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Making Money From Porn With TGPs

A Brief Look at the Pros and Cons of Porn Marketing Models - TGPs

If you do not understand any of the terms used in this or later posts, check out my Porn Marketing Terms post and all will be revealed

Thumbnail Gallery Pages and TGP Submissions:

Many in the adult webmaster business will tell you that the ‘good old days’ of making lots of money from Porn by building Thumbnail Galleries are long gone and I guess they are right. Nevertheless, there is still money to be made out of submitting Gallery Pages (picture or movie clips) to TGPs (thumbnail gallery posts - link sites for thumbnail galleries), but there are also drawbacks for the newbie adult webmaster.

If you like the idea of making galleries every day and can perfect the technique so that your gallery pages are clean, attractive to the surfer, and well accepted by as many TGP sites as possible (and you learn how to stick to their rules), you can still make money by building thumbnail galleries.

If you would like to have a try at this, go to The Hun and click on the links to some of the Galleries there. If you think you could do as well (and make them very, very regularly - like all aspects of being an adult webmaster, this will take hard work), then this can still make you money. However, before you begin, I hope you have checked out adult forums for Thumbnail Gallery and TGP tutorials and suggestions on making templates, submissions scripts, etc (do a search at Netpond to begin with. It’s always a good place to start).

As for myself, I have tried making a few galleries and submitting them by hand, but it is not for me. I prefer writing more and I prefer building surfer hits more slowly (massive gallery hits are short-lived and to be successful the formula has to be constantly repeated) and you will see why I prefer building hits on a slower basis below. But I can see the attraction in making gallery submissions (and perhaps your own full TGPs - although this takes a great deal more work and relies heavily on making many good link trades). Pictures and Videos still attract and can stir the libido much faster than text in many (usually male) cases. The growth in popularity of tube sites tells us something - search engines love text, but surfers still love visual and (perhaps preferably) moving images. The winning factor appears to be combining the two and, most importantly, ensuring you get those links coming in.

The downside about Gallery Submissions and TGPs (apart from all the hard work of course)? A well linked Gallery Post will get you thousands upon thousands of visitors en masse. If you submit to one of the biggies, like The Hun, and are successful, you may suddenly find your little gallery (or hopefully galleries) being inundated with surfers.

“This is good.” I hear you say. Well, in one way it is, because you will usually need thousands of hits to make a sale this way, so the more hits you receive, the more money you should make. But, you will need adequate hosting to soak up all those sudden hits. If, for instance, you have a shared account on Hostgator, your site will be taken offline, because all those sudden hits will be eating up all the server resources for those who share your IP address.

Many cheap hosts, including Hostgator, are great for starting out with adult blogs and possibly static sites, and I recommend them for newbie adult webmasters starting to make money online, but as soon as you build galleries, free sites, static sites, or even blogs which get thousands of hits in a short space of time, you will have to invest in at least semi-dedicated hosting, or a host which allows for short duration, hard hitting pages (like newly-submitted galleries) and has hosting accounts which cater for this (I believe Naked Hosting offers this, although I am yet to try them out myself) . So think about that when you make and submit your galleries.

Therefore, with Thumbnail Gallery Pages and buiding your own TGP sites you have to weigh up these factors:

• Are you going to be able to submit at least 2 new Galleries a day? (probably quite a few more - but not all to the Hun, by the way as that is every 3 or 4 days at most) Are you interested enough in this aspect of making money from porn that you will be prepared for all the hard and constant, repetative work involved? If the answer is yes, then you need to think about:
• Will your website hosting be adequate for your requirements? (And most TGPs refuse submissions from free hosts - although sponsor free hosting, using your own domain name, is something to think about here).
• Will the outlay, for sufficient hosting plus (as you progress), the submissions tools and TGP scripts, be worth it in terms of the return you think you can achieve?

If you can honestly answer “Yes” to those questions, then making thumbnail galleries and your own TGPs will make money for you if you do it right. It will not be as much money as you could have made a few years ago, but there again, that applies to many forms of work online, not only adult.

The other proviso I would add here is, make those galleries by all means, but watch trends very carefully and adapt your galleries to fit them. This will also give you ideas for other ways to make money from porn and maybe use those galleries as part of a larger project of your own design (not just your own large TGP).

Thinking ‘out of the box’ is the most successful thing you can do when making money from porn. Work with something; learn from it; and adapt it to suit changing trends and surfer requirements.

When you see many adult webmasters telling you that ‘TGPs are dead”, but you still see them making galleries and submitting them, ask yourself why. Are they really stuck in a rut, or have they found another way of using them which works better, so that they still make good money from porn?

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