Sick of reciprocals to dead or cheating TGP

[Toby]

Most of the newer TGPs don't take submitted galleries, and with many older TGPs gone or dying on the vine the number of productive TGPs that accept submitted galleries is way down. The other change I've seen over the years is a shift in submitters, to mostly non-US webmasters. Many are using as much automation as they can, in order to submit more galleries. It makes for alot of mediocre and poor quality galleries.

Three of my seven TGPs don't take submitted galleries, three others are partner only, and just one is open submit. Even on the TGPs where I take submitted galleries about 75% of the galleries listed are my own, either sponsor hosted or galleries I've built myself.

I'm up 20% YTD after two break even years, but I do realize I'm an exception and that most TGP owners are down significantly over the last few years. There's still money to be made, but these days it's much harder staying ahead of the curve.