I agree with you BD - TGPs are scenarios of quantity verses quality and the conversion factors are high. I have done the same thing with free sites hoping that the traffic can be filtered down to people who are willing to buy - or to manipulate the traffic in order to get a new surfer that may be willing to buy.


LdyLnWolf1, a 1:40 click through ratio is nice. But I wouldn't expect that traffic to convert at less than 1:4000. The conditioning of the typical TGP surfer is to get as much as possible for free. It's those who get caught in the TGP cycle who don't know the "free for all" scenario that we hope to convert from galleries. NOW that said, many of the webmasters who own the actual tgp do a lot to convert that traffic before you get it. So you need to consider that there is a layer of filtering already going on before you get that surfer.

I approach it with a "quantity and testing" method. There are TGPs out there that send 'convertable' traffic. But it's a matter of testing them out one at a time to see exactly which work or not. I started out with list of 35 tgps I submitted to. After testing, I only submit to 5. And even then I'm playing the quantity game, but I know it will work eventually. I know a good deal of webmaster who only submit galleries for a living. And they did the same thing I did. Test and pray. Test and pray. And their list of submission sites is as small as mine.

My two cents...

Regards,
Gary-Alan