydollars won't be beating down our doors to remove their sites..... as i said... weird question but i'm not up to date on the history of the topic __________________ GetNaughtyCash & the Official Ariella Ferrera Site Free Sites Pay Sites