Quote Originally Posted by basschick
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1. page loads faster
2. you can fit more links to galleries higher on the page
3. less bandwidth use
search engine traffic, both to your tgp and the galleries. I have about 200 galleries that get 5-10 SE hits a day from years ago. It adds up.

I mean some people have a small tgp and skim so hard to get on the top of the big ones. Thats it's just a pass thru site. Surfers don't click.

And if they actuall get to a gallery link that's NOT yours (and not some other tgp), they may be so relieved that they may buy.

Traffic is ONLY good if it is productive for you.

1,000 direct link, SE, bookmarks uniques to a niche TGP can be as valuable as 15,000 to a skim the surfer to death tgp, especially if it's text. And trust me thumbs only show so much. And we all know the "BEST" thumbs get skimmed to another site.