TGP Galleries 101

by Shelmal of RockMeHard.com

 

Ok so everyone’s told you to stay away from TGP’S. They’re way too hard to make money. The traffic sucks. No one makes money with it. Can’t be done. Well I used to hear that all the time and I believed it for the first year I was in the biz. Then I got smart and tried and realized while all that may be true for straight tgps it sure isn’t for gay. With Gay sites all you need is a decent page with good text and some decent pictures and you are on your way. So I’m going to take you through all the basics and by the time you are done with this you should be able to start submitting and making some decent money.

CONTENT

I always use at least 15 pictures and go to 20 for some galleries but wouldn’t go any higher then that.

What kind of pictures should you use? Any kind you want actually. Of course you need to pick pictures that match what you’re selling. Don’t use pictures of Latino twinks if you’re selling a bear sponsor. Also if you can get newer pictures that haven’t been seen a million times on the tgps already that would be better. Let me take a second to comment on repeating your pictures. Now many tgps say wait at least a month and some tell you not to ever use the same pictures again but come on. We know that if your going to submit galleries you will need to reuse some of the pictures or you will spend all your time buying content. A good rule of thumb I use is to wait at least 6 weeks before you use the same pictures. That way you can add new content and mix it in with some older stuff to keep you going.

Most tgps now show thumbnails instead of text so you have to submit one when you submit your gallery. So what should you show? I go with face if its not hardcore and if you can get face and cock in there all the better. Of course if you gallery is hardcore then I would show a hardcore picture. I personally don’t do hardcore but that’s up to you.

DESIGN

Ok now you have to put the page together.  Now you may think you need to get fancy here but I say NO! Stay simple. Nice clean layout and 2 or 3 banners with good text. That’s it. Believe it or not amateur or less slick galleries do as well if not better then slick graphic heavy galleries. Now on the other hand if you’re a wiz at graphics and design go for it but I would suggest you try both and see what method works best for.

The most important part of the design is the text. Text is EVERYTHING. You have to get their attention and make them click and frankly banners just don’t cut it anymore. Now I’m not saying don’t use banners at all. I think sometimes banners are good to catch their eyes but you better have great text around. Oh by the way I put text on the top AND the bottom of my banners. Us usually the name of the sponsor on top and then some good descriptive text underneath.

SUBMITTING

Now you have the right content and a good clean gallery with good text. Time to submit. But what’s the best way? How about all by hand? Putting recips on each and every gallery and submitting to all the tgps on your list. Well that way takes way too much time. Ok then you can do it all automatically with something like the Russian submitter. Except many tgps don’t take these kinds of submissions and ban you if you submit that way. So what should you do? Well I use G.A.S.S, which does most of the grunt work for you but doesn’t submit for you. It takes your gallery and adds all your recips and makes as many galleries as you need. It then makes it easy for you to go to the submit page of each tgp on your list and submit.  You can also use roboform to fill in forms for you as you go and you can get it done pretty quickly. I have 65 tgps that I submit to and I pick pictures, build the page, and then submit to all 65 tgps in under 45 minutes. Click here for a list of the my 25 top TGPS’s with a handy link right to their submit pages.

TIPS

Ok so let me once again say that text text text is the most important thing to do with your galleries. You can have a great gallery that all the tgps pick up and send a ton of traffic to and then not have the right kind of text to entice the surfer to click through.

Also it’s very important to follow all the rules of the tgps and NEVER NEVER cheat. Believe me they will find out and before you know it your be banned from all the top lists.

If you have any question come on over to my board at Rockmehard.com and ill be glad to help you out.


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