Best TGP Script for SEO?
 

I just recently purchased a vintage tgp that has been around for ages. The nice thing is, it gets a whole chunk of SE traffic, mainly yahoo. I would like to keep it this way :-)

What would be the best script for a multi-category text tgp these days?

I am not really interested in skimming, etc., but want to provide a good SE friendly tgp that will remain to derive it's main traffic from SE and hard link exchanges rather than trades.

If what is there is working why change it?

I bought the domain and the static pages. The custom made script on that domain was not included in the price as it was defunct from what I know and the tgp hasn't been updated for over 2 years.

Now, I am looking for a good tgp script that will allow me to build static pages in a SE friendly way with multiple categories.

I looked at a few scripts like smart thumbs, Vanilla TGP, etc, but they are not really good for SEO. They are more for tgps that rely on trades and skimming.

Comus Thumbs is a great TGP script. Takes a while to learn, but worth it. I think think you can setup a query so the page is static. Then you'd still have all the other features such as scanning for cheaters etc. Worth looking into.

if your just looking for a tgp script to accept submissions and that you are able to edit each category template for seo then I would take a look at auto gallery pro or auto gallery sql.

I think the important thing is to be able to link to real gallery urls

not that internal cgi link crap

Tommy haven't you always done yours by hand the old school way

well

tomsthumbs.com and sexypornstars.com use a script i had written to run tommys but never used on tommys

i make all the thumbs by hand and dont need any trades so I am in a different situation then most

but it takes months to make 4000 thumbs by hand and i am always a little jelous of the guys that can open a tgp tomorrow

they both do very well with the se's


I jujst bought babepics.com and would like to make that a thumb tgp in the next few months

Yes, that's exactly what I am looking for.
Old school :-)

Actually I could use a link list script to built a tgp |goodidea

if your pages are static now i can give you one script that I made for tgp with static pages (for best SEO)
The script is only admin area and manage your galls
with simple include code the galls can be included in your existing pages

I think Comus can be set up to not go through the script, i.e. link directly to the galleries. You do lose tracking and click counting, but it sounds like you are not interested in that anyway :)

Comus has an extremely flexible backend that can be configured to generate pages anyway you want including linking directly to the pages, but it's really overkill for this app. Basically the only thing that you would need to do in order to make that happen would be to modify the templates so that the link generation part of the template (it's only about one line in most instances) points directly to the link without going through Comus. However, everyone is correct in that you will lose all the protective features that Comus brings to the party when you do that.

Realistically, your best bet would be to make a few homebrew scripts (they can be written in php if you want to go that route) that use a db to store the links (mysql or postgres) and that when executed will dump out the results in whatever style template that you conjured up in your script. That's probably something like really only between 1 and 3 files. Not a lot of pain if you're looking for something that's going to be easy to maintain.

The other added benefits of using a db to store the links is that you can write a script to check for dead links as well as do nightly builds via a cron job.

Now, if you wanted to add some sort of cheat protection to this scheme though it's going to be a bastard. You're probably looking at cobbling together some sort of home written program that sits and watches transparently until someone starts screwing with something and then it just appears to ruin their day (one that might simply just watches the access_log file and update the .htaccess file based on a predefined rule set). Possible, but that type of coding is essentially re-inventing the wheel in terms of what Comus and TTT already do not to mention somewhat painful (proxy checking, etc.).