[ArtWilliams]

I don't own a TGP so take everything I say with " a grain of salt" as the old saying goes. A TGP is the hardest type of site for a newbie because it takes huge volumes of traffic to make profitable. Acquiring and keeping traffic is a science (art?) and it takes a long time to learn.

Understand that since you're running a TGP with no text that you'll get very little SE (Seach Engine) traffic. The main source of your traffic with be trades or purchased. Assuming this is not a fake TGP, when you accept submissions you'll get traffic from the links to your site from the galleries submitted from webmasters.

If you've not already done so, you'll need to install a traffic trading program like Arrow or Turbo Traffic Trader. A search on this board can give you many more possibilities. You set up the traffic program to skim off a certain percentage of surfer clicks and send them to another TGP. Those TGPs that you send people to, in turn, do the same for you. Set the skim too high and you'll be accused of been a CJ (Circle Jerk). Set the skim too and surfers will use up your bandwidth as they view all your free porn.

As Ronnie mentioned, you can start off trading small volumes of traffic and get bigger step by step. The alternative is to set-up big trades and "prime the pump" by purchasing traffic. The purchased traffic comes in, clicks on a thumb, and the skimmed traffic goes to your trading partners who in turn send new surfers back to you.

This is where productivity comes in and I don't really understand it very well. You want to be in a situation where your trades are so productive that you get back more than you give, otherwise, you'll be purchasing traffic for the entire life of the TGP.

I like the drop down hello panel but it would be nice if that could be configured to happen only once or only once a visit. I find it annoying.

That's all I know (and it could be full of factual errors)!

---Art