What is it like to run a TGP?

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Well I'm a newbie too, but I think in the beginning you should use your own galleries. If your niche isnt a very common one, try branding your pictures. That may get you some hits out of nowhere. They wont be too much, but when they'll go to the sites you trade with, you'll get more hits back, so the overall effect will be significant. You can keep posting the same galleries over & over if you're short of them, but eventually when your site is more popular, you can start getting galleries. Also, rather than waiting for webmasters to submit, you can go and approach some of them. Nobody minds getting a gallery submitted to yet another tgp. Do that until you can send them good traffic. Once they know you sent a lot of hits, they'd want to come and submit themselves.

I work mainly in the Indian Niche, and am working on my first TGP right now. I have made my own galleries to start with. Each of the galleries has my logo too...I just thought that'd create what they call ''brand recognition''. People will know this site gives free pics so they may want to come back.

An interested thing I am trying is, since I cant afford a traffic managment script, I'm using the a javascript that will send a hit to a random url out of an array. I can put my galleries/links in that array. I dont think someone has tried this before. Its cant do the work of a traffic managment script, but it can make updating much much easier. You just put the new links and the new galleries in the array! I havent finished my site yet so I have no idea how this will work. Will someone comment on this if they can help me?