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My review of Pinkworld premium partner account

Howling Wulf — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:37:35 +0000

Pinkworld is one of the old school text TGPs, online since 15-Apr-1999.

Submit Passes states that Pinkworld is currently receiving 351,866 unique visitors and 1,748,827 page views a day, but no date is listed. Pinkworld’s Alexa rating is still very good. The bad news is it shows 50% of Pinkworld’s traffic is from India. That traffic is very dismal, even for TGP.

Pinkworld submit pass: $59 per month allows 1 submit each day. Approval time is about 3-4 days. Traffic received: 300k over the last 30 day period, but because of the India traffic, I’m going to estimate it as 150k of ‘good’ traffic.

Estimated pass value with performance on 150k hits to TGP galleries for a $35 per sale site.

Results	CTR	Ratio	Sales	Value
Poor	2%	1:1500	2	$70
Average	3%	1:1250	3.6	$126
Good	4%	1:1000	6	$210

Summary Value: Still seems good, but with so much foreign traffic, it’s a toss up.

My review of TGP Alliance premium partner account

Howling Wulf — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:23:42 +0000

TGP Alliance is a network of adult oriented sites which specializes is thumbnail gallery posts. TGP Alliance has been online for over 5 years and has acquired a huge amount of traffic of all types, which includes bookmark traffic, Search Engine traffic, normal traffic from trades and also a lot of niche traffic. Although there is a large number of TGP sites to submit to with this pass, the only two that sends big traffic is Sun Porno and Twilight Sex. However, recently the website owner has switched the index page of Sun Porno into a tube. TGP galleries can still be found in the archives, but how many surfers would use that when tube videos are all over the main page? Traffic sent from Sun Porno immediately dropped 90%, and I’m wondering if more network sites will become tubes. Attempted contacts to owner have gone unanswered.

TGP Alliance Submit Pass: $150 allows 5 submits per day for 2 months. This comes out to $75 per month. Traffic received: 216k hits over a 30 day period. This is still after the Sun Porno tube change.

Estimated pass value with performance on 216k hits to TGP galleries for a $35 per sale site.

Results	CTR	Ratio	Sales	Value
Poor	2%	1:1500	2.88	$100.80
Average	3%	1:1250	5.18	$181.44
Good	4%	1:1000	8.64	$302.40

Summary Value: Very good, down from Excellent before Sun Porno switched to tube format.

March 9th update: Got this email, making this partner account better since I submit primarily picture galleries anyway.

“Dear Partners,

Due to high demand from webmasters, we decided to create picture-only accounts,
which will let you submit picture galleries only. It’s price will be lower than accounts which allow to submit both pictures and movies, and it will be $50 per month with 3 months required prepayment. Picture accounts will be available
starting 1st of april.

Thank you for your support and continued business.”

My review of Easypic premium partner account

Howling Wulf — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:29:23 +0000

Easypic used to be a big mover when text TGPs were king. Then one day the owner decided to list only free hosted galleries, paid spots, and paid partner accounts. He also put in a background javascript redirect to his other site Movie Post and added a ton of sponsor links on the main page, all to maximize it’s income with minimal management. All submitted galleries will be only listed on category pages, and not on the index page. It may sound bad, but Easypic still has a fair Alexa rating and a decent amount of traffic. A $100 Easypic partner account is good for 6 months, and allows 10 submissions per day with very loose guidelines, including sponsor hosted galleries.

I usually submit 3-5 galleries a day, and the last 30 day snapshot shows 44939 hits from Easypic to my galleries. No accept or decline emails are sent.

Easypic Monthly Pass: $100 allows 10 submits per day for 6 months. This comes out to just over $16 per month. Traffic received: 44939 hits over a 30 day period.

Estimated pass value with performance on 44939 hits to TGP galleries for a $35 per sale site.

Results	CTR	Ratio	Sales	Value
Poor	2%	1:1500	0.60	$20.97
Average	3%	1:1250	1.78	$37.75
Good	4%	1:1000	2.96	$62.91

Summary Value: Fair to Good depending on how many submits per day.

My review of Primox premium partner account

Howling Wulf — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:15:56 +0000

A high traffic TGP in the gay niche, a partner account is only available by contacting the webmaster directly. The minimum amount is 1 gay submit per day for 3 months for $75, up to 5 gay submits per day for 3 months for $200. I took the 1/day submit pass, and these results are from a one month window, at a comparative cost of $25. According to the site owner, the his gay TGP gets about 350k to galleries daily. It has a high Alexa rating and it appears a lot of people search for ‘primox’. The gay TGP does skim traffic for trades at 10%, which for a TGP is very low.

Towards the end of my pass, a 30 day snapshot shows 73982 hits from Primox to my galleries. No accept or decline emails are sent, but you can check your galleries because they use the Smart Thumbs TGP script. I don’t know if all submitted galleries are set to inactive when the partner account expires, or it happens naturally.

Primox Monthly Pass: $25 allows 1 submit per day (3 months minimum). Traffic received: 73982 hits over a 30 day period.

Estimated pass value with performance on 73982 hits to TGP galleries for a $35 per sale site.

Results	CTR	Ratio	Sales	Value
Poor	2%	1:1500	0.99	$34.52
Average	3%	1:1250	1.78	$62.14
Good	4%	1:1000	2.96	$103.57

Summary Value: Fair

My review of the Call Kelly Premium partner account

Howling Wulf — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:45:29 +0000

The description for Call Kelly at Submit Passes states they currently have 410,000 Unique visitors and 750,000 page views a day. A $100 monthly premium submit pass allows 1 submission per day to the main page. It’s Alexa page shows that it’s been online since 1996. It looks like the thumb gallery listings go through a trade script, but I can’t tell what the skim percentage is. Galleries are listed according to thumbnail popularity. They have a tube section and an active forum for surfer’s to submit their own content too. You get to compete with both for traffic.

After a month of submitting, my previous 30 days of stats shows 145,090 hits sent from Call-Kelly. This is less traffic than from the $40 and $50 TGP submit accounts. Call Kelly doesn’t send accept or decline emails, so I can only assume all submissions were listed. Perhaps my thumbnails didn’t do so well and therefore I wasn’t ranked well. I don’t know, but skimming the traffic off to their trades doesn’t help.

Call Kelly Monthly Pass: $100 allows 1 submit per day. Traffic received: 145,090 hits.
Estimated pass value with performance on 145,090 hits to TGP galleries for a $35 per sale site.

Results	CTR	Ratio	Sales	Value
Poor	2%	1:1500	1.93	$67.71
Average	3%	1:1250	3.48	$121.88
Good	4%	1:1000	5.80	$203.13

I always compare the price of the submit pass with the worst case scenario, ‘Poor Results’, which in this case I would be losing money. In current market conditions, it seems Poor Results are soon becoming average. Better to be safe than sorry. With the $100 you can buy two $50 passes and get over twice the traffic instead.

Summary: Poor value.