[Simon]

Hello bouncey,

Nice to see someone asking about this in an intelligent fashion. Usually someone will just bumble off blindly monetizing what they have and then drop by to ask us how they can promote their bad idea.

A few quick points, some of which you may know...

• A lot of adult traffic these days seems to be migrating to video sites, including of course those evil tubes which use other people's content without permission to fill their own pockets with cash.

• Unfortunately there has been a tsunami of free porn flooding the Net for years now, mostly due to sponsors competing with each other to see who can release more free porn to entice surfers to pay for porn. (Not always the best way to do things.)

• Most webmasters working in the adult market are not involved in producing content, and most do not own paysites or affiliate/sponsor programs, but are instead marketers using a variety of techniques to drive traffic to other people's paysites.

I made those points to lay a foundation for saying that while I think the database/archive may have some value, it may not be worth much to anyone in adult but you at this point. Things like competitive research, IP protection, and the need for in-depth data about each photograph are not things that have much place in the adult sphere, where thousands of (very similar) new photos and videos are released each week as new promotional materials. This is quite different from famous landmark interiors, which are mostly unchanging I would think.

You mentioned being able to build a massive TGP with 300K galleries. Most of the webmasters around here who are competent with TGP scripts could probably do that in an afternoon, or certainly a weekend, using data import and rss feeds from sponsors. No need to host the large photos, all galleries will have the sponsor graphics on them to help sell the paysite memberships, and the sponsors' 2257 links on the bottom of each gallery. There are even sites like FreeHostedGalleries.com where you get the data to import over 2.5 million galleries with a few hours work.

You said you got around a million pageviews and sent 106K clicks out to sponsors. (How many unique visitors to your site was that?) If you didn't sign up for the sponsor programs and didn't use affiliate links, then it's hard to judge the value of that traffic. A lot of TGP sites have really, really crappy traffic. The number of signups generated from the number of unique visitors to your site, and from the number of unique visitors sent to each sponsor is what you want to know, and then the important number is how much does your traffic earn per unique visitor you send to a sponsor (even though most do not pay per click).

Maybe with a bit more coffee I could come up with a use for what you've accumulated. If I had all of that in my hands I'm sure I'd think of something to do with it, but I might not do it. What I mean is I have good ideas all the time that I don't do because I don't think there's enough return for the investment of time/energy/funds that it would take to make the idea come to life.

Oh well, I guess I had too many words in my head this morning. Not sure if any of this will be helpful to you, but I hope some is.

Simon