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How To Build TGP2s.

Many people who want to make money from porn think that the best way to go is to build galleries. They are surfers themselves and it is TGPs (Thumbnail Gallery Posts) they have discovered mostly along the way.

There are drawbacks however with making pages for normal TGPs. The main one is hosting costs. If you are a new adult webmaster, you probably can only afford limited shared hosting. Places like Hostgator and Servage are fine for building smaller sites and a limited number of adult blogs, but usually they will not work well at all with galleries.

When you submit a gallery to the major TGPs, not only will you be hosting around 16 large pictures (plus their thumbnails) on each page you submit, but a large number of hits on that gallery page will bring your hosting account down. You may be told that you have ‘unlimited bandwidth’, however, ‘use of resources’ is another thing which is in the small print on shared hosts, but a new adult webmaster may not find this out until he/she overuses resources. This can be achieved very easily with a few gallery submissions…

There is a way around this however…

Building TGP2s

TGP2s are like mini websites. A TGP2 will consist of the following:

A main (index) page containing thumbnail images (5 for pictures or 2 for video clips), a sponsor banner (or 2), some text (very important) about the images you are showing, a bottom link to the sponsor, plus their 2257 link, a copyright link for your site (the domain on which the TGP2 is hosted) and another link or two to your other sites or galleries (all also at the bottom of the page).

5 picture pages, (or 2 pages, each containing one video clip) each containing the full size image (or video clip) linked to from the thumbnail of that image on the main page. These pages are recommended to be on html (unlike the usual gallery pages where the image is not on html). The picture page can have a sponsor banner at the top and the big image (as it is on html) can link directly to the sponsor tour. The bottom of each page will contain the same (or similar) links to those at the bottom of the main page.

The index page and the picture/video pages should all have meta tags (description and keywords), and it certainly helps if they are at least a little different to each other.

Each picture (or video) page can have a separate title (relating to what is actually going on in that particular image/video).

As I said above, this gives you a mini site and all pages are spiderable by the SEs if you have different meta tags and title on each html page.

I’ll give you an example of a TGP2. This is Huge Boobs Mom With Foamy Tits. This is a fairly softcore TGP2 with big pictures of a BBW Milf in the shower, so click on it by all means if you like moms with enormous boobs

You will see that there is quite a bit of text on the main page to entice the surfer and the SE spiders. Ideally, all the thumbnail images should have shown completely ‘above the fold’, but the layout prevents this (although it does just ‘pass’ submission criteria nevertheless) and I would recommend using a slightly different layout (perhaps the 5 images in a row above most of the text) if you want to write a lot of text.

The advantages of TGP2s:

You only have to upload 5 big pictures (and 5 thumbnails) each time, so this is much easier on bandwidth.

TGP2s do not bring such heavy traffic all in one go. This may seem like a disadvantage, but it really isn’t, because TGP2s are much more likely to be picked up by the search engines than a normal gallery. They have a much better system of meta tagging and the text on the main page is good SE fodder too. TGP2 traffic is also likely to be more targetted than the usual gallery traffic, therefore more likely to get you that sale.

There is also the point that, once submitted to TGP2 directories and linked to from your own blogs/sites/other TGP2s, TGP2s remain in the search engines for longer and can usually pick up more traffic over time. The usual gallery has a very limited lifespan; the only limits to the life of a TGP2 are your hosting and that your sponsor’s site still exists (and this, of course, is no different from the risk you take with any method of marketing porn).

You can link to your TGP2s from your blog posts (just like you can to your sales pages) and you can link to individual pictures as well, thus providing more blog posts you can make over time and more links to your TGP2s. This also cuts down on the need for having so many affiliate links on your main blog.

Google image traffic is notorious for picking up gallery images. Having your big images on html with a link on the image to your sponsor provides you with more of a chance of getting a sale from that image search (and, of course, every little helps).

Unless you have very limited hosting, you can usually host your TGP2s quite happilly on cheaper web hosting. In fact, a host like Servage, which (I personally have found) works better with static pages than with blogs, is ideal for TGP2s - plenty of webspace for your images and hits coming over a longer period, rather than all at once, should not bring your site down.

The other good thing about TGP2s is that TGP2s contain limited free porn. Furthermore, it is recommended that your images be of the ‘teaser’ variety, rather than hardcore (although this is not always possible allowing for the content your sponsor provides). This means, that if your surfer wants to see the hardcore images (or more of them) he/she will have to go to your sponsor to find them. Of course, this all depends on the surfer and how good (or limited) your TGP2 content is, but it does give you more of a chance to make that sale.

The submission rules for TGP2s are more flexible that for the normal TGP submissions (or for freesites, which I’ll talk about soon) and provide you with more chances to link to your sponsor and to your other adult blogs/sites.

Once you have some basic templates for your TGP2s, you can use them again and again. In fact, even though each picture is on html, these ‘mini porn sites’ are very quick to make.

To give your TGP2s the initial ‘push’, you can make a blog post about them (and further posts later on), plus submit them to TGP2 directories.

There are a number of TGP2 directories out there and these can be found quite easily via Google search, but here is one to start you off. And have a look at some of the TGP2 galleries too, to see the different styles you can use.

Anyway, I hope you have found my post about building TGP2s useful. This is a long term way to make money from porn which can be very effective.

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