Seeking suitable business models for an apparel domain. Please help.

Discussion in 'General Business' started by dotworx, Nov 26, 2007.

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    Firstly I'd like to thank you for reading my thread.

    I recently acquired an apparel related domain (no web site) with nice search engine traffic.

    Instead of just park the domain, I'd like to setup a site on the domain to sell related apparel products. After some research, I've come up with a few options, each with some drawbacks:

    1. Amazon aStore - this is the quickest and easiest way for me to setup an online store, but I can't seem to have aStore running on my own domain. I'll have to use my domain as a pointer forwarding traffic to Amazon's aStore URL. I'm afraid I'll lose my domain's pagerank and search engine ranking eventually.

    2. Affiliate links - setup a page full of an affiliate links. It's a bit hard to manage as I don't know exactly what types of product my vistors are looking for, so it's hard for me to provide targeted affiliate links. And will Google penalize minisite with affiliate links?

    3. Dropshipping - I haven't been able to find a dropshipper offering a nice selection of the products I'm after.

    To sum up, I'd like to have a whilte-labeled online store service that pays me comission and handles the shipping, similar to Amazon aStore, but allow me to setup on my own domain. So what choices do I have?

    Any comments will be highly appreciated!!
     
    dotworx, Nov 26, 2007 IP
  2. dotworx

    dotworx Peon

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    Can anyone help me with this?
     
    dotworx, Nov 27, 2007 IP
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    instead of the url pointing right away to the amazon store, cant you set up a front page with info, and a link on the page to shop? could possibly have a moreover fashion new thing running, some other easy stuff, to be more of a real page?
     
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    you could've used optilink to "reverse engineer" the site.
    With optilink you get to know what the incoming links said in terms of keywords, and based on that you could've rebuilt the entire site. Keeping original pr and traffic to some extent.

    You could've sold advertising on it or sent them to your amazon store or affiliate links whatever strikes your fancy.

    But this works best if you did this as soon as possible. Like in hours when you bought the expired domain.

    just a thought though.
    btw optilink is about 149 dollars so it might be a little expensive for you.
    here's the link: http://www.windrosesoftware.com/optilink/

    or just type in optilink in google.

    greetz,
    jobic
     
    jobic, Nov 27, 2007 IP