Basic TGP Gallery Building
Newbie Project Of the Week

Voltar

Cloud Cash

Remember to read and follow all the rules of the TGP's you're submiting These galleries to. Build good clean and unique looking TGP galleries and you can get some decent listings and make some decent sales.

TGP=THUMBNAIL GALLERY POST
A gallery is a page with thumbnails linking to larger pics.

Sometimes the thumbs on TGP's link to HTML pages with the large picture on it, but for this one we're linking directly to the full sized picture. Follow the steps below in order to make your first TGP Gallery.

  • Choose the sponsor site that you are going to promote.
  • Take the tour of that sponsor site. Write down some text link thoughts as you go along.
  • Choose your content to use on that gallery. Think of the sponsor's tour.
  • Thumbnail and optimze 10-16 pics (amount of content depends on the rules of the places you're submitting to)
  • Upload content to a hotlink protected directory on your server.
  • Go to the sponsor. Grab one banner, under 25k. Banner must match the content, only more compelling.
  • Layout your gallery in HTML. (More on that below)
  • Now make copies of the gallery. (Start off with 5 and do more next time)
  • At the top of the page, add 3-4 recips to different TGPs on each copy.
  • Upload the HTML pages and banner to a different directory than wher the pics are.
  • Gather all your gallery info on a notepad page and leave it open, minimized.
  • Submit the galleries to the places you have recips for. This is where you cut and paste the info from the notepage page.
  • Now submit the orignal to the no recip TGPs, and also to the SE's for extra traffic.

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    DFN Main ........................ Page 1
    The 411 Zone .................. Page 2
    Wide's World ................... Page 3
    This Weeks Tutorial ......... Page 4
    NPOW ............................ Page 5
    SE Noodles ..................... Page 6
    Newbie Sandbox .............. Page 7
    The Back Page ................ Page 8
    The DFN Top Dogs .......... Page 9
    The DFN Weekly ........... Ad Rates

    Have you checked out
    the sponsors of the DFN Weekly yet?
    Well what are you waiting for?
    Check them out NOW!

    To thumbnail and optimize your pics, go to www.midnightblue.com and grab the shareware version of SuperJPG. Later, you should register it. Make the thumbnails around 3k each and the size should be betwen 100 x 100 and 120 x 120. Full sized pics should be under 30k, and 450-520 on the longest side. There is a tutorial on SuperJPG in the VNWR resources section.

    LAYOUT
    This is very easy for a basic gallery.

  • First thing you do is present your sponsor. This is where you use your banner linked with some short sales text around it.
  • Then 4-5 thumbnails
  • Then a text link to the sponsor. Approx. 3-4 lines of sales text
  • Another 4-5 thumbnails
  • The rest of the thumbnails
  • A NON Blind link at the bottom to a filter page or internal empire if you have one. If you don't have one yet, you'll want to build one shortly.
  • No consoles. All thumbs link to pics, read the TGPs rules.

    Word of note, try to stay with medium to small TGP's until you egt the hang of TGPing. Once you get where you can make sales, then move up to the larger ones.

    For more advanced TGP page layouts and info go here. It's one of our Past Newbie projects.

    For TGP's to link to and build for, visit the resources section at VNWR. You will find last weeks link trade sunday list, tgp lists, and links to major TGP linking sites.

    Enjoy and remember to watch your bandwidth and start out slow, learning to sell this traffic source first. Try different page layouts and make something unique looking and see how it does for you!

    Voltar

    "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."
    P. J. O'Rourke
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