Questions about Submitting Galleries

[GeorgeTH]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

A lot people make their living off of building and submitting galleries, but I submit very few because I find it to be so damn frustrating. I'm not even sure why I find it so frustrating, I just do.

Yes, there are a lot who try to make a living of it, me (partly) included... Then again: when I visit any of the TGPs I'm submitting to, I always see that 80-90% of the listed galleries are from only a handful of people, most of which I know - you go and figure! I admit: I'm only submitting 2 or 3 niches, and that's where I know fellow submitters...

I can share UW's frustration, but I simply move on when a site's frustrating me!
My submit list gets two to three serious overhauls every month.
· if I don't get my first 2 submissions (different templates) past the script I won't try a third time!
· if I don't see any traffic within 4 weeks I drop that site, too! This might be a little to quickly (many sites are well behind with reviews), but I like to keep my content fresh (and if they review my site after 3 months the content has been out there for 3 months, too!), and I hand-submit, so every site requires some effort.

I'd say there still are options to use sponsor content (I do now, never used to during the past years) - you just have to find a site which is fresh and not connected to a major sponsor!

The hardest thing will be to get your foot into the door!
Clean design and unique lay-out helps a little, references now help a lot. But you can start with a lot of work (like 300-500 hand-submissions), watch who's listing you, make a list of the listed URLs and referrers, and use this a reference for password applications... It'll take a while (more than a month or 2!) but is probably your second best option (after spending big on submit passes - - - without experience on how to convert!)

Good luck!