TGP Gallery Bloopers

This morning I decided to roll up my sleeves and head over to the TGPs for a spot of research. I do this from time to time because there's a lot you can learn just by surfing. You can learn things from what the competition is doing right, and what they're getting wrong too. With TGPs (or any kind of traffic-sender in this business) pretty much anyone can get listed. The tricky bit is making money with your gallery (or free site). Here's some bloopers I spotted this morning.

Case 1: A great 'call to action', but no reason to click!

This one is on the flip side of another common mistake: a great sales pitch, then not asking the surfer to click on the link. At one mature porn gallery I visited, there was an interesting set of pictures, and the gallery was listed under a good description. There was one advert which read "CLICK HERE TO SEE IT ALL NOW!". The link was great: a large font size, perfect contrasting colors - but the gallery designer didn't give me any reason to click on the link.

What I learned: It would have been better if the gallery had talked about the model in the pics, and told me what I could see her do if I visited this other site, and THEN had the big text link.

Case 2: Wrong description blooper

With some TGPs you can't choose your own description. The TGP owner / gallery reviewer will look at your gallery and then decide what title it should be listed under. There was one gallery which had a girl smoking in every picture. She was an Asian girl and the ads were for an Asian porn site. The problem was that the TGP gallery reviewer looked at the content, and then decided the gallery title should be "Smoking woman". This gallery is going to attract surfers who want to see smoking girls but there were no ads on the site for a smoking sponsor.

What I learned: Your gallery title / description at the TGP will determine what kind of audience you get. Sometimes the content will choose the description for you.

It's surprising how many galleries had this problem.

Case 3: Wrong girl blooper

There was an amateur TGP gallery which had a great listing on a major TGP. It was a well made gallery and had a unique look to it. But the girl in the pictures was labelled as 'Angel', and there were ads on the site for a completely different girl called 'Amy'. Now maybe the surfers WOULD find Amy attractive, and visit the sponsor anyway, but it seemed like a bit of a wasted opportunity.

What I learned: With a bit of extra work the gallery builder here could have made their page all about one girl, had ads to show where I could have seen more of that girl, then linked to that girl's Paysite.

Case 4: 'We sell everything' blooper

Another gallery description promised 'oral action', but the gallery didn't have a single ad for oral action. It was another case where the TGP reviewer had written a 100% fair description of the content, but the ads did not match the content. The major problem here though was with the ads. It was a good-looking gallery but the ads had "women from 18 - 70+", "Slender and plump", "amateurs and pornstars" and some other contradictions. So not only were surfers arriving here looking for oral pics, they were getting ads for everything but that.

What I learned: If they'd used their gallery building skills (and it was a really good-looking gallery) and focused on ONE of the things they were trying to sell - AND matched up the content carefully, I think this gallery builder would have had a winner on their hands.

Case 5: Bandwidth and speed blooper

One gallery I visited had decided to write all of the text for the site in graphics, as opposed to plain old webpage text. Webpage text loads instantly and it can look absolutely great with a little work. And the weird thing on this gallery was that the text didn't do anything different to webpage text at all. In fact, it must have taken a lot of work to type it into a graphics editor and then add it to the gallery. The 'text' on this gallery totalled 27kb which was unnecessary.

What I learned: Graphics have their use. And not all graphics are eye-grabbing. The graphics here were small, all the same font, and I fell asleep before I'd finished reading the first advert.

Case 6: DOA gallery blooper

I visited one gallery which promised me some amateur pics of a babe posing in her kitchen. And that's what I got. The trouble lay with the adverts. They consisted of a 120 x 60 button at the base of the page, and 7 words (two of which were linked) at the top of the page. The default font had not even been changed. The Paysite was a different story. It was an amateur site which had a lot of content. But that wasn't coming across on this gallery. It was almost like they were ashamed of the ads. They were using 5% of the ad space available - which didn't make sense. This gallery sent me to sleep before I'd clicked the first thumb.

What I learned: Maybe gallery builders need to put as much thought into a TGP gallery as someone would when designing on a tour. That doesn't mean 'flashy graphics' - it means thought: getting the message across.

Conclusion:

I've picked out only the bloopers here today. I have to say that around 30% of the galleries I saw today blew me away. Some guys (or GIRLS!) are not just making good galleries, they're making an art form out of it. There's enormous value in regularly visiting the big TGPs out there and just cruising through their listings. After a while it's pretty easy to spot the gallery builders that have been doing it for a while. You should find that their ads are very hard to miss, 100% targeted, match the content 100%, and they really do make you want to visit the sponsor. Further more, the good ones also tend to use webpage TEXT a lot too - and their ads will load very quickly.

TOM ^"^

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