As a program owner im always looking to offer as many promo tools as possible, within reason.

Hosted galleries and free sites are good, so long as they are designed to sell, not just designed to 'be' rss seems to be big right now.

We're actually seeing a couple of our affiliates making some good money from our hosted PPC search page on Condom Cash along with our hosted reviews.. The hosted review site has actually been our best converting promo tool by far, lots of review sites are using the text we wrote and sending 1 or 2 sales every day just from a single page on their own review site, not including those affiliates who are linking to Adams Reviews itself.

As an affiliate, i actually only use banners/buttons from sponsors, hosted free sites, galleries, rss feeds, etc i really dont have any use for as i find my own efforts far out convert those tools offered by sponsors whose primary goal is to create as many promo tools as possible to offer their affiliates.

One sponsor i have used for several years recently started doing weekly updates to their FHGs and quite frankly, they are using a script that plain sucks, it looks like a blind, retarded untrained monkey made the galleries.

Regards,

Lee