Lesson #06 TGP Submission Rules
Written By Titmowse

If you read enough of the rules of the different TGP submission pages, you will see a pattern. The TGP site owner is in business to make money primarily for themselves. They would prefer a gallery have only thumbnails, maybe buttons of them and two other TGPs and nothing else on it.

A TGP owner naturally wants that surfer to visit your gallery and then immediately click their "back" button to return to them. While the TGP owner knows that they need fresh galleries to keep their Post page alive, they must cater to the requests of their regular surfers. The TGP owner has to please both gallery makers and regular visitors. TGP owners know they can't get a gallery maker to completely remove all advertising from a submission, but a TGP owner can certainly stipulate the amount of that advertising. Hence, the TGP rules. Here are some of the stipulations to keep in mind when submitting your gallery:

1. Do not change any element on your gallery once you have submitted it. Many dishonest webmasters in the past have changed the contents of a gallery after listing. TGP owners know this. If you change your gallery after you are listed, you will be found out and take the chance of being blacklisted by the TGP.

2. Use one email address as your primary contact for replies to gallery submissions. TGP owners want you to provide a REAL email address. This means, they will usually not accept submission from free email accounts like Hotmail. They also want consistency and prefer you use one email contact address.

3. Don't use coding tricks on your gallery. If you've coded your pages so it auto-redirects to another site after say, 10 seconds. You will only succeed in pissing off TGP owners. Auto-bookmarking codes or unclosable java boxes with dialers on them can be all over your main/home page, but never on a gallery.

4. Do not hot-link thumbnail images to sponsor/paysite pages. A thumbnail should always be a thumbnail. It should always lead to its full sized version when clicked.

5. Do not apply blind links or on-mouseover code to your gallery. A blind link is one where the text says one thing, but the link leads to another. On-mouseover is Java code on a link. This code makes it so that when a surfer simply passes their cursor over the mouseover, either they are sent to a new page or a new window opens. This is not fair to the surfer and because your gallery visitor came from a TGP, you will be found out.

6. Do not hot-link images. Upload images to your web server and apply them to your page. When you code your gallery so that an image is coming from the server of someone else, you are stealing bandwidth and content.

A true reading of the rules on a TGP will keep you out of trouble and promote your credibility as an adult webmaster. If you do not like the rules of a certain TGP, don't submit to them. There are hundreds of TGP sites. Take the time to visit the Library page here at Cozy Academy and get to know more about Thumbnail Gallery Posts.