thanks for the info Rich - personally ALL of my traffic does come from SE's and LL's and I do not trade with REAL tgps.
My tgp only has 10 new galleries/day and lists 4 days of galleries.
My hope is to keep these bookmarkers high quality and not send them to real tgps.
My hope is that IF these surfers bookmark a site that only has 10 new hosted galleries listed per day on it that they are dumbasses who have never seen a good tgp otherwise they would jump ship and keep visiting a real tgp with tons of selection and GOOD galleries.
This is why I started this thread to determine if it is worth it to trade my site up with real tgps that reward productivity, and open gallery submissions up to the public to list bette galleries and get more bookmarkers etc. But if what I am doing sounds like it makes senses then I am not going to trade with them and may only open up submissions to webmasters who build free sites for the LL's and put my recip on their main page - I'll list one of their galleries from their free site and then put them into an archive permanently at the bottom of my site.
This would mean listing more than 10 galleries/day tho since I want to keep my 10 hosted galleries as my money makers - I'm not sure if listing more than 10 galleries/day will kill the quality of my bookmarkers because they now have mor to look at?
I'm trying to determine a long term strategy with this
