i average a sale every 1:5000 gay gallery surfers (well, sometimes better, but on overexposed sites, a little worse) or 1:10,000 straight gallery surfers.

but galleries are like anything else - you have to have some knowledge of how they work. and something else - when i have tried to make a gallery a few times for a site i either really didn't like, or didn't get, i sure didn't make a lot of sales. maybe it's hard for you to approach gallery-making because you dislike it. me, sometimes i think it's lots of fun :-) and of course, you have to

1. follow the rules of the tgps you post to. most new gallery makers have more than 2 - 3 sponsor links, and hide the tgp recips. those galleries will never be posted, and won't make money.

2. find tgps with more than a tiny amount of traffic. some smaller tgps send less than 100 hits.

3. be willing and able to let your gallery design and text evolve so what didn't work will not keep repeating.

4. don't write generic text about thousands of pics, hundreds of movies. a gallery should talk about what is special about the site they are promoting.