TGP Tutorials & Articles

Below you'll find our tutorials and resources, covering a broad range of topics including maintaining your TGP, traffic trades, thumbnailing recommendations, and more. New articles are added as often as possible.

Adult Webmaster Glossary

by TGPFactory Staff, Last Updated April 22 207
A comprehensive listing of common terms and abbreviations used in the adult webmaster world, accompanied by their definitions.
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Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting Your First TGP Site

by TGPFactory Staff - TGPFactory, 2005
A beginner's guide to starting your first TGP site. The guide outlines domain selection, hosting, script installation and selection, site design, traffic trades and site growth, and more - all in a way that even an idiot could understand. Includes massive appendices of designers, affiiliate programs, traffic sources, and scripts.
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TGP Guide Appendix: Affiliate Programs

by TGPFactory Staff - TGPFactory, 2005
Below is a list of affiliate programs and sponsors I have compiled with the help of dozens of trusted webmasters. Emboldened links are those that I personally use on my sites...
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TGP Guide Appendix: Scripts & Traffic

by TGPFactory Staff - TGPFactory, 2005
Below is a massive list of TGP rotation scripts, traffic trading scripts, hardlink scripts, and traffic sources that I have compiled during my career in adult. Below each category are my top picks...
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TGPFactory.com: A (Not-So) Brief History

by TGPFactory Staff, September 26, 2006
In November 2003, upon turning 18, I made my grand entrance to the adult industry when a friend referred me to GoFuckYourself.com and Epic Cash's new "Bring Your Own Tour" concept. I had already been designing mainstream web sites for years, but the lucrative potential earnings...
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Adult Website Options, An Overview

By Andrew of AdultWebmaster101.Net
Let's examine a few of the most common ways an affiliate webmaster can make money. These are the most popular destinations for free porn surfers...
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Anatomy of a TGP

By Andrew of AdultWebmaster101.Net
There are two basic varieties of TGP, text and thumb. A text TGP consists of links with descriptions, such as "16 pics of horny teen with a dildo." This is the classic format, favored by older TGPs such as the Hun. The newer thumb TGPs use thumbnails to link...
Read Full Article: Dissecting TGP types and wide variety of options

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...
Read Full Article: Tips for retaining surfers

Buying and Trading Traffic

By Andrew of AdultWebmaster101.Net
To feed your trades, you'll need to buy traffic. Traffic brokers generally sell traffic that has been skimmed from other TGPs. Clicked traffic is of the highest quality, while 404 and exit traffic are generally...
Read Full Article: Getting your new TGP off the ground with traffic advice

Calculating Productivity Requirements For Your Site

by DamageX of AskDamageX.com, July 10 2006
This isn't a new topic, but since it seems to me that so many still use urban myths as guidelines for determining what prod their sites need...
Read Full Article: Simple math to identify your needs

Clever way to offer reciprocal buttons

by TGPFactory Staff, October 27 2006
For those of you submitting galleries to TGPs by hand, here's a clever trick to offer a unique reciprocal button for unlimited sites without editing the HTML file every time. With this handy script the reciprocal button is set by the gallery's URL and you need only upload each reciprocal...
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Comprehensive List of Adult Webmaster Analogies (Humor)

by Steve Lightspeed of LightSpeedCash.com
I put all these analogies together, in one handy Newbie Dictionary. If getting laid was like selling memberships to pornsites...
Read Full Article: Hysterical collection of webmaster analogies in layman's terms

Computing A TGP's Potential Earnings

by TGPFactory Staff, 2005
If you have the patience to grow your TGP, then stick to it... the money's there and you can use simple math to forecast your earnings...
Read Full Article: Plan ahead with this formula for profit

Comus Thumbs: Setting Skim For Specific Tables

by TGPFactory Staff, November 2005
To change the skimming percentage on a table-by-table basis, you need to edit a few things. First, the skim settings for Thumb and Text links in Comus (Settings>Thumb/Text Links). For me, the options are #'s 57 and 64. Let's say your standard TTT prefix...
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Comus Thumbs: Taming The Beast

by TGPFactory Staff, September 14 2006
At first glance, the Comus Thumbs control panel looks as though it could oversee perhaps the most involved sci-fi supercomputer of all time. But when you trim down the fat and get at the heart of the script you'll find the bare necessities rather easy to use.
Read Full Article: Learning the inner workings of Comus Thumbs

Creating High-Quality Thumbnails

by TGPFactory Staff, June 29 2006
I will post a full tutorial for thumbnails in that style shortly, in the mean time you can find my notes below for Photoshop...
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Error Traffic, Redirects, and .htaccess

By Andrew of AdultWebmaster101.Net
Once you've got dozens (if not hundreds) of galleries, free sites and pages drawing traffic from every corner of the adult internet, it's inevitable that some of those visitors will get directed to an error page. Perhaps a page is missing or a link is incorrect, and the surfer gets...
Read Full Article: Selling your error traffic, .htaccess tips and tricks

Essential Webmastering Skills

By Andrew of AdultWebmaster101.Net
You don't have to hold a degree in computer science to become a webmaster. You do however need to possess or develop at least an intermediate level of computer literacy. These are the minimal skills you'll want to learn to become an adult webmaster...
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Gallery Thumbnailing Suggestions

by TGPFactory Staff, June 30 2006
Volumes could be written on thumbnailing galleries properly. I'll outline a few of my personal preferences and tips here. 1. Know your audience. If you are feeding your site with...
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How to Integrate Turbo Traffic Trader With Comus

by TGPFactory Staff, January 5 2006
After Turbo Traffic Trader has been installed, you need only configure a few portions of your thumb rotation script. First, locate the path to TTT's IN script, OUT script, and the Toplist Template you'll be using. For the CGI version of TTT, these will most likely...
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Increase Sales and Traffic by Writing Right

by TGPFactory Staff, February 3 2008
No one reads text, right? You might just be surprised how many surfers take a look at text before they hit a sponsor link. While most people do skim text on the page, whether it's a TGP or a blog, targetted text can lead to a pleasant increase to your sales and traffic...
Read Full Article: How to improve the writing on your site

Opening Links In A New Browser Window

by TGPFactory Staff, July 11 2006
The BASE TARGET tag in HTML offers a very simple solution to opening links in a new browser window. Rather than repeating TARGET="_blank"...
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Popup Thumbnails on Text TGPs

by TGPFactory Staff, February 7 2008
So you've been running a text link TGP for some time now. With all the thumbnail TGPs popping up, it can be hard to keep surfers' attention... so why not offer your visitors the luxury of thumbnails, while keeping the obvious SEO benefits of your text TGP? Find out how...
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Re-investing in Your TGP and Plan B

by DamageX of AskDamageX.com, November 19 2007
Before you even consider whether you should re-invest some of your profits back into your business, you need to ask yourself whether you're doing this to grow, or just to get by. Yes, it's true, quite a few people are satisfied to make a decent living...
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Search Engine Optimization Tips

by TGPFactory Staff, October 27 2006
Here's what I do when building a new site and optimizing it for SE's...
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TGP Site Startup Costs, Requirements Explained

by TGPFactory Staff, June 29 2006
TGP's actually require a very small monitary investment to get started: the bulk of the investment is in time spent cropping thumbnails, monitoring traffic trades, and updating your site...
Read Full Article: Sample TGP startup plans

The Art of Pornsite Review Writing

by TGPFactory Staff, May 18 2008

You've either heard about the traffic quality of review sites, or you really, really like writing – so you want to start a review site. The first thing you're going to need to realize is that there are a lot of them out there, and if you don't have...
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The TGP Business Model

by Andrew of AdultWebmaster101.Net
Perhaps you want a place to display your own galleries along with some sponsor hosted galleries. Even if you're not ready to take on the task of accepting gallery submissions and/or managing traffic trades, a small TGP on your domain can be useful as a hub for your galleries...
Read Full Article: The TGP business model from a gallery submitter's prespective

Thumb Preview Sites VS. Text Sites

by DamageX of AskDamageX.com, October 29 2005
While the initial argument for running thumb sites was that they grew a lot quicker than text sites, I am unsure about this still holding water. With every webmaster and his mother running thumb sites, you simply no longer hold an advantage, compared to your trades...
Read Full Article: Pros & cons on two TGP types

Traffic Sources: A Variety of Options

by TGPFactory Staff, February 15 2008
Traffic is perhaps the most key element of any adult web site; your web site visitors are the ones generating sales and fattening your pocketbooks. Increased traffic can be achieved through a variety of ways both purchased and earned, many of which we'll...
Read Full Article: Learning how to build, trade, and maintain traffic

Using CSS to Border Your Thumbnails

by TGPFactory Staff, July 6 2006
There are two methods depending upon whether you want the border style to apply to all thumbs or just one image. For one single image...
Read Full Article: HTML technique for mouseover border

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