When the first rules about the numbers of pics required came out, it used to be that you could put five thumbs on a page and have 4 pages of galleries - and you could plaster a ton of agressive links pretty much however you wished.
It was pretty common to make $200-300 fairly soon from even nasty looking freesites.
There was also a pattern and a period of what I called 'long page' sites - each page was 3 to 6 screens long and plastered with links. you made the surfer really look around to find the pics.
Then a bunch of folks came back from las vegas one year, and bang, the venerable ten thumb minimum rule, and a bunch of other new rules, went up everywhere and became the norm.
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