Tgp?
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icerfan
Nikkala made me do it!
It's Thumbnail Gallery Post. Took me a while to figger it oot, too. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumbnail_gallery_post
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumbnail_gallery_post
bobblez
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Thumbnail gallery post
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
How it Works
A "thumbnail", in web lingo, is a small version of an image; when clicked, it typically leads to the full-size version of the image. "Thumbnail galleries" are web pages that contain some 10-20 thumbnails of pornographic photos or movies. Visiting these galleries is free: their purpose is advertising. The material comes from a commercial pornographic web site, to which several links are provided.
Thumbnail galleries are either run by the commercial sites themselves, or by third-parties ("affiliates") who are paid by those sites for web traffic or for subscriptions sold. This system of website content promotion is the main advertising vehicle for Internet pornography today.
A TGP site is a large, constantly updated and sometimes categorized list of links to thumbnail galleries. A TGP site that hosts links to movie galleries instead of, or in addition to, picture galleries is sometimes called a movie gallery post (MGP). Some TGPs give simple text links, others provide a thumbnail image for each gallery they link to. The TGP owner makes money by serving paid ads in addition to the gallery links. TGP owners are typically separate from the gallery owners and the subscription website owners.
Listing a gallery on a TGP is free; the TGPs usually provide simple submission mechanisms. Gallery owners face the task of having to submit their gallery to several hundred TGPs. They can buy so-called auto-submitter software which automates this process. TGP owners can sign up with these software makers for free so that they get more gallery submissions.
The large and well-established TGPs are among the most popular internet porn sites, and they wield considerable power over gallery creators: they dictate the precise format of galleries (such as: 10-20 thumbnails linking directly to full-size images, only 2-3 ads, no popup consoles) and won't list any non-conformant galleries. Some also charge gallery owners for prominent placement.
Before the advent of TGPs in the second half of the 1990s, free advertising porn galleries usually linked the images behind cute little icons and the surfer had no idea what was behind them before he clicked.
TGPs employ a variety of traffic trading schemes; perhaps the most basic of these is to link to other TGP sites.
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TGP2
The success of the TGP format forced some adult webmasters to rethink their role in promotion of commercial sites. Some webmasters believe that TGPs help to supersaturate the Internet with free pornography. A new format for organising previews came from Colin Delia, a renowned adult webmaster. This format, named TGP2, limits the exposure of the surfer to free content in many ways. For example, no more than 12 thumbnails are allowed per page, of which only 5 can link to images (and not directly, but to pages with images and ads) and the rest must link to signup pages. The TGP2 galleries should only include softcore pics and may not link to TGP sites. Most TGP sites do not allow TGP2 galleries to be listed.
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Deceptive Practices
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Skimming and Circle Jerk (CJs)
In the act of skimming--also known as a circle jerk (or CJ)--, a user who clicks on a gallery link provided by a TGP will be redirected to another TGP. The trade is reciprocal: by looking at the Referer header of the HTTP request, a TGP owner knows from where their traffic comes; a site that doesn't provide enough visitors will be excluded from further trades. Both these traffic trade schemes are therefore susceptible to cheating: a trader can use a so-called hitbot to create bogus traffic from his site to another, in order to get good traffic in return.
Some TGPs present the galleries inside a frame, allowing the placement of additional advertisements or a link back to the TGP in a separate, always visible frame.
Scripts that automate the maintenance of a TGP, manage traffic trades and protect against hitbots are readily available. Some of these are even free, financed by an occasional redirecting of surfers to a site under the control of the script's programmer, or by advertisements directed at other webmasters on the gallery submission and traffic trade pages.
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Fake TGPs
Some websites appear to be TGPs, yet all or most of the hosted galleries belong to the same webmaster and promote a limited selection of commercial websites. Such TGPs may contain links to other deceptive TGP sites owned by the same group or individual.
As a general rule, TGPs that employ a high level of skimming or that mainly promote galleries owned by the TGP's webmaster will typically contain thumbnails of higher quality.
Some TGPs also attempt to trap the hapless viewer by resizing the browser window, opening new windows, installing spyware, adware or dialers, changing the home page and adding bookmarks. It is therefore advisable to visit these sites only when Java, ActiveX and JavaScript as well as other scripting languages have been disabled in the browser and the system is fully patched, or by avoiding use of less secure browsers (such as Internet Explorer).
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External links
Some of the web pages below contain pornographic material.
* Tutorial about TGPs and galleries for adult webmasters, by Cozy Academy
* TGP2 information
* DMOZ's list of Thumbnail Gallery Posts
* Pornzilla - Add-ons for the Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla web browsers that facilitate TGP browsing in various ways
* Fetchgals - A web spider that can locate TGPs and galleries and download their movies and pictures
Here is the link for this educative page :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGP
Have a good one.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
How it Works
A "thumbnail", in web lingo, is a small version of an image; when clicked, it typically leads to the full-size version of the image. "Thumbnail galleries" are web pages that contain some 10-20 thumbnails of pornographic photos or movies. Visiting these galleries is free: their purpose is advertising. The material comes from a commercial pornographic web site, to which several links are provided.
Thumbnail galleries are either run by the commercial sites themselves, or by third-parties ("affiliates") who are paid by those sites for web traffic or for subscriptions sold. This system of website content promotion is the main advertising vehicle for Internet pornography today.
A TGP site is a large, constantly updated and sometimes categorized list of links to thumbnail galleries. A TGP site that hosts links to movie galleries instead of, or in addition to, picture galleries is sometimes called a movie gallery post (MGP). Some TGPs give simple text links, others provide a thumbnail image for each gallery they link to. The TGP owner makes money by serving paid ads in addition to the gallery links. TGP owners are typically separate from the gallery owners and the subscription website owners.
Listing a gallery on a TGP is free; the TGPs usually provide simple submission mechanisms. Gallery owners face the task of having to submit their gallery to several hundred TGPs. They can buy so-called auto-submitter software which automates this process. TGP owners can sign up with these software makers for free so that they get more gallery submissions.
The large and well-established TGPs are among the most popular internet porn sites, and they wield considerable power over gallery creators: they dictate the precise format of galleries (such as: 10-20 thumbnails linking directly to full-size images, only 2-3 ads, no popup consoles) and won't list any non-conformant galleries. Some also charge gallery owners for prominent placement.
Before the advent of TGPs in the second half of the 1990s, free advertising porn galleries usually linked the images behind cute little icons and the surfer had no idea what was behind them before he clicked.
TGPs employ a variety of traffic trading schemes; perhaps the most basic of these is to link to other TGP sites.
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TGP2
The success of the TGP format forced some adult webmasters to rethink their role in promotion of commercial sites. Some webmasters believe that TGPs help to supersaturate the Internet with free pornography. A new format for organising previews came from Colin Delia, a renowned adult webmaster. This format, named TGP2, limits the exposure of the surfer to free content in many ways. For example, no more than 12 thumbnails are allowed per page, of which only 5 can link to images (and not directly, but to pages with images and ads) and the rest must link to signup pages. The TGP2 galleries should only include softcore pics and may not link to TGP sites. Most TGP sites do not allow TGP2 galleries to be listed.
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Deceptive Practices
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Skimming and Circle Jerk (CJs)
In the act of skimming--also known as a circle jerk (or CJ)--, a user who clicks on a gallery link provided by a TGP will be redirected to another TGP. The trade is reciprocal: by looking at the Referer header of the HTTP request, a TGP owner knows from where their traffic comes; a site that doesn't provide enough visitors will be excluded from further trades. Both these traffic trade schemes are therefore susceptible to cheating: a trader can use a so-called hitbot to create bogus traffic from his site to another, in order to get good traffic in return.
Some TGPs present the galleries inside a frame, allowing the placement of additional advertisements or a link back to the TGP in a separate, always visible frame.
Scripts that automate the maintenance of a TGP, manage traffic trades and protect against hitbots are readily available. Some of these are even free, financed by an occasional redirecting of surfers to a site under the control of the script's programmer, or by advertisements directed at other webmasters on the gallery submission and traffic trade pages.
[edit]
Fake TGPs
Some websites appear to be TGPs, yet all or most of the hosted galleries belong to the same webmaster and promote a limited selection of commercial websites. Such TGPs may contain links to other deceptive TGP sites owned by the same group or individual.
As a general rule, TGPs that employ a high level of skimming or that mainly promote galleries owned by the TGP's webmaster will typically contain thumbnails of higher quality.
Some TGPs also attempt to trap the hapless viewer by resizing the browser window, opening new windows, installing spyware, adware or dialers, changing the home page and adding bookmarks. It is therefore advisable to visit these sites only when Java, ActiveX and JavaScript as well as other scripting languages have been disabled in the browser and the system is fully patched, or by avoiding use of less secure browsers (such as Internet Explorer).
[edit]
External links
Some of the web pages below contain pornographic material.
* Tutorial about TGPs and galleries for adult webmasters, by Cozy Academy
* TGP2 information
* DMOZ's list of Thumbnail Gallery Posts
* Pornzilla - Add-ons for the Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla web browsers that facilitate TGP browsing in various ways
* Fetchgals - A web spider that can locate TGPs and galleries and download their movies and pictures
Here is the link for this educative page :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGP
Have a good one.
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