How I Create A Site Blueprint From The Keyword List (MKL)
Just wanted to share my system of creating a site blueprint in the most time efficient way (that I have found so far) from the keyword list.
I’ll do this example from the SBI’s MKL (Master Keyword List) and how I work in Excel (or Open Office Calc) to organize keywords.
I’ll just show you an example based on one seed word – tennis, but the system is identical if you combine multiple vertical brainstorms from multiple seed words.
So here we go… Read more
Any Extra Costs With SBI 2.0 Subscription?
If anyone else wonders whether there are any extra costs involved with buying SBI 2.0 subscription, please check this Q&A:
Dear Tomaz,
I am going to order SBI this week-end and as I am a very beginner in this field of internet business I have no idea how much extra costs will involve this business? Will you be so kind to give me an idea about this topic? Kind regards, V…
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Hi V…,
There are no mandatory extra costs with SBI 2.0. You can purchase the yearly subscription for $299 or monthly for $29.99.
There is only one optional cost and that is ordering extra brainstorming credits. When you buy Site Build It, you get 25 credits for brainstorming. Read more
SBI 2.0 Review – Site Build It + Web 2.0
The SBI 2.0 review you’re about to read covers the recently renamed Site Build It product offered by Sitesell.com.
This review of SBI 2.0 shows the latest improvements and add-ons to the existing product which has been online for many years.
In fact, I suggest that you first check my original Site Build It review and and then return here to see what has been added to the original product.
SBI 2.0 Key Module – The C2
The C2 module has been launched more than a year ago and it was the single biggest improvement Sitesell has made in the 4 years that I have been using it.
The C2 module allows your visitors to create pages for you by sharing their stories, reviews and experiences and it also allows them to comment on the previous submissions. Read more
My SBI Barcelona Conference Presentation
I’ve attended the first European SBI Conference in Barcelona from 21st to 25th of September 2009 where I also had a presentation about keyword research, optimization of pages and the importance of links.
You can download my presentation here and here’s what I shared with each slide …
1. Choosing a niche (Slide 2)
When you’re choosing a niche you need to assess whether there is enough demand for the keywords so that in the long term your site will get lots of traffic. My definition of lots of traffic is over 1000 daily visitors.
Based on my experience, you need at least 3000 total daily searches for top 100 keywords found through the free Wordtracker tool. If you go for too many, you may have too much competition so a good number to aim for is between 3000 and 8000 daily searches. Read more
Site Build It Review
My goal is to make this Site Build It review as objective as possible, although I’ve been using SBI (Site Build It from Sitesell.com) since 2005, and am now earning more than $14,000 per month with just five SBI sites.
This review will focus mostly on the process and the tools that Sitesell.com offers with their main product. The actual results of using it, however, can be found in my post, My Journey To Freedom and Over $9,000 Per Month.
A Review of the Site Build It Process – The Action Guide
When you purchase your first SBI site, you are not given all the tools at once, and you cannot even register a domain immediately.
Your first tool is the Brainstormer, which allows you to brainstorm your chosen keywords and see what the demand (how many searches) and supply (how many competing websites) are. Read more
Site Build It Sucks?
You really think Site Build It sucks? Let me share my thoughts on whether SBI (from Sitesell.com) really sucks…
Actually before I continue, let me show you a picture:
I saw quite a few times that people actually typed the “Site Build It sucks” phrase in a search engine and somehow found my site.
So I’ve decided to optimize a blog post on this keyword to hopefully get more people here and help them make the right decision. Read more
My SBI Offer To YOU
My offer to you regarding Site Build It is the same as I give it to my friends when I show them how I live with the income from my SBI sites. I offer to help them out if they buy through my link.
If you decide to buy SBI through my affiliate link, I will:
1. Help you out especially in the beginning phase when you have to decide for the right niche and keywords.
I believe I now have enough experience (I’ve made some mistakes and made some things right) to judge with good probability whether your niche will bring you more than 1000 visitors per day.
Interview With Ken Evoy – Part IV – The Future Of Internet
This is part 4 of the interview with Ken Evoy. Here are the links to part I, part II and part III.
Tomaz: What do you see as the future of the Internet? What’s the future of SiteSell?
Ken: Some years ago, I wrote that search engines were essential to the Internet and they were like the best bargain in the world. And search engine optimizers got it. But I don’t think the average small business person really got it.
And now, eight or nine years later, people still say that one should not get used to them because they can’t last forever.
There was this ridiculous interview of a Forester researcher were they asked her if Facebook will replace Google. And she actually thought it could. Her reasoning being, “Well, you know if you want to go to Hawaii now, you can just ask a friend on Facebook instead of doing the search in Google.”
Now, how stupid is that? Because thirty years ago you could ask a friend if you’re going to have a vacation in Hawaii without using the Internet.
You know, Facebook is an activity. It’s fun, it’s valuable, it connects people and all that stuff, but its not a gateway to the Internet. The search engines, as far as I can see for the next five, ten years, are still the main highway to the Internet.
And that sounds obvious, but it’s a bold statement to say because to predict anything beyond six months in the Internet is very dangerous. Things change. Gigantic killers come out of nowhere. Major new technologies happen.
But people use the Internet to search for information.
Interview With Ken Evoy – Part III – Can You Become Financially Free With SBI?
To read part I and part II of my interview with Ken Evoy just follow the links…
Tomaz: Since my blog is about financial freedom, I want to ask you this question:
What do you think is a typical journey of someone who has achieved financial freedom with SBI? And how much do you think they usually earn per month?
Ken: It varies so much, Tomaz. And some people start part-time because they have a full-time job where they work sixty hours a week.
Some people start full-time like a stay-at-home mom whose children have just gone off school so she has six hours a day to really work. She picks a good niche, starts to see traffic, and starts to make income three to six months, which becomes the main family income in a year or in eighteen months.
Interview With Ken Evoy – Part II – The Biggest Obstacles Of Online Success
This is part II of the interview with Ken Evoy…
Tomaz: What do you think is the biggest obstacle of success for the technical part? And of course what stops people from succeeding (personality traits)?
Ken: The biggest obstacle is lack of knowledge. For a small business person who wants to start his own site, there are just too many barriers in terms of themselves learning HTML and FTP is just a scary concept.
People don’t even understand the concept of a server, how a website works on the Internet. Something as basic as that. So what FTP does and where those pages go sounds so simple to you and me, but it’s fundamental as that. People hear about search engine optimization and their eyes are really getting scared.
So the whole thing starts to look like it’s impenetrable. So what do they do? They hire a webmaster who they think knows these things but most of them really don’t.
