Quote Originally Posted by Lee View Post
No that is wrong, affiliates started to DEMAND free content, if a sponsor didnt offer it, they went to one that did, in turn that meant EVERY sponsor started handing out free affiliate content, exclusive content, movie clips, movie scenes, full DVDs, for affiliates to use.

Affiliates wanted to much and they got it, there is no easy way to reverse this trend and its going to put us all out of business unless the program has their own source of traffic and closes its doors to affiliates that arent productive.

Regards,

Lee
Lee,

The influx of free content started when doorway pages stopped working on search engines and the can spam law was passed.

The can spam law made TGPs a viable alternative to the sales lost dues to emails. Companies at first bought top spots. Then other companies said hell we will just give hosted galleries and let tgp owners put our galleries in. Then tgp owners said hell we can charge to have submitters (that happened later).

Go back and look at the dates. I was both buying spaces in emails and running a tgp. When I was buying ads in mailers I couldn't find a hosted gallery in the gay side. Maybe 3 companies had them. After the emails dried up sponsors cranked out free content just to get on the tgps.

Yes, AFTER sponsors realized that TGPs were the next best thing to mailers and doorway pages, then affiliates asked for more content. Why not? Sponsors created a market out of the fear that SE traffic was not working and mailers were all but dead.

Trust me, I had three sponsors asking what they needed to do to get their free hosted galleries on my tgp in a top spot. At that time none of my galleries were free hosted. I never asked them. They came to me.

Yes. I agree. It is a trend that can't be stopped. New webmasters coming in today expect it. They never realized that at one point we had to buy content and create our own galleries. But I will stand by my belief that if doorway pages to SE's worked and more importantly the can spam law was never passed an sponsors could make the sales they were use to making, you would not see the shitload of free content we have now.

What I am saying is not something I made up it has been written about and talked about at trade shows years ago. Sponsors may say, yeah, affiliates wanted FHGs etc, but the truth is Sponsors began to rely on TGPS for traffic. Thus we got FHGs. Plain and simple.