Annoying & Dishonest: Many are touting that they have thousands of free hosted galleries available for use. To most webmasters this conjures up the image of thousands of unique quality galleries. The reality is however often quite different, what do you get when you take 100 galleries and dress them up in 10 different templates?
FuNny Math: 100 Galleries X 10 Templates = 1000 Galleries!
Sad but true people, its the new math so get used to it. How many man hours have been wasted around here sifting throught he shit people are passing off as free hosted galleries? I could not tell you but would certainly like to know the answer myself! This is just the begining of the bubbles floating on top of the cess pool filled with shitty free hosted galleries though. It does get better, (or stranger depending on how you look at it) take for example the annoying trend of storing the thumbs in GIF format.
Sin Sin Sin! GIF format is not to be used to display pictures. Repeat never use GIF’s for pictures! This is webmaster 101 type shit if you need to know why i pity you. But in the spirit of detante i will break it down for you, JPEG compression is more suitable for pictures because of the nubmer of color gradients involved. You get better quality and better file size with JPEG. The fact that some sponsors are sticking their thumbs into GIF is really special because the rest of the images on their galleries are also GIF too! So logos etc all gif!
Why I Should Stab Your Goof Ass With Sharpened GIF’s! My TGP likes thumbs and my management program kindly seperates GIF’s which are usually trash from JPEG which are usually low quality crappy thumbs that i also throw in the trash. But on occasion some of those JPEG’s are good! Thats when i add them to my TGP! Hooray! Aside from causing a cluster fuck with the process of updating, your also wasting bandwidth. If you dont value your own money then maybe its because your stealing mine? I could be paranoid, im sure your mothers trust you though and that should really be good enough for me too! 
But wait theres more! In the age of razor thinly niched sites most sponsors are still dumping their galleries into one big pot for affiliates to skim through. Even those that take time to generically categorize their slop are doing so in a haphazard method. I have on several occasions selected hundreds of supposedly properly themed galleries only to toss all but a few. One day these people will figure out its better to properly categorize and sort than generalize, lie, and duplicate.
Service:Recently i was suprised by Thurbs At Niched Sites (I get no money from this endorsement or by you clicking that link) he goes the extra mile to actually pick out FHG’s with thumbs of my exact specification. Thats the kind of thing other programs need to focus on, service!
While im on a tear about crappy free hosted galleries, lets not forget the biggest single impediment for TGP owners when it comes to making money using them.
QUALITY: Squeezed, squished, compressed or oppressed?? What should I call the miserable shitty looking thumbs which clog the back channels of the most major Affiliate Programs? Lets just settle on the generic term slop. You could if you so choose, make higher quality thumbs and video too for that matter. This would increase sales from affiliates and probably on most of your tired ass sites as well! Make the thumbs as big as you can why skimp and make them tiny, make your ads bigger too! Why not we are all in this to make money, correct?
GIGO: Garbage in Garbage out ~ If you cock knockers think for a minute any self respecting webmaster who works for a living is going to use crappy quality galleries long term you are wrong. We are just waiting for someone that knows what the fuck they are doing to come along and give us another alternative!
The Last Word: As always i leave that to you, chances are though you just lurk my site to pilfer good ideas and acquire common sense. 99/100
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