I have been posting nothing but free hosted galleries, galleries I have built yself and private submissions for the past year.
Not only is my total unique traffic is up by about 15%, but
my new bookmarkers are up by a whopping 70% (As of today this month has yeilded 124,000+ new bookmarkers. A year and a 1/2 ago I was getting about 20K new bookmarkers a month)
I had a custom back end built to house and manage my free hosted galleries.
Currently in the system I have over 220 sponsors representing about 75,000 free hosted galleries. In theory that means if I post 500 a day, every day, I wouldn't see the same gallery show up for the next 5 months.
We are adding 200 - 500 new galleries into the system almost every other day now. Within the next 4 months, I expect to easily pass the 100,000 gallery mark.
I'm sure people have numbers to "counter" my point, but these are my numbers, take it for what it is worth.
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