GWW Inspired My Underwear Website

[desslock]

Hey everyone:

A month or so ago, someone posted a thread about starting an underwear site. That actually drove me to act on an idea I had been considering for awhile about an underwear site.

Anyway after taking a week off to move to a nice new 2 bedroom apartment - I have finally been putting the finishing touches on it. It still needs some "detailing" --- and I'll be tweeking the pages inside over the next few weeks to optimize it for the search engines. Plus additional miscellany.....

But feel free to let me know what you think. It's is more or less on, submitted and in queue for indexing....

Underwear Galore - www.underweargalore.com

Steve
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[Fister]

Hi, Steve.

I like the look of the site. Easy navigation and international too. It should attract the attention of the markets for online male underwear purchases.

I'm not clear on how this site will earn significant revenue for you. The central clicks take me to ebay auctions for underwear. Are you selling any of the ebay underwear items? If not, then you are relying on advertisements for Amazon, nutritional products and food, gambling, and cigarettes. Conventional wisdom is that unrelated advertising does not do very well, and my experience agrees with this.

So I suggest that you use the Amazon button that sells apparel, look for sponsors that sell men's underwear or apparel, and sell men's underwear on ebay.

[Squirt]

For me it was a bit confusing ( go figure ) and the thumbnails were to small, but it's been a long day and it's getting late. I just wanted to give you some input. Night :-D

[Lee]

It looks good Steve however, i would probably not use Ebay for a sponsor instead do a search on Google for underwear stores a few of them do have an affiliate program attached to them

Also, check out some of the cosmetic places (hint)

Regards,

Lee

[Bec]

Two other places to look for stores with affiliate programs is Linkshare and Commission Junction ... often you can hook up with a store and bring in just the item(s) you wish to promote.

[desslock]

Hey guys thanks for the comments!

Yes, you all are correct - all the underwear selling on the site is off of eBay. This site's revenue model uses eBay's affiliate program.

There are other affiliate programs out there for selling underwear - International Male, Undergear and Amazon.com sells apparel. For this project, I'm using eBay's affiliate program. (to answer your question Fister) So to all you people out there still wanting to sell underwear, just consider that fresh territory left uncharted!

eBay's affiliate program is interesting -- I really like using eBay's API so that I can easily create pages of underwear products that are constantly updated as new auctions appear. It's neat. I have several targeted sites that sell eBay stuff - I've been learning all the positives and negatives. And I've wanted for some time to sell a product that would be in demand around the world, and more of a commodity - underwear fits the bill.

Another nice thing is that I can use the international eBays to globalize my site. Also notice, I have not made the site gay specific, nor is it "adult."

Unreleated ads can do well. It depends on the programs you are advertising. Note too that some ads obviously do not apply to different areas of Underwear Galore. For example, the cigarettes and the Vitacost protein shake links do not appear on non-USA pages.

Obviously they aren't shipping cigs or food product out of the US. So on the UK pages I'm running Amazon.uk iframes, UK casinos etc. That is one thing to alter over time - watch how your ads do, and modify them accordingly.

I received an email last week from Australia's UncutGayDVDs - they are now selling adult toys and accessories. Maybe I'll see what they have and perhaps build some links to their adult accessories on the Australia underwear pages.

The affiliate program group that I am least familiar with are the casinos. I have always wanted to figure out ways to utilize them. It's definately a whole seperate ball of wax to learn about, like when I started doing the adult programs.

Steve

Quick Note - Bec: eBay's affiliate program is with Commission Junction.

[Squirt]

Real unique business model.. thanks for sharing that.. real cool!

[desslock]

Well I just got home from the bar, where it was kinda slow (however I was kinda tired). A look at my stats from yesterday has rewarded me with the fact that the GoogleBot crawled through Underwear Galore on Saturday. Woo hoo! :groovy:

It says it hit 45 pages, and that sounds about right.

Here's to some nice tighty whities.

Steve