Quote Originally Posted by Paco
I must not have come across clearly, sorry. What I was saying is (in reply to your query whether I/we "think surfers are concerned about the 'quality' of a site or do I/we think they are only interested in the quality of the content inside the site"): I do not believe a new 'inside' or members area is as important as content. I was merely comparing the interior of two-sites (more or less the exact same), so to strengthen my opinion.

At the bottom, I added the little ditty about tours - I believe fresh marketing material is, as with content, more important than the member's area. At no time did I say I "think multiple tours aren't as profitable ... ", as you stated.
Ah gotcha, i thought you meant that by building two seperate sites / members areas, you had spent more money than if you just had one, therefore, making one of the sites / members areas less profitable than the other because you had spent more to make a seperate one when one would have sufficed

I kind of disagree about the fresh marketing material angle, to a point at least, you could use the same banner on a site for X amount of time and still make a sale, just as i could use no banners on a site and make a sale, its ultimately how targeted the traffic you are gaining that makes the money, not the promo materials however, promo materials do help in attracting the surfers attention to a specific area on our sites.

To illustrate my point, you could have literally MILLIONS of promo materials on hand across MILLIONS of sites but, if you have no traffic, they arent going to make you a dime.

Regards,

Lee