does anyone here remember pic posts? i always liked pic posts - instead of posting an entire gallery or site, you posted one pic and your banner. the pic was displayed with some linked text and a banner below, and some pic posts linked the pics to your site, as well. most pic posts allowed 1 post per day per webmaster, and you put their recip on your site.
and they sent great traffic.
then came tgps, which sort of progressed from backdoor indexes like thehun and sexyhungryjoes. a lot of us kept posting on pic posts till they started turning into tgps. most of the pic posts still were sending traffic, but i guess they were getting concerned about being able to compete with sites that offered links to 10 or 12 pics per click rather than 1.
over time, most pic posts disappeared and tgps started requiring more pics per gallery, and then better quality or bigger pics. soon tgps were requiring fairly high quality pics, many at a minimum of 600x800. many required a minimum of 15, some 16 or 20.
and somewhere in here, as more and more people got broadband, mgps started to spread. a lot of tgps tried offering both pics and videos, but many simply turned to mgps instead, and now webmasters who had been offering a single pic per day were offering video clips. of course, some tgps stuck to their format and continued to thrive, but others changed as their trades changed or as they wanted more traffic.
and now most surfers are on broadband and a lot of surfers are tired of clicking to a gallery to click 6 10-second clips. i guess i don’t blame them, but it was the perfect time for sites to show up that allowed you to click and see a movie without going to a gallery. and these movies are longer: instead of 10-second clips, surfers can watch a 1-minute to full length vid. without leaving the site. i can see why tube sites are so popular, and i guess we’ll be seeing tube sites change and refine, some more tgps and mgps turn into tube sites.
and i admit that i keep wishing there were still pic posts around - they never actually stopped working, and it was a lot less work to choose a single pic, a banner and some text than to choose and resize 15 pics, lay out a gallery, come up with all the other stuff - or to edit video clips.
