the Snake is dead
 

one of the last few good tgps just sold out last week - Snake's World.

i found this out the hard way - my 3-month partner pass stopped working about 5 weeks into the run lol. since Snake didn't email me with a refund, and his email is now bouncing, i guess he is just going to steal the remainder of my fees.

for those of you that say tgps are dead, Snake was sending between 20-200k uniques to each of our galleries before he sold out and switched his site to a tube. tgps aren't dead, but Snake's World now is.

RIP - and i hope you buy something nice with the money you stole from me you fucking scumbag.

:321GFY

Always thought he was one of the good guys...

All good bro, drinks on the house :thumbsup

I figured he would have refunded those with submit passes. I guess your reputation isn't as important after you sell your site.

same same in this industry lol

pretty fucking pathetic to stiff your submit pass guys right after a big payday.:2 cents:

signs of the times. however, money could be in motion

Adapt or ?

Yeah TGPs aren't dead in the same way that search engines are not dead...there is
still google.

:1orglaugh



20-200k per gallery wasn't enough to make you grateful when the empire fell though.

:1orglaugh

Chargeback.

a lot of submitters redirect mobile traffic like if they paid $25 they now own my surfers. so it goes both ways. I understand why so little sites accept submissions now a days.

While I absolutely agree 100% with you about redirecting surfers to another site, I also honestly think it's a good thing if you offer a mobile version of the exact gallery page and let surfers choose which one to view. In other words, if they really want to see the less friendly mobile version, they can click the "full version" option.

The problem is that many submitters, link exchangers, etc (to us anyway), will sell their mobile traffic and then ultimately redirect traffic off the site so when a person clicks a link on our page, they are not at all given what they expected. We delete these pretty fast. It is for this same reason I would never, and have never, skimmed and traded. I want those who click our links to get exactly what they expect.

I think I had only a few weeks left on my Snakes Pass. Funny though... prior to renewing last time, I actually wrote him and asked was he selling to them next, and he replied telling me "no" and that he even deleted their email right away. I guess they must have upped their offer.

Like I said in the other thread, great to see PinkWorld still rocking -- I hope he never sells. Such a great guy to deal with.

200k to each gallery, right, the whole TGP has not had 200k in a single day for maybe 2 years and then the question is, how many of those were Indians and Chinese.

I cannot speak to anyone else's experience, but as a general rule of thumb, his traffic was pretty decent. As an aggregate, the month of October 2012 yielded this from Snakesworld to our non-traditional galleries:

Uniques: 133,672
PageViews: 3.69 (we do not use standard TGP's though)
Duration: 04:09 minutes
BounceRate: 43.50%
Countries (Top 5): USA, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia (India and China were not even top 10. In fact China was #26 and India was #28)

Overall, I'd consider SnakesWorld used to have some of the better traffic insofar as TGP sites are/were concerned.

Those numbers look real. But he claimed that the site used to send up to 200k to each gallery, maybe that was over period of 2 years, lol. :winkwink:

SpicyM, might have been a typo. I don't think anyone sends 200k to a single gallery any more, not even TheHun. Even in these times, however, TheHun can still deliver 100k to a gallery depending on placement. Pretty incredible when you think about it -- non-skim text links tgp -- it doesn't get much more old school than that.

That's right.

I miss the good old days of buying 4 Ampland Movies submit passes, 4 PW passes, Pichunter + Video Post and Richards Realm and kill my 100 Mbps server, then going to ATM and withdrawing $1200 at once from my Epassporte card.. :winkwink:

Fuck, the good things never last for long.

Maybe he meant 200k a month?
I mentioned in another thread how much he sent me last month, I think it was 300-350k

If you think I owe you money, post your info>most submitters have been refunded. I will contact you and refund what is due. I lost email when I sold my site.

lets see some stats on the money you made.:)

Sold out or smartened up?

I just sent his $75 back so he can have a Merry Xmas. I really could have "bought something nice" with that(carton of Marlboro's and a 12 pack)Merry Xmas.

I sold out. 15 years was long enough. Still hanging around on the edges. Looking for my next long term project!

I thought this was another Fabian thread

I'm glad it's not a Ken Stabler thread.

Exactly what I was thinking. :thumbsup

Good luck man. :thumbsup