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Building A Stable TGP

by TGPFactory Staff, 2005

First and foremost, you have to "be selling what they're buying" - meaning you should add content to your site that surfers will come back to day and day again. Update your thumbs and add galleries often. Set Comus to rotate them each day, and not more often than that.. nobody checks back to porn sites every ten minutes for new thumbs.

If you think of your favorite TGP's, think of what makes you return to them.. maybe it is a free movie clip each day, maybe it's a blurb about the webmaster's life, maybe it's high quality thumbnails. Whatever the case, do this on your own web site. I personally was intrigued by the daily comments on Sublime Directory.

With little effort you should be able to grow your TGP to 1,000-2,000 unique hits a day. Add a dozen or two trades and submit your site to 100+ linkdumps (LinkWhore does this, available from PimpTouch Software). To go beyond the 2,000 mark, you really have to depend on stable trades. If you continue to add quality trades, weed out poor trades, and submit your site to linkdumps, you should have no problem growing steadily. You can boost this by buying feeder traffic, but use caution -- you only want HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE traffic, like that sold by Traffic-Out.

"Good trades" are those that are productive. If you login to TTT or your favorite trade script, you should see a ton of numbers, but most importantly the ratio of clicks per visitor, or productivity. The higher the percentage the better. You can let new trades run as long as you like, but use your own judgement.. maybe they're having a bad day, maybe having a slow start with your site.. if for say 3-4 days you don't see any hits, or very low productivity, ditch it - replace it with 2 or 3 new trades.

Lastly, pay very close attention to your trades. Growing your site is like raising a child - it takes a lot of effort to start, but eventually your site will become stable and run itself.