Hey everyone-
I am gay so maybe that makes a professional in this subject
Its like queer eye for the straight porno guy!
In regard to niches, which Jay may want to take into account:
- The twink is overpopulated with free, AVS and paysites. However for a linklist, you will get a lot of sites so it may be good for you as you will get an abundance of submission for this category. However, as a webmaster I usually dont build twink sites unless they are ethnic twinks. As a side note for those paysite owners, I think a twink's first time themed site could still do well. Naked twinks with a little hardcore action is over populated and I wouldn't get into it! For those of you who dont know twinks are gay teens with a kind of lanky, skinny body type.
- Bears and asian gay I think can be a bit tricky to convert as the surfers tend to have highly refined tastes. Webmasters who arent well versed in these niches may have trouble. If you are interested in these niches, I would go with Bears. I have done some gay asian freesites, AVS and TGP pages and havent had great results in conversions even with some specialized gay asian traffic.
- Hardcore would be a good category for a link list - a lot of free sites and AVS sites out there just have posing or softcore, and from the few things Ive read the gay adult surfer tends to be interested in either or. I heard somewhere that gay surfers arent that interested in hardcore, which is total bull! However, if you are going hardcore with your site go all the way. Make it HARD and HOT!
- Latin is still a small niche and I havent had much luck in finding many paysite sponsors out there with the gay latin niche. I think this is a really underdeveloped niche that has a lot of potential, however I havent built for this niche yet so I dont know!
- Gay fetish is hard too because it seems to be split into a more softcore, leather sex kind of thing and then the really hard stuff with S&M, bondage, etc.. I think gloryhole is a good area though as its kind of in between and there is a big fantasy component to it.
- Ebony is a good niche which Im still exploring. I would go for it! Its a fairly sizeable niche and you can combine it with interracial which is supposedly supposed to be the hot niche this upcoming year.
Okay.... well ive totally rambled and gotten off topic. Jay I would reccomend the following niches:
Twinks
Hunks
Hardcore
Ethnic (for Asian/Latin/Ebony/Interracial)
Bears
I think fetish tends to be more specialized and I dont know if the traffic is there, so you could lump it in with Hardcore. I think its a fair enough match and the surfers who wanted fetish would find it.
if you have any questions about the gay niche or what good sponsors are out there, please PM me and we can chat! Im happy to help