and to drive home my point once more
this... which looks normal to you guys -
http://www.bravoerotica.com/
looks no different than any other spam network to Google, set apart ONLY by its linking relationships to other domains.
100's of outbound links per page
zero unique content
all text/links are site wide and duplicated across every page
that's what i mean when i say that TGP's and link directories are essentially spam networks. i was trying to explain that in the "tubes only suceed because they steal" thread to Robbie who owns grampland.com - attempting to explain to him that his own site is a model that is doomed to fail because ultimately will never be the best result for a phrase other than "links" which is what it is, its a model that can't pass any real PR value to other pages making them important. same for TGP's.. they shouldn't be the best result for anything but "Phrase Pictures" or "Phrase Galleries" - so people shouldn't be surprised to see them start dropping away just as they are and as all the big link list sites are.
google, in most cases stops crawling at 100 links on a page anyway.