[ronnie]

You should'nt start affiliate programs until the sites are throughly tested and proven. There would be nothing worst than having webmasters promote your site and they dont sell, easy way to earn a bad rap and have a hard time recruiting in the future. Affiliates can grow your memebership thats for sure, if you have a site that sell in the first place. Word can spread fast if your site sucks..lol

Tgp galleries can bring lots of traffic, but it is usually very low quality. Only makes sense, a tgp gives away a ton of free porn so it naturally attracts what most people call free loaders. They can be sold, but much tougher.

Free site can be a way of getting better quality traffic. In your situation you could call them feeder sites, because you would be using them to feed to your paysites. Free sites are just a index/warning page with 2-3 gallery pages, galleries of pictures mainly but some do movies. You cold think of a free site as putting 2-3 tgp galleries together and adding a index/warning pagee. Some folks even use "main menu" pages on free sites. The more pages you have the more ads you could use.

There are plenty of free site examples, just browse any links lists, see what is getting listed. There are many posted in the newbie section with feedback which is a good thing. Just dont steal any ones work. Just get some ideas and how they are laid out.

As for traffic, you could make free sites, submit to LL's to get traffic to the free sites. Put ads that lead to your main sites on the free sites, to feed the main sites.

I personally would not buy traffic for a paysite, least large amounts until I know how it converts. If you dont know how your site converts, how can you calculate if your going to make a profit or loss from the traffic? Then again, if you have the budget, buying traffic in small amounts, would be the quickest way to test.