Trixxxia

Traffic will always be king I think - getting more bang for your traffic is what we have to focus on. Having pretty designs & the best paysites/sponsors won't make you money if you don't have traffic - let's be realistic here.

Knocking TGPs as a traffic source is not reasonable - it is still one of the best places to get traffic and lots of it. It's where most of us (myself included) entered into the business either by submitting galleries or starting your own little TGP along with building free sites.

It's a different traffic channel and has to be understood and marketed to differently. Not sure cutting the supply to TGPs will solve anything - some are big enough to keep it trading within their own networks and they possess the SE savoir-faire to continue to keep their listings on search engines and keep their flow of new traffic. They can even afford their own designers to keep all the traffic - so you aren't really hurting them, you may actually be hurting yourselves - by not having enough traffic to feed your trades.