Is it common for submitted galleries to land on other websites?
 

I had submitted galleries in the past, and while searching web I am finding my gallery links on websites I never had submitted to. I am not complaining since it is just more traffic. But is this a common practice, that other websites use these links as content on their websites. Do most of you ask them to remove the links...

It is fairly common, yes. Why would you want them to remove your link?

no no and no

If you are lucky.

I have been looking at referers more closely and seeing an increase....now hopefully the links will also end up in search engines.

In some way someone is just cutting and pasting someone elses hard work.

They could own the other Websites..

Galleries to me are set and forget. Shit I have boxes full of some and keep them up just to be respectable.

The bigger TGP sites like Hun, Shemp, Worldsex, etc are commonly scraped for links instead of reviewing submissions themselves. Feel free to redirect the bad ones like lunka . com , yourkisska . com , etc

They most probably own the other sites and simply export their galleries, or they share a database.

and no...no reason to ask to remove your links :)

yup I've seen this since I first started as a affiliate back in 2001. I would submit galleries to one text tgp and 1 out of 10 would end up listed on a very big TGP and I loved it

then there is the places like LARGE surfer boards that would post your links or hotlink you images.. I would sometimes turn off hotlinking to some urls like that

Yep. I have seen it myself plenty of times. Typically when someone has a network of sites, and filling up new one's.

Sig.

...much easier to scrape or harvest or copy/paste than to do any real work

It also happends quite often that webmasters use their existing Gallery Database from Site A to start a new TGP or MGP. I'm happy about those additional links, good for SEO, and I'm still getting sales from galleries I've submitted back in 2001....