I host at Splitinfinity how... I've had 0 problems with hosting since I've been there. Support is excellent.

Thanks for the reply I will check them out

good tutorial!
I have 2 tgps at this time, shaving at only 95%, so the quality is vry good.
But I have a lot of domains doing nothing, that I will set up and put them to good use, at about 70% shave.

Thanx!

Looks like your site really has grown since you have started this thread.

ok, i would read the entire thread to see if my q's have been answered, but this is easier, honestly.

i'm wondering,
1. what the hell is comus, at first i thought it would be an automated thumbnail maker.

what is the skim deal about? the numbers and charts on the comus page about?

2. what kinda bw and size am i looking for. would you use one of the cheap sites w/ 80 gigs of bw for 6.95 w/ domain reg? like ipower.com?

3. how much capital is really needed to get the ball rolling on this? what kinda commitment am i looking at? get as detailed as you can get.

thanks and much appreciated.

your fellow noob,
helmet

Yeah, it grew... lots of knowledge from helping people. Makes someone ask how things work and why they work...

Anyway thanks for the bump.

Helmet: I'll answer your questions later. Anybody else interested in asking questions? Its better to ask them here then on ICQ.

BTW, these guys will build a 250K TGP for you:

http://www.mgpbuilders.com/pr.html

Let me remind anyone thinking of getting into the adult webmaster biz today:

The gold rush ended in 2000, there is no easy cash to be made anymore, it's all about hard-work and dedication. You need to spend money to make money. The biz is saturated and it has matured like any other biz. The big players are working together to push the littles guys out.

Good luck :)

zz...i bought a bunch of traffic for my site that came in like a week...i was adding trades like crazy and they all were growing good...the site made it up to like 25,000+ a day but when the bought traffic stopped coming in it totally died down to like 3,500...why is it doing that? why cant the trades sustain themselves? whats the trick?

You need to post your link to your site. The design is very critical to retaining traffic, also to see what trade scripts you are using.

http://www.pizorn.com
it was trading great with some nice trades...like 1k+ each with a total of like 25k a day...but now the bought traffic is gone and its at 3,700 today... :\

You were probably oversending to sustain the trades... but when the bought traffic ran out your site collapsed.

Your thumbs look pretty good, I would have thought that it would have grown a lot more durning durning that period.

:warning I get a trojan warning on TeensSpace, from your top list.

That'll kill a site pretty quick too...

i just got finished with my site , but im having one last problem . i installed TTT C for my trading script , and set the link and thumb prefixes in the comus thumbs settings. when i go to my website and click on a thumbnail , i get an error .
my website is www.fuckenthumbs.com
how do i fix this problem

well shit, so what do i need to do now?

Make sure you use the prefix for TTT C. The ones in the comus help are for the older TTT. You can find em on TTT support board.

Go get yourself a copy of IE. If you already don't. Now go through every single one of your trades and check them. Popups, installers, spyware is what you'll be looking for. Eliminate the ones that you find to have any of those.

i am using the prefixes for TTT C and i still get this dns error.
gundamn can you help me on icq? my icq - 267851956

Try these settings

1. Visitors without Cookie
send to galleries

2. Add trades because your not sending them anywhere if you got no trades

Thanks a lot for the tutorial. I see there is so much to lean. The concept of 'productivity' of a TGP site is most interesting :)

They keep 60%?

Well put, and alot more good info for people starting out.
Sean ICQ me please.

60% skim means they'll build a TGP with 60% of clicks that go to gallery and 40% to your trades.

Gotcha.

Anybody has tried mgpbuilders.com ??
They seem like a nice option. But the 60% skim.... mm... :ugone2far

I wouldn't recommend getting your site built it up. Why? because most people wouldn't have the know how to keep or grow it.

Better to just start off small and make all your big mistakes with little or no money on the line.

Just IMHO.

zzgundamnzz,

1) Does design matter to a TGP's growth?
Designs like these look great but are they worth the $130?

2) You seem to run a FHG only TGP, I was told they were hard to grow and gain bookmarkers due to the lack of fresh daily new content.

3) Most TGPs are update daily (today's gallery, yesterday's galleries, etc.), is it a bad idea to do it hourly (this hour, last hour, etc)?

4) Some big TGPs have hall of fame at the bottom, why? Do they want to send the most traffic to their paid spots at the top?

1. Yes design does matter. If you don't have $130 to spend on a design there are plenty of options out there. For $45 you can get a design from:
http://tgpfactory.com/

2. FHG TGPs are not hard to grow imho. I mean its better than having to sleep with one eye opened knowing that there are cheaters out there. I got a database of 30,000 galleries. Thats 208 days worth of fresh galleries everyday if I were to update every 10 minutes.

3. No its not a bad idea to make it update hourly, every 30 minutes or even every 5 minutes.

4. Might be the case. But more likely they have all of their new stuff at the top. Arranged by day and quality.

I clicked 10 galleries on your TGP and none went to a trade, do you have any skim enabled?

The best hosting solution for the TGP wenmaster
 

Hi!
We run many TGP's and we know what you need:
http://www.highcountryhosting.com
Hosting comes with Comus, TTT, Image Magick, Ads Script and more...and all installed and running for your pleasure!
Nik :thumbsup

Stop spamming, once is enough.

Yeah, I got skim enabled. I put 100% to gallery in a few key places to boost sales.

As a begginner would creatings a THUMBED TGP be more affective than creating a TEXT LINK tgp.. and why..

i see that with Braincash etc... you get all the galleries you need for a thumb site.. but where would one begin if you just wanted text links, like "the HUN" etc.. it seems less bandwidth and reasonable turnover.

First of all, Great Thread! Have learned alot about the process from reading here. A couple of questions i still have:

1. After checking out a lot of sites it seems that the "raptor" traffic trading script is very popular. Problem is there is NO info available on-line. I talked to another webmaster and he told me that it is only sold through refferal. Anyone have any experience with it? And is it better than TM3 and others?

2. Can you check productivity of traffic before you start traffic trading with it? My concern is buying 100k hits and then having all my traffic trade partners ban me because the traffic doesn't produce.

Thanks for your help and this thread.

Raptor? I have honestly never used it. If you want a good Traffic Script you should go with Arrow Trader Xtreme.

Yes you can check the productivity of bought traffic before trading with it. Just don't setup any trades and let some of the traffic come in so you can see what it is. Proxy % , Country ... etc.

Thanks for the great tut & all the help throughout the thread zzgundamzz :thumbsup
I'm going to give this a shot once I pull some cash out of the bank...

i might build a tgp on my domain, xxxbang.com
$70 is not much for a design (i don't have time to design one myself), becasue i have to many projects going on.
1. surfresults.com (wind wave kitesurfing results)
2. teenpeaches.com (Teen AVS)
3. pixelside.com (my design site)
4. might start a design forum (portal)
Then my TGP that im going to start

What do you think about the domain name?

Two thumbs up, Sean!

Pretty neat tuto ! That's great for a newbie !

niCe newb session.

Very good guide my friend :)

I've always been skeptical of TGPs but I'd say this tutorial has simplified it quite a bit, thanks

:thumbsup

Thanks alot for the responses :)

checking

very cool

Nice. Maybe I can make a few bucks now.

By the way, apparently the Comus 2% is back.

text based galleries
 

Anyone know of a tutorial on how to make a text gallery page? Are these all hand made? Or is there a script to make them? Thanks

MDB