DTopSpirit - 7:41 am on Nov 10, 2005 (gmt 0)

Thanks very much to everyone who has been kind enough to provide some help and advice - I'm absorbing it all at the moment. Any other points of view are still welcome though.

One extra clarification that I will add - in my sport a typical player can spend several hundred dollars a year or more in equipment. That's where the money is online (as I'm sure you would all know). The bigger site has it's own equipment business, so it will be using many of my articles to help sell it's products. That is probably where most of the value lies for them - they don't really need the articles to generate more traffic - they want to be able to convert more of the traffic, I guess.

I don't have the time, desire or resources to set up a full online equipment dealership, so the value to me is more on personal satisfaction of writing good articles, selling the odd DVD and hopefully someday becoming an authority site that could sell a bit of advertising to other equipment dealers.

Thanks again,

Greg (who has a lot to think about now!)