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Has Site Build IT been good to anyone lately?

by Vibrant Warrior
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Merry Christmas Everyone!

I am thinking of buying SBI. I am fairly new to IM (6 months) and although I have a fairly sound technical grounding I haven't done too well lately, especially with Wordpress (perhaps due to the lack of backlinks).

I have seen a great deal of success stories on the SBI website and hear that statistically they dominate the top 3% of all leading websites out there. But how good has it been to you Warriors lately? I am aiming to promote affiliate products through SiteSell as many have done in the past. I think what's really enticing about SBI is the fact that once it's up and running it really needs little to no maintenance and more so requires no promoting. I think as with most people here, I really am looking for a handsfree residual income that I can count on month after month, after doing the hard work at the beginning.
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  • Profile picture of the author Seattle Mike
    I would say use that $300 to buy good articles and submit them to EZA to get traffic to your wordpress site. Or some backlinking outsourced. Backlinks are important. Without them any site will not do as well.

    SBI is good for newbies and has a lot of helpful information. But if you can handle hosting and building wordpress sites already. You don't really need to pay $300 per site per year.

    The best SBI sites do well mainly because of the amount of content on them. Not really because they are on site build it servers. You can do the same thing with a blog. Once you get several hundred pages of content, the search engines start sending traffic. Once you have several hundred pages, natural backlinks start coming to you. If your content is good.

    I have a 5 year old SBI site with 300 pages of content and it makes me about $2000 per year profit. And I only touch it about 4 times a year now. So they do work. But it also took me 3 years to build and would be too much trouble to move hosts now and update all those pages.

    IMO you are past that beginner level. You can put up a lot of sites on your own host server with $300.

    But remember you need as many backlinks as you can get Otherwise you will be your largest source of traffic for a long time. Been there so I know the feeling.
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    • Profile picture of the author Kennyh
      I would echo what deverell said, to a certain extent. I started my first SBI site in 2002 and it did fantastically well initially. I've had a couple of others too, one of which is still going well and running profitably, albeit not now hosted with SBI.

      If you're the kind of person who enjoys following step-by-step instructions and is willing to do it 'the SBI way' then it's well worth the money. In fact, you could argue that the keyword research tool 'Brainstorm It!', the 'Content 2.0' tool, the unlimited rock-solid hosting, and the auto-responder are worth the fee on their own. In addition, SBI now has a great user forum.

      I stopped using SBI for two reasons. The first was that I found the web-based block-by-block Sitebuilder cumbersome and frustrating. The second was that SBI favours the 'all your eggs in one basket' approach where you focus all your efforts on one site. That's great if you hit on a great niche first time, as I did, or if you have a passion for a subject that can be commercially exploited, but not so great if you want to test multiple niches to see which works, or if you want to build multiple mini-sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author Vibrant Warrior
    Really appreciate the input here. Ultimately my primary goal will be to get some backlinks established to my existing Wordpress sites.

    Soon after I will give SBI a try, mainly due to the fact that I am an SBI affiliate and also because SBI's got a strong hold on me in a rather strange way.

    So if I were to invest 6 solid days a week continuously, how long do you think it would take for me get my first site up and running? I am very passionate about my niche as it is for a good cause, but at the same it is a fairly competitive niche.

    So how will SBI cope in the traffic and competition department? And how can SBI inform me about how doable a certain niche is?
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  • Profile picture of the author Black Hat Cat
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    Originally Posted by Vibrant Warrior View Post

    Merry Christmas Everyone!

    I have seen a great deal of success stories on the SBI website and hear that statistically they dominate the top 3% of all leading websites out there.
    Yeah, I'm gonna have to call BS on that one.

    I think what's really enticing about SBI is the fact that once it's up and running it really needs little to no maintenance and more so requires no promoting.
    Where did you get that idea? SBI boiled down is nothing more than a site builder. You still have to provide content, get backlinks, do keyword research, etc. You can get the same success using Frontpage, Dreamweaver, or any other site builder. And just like any other site builder, if you abandon your site(stop promoting it) eventually it will suffer.

    It's not the SBI software that delivers rankings, just like Dreamweaver doesn't deliver rankings to a site built with Dreamweaver. It's the process one follows that delivers rankings, and that process is virtually the same no matter what you use to build your site. Bottom line, if you can't get a wordpress blog to rank, you won't be able to get an SBI site to rank either, and on the flip side, if you can get an SBI site to rank, you should be able to get a wordpress blog to rank too, because the process for ranking is the same.
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    • Profile picture of the author tush
      Originally Posted by Black Hat Cat View Post

      Yeah, I'm gonna have to call BS on that one.



      Where did you get that idea? SBI boiled down is nothing more than a site builder. You still have to provide content, get backlinks, do keyword research, etc. You can get the same success using Frontpage, Dreamweaver, or any other site builder. And just like any other site builder, if you abandon your site(stop promoting it) eventually it will suffer.

      It's not the SBI software that delivers rankings, just like Dreamweaver doesn't deliver rankings to a site built with Dreamweaver. It's the process one follows that delivers rankings, and that process is virtually the same no matter what you use to build your site. Bottom line, if you can't get a wordpress blog to rank, you won't be able to get an SBI site to rank either, and on the flip side, if you can get an SBI site to rank, you should be able to get a wordpress blog to rank too, because the process for ranking is the same.
      Yes, you still have to provide the content but you have a step by step guide in place well outlined for you with SBI. SBI is NOT a site builder. Any one can build a site with from any where.... SBI is a system with all the tools in one place to show people how to build a profitable business online. Think about it, a person who is getting started may not even know what a keyword research tool is, let alone how to use it. Besides, most of the work is automated like submitting to search engines, etc... all the tools are in one place. I do not have a blog but I do well understand that you need to keep updating it on a regular basis if you have to make on a regular basis......

      Yes, SBI will help you narrow down your niche, and most importantly, it takes you through the process of knowing the profitabilty of the niche so that one does not waste their time on a niche which wont make them money..... But like members have said, it is just a tool, success depends on the person who is in the drivers seat.

      To answer your question, "Has Site Build IT been good to anyone lately?". Yes indeed! I am even taking them on the buy one get one free Christmas offer to launch my two other sites. Good luck
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      • Profile picture of the author bookreader
        I thoroughly endorse SBI as a great system - all round - from the block by block option or the upload your own html.
        It is a reasonable fee - about $25 a month (includes hosting and domain name) plus other things like Brainstorm it. The forum is just superb for getting help.
        The action guide is very complete and understandable.
        Another benefit is also the "analyse it" which greatly helps fixing up problems and omissions (e.g tags etc)

        You will always need to do some SEO - and getting backlinks isn't hard.

        I have 4 sites with SBI and they are worth every cent. I can build a site easily in 6 days with 30+ pages of quality content.

        I say go for it.
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        • Profile picture of the author tush
          Originally Posted by bookreader View Post

          I have 4 sites with SBI and they are worth every cent. I can build a site easily in 6 days with 30+ pages of quality content.

          I say go for it.
          Wow bookreader, it took me a year to build 30 pgs and another year for additional 30 pages....LOL
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  • Profile picture of the author Vibrant Warrior
    In terms of effective backlinking, which would you say is the best and time effective strategy? I have been looking for an automatic backlinking solution for ages.
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