Looking for "boat" merchants..

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Hello chaps, I have just purchased a domain name small sail boats.co.uk which used to be a pretty basic website about sail boats. Over the past few weeks the server stats showed a pretty steady number of about 100 visits a day so I decided to look a little further into the traffic.

It is ranking for small sail boats and sail boats. Does anyone have any ideas on what to do with this..

All thoughts welcome..

Sam
 


Hmm when I was doing some blackhat stuff I promoted a boat company that was on cj.com, it converted ok. I can't remember my password right now so you'll have to look yourself.
 
There used to be a yacht affiliate program back in the day. I don't know about small sail boats. What I would do is call a local boat maker or sales outlet and tell them you have this domain and you'd like to collect leads and sell them to them. Ask what they would pay - on sales or data. Your 100 hits a day could be worth 10k a month for all you know right now with the ring of a phone..
 
Check out CJ and Shareasale which are two of the biggest CPS networks, just search for 'boats'. If that fails create your own product (guide to small sailboats) and sell that for 10 bucks, or try a clickbank product if you don't want to write your own, or of course even try adsense or another program of that type, but the money there with only 100 uniques a day is probably not that much, although I'm not sure what adsense pays for sailing related clicks, could be decent. Selling potential leads to boat companies is also a great idea but would require a fair amount of networking and work.
 
Boats - I know stuff about boats.

First of all - boats are NOT a niche. Even "small sail boats" are not a niche. Instead, people in those hobbies tend to have three things in common:

1.) Way too god damn much free time
2.) Same for money
3.) Very strong opinions on either a) a brand or b) a construction technique

For example, with power boats the "Boston Whaler" boat company is VERY popular - but even within that it is split into diverse sub niches.

With your niche I would look heavily into all of the sub-niches (ie, fiberglass, teak, wood, composite, etc) sailboats, various brands, etc - and either separate the site out into those categories and sell to sub-niches OR pick one niche and go for it.
 
Put up a poll and see if your visitors are interested in:

1) buying a boat
2) building a boat
3) learning how to sail

etc

Then you know what to try and sell
 
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