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Originally Posted by sharphead
Freesites are now called Tubes....
Try to keep up please.
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Sarcasm aside, free sites were built with restraint, even prior to the "gallery" page (aka tgp).
As it was stated above it was a warning page with recips, a main page with banners/text links as well as two gallery links (some may have a text link footer to go to a hub), then we had 2 gallery pages each with about 15 pictures on them and 2-3 banners/text links, past that each thumbnail was linked to an html page with the full sized picture along with 2 banner/text links.
All said and done a free site was actually 34 or so html pages, 33+ advertising banners (possibly an additional 33+ advertising text links). Then 3-6 recip links.
Eventually "someone" saw that they could gather traffic if they built a link site that directly linked to the pictures/galleries bypassing many ads. Presto TGP was born and then they saw themselves as gods and starting making rules, many rules aimed at reducing advertising.