Advice from the old lady:
It doesn't matter. The end result is the same.
Concur 100% with
@RangerMIke but wanted to explain a bit more why this is. Disinterest is not going to get better. If you are in fact a physically appealing specimen why waste your time on a disinterested woman? There are so many others who will show interest so no point wasting time trying to create/negotiate desire where none exists. No man is going to appeal to 100% of all women. Too many guys here on SS are too busy worrying about "Does she like me?????" If you can't tell, she is low interest. Move on. Respect your time and honor the value of your time.
Intimidation is a little different but the outcome is the same. So too are those women who find you desirable, BUT would not want to deal with dating you for whatever reason. I hear this from time to time from friends about my boyfriend for example. I have girlfriends who find him very attractive, but who say they'd never want to date a man like him. Why? They don't want to deal with the player label/reputation, they don't want the headache of worrying about what he's doing if he isn't with them, etc. etc. Some of this arises from insecurities on the woman's part, some of it arises out of a woman's individual standards, some of it arises out of intimidation as examples. Now would he be able to have sex with some of these women who say "I'd never date a guy like that"? Yes, probably (they never said they wouldn't f*ck him). And that would serve to suit the woman's ego in some cases (and his ego as well to be sure), but then things would fizzle.
If eventually you are looking for something that isn't going to fizzle then you need to sort for women who are the following:
1. Receptive and open to you
2. Warm
3. Self confident
4. Comfortable giving you some flak (not really sh*t tests, but someone who will feel perfectly fine calling you a geek if you act like a geek, etc...that is someone who sees you for more than your looks/sees beyond your looks)
5. Women who can handle the attention you are going to get from other women (ties into her self esteem/self confidence). This gets annoying sometimes but just as dating a very attractive female means you as the man are going to deal with other guys oogling your woman, the same is true for a woman who is dating a very attractive man. It's part of the landscape.
I didn't mention SMV level specifically because although it's good to date close to your own SMV, the SMV quotient doesn't equate to an individual's intrinsic internal traits such as self esteem and self confidence. You might do better with a self-assured HB7 for example as opposed to a terrifically insecure HB9. That's the sort of thing you'll have to sort out in the field. You might do best with a self-assured HB9 (if you can find one - they are out there), but you'll deal with the attention from other men etc., just as she'll deal with the attention paid to you by other women.
But if you go by the criteria I've noted above you'll gravitate toward the women who are comfortable with you and interested in you, and that's what you want. The pretty package (looks & physical attractiveness) only gets you so far anyway. You want someone who has the ability to appreciate your looks but also the ability to see you as a complete human being (and this sometimes means in spite of your looks.)