I don't have much experience with TGPs. I just started submitting to them a couple of weeks ago. And my initial reaction is that I'm not thrilled.

I was hesitant to get into them because I had heard from another member that they can really chew up your bandwidth. But I dove in one day and witht the help of Bec got it done and submitted my first one to Cumsoda. So, once I did the first one, it was pretty easy. So, I started looking for others.

I submitted to about six altogether and I've learned that acceptance can be anywhere from within hours to up to a week. That's a pain.

The traffic I've gotten wasn't really worth the time I spent preparing the galleries. So, I'm basically giving away my time and pictures. I'm sure it's a matter of figuring out which one are the better ones to use. But I've found the whole thing pretty frustrating: you find a TGP that's really nicely designed, has a great logo, so you think, "oh this is pretty above board" and then the guy takes a week to approve you submission, or you get a text link while all of the thumbnail spots are taken up with his own submissions.

Someone once said here that the only people that seem to benefit from TGPs are the TGP owners and the people getting free porn, and I'd have to say that I'm tending to agree with that.

The only reason that I'll continue using them is to get them to my site, which is approaching 50 galleries. That in itself has a "holy shit" factor and people might be willing to plunk down $20 on a MANcheck membership.

Cheers
Dzinerbear