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Groove · 03-20-2003, 04:17 AM

If you want bookmarkers, it helps to have high-quality galleries. But the vast majority of galleries are crap, so it requires a large investment of time to find the good ones. And that's time which could otherwise be spent submitting your own galleries, tuning traffic trades, or (heaven forbid!) having a social life.

Of course, most of the big TGPs have their own reviewers who work in exchange for traffic or cash. But that's not a viable option for most of the smaller players. So most of the smaller guys are left with a choice between investing hours daily reviewing galleries, or being lazy and using crap galleries.

But maybe there's an alternative? I wondered if anyone might be interest in forming a gallery reviewing co-op? I'm basically talking about a private TGP where *approved* webmasters can use the links in exchange for contributing to the co-op. Webmasters from smaller TGPs would earn access by becoming a reviewer and medium/large TGPs (eg 20k+ uniques daily) would earn access by sending a shit-load of traffic to the galleries, thereby attracting quality submitters. Last but not least, we'd need a small management team and they'd get access too.

So basically I envisaged having one reviewer per category, plus a management team of say five people, plus a maximum of say 20 medium/large TGPs (note: I propose restricting the number of medium/large TGPs to reduce the risk of saturation and to encourage them to sign-up now rather than waiting).

The backend could be as simple as using an off-the-shelf TGP script which is password protected. Registered webmasters would be able to login daily and grab pre-reviewed links. Or if a competent programmer wanted to help (HINT! HINT!), we might also be able to modify the script so that it could distribute links directly to your TGP submission form or via e-mail.

OK, that's probably enough information to give you an idea of my concept. There's obviously a lot of details to thrash-out, but first I'd like to know if there's sufficient interest to proceed. So if you're interested, please post to this thread indicating whether you'd like to be a reviewer, manager, or traffic cow and maybe explaining why you'd be a perfect candidate. If there's enough in-principle interest we can begin discussing the details.

03-20-2003, 04:17 AM
Groove Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 3,852	TGP WEBMASTERS -- anyone interested in forming a gallery reviewing co-op? If you want bookmarkers, it helps to have high-quality galleries. But the vast majority of galleries are crap, so it requires a large investment of time to find the good ones. And that's time which could otherwise be spent submitting your own galleries, tuning traffic trades, or (heaven forbid!) having a social life. Of course, most of the big TGPs have their own reviewers who work in exchange for traffic or cash. But that's not a viable option for most of the smaller players. So most of the smaller guys are left with a choice between investing hours daily reviewing galleries, or being lazy and using crap galleries. But maybe there's an alternative? I wondered if anyone might be interest in forming a gallery reviewing co-op? I'm basically talking about a private TGP where approved webmasters can use the links in exchange for contributing to the co-op. Webmasters from smaller TGPs would earn access by becoming a reviewer and medium/large TGPs (eg 20k+ uniques daily) would earn access by sending a shit-load of traffic to the galleries, thereby attracting quality submitters. Last but not least, we'd need a small management team and they'd get access too. So basically I envisaged having one reviewer per category, plus a management team of say five people, plus a maximum of say 20 medium/large TGPs (note: I propose restricting the number of medium/large TGPs to reduce the risk of saturation and to encourage them to sign-up now rather than waiting). The backend could be as simple as using an off-the-shelf TGP script which is password protected. Registered webmasters would be able to login daily and grab pre-reviewed links. Or if a competent programmer wanted to help (HINT! HINT!), we might also be able to modify the script so that it could distribute links directly to your TGP submission form or via e-mail. OK, that's probably enough information to give you an idea of my concept. There's obviously a lot of details to thrash-out, but first I'd like to know if there's sufficient interest to proceed. So if you're interested, please post to this thread indicating whether you'd like to be a reviewer, manager, or traffic cow and maybe explaining why you'd be a perfect candidate. If there's enough in-principle interest we can begin discussing the details. Last edited by Groove; 03-20-2003 at 04:48 AM..