Can't believe how some galleries get exploited...

[GeorgeTH]

...by other TGP sites!

I have this one gallery which probably got more hits in December than all my other TGP galleries combined - and 90% of them from sites who copied the link from other sites, who again copied the link from some other site, who ... you get the idea! It all started with a listing on PicHunter...

Unfortunately Karup's referring stats don't tell a thing about which gallery produces sign-ups - this months wasn't bad in my humble ratios, but I have no clue if I can thank in part this particular gallery for it, or if this gallery even returned it's cost of bandwidth...

[Cleo]

BW is cheap. I love it when other places pickup my galleries. Traffic without any work is how I look at it.

[GeorgeTH]

Originally posted by Cleo
BW is cheap. I love it when other places pickup my galleries. Traffic without any work is how I look at it.

True in general - also gives you an idea which TGP you could add to your submission list
But this one is now at the far end of America, getting traffic from Argentinian and Brasilian sites... Next will be Japan, I guess...
Puts another spin to regional re-directions (which I don't do so far in fear of getting banned).

Just found another one which must be well over 1½ years old - where do they find these things?

I'll answer for myself: probably in SEs - I get about 2,000 se hits to galleries/day...

[GeorgeTH]

What I don't understand: why do they list a page with recip links - I make it so easy: every directory has a clean index.html without recip links... Hard to miss one would think!

[Cleo]

None English speaking surfers and those that can't use a CC are always a problem. It is nice when the sponsor redirects clicks to your ads properly, not that they always do.

[Ramster]

I like the free traffic too.

But I gotta agree when a gallery from a year ago ends up on some TGP's new listings it baffles me.

[GeorgeTH]

Originally posted by Ramster
But I gotta agree when a gallery from a year ago ends up on some TGP's new listings it baffles me.

Speaking of which: I just received an email from XNXX confirming that one of my submissions has been approved - a gallery from the 19th of December 2002!!!

Now that's what I call working through a backlog of submissions - LOL Just lucky I'm still using the sponsor advertised on the gallery!

I have to go - I caught some really nasty spyware yesterday (I'm 90% sure it was disguised as a Microsoft Security Update - BE WARNED!!!) and have to find some way to get rid of it - there goes half a day of productive work... Grrr!