Comments on: New AIS Site Launched

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:57:49 +0000

Looks really good sarah, great idea! Espcially as you know you can dave can work together so well now! I expect to see big things!

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:33:52 +0000

Nice work – I hope it's a big sucess!nnTattoos are strange things you know – once you've had one you'll want another and another. When I first had mine done, I was bricking myself. 20 minutes after the guy had completed the Tat, I wanted another. I was going to get another this summer, but the queue in the Tat shop was too long and I didn't have enough time nnIt's a big big market, play the cards right and this site could be a little stunner.nnPossibly a "nice" way to get traffic would be to rate Tattoo's in a "hot or not" type of competition…

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:16:30 +0000

We've got a lot more to add, luckily Chris has some photos from people who have had the tattoos done which I think can give a good idea. Testimonials could be a good idea, not something I really thought of. But there's a lot more to add like more products, articles, extra contact options etc. Whilst it's an AIS site I want to at least set aside half an hour a week to add to it. The links directory will grow, I just want to database-ise the links and set up my own search as well as category based links.nnIn answer to your questions:nThe site has probably taken around 10 hours to build in total. At the moment the PayPal doesn't use the IPN to automatically email out purchases, but that'll only take half an hour to add in, if that.nnThe research was an accident. I was looking up some stuff on swish on Wordtracker and found 'Tattoo Designs' in the mix and look at the phrase for Chris's own site. I suddenly unearthed a nice little gem! More phrases researched just made the site even more fruitful.nnWell the good looking figures from the research coupled with the discovery of the available domain name and of course knowing I could sell chris's designs directly for him and nag him for more content, an eBook, more flashes etc. just made us figure it was worth giving it a go.nnNo I don't have a tattoo – I've had temporary ones, which is something we're looking into to see if we could print them ourselves and sell them too, but no I have no intention of getting one either!nnI know Chris has made a fair few quid from his site selling them, we're selling at the same price so there's no difference for the visitors and he's happy for us to deal with the sales and just pay him his money.nnWe've basically got a web site that's got great potential in my eyes. My SEO seems spot on for the other sites I've played with recently so it will be interesting with a new web site as to how this does with the getting indexed, the speed of indexing, and the 'alleged' google sandbox (which I don't believe in!). All I need to do now is get another friend to clean up the page text for me and I'll be happy

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:50:35 +0000

Certainly an interesting subject. I like tats.nnWhat you need is for someone to use one of those designs and post a glowing testimonial I would but the designs are not quite what I'm after…nnHow long did the site take to build?nWhat research did you do before building it?nWhy did you choose this niche?nDo you have tattoos?nnNote that your meta-tags are empty – if you use them! I never do…nnSite looks great though – nice design. I can see millions of "tat" searches, but only a few "tat" advertisers…nnNice monetization in the shop – I wonder if there's a market for tat templates bought off the net? I really don't know. I designed my own!