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Originally Posted by sandman!
why not use one of the old scripts like st5 that was made for image sites ?
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Yes, that does sound like what I need at first, but I think it's only for the kind of TGP in the
demo site that doesn't host its own content and posts, which was the style at the time.
I guess TGP was the wrong way to put it earlier, because I don't want to just link out to FHGs, but I do want that CTR-based functionality that the old TGP scripts have. I can't understand why it's not a feature in everything. I'm thinking more like how
Redtube handles image galleries.
Basically the same tube system behind it that runs the videos, but its for image galleries instead, and the image gallery has a block of related galleries below it, just like you'd see related videos below the content of a video page. Redtube and others aren't just showing related videos based on titles or keywords or tags... or are they?
I think all of the big sites are determining related videos through all kinds of stats and measurements to try to squeeze out more clicks, pageviews and view time, but at the very least they must be accounting for CTR. Why wouldn't this be a thing? We have the technology... we can rebuild it. Merge the concept of "Productivity based thumbnail rotation" from ST5 in to something like Mechbunny TGP script, or somehow get this functionality in to WordPress. But it's still not just the thumbnail rotation either, it's the related content itself. It should be testing the placement of different related content in these blocks (different image galleries or videos) and then using the CTR to refine which related content is truly more related (got more clicks) and not just which thumbnail to the same content was more popular.
Sorry if it sounds like I'm arguing here. I'm just confused.