ZZ, I have accounts setup with your ref id and galleries are added to my comus tgp database. I'm setting up my traffic trade script (awgtrade) and would like you to explain the % part in trades. For example, what does "skim lower than 60%" mean. I know what skimming is but confused about the part. My icq is 219843016 so contact me if i don't sound clear. I look forward to making some sales and getting you your % =)

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What I meant was percent going to gallery. When I say 60 that means 60% will go to gallery. You could trade with whatever skim you want. But I was just recommending that you should trade with people who let their surfers see galleries so traffic quality is ok.

Come on ask your questions here instead of on ICQ :Graucho

Great Thread

hi,

@ZZ

good tutorial!

another question

what happens after I build and set up my TGP/MGP?
I think the most important thing is to get stabil traffic to this site,
and that´s reason why so many TGP/MGP fail

Do you think it´s enough to buy sometimes traffic and post
reguarly Gallerys with my backlink to other big TGP/MGP? And the
rest will be done by the trading script?

You only need to buy traffic once to get yourself started. After that its all about adding/removing trades and manipulating the trade script and your site to get the most efficiency.

This thread has become a GFY classic and I have been following it for a bit. I run both paysites and thumb tgp's and I could make a few comments on this.

Firstly, unless you are making a living as an affiliate don't expect having a TGP to make things any better. As much as it is about traffic it is even more about selling the right thing. A TGP loaded up with 2000 hosted galleries is probably loaded full of crap. I use my TGP's to sell my own sites, and I fill it out with some of the better hosted galleries. Sales to my own sites galleries are waaaay higher than the shaved up hosted galleries.

Secondly the productivity you will see from purchased traffic is very low, often less than 20%. That means for every 100k uniques purchased only 20k will actually click on something. Take that into consideration in your calculations.

The last issue is actually managing traffic. It is very difficult to find anyone of consequence who will trade with you. In my case I get a lot of guys adding trades, but most of them can't even send a 100 hit minimum in 24 hours and the trade script just drops them off. The guys who have real traffic will have to be schmoozed for a trade.

Anyhow if you can send more than 500 a day I have a 50k PR4 site accepting new trades right now, let's see if I get any.

American Underground

www.undergroundtgp.com

http://www.undergroundtgp.com/cgi-bin/tm3/signup

please please please explain the downside of GODADDY I really want to know

Read this thread and if your still not convinced do a search for godaddy on this board.

http://gofuckyourself.com/showthread...ight=godadd y

alright, my site is up. i did it pretty using the advice on this thread. still have a shit load to learn. but will stick with it. tell me what you think. thanks zz for your gracious help.

HuskersForAll

Your site looks great :thumbsup


BTW I wanna ask everybody that ICQs me to help me out by asking questions on this board. That way I don't have a million windows of people asking the same question.

A newbie question, I hope this is an appropriate thread to post it in.

I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a less expensive host with a lot of space. Currently I do a little celebrity niche site and I want to expand into a more traditional hardcore TGP. Right now I'm just about at my limit in space and I'm sure my bandwidth wouldn't survive if I really dug my heels into this. So I think I should make a host switch. Right now I'm paying $20 month for 80MB and 1GB bandwidth. I know there are better deals out there, but it's hard to find a better deal that also allows hardcore content.

Any suggestions? Thanks much.


(edit: I haven't read every post in this thread, maybe this was answered earlier, my apologies if it has)

You might wanna try Reality Check Network.

for $10 you can get 20GB and 100MB storage.

Great thread! I am really just a newbie starting out, so I stumped on the very basic step. I installed the Comus and signed up with sponsors, but now how can I import the 1000+ galleries. Do I do it manually?

I tried bulk import, but it requires a link to every single picture in a gallery and I am looking for a way to spider the gallery automatically.

Also what am I supposed to do with the hundreds of thumbs pre-installed in Comus with the comus author's refid?

Could somebody guide me through this process? This would be really, really appreciated!

Stick "only" the urls separated by lines into the bulk importer. Afterwards go to Gallery Review Control. Hit autothumb all and it will take care of everything in your database.

Now for some trading tips:

Most people that fail at growing a Thumb TGP usually fail at three key areas.

1. Productivity
2. Trading
3. Marketing

I've already covered productivity all through this thread. I'll do trading this time.

Trade Script - Imagine that your trade script is like a minion. You give it impossible tasks and it won't do them. It'll end up hurting you more if it tries to do them and fails repeatedly.

What hurts you with the trade script?

- Setting high forces. If you set high forces and don't leave enough for the trade script then it can't manage your traffic properly.

- High Ratios: Everybody wants to send 200% traffic back but unfortunately unless you have a very high productivity level you can't. Telling the script to send back a huge amount that you don't have will cause your site to implode.

Try sending 130% back as a maximum and 100% or a little higher as the fixed ratio.

very informative thread :thumbsup

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is the Comus 2% shave trial a time limited trial (30days?)?

And after the trial period, does it change to 20% shave?

I think the 2% shave stays forever til you buy the full version which shaves 0%. I know people that have been running the 2% for a few months I don't think it ever expires.

Bump and for those of you having trouble make sure you read my trading tips which is a few posts up.

Great thread, thanks so much for posting this and thanks for the help on ICQ!

I've set up www.nudeteenphoto.com/main.html using comus with AWGtrade and this thread has been very informative.

I'm just using my 404 traffic to feed the site for now, I want to get a feel for the trade script & make sure everything's working correctly before I start paying $ for traffic.

That being said, I have been running into quite a few unexpected difficulties getting this going; most were simple enough to fix, but I haven't been able to figure out the most recent one yet.

I'm using your suggested method of query best no clicks for the top two rows; query best for the third; query new for one thumb, stage1 for the next 7, then query best for everything else on the page.

All was working fine until the latest refresh when for some reason the thumbs stopped being sorted by rank; I haven't changed anything in the script but now it's displaying them at random. What could cause this? Obviously this would impede productivity; I thought maybe it would sort itself out after a few rebuilds, but it's been about 12 hours and it's still displaying randomly.

It needs to be built 16 times before everything sorts out properly. You can either hit build 16 times or let it build and it should fix itself.

It refreshed about 12 hours ago, and is set to rebuild every 15 minutes. That means it should have already rebuilt about 48 times by now; I'm tempted to just start clicking on the build link now but I'll wait if you have other advice/comments.

I decided just to hit build 16 times; this did not help. It's still displaying the thumbs at random, and keep in mind the site has been rebuilt every 15 minutes for the last 12 hours or so plus 16 more times; I don't think it's going to sort itself out at this point.

What could be causing this?

Hit me up on ICQ with your url and info so I can take a look at it.

is there any money to be made from TGPs? seems like there are 1,000s of 'em after doing a bit of searching.

zzgundamnzz, how many hours do you put into zzgalleries.com daily?

can't find your thread with trading tips...
please post a link...
thanks a lot! :)

Ok, its 13 posts up. But I'll just cut & paste here.

Now for some trading tips:

Most people that fail at growing a Thumb TGP usually fail at three key areas.

1. Productivity
2. Trading
3. Marketing

I've already covered productivity all through this thread. I'll do trading this time.

Trade Script - Imagine that your trade script is like a minion. You give it impossible tasks and it won't do them. It'll end up hurting you more if it tries to do them and fails repeatedly.

What hurts you with the trade script?

- Setting high forces. If you set high forces and don't leave enough for the trade script then it can't manage your traffic properly.

- High Ratios: Everybody wants to send 200% traffic back but unfortunately unless you have a very high productivity level you can't. Telling the script to send back a huge amount that you don't have will cause your site to implode.

Try sending 130% back as a maximum and 100% or a little higher as the fixed ratio.

Yes theres plenty of money to be made from TGPs. More and more people access the internet everyday. There are thousands - with that you can take advantage of. You can make your site grow because you won't run out of people to trade with.

I put about an hour or two a day on zzgalleries.com and an occassional 12 hour day when I need to do something really major to it.

does the domain name matter?

i've made a list of 30 .com domains with facials in the name that are unregistered and i don't know which one to pick! :helpme

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Domain does matter. Its one of the main parts in branding a website.

If you're not too concerned about branding you don't have to worry about it too much. Just don't put cutesexygirls and have gay content. Or milf and then the site has teen content...

Just match your domain with the content.

Can I ask where you buy your traffic from? I set up a text tgp and bought 20K feeder traffic to it from FPC (pop-under traffic, so it's not like it was high quality clicked traffic) and my productivity was holding strong at 80%. If you're only seeing 20% productivity, you need to seriously consider a) where you're buying traffic, b) your design and c) your thumbnails (assuming you're running a thumb preview tgp) :2 cents:

I need some help with the trade script. i'm starting with at lite until i get more experienced. i have this code in my index:
<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/at/in.cgi" -->

i guess this is to track incoming hits. how do i track outgoing and what do i do with the toplist. i posted on the arrow scripts forum, but received no responses.
thanks.

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Hi,

zzgundamnzz!

I just started a topic at Xbiz asking for help and i came here to do the same i found your thread i read throw all of it`s posts and it amesed me that you make that kind of money from a TGP! Site!

My goal ait that big i wood setle for 0.5k per month but the thing is i need to get me started !

I thot why not start with a domain and hosting then move along!


My URL: www.qualitypussy.net <

I have a rock fast / good host i have all the SPACE and BW i need so it doesnet cost me a dim since i host my site myself!

Now im not god at setting up stuff like PHP and stuff like that i tryed that Comus Free Trial i did set it up but it`s not updating my main page..

Problebly some CHMODE error some wher!

I have made simple desing since i know some GFX so that`s not the problem!

I have money on my paypal account that i can use to buy some start off traffic + i have friends online that has other types of sites where they can just send some (NONE good traffic)

To get my site off!

What i need help with is, setting up COMUS + a Free Tradeing script!

I hope that you can help me out im willing to pay you or give you free hosting inexchange!

MY info:

MSN: [email protected]
ICQ: 172945838

Thx :winkwink:

Big thread with massive postings on trading traffic here

Nice tread. Lots of hopeful people out there now I guess. Lets just hope they will come back here and let us know if they fail or succed or whatever they do.

One thing I've never understand, is why people are calling their site something with tgp? ex: www.myporntgp.com..
Does a surfer know what a tgp is? I didnt know when I used to surf...

zz...i have a site that is growing very nicely due to the bought traffic feeding in. can you elaborate on how to "keep" the traffic working right once all the bought traffic is gone? what are some tricks...explain the ratios and stuff a lil more please...

Wanted to let everybody know that Comus will no longer have the 2% skim version.

The price is also going up to $395. So buy your copy before November 1st.