What is your opinion about Sitesell.com?

I have a website hosted on Sitesell aka Site Build It.

Just a fair warning: there is a potential that this thread will explode into a mass confusion of hate-slinging. This is because every time a discussion of Site Build It comes up, there is a group of haters that appears and criticizes it to no end. And then the group of supporters (such as myself) argue back. And the fight continues... until the thread gets locked by a mod.

That said, I am satisfied with my SBI site. I started it several years ago and even though I barely even touch it anymore, it is still making me money every single month because I followed the SBI model correctly when I first set up my website. The SBI model is just one internet marketing model of many that are out there. However, it is definitely one of the most "passive" focused models that there is.

Basically your task with an SBI site is to essentially write enough content and articles to fill a book, only instead of putting them into a book, you create "evergreen" content on the internet that will receive search engine traffic for years to come. Over the last couple years the SBI people have also been encouraging users to add things like social media integration and things like that, but ultimately the bread and butter is in the "keyword-focused content pages" as they call them.

The model works, and the system works. The hosting platform is ONLY intended for someone who 1) is not technologically versed enough to use a regular web host efficiently and 2) is ONLY intent on following the SBI business model (create evergreen content to attract search engine traffic which you then monetize).

Do NOT buy SBI if you want to start a personal blog, or if you want to create a few dozen mini-sites, or anything like that. It's only for following the SBI business model.

If you start with SBI, the two biggest 'challenges' you will face will firstly be getting through the Action Guide (their instructions for how to build you website), and secondly you will have to write a lot of content in order to be successful. The "passive" income part only comes after you have put in all the work up front to create a great website. It is no push-button software that just deposits money into your hands, because such a system does not exist.

It is possible that you will start with SBI and then eventually, after maybe a few years, desire to move onto other hosting platforms. Many SBI users do this after becoming successful with SBI. There was one famous SBI'er who moved his website off of SBI only to discover that paying for hosting for his massive website and its traffic cost something like $700/month from a regular web host. But SBI had been hosting at the $30/month price for him for years, since that is their guaranteed rate.

Anyways, like I said, SBI is a good place to start online if you are just starting out and have never made passive income online before. The business model is legit, but you have to put in the work to research your niche and write a lot of great content for it. You will essentially be a paid writer; except instead of being paid to write each article, you will be paid in passive income for years to come, after you put in all the work upfront.

Sorry I got so engrossed in writing about SBI that I ignored this statement. Whether SBI is right or not for your modelling website really depends on what technology you will need for the site, and what your intended goals are. If you are only intending to host a bunch of images, then SBI may not be right for you. But if you intend to write a lot about modeling on your website along with images, then it may be the right solution.

I think SBI does have an image file size limit though, so be aware of that if you will need to host high-res images.

She means she followed the SBI business model to get the website created in the first place. I used to talk with her semi-regularly online in a different forum. She is definitely not lying about her income. She was even interviewed by Steve Pavlina a few years ago. From what I understand, all or most of her product sales are made to traffic that her website receives from the search engines, like pretty much every other SBI site. And since the website was built on the SBI business model, saying that SBI is responsible for it is not a big stretch. After all, SBI provides not just hosting tools, but an education about how to build SEO authority websites as well.

It's also true that you can follow the SBI model on a different web host. Many SBI'ers transfer to other web hosts after their SBI site becomes successful. This is because SBI is geared towards technology/internet marketing beginners who are just starting out in the online world. After a few years of building a website on their platform, their technology can get a bit limiting for people who want to do "big boy" things like upload 1000 new pages at once or create more interactive websites. But the point of the SBI business model is that nothing too complicated is really necessary to make money online; just a heck of a lot of writing good content.

That's okay but why her dreaming site is on Bluehost now?

I never listen about this site. But after visiting this site, i think that its not an easy task to start your own business using this website services becoz there are millions of websites that provides such services.

The days where a host could claim success online for you are gone. There was a time when you could pay to get your site pages listed at the top of MSN and Yahoo, and when web asters used Microsoft Frontpage to 'build' their sites.

Sitesell and SBI are from that era and belong to that era.

It's 2013 and anyone with a little common sense can recognize that what worked in 2003 with the search engines isn't very relevant, if at all, in 2013.

It's not to say you can't succeed using SBI. Just that you're not likely to succeed because of it. It's totally possible to succeed using SBI if you don't follow their 2003 model of gaming the search engines.

But then what would be the point of paying $300 for a business model you can't rely on?

SiteSell itself is amateur these days. It looks like something from 1999-2002 era.
The site is fully of fluff. "Life-changing impact." -- really? :rolleyes:

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Wow, some folks are still seriously considering Sitesell!?
I thought that goose was cooked:
http://www.warriorforum.com/internet...sells-sbi.html

Do you really want to get stuck into:

1) A proprietary website building system - i.e. a total pain in the behind when you want to move your website. (You'll have to change your entire website structure, even the include files, blogging systen, their content 2 Google penalty attractor etc. etc. SHOOT ME NOW!!)

2) $300 - $350 PER site, PER YEAR, every year for the rest of your life!

3) A forum full of total amateurs. (That's who Sitesell attracts - hobbyists.)

4) No clear monetization strategy. (Build it and they will come. LOL. But you don't know the who, and the what. And post Panda & Penguin, IF they will even come.)

I suggest:
Search for a good clear monetization strategy here on Warrior Forum, there are plenty of helpful affiate marketers, and you know the other marketers are not shy about being honest in their reviews here.
Most courses usually have a once off fee and you can get started on Wordpress and the host of your choice.
Perhaps build 3 micro sites for the cost of a domain each (compare that to the $1000 it would cost you with Sitesell). See which site gains traction, and if you feel the urge, you can build it out, and then scale the system.

That to me makes a lot more sense than getting stuck into a $300 per year system hoping for the best while the rest of the Coolaid drinkers and planted Moles in the Sitesell Forums are cheering you on to add more and more content (or pay for extra Sitesell services) while you are on a rudderless dinghy in the middle of the Atlantic.

When you are starting out you need clear instructions on how to get from A to B.
Sitesell is a content building system that used to attract organic traffic pre Panda & Penguin, but it has no clear monetization strategies (other than random articles spread all over their Forums) other than to slap Adsense on your site.

In these times you need to very shrewd with the Internet traffic that you get, and you want a course that will show you how to make the most $ from that traffic, you DO NOT want a system that teaches you to prostitute all your hard work to the lowest bidder like MediaAds, Chitika etc.
Those days are gone.

I don't think it's about being broke, but more about what SBI offers and what you can get for this money elsewhere. Maybe it made sense to pay this price 5-6 years when their training was still up to date, their technology didn't seem THAT painfully outdated like it is now. Also, it adds up fast if you have 10-20 sites (or even 200+ like some people here).

In any case, it's a matter of preference. Some people need the feeling of belonging and SBI gives them that, some just don't want to do this alone. While in my opinion it's a complete illusion and in SBI they don't have a very good company anyway, I get how some people might feel differently.