How to Get Listed on TGP Sites

by quagmyre
For some of you this is a basic article and it won't matter much, unfortunately though, a LOT of *webmasters* need this information. I spend a lot of time reviewing and rejecting galleries and sites for my own list sites and for others. It never ceases to amaze me how many people just can't get what I think are basic and obvious concepts. So, for those of you that this is redundant for, sorry.. feel free to add your thoughts. For the rest of you, read this article and apply what you learn! It will HELP YOU TO EARN MONEY!! And, it might keep you from the bad karma of making strangers all over the world despise you. That all said, let's go into it!
First thing a chunk of you do not do is realize what the "master" part means in "webmaster." Learn your craft! No, you do not have to be the DHTML wiz kid, but you do need to know how to make a link and how to make sure all your images load and none of your boo boo's crash a browser! There are a few reasons for this. The first person to see your gallery or what ever pages you are submitting to a list site is the reviewer. Crash their browser and you will ruin someone's work. This is a bad way to try and get listed and in some cases may lead to your being banned from EVER submitting to the site(s) again. Images are important because you make the site that links to you look bad by association. Your being a bad webmaster makes me look like a bad webmaster. Learn how to do what you are trying to do properly. Close your tags and check your work.
Next thing i want to cover is what happens when you get rejected. Notice i said "when." It WILL happen. It happens for reasons that are not always our fault or for reasons out of our control. To prove this, MY galleries regularly get not just rejected, but dropped from the lists on one of the sites i do reviews for! Obviously, I know the rules and my stuff is always to specification but for some reason, the bot does not like me. If I can get nuked by my own stuff you sure can get nuked or rejected by someone else's site. So, WHEN you get rejected, DO NOT have a fit and definitely do not send nasty messages to the rejecting site! Or say something stupid like, "buy your content then", because if you think TGP's need you galleries today you're only kidding yourself, plus this is one of the quickest way to get banned and that's one pissing match you will not win.
The person that rejected you is doing their job and it is following their site's rules. They either have a reasonable reason or they are flakes, either way it is not worth your time to scream and holler. Plus, if it is a simple mistake, you won't be likely to work it out by pissing off the person that can either fix it or help you fix it. When rejected, look at the rejection reason and see if you can fix it, if you just need to try and resubmit or if you just need to not bother submitting the pages again to the rejecting site. Obvious reject reasons like broken images, broken links, 404 errors or simple webmaster related mistakes can just be fixed and resubmitted usually. If you think that the reviewer is just being anal because you got rejected because a 4px x 4px table graphic did not load does not matter. It may be true that they are just being anal, but it is their house and they make the rules. If you think the rules are too strict, do not submit there.
The most common reasons for broken images are 1)editors. They usually link images to your hard drive so when you upload the gallery you will be able to see it, but no one else will. 2)The image is either not on the server or in different directory than what's in your source. So if you are rejected for this reason or something similar check and double check your work, especially if some poor reviewer was nice enough to point out your mistakes that could eventually get you banned on some of the more anal sites.
Sending a complaint email is futile. More ambiguous reject reasons like Content Too Common or Page Load Time Too Long might require some thought and more action then fixing some HTML or uploading some files. I saw a thread on another board a few weeks back where someone was complaining that a site rejected them for Content Too Common and the poster was upset because he had just shot the content the night before and it could NOT be too common. A trip to a dictionary would have saved him from making the mistake of saying he would never submit to that site again (which for the record, I have no affiliation with). Not only does Common mean that it is all over the place, but it also can mean that it is just normal or bad. No, his stuff was not all over the web, maybe it was just bad.
As for load times, those are relative. You may have the fastest server on the whole planet, but if I am 4000 network hops away there will be a serious bit of lag. Just because it is fast for you and every computer in your house does not mean it is fast for me. Get over it and either find a new place to submit or get another server somewhere else and by all means please don't send me your server's specs! This means nothing to me and really only annoys me that someone in business on the internet doesn't know how the net actually works! Sending me a nasty email will NOT get you listed and it might just get you ignored. If you have a question or comment to make about getting rejected send an email but keep it polite, professional and to the point and you will probably get good results. If not, move on to another site to submit too, no point in getting upset over it. Before we leave this part, one last thing. If you get a gallery rejected and resubmit it and keep getting it rejected for the same reasons, STOP SUBMITTING IT! Annoying someone into banning you will bite you in the ass later.
Back to preventing getting rejected, next thing you need to do (after having a correctly built site of course) is to read the damn rules! It is amazing how many people do not read the rules. I reject thousands of galleries a week that never stand a chance at getting listed. If you submit a Mature gallery to a Teen TGP you are wasting your time and mine! What? You use an auto submitter so it does not matter? Get good traffic from the sites that allow it's use? If you submit to other sites that do not accept them you will get more traffic and usually of a better quality. Also, I bet if it was not for idiots abusing auto submitters a lot more sites would accept them. So, auto submitter or not, read the damn rules! AND FOLLOW THEM!! If you do not like the rules or they do not fit how you build move on and submit elsewhere.
If a recip link is required or you are using one, make sure it loads and has the correct link. You are not going to win friends or get listed by messing up their links.
When you design your pages for submission you should also keep in mind what the normal sites of your type look like. For instance, a TGP gallery is much like the next for a reason. The surfer and what they are used to controls the layout. Not too much text, art or ads above the content and not too many links. How do you determine what "too much" is? For links, that is easy: read the rules. For the stuff before content a good idea is to view the page at what is considered"normal" resolution or 800x600. The guideline is usually content must be visible without having to scroll the page widthwise (side to side). Go figure, some serfs do not know how to scroll. It is also a good idea to not let the content require a page wider then the 800px. Yes, a lot of people now do browse the web at higher resolutions, but no point in closing out a segment of your target audience.
Make sure your images and thumbs and art work are all clear and of decent quality. Blurry or over compressed images won't go over well at places with traffic.
If you have a great new idea for a site layout or thumb shapes or whatever, do not be too upset when it gets rejected. Just move on and try something else. Some ideas are good and some are bad. Plus most of the "ideas" have been tried many times before over the years, so when you get the bright idea to use say, an image map for example, trust me when I say, you did not develop that idea!
When you put in a description for your site make sure it is accurate and makes sense in the language that the site requires. Do not put your domain name in for the description or your sponsor or your name. Put an accurate description of the gallery in.
Count your images! Oh my goodness does it amaze me how many web"masters" can't count! If you have 12 images, put 12 in for image count, using larger numbers that you do not actually have does not help you get listed or does it increase the clicks to your gallery. Just makes you look stupid..
Pay attention to what niche or category your content belongs in. It does not matter if you think she is fine, a large model does not go in the Babe category, she goes in BBW and an older model goes in Mature. Reviewers get tired of putting your galleries in the right category and sending targeted traffic to it. Categories are there for a reason, so people can find what they are looking for. So if you put a hardcore gallery in the "Teen" category, you've just screwed yourself out of traffic, if the gallery even passes review.
It really is simple to make good sites and get them listed all over the place. Obviously, the rules are a major thing to pay attention to. Most of the rest is either common sense or basic webmaster skills. If you have questions for the sites you are listing with send them an email but be polite, professional and to the point, the reviewer already is a busy person and is probably pissed off at the 200 morons they dealt with this week already. Do not be one of those morons.
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Do good work and use your head!