Originally Posted by Robbie

I don't see why that makes any difference at all if you're counting traffic.
NO members area is ever gonna have massive traffic. The traffic that is gonna get counted on sites like Alexa all comes from the tour for any and every site.

And the tour is the marketing end of it. Hosted galleries are really nothing more than an extension of the tour. And should definitely be counted as part of a websites popularity.

If a gallery sucks...it might get looked at once. If the content on the gallery is hot...then it's gonna get looked at a lot.