What 5 things do you recommend I do when starting a new TGP?

[jscott]

I agree, I would totally lose the adverts, now is early, you are in "traffic building stage 1", which means you need to:
- seo, content updates, clean page
- traffic trading (must buy traffic, because right now new sites have nothing to offer, no google/se traffic etc, u should give something to offer other trades in terms of traffic
- submit to no recip dirs, submit tgp galls, build hardlinks if have pr etc
- waiting for seo

once you have a nice and steady traffic flow, solid traffic, solid trades etc, then you should ease in some adverts on your page, but also, my thoughts have always been, that tgps are meant to sell, make profits from your galleries and not adverts mostly... (imho this is what i find works best)

Good luck with your new tgp Don