Site Build It Sucks?
Posted on September 7, 2008
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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.
I’ll try to be objective and approach the “SBI sucks” topic from 2 angles:
1. Why Site Build It Doesn’t Suck
- it’s not a normal web hosting thingy. The SBI Action Guide will teach you how to create a content site relying on free search engine traffic bringing visitors and money day after day without much work
- if you ever get stuck at any part, you can access help for every topic, you can ask a question on the forums and you can even hire an experienced SBI-er to help you out
- I’ve achieved financial freedom with SBI (check my Site Build It Review!) and am earning over $10,000 per month with just a few sites. I did work very hard to get here but thanks to free search engine traffic I don’t have to work so hard any more. I even have time to write posts about whether “Site Build It sucks” or not…
- there are hundreds of Site Build It sites built by ordinary people with no prior knowledge of HTML and SEO. If they can do it, so can you.
2. Why Site Build It Does Suck
Key Evoy (The CEO of Sitesell.com) said this:
The “bad” news? SBI! does not eliminate the common-sense, universal laws of business and economics…
It takes time and work to build a genuine, profitable, long-term business with equity.
It takes a persistent, slow-steady-sure approach, fueled by passion, steadied by patience and reassured by faith in a system that both makes sense and is proven to work.
Bottom line:
If you are looking for a magic pill that will create a site which will earn $100 per day in just a month or two, then yes, Site Build It sucks. It’s not that good.
If on the other hand you want to learn how to build a successful website and want to have all the tools in one place for only 0.82 cents per day, then no, SBI does not suck at all.
In fact, feel free to explore my blog and see how I used SBI to free myself from slavery of a 9-5 job.
And if there’s an SBI-er reading this post I’d appreciate if you share your thoughts on whether Site Build It really sucks or not. Thanks!
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My father recently signed up with SBI and ended up cancelling during the trial period because he just felt too bogged down with details, even though the guidance and documentation were all good. It was still overwhelming and money is so ridiculously tight (as in, not so much tight as far into the red) he just couldn’t justify the $250 committment. I was reading through the program with him, though, and we were both impressed with the detail–it was just too MUCH detail!
Tomaz
I wanted to comment on your post.
I am author of the book Internet Empires which is a book interviewing people who have onlne success.
I have interviewed “several” SBIers who have had tremendous success like you have so I know it is not a fluke.
Also, I have several SBI sites all of which ave made me money so I have first hand experience with the system.
It DOES take work but my TOP 2 success secrets are:
1) Follow the 10 day video action guide
2) Get involved in the forum because there are literally hundreds of successful SBIers in there answering questions because they are good people.
Hi Deb,
I know what you mean by being overwhelmed. But here’s something to think about; you ONLY get overwhelmed if you read stuff that you DON’T need to do at a certain point of building a site.
That’s the biggest mistake people make. They are at day 2 and they read everything up to day 7.
If you follow the steps the way they are structured then there is NOT too much information on what to do.
But you need to take the time and digest it.
The second biggest mistake people make is trying to complete steps quickly.
Compare starting an SBI site with starting a new restaurant (offline of course) and all the planning that needs to go into that…
The SBI Action Guide is a detailed and tedious process because it wants to PROTECT you from making a mistake.
If you follow it, you’ll do well.
If you take shortcuts, you might even conclude that Site Build It sucks…
SBI is a brilliant web development tool for those wishing to work online on a website. What I mean is you need to be constantly online in order to build your site.
My first site was built using SBI and I learnt a huge amount from Ken and his words of wisdom. I have to admit I have since applied his teachings to my new website development program which I guess could be called the offline version of SBI.
I won’t mention it here as I don’t want to appear to be promoting someone else but I am very glad to have spent the money on SBI when I did. It has helped tremendously.
I totally agree with regards to the work needed to get a site up and running and earning money. But once you do it can be very exciting.
Good luck everyone with your sites.
Well Tomaz, I have had an SBI website for a little over a year, and I just have reached traffic of 100,000 pages a month.
Because of the SBI Action Guide, our website, http://www.all-about-houseboats.com was just recently on the front page of MSN.com for one day, and that alone generated almost 300,000 pages of free traffic.
Because of the free traffic from MSN, our Google Adsense revenue alone paid for SBI many times over.
So do I think “SBI sucks”, hell no, personally I think that “SBI blows” the doors off any website building package out there.
I want to BUILD a SUCCESSFUL website, not just a website amongst the 100 million websites out there.
Just my 2 cents worth, Ian…
Thanks for sharing, Ian!
I have two SBI sites, (I did the buy one get one for $100 special), and I am so happy with them both. I have barely put any work into my second site, which is geared toward helping with my offline stand-up comedy career, and my site already gets more visits than my fellow comics that have Comedy Central specials. They are FAMOUS and have been online for YEARS. SBI sucks? Not for me. My first site helped me ditch the day job completely, and now let’s see if how SBI helps me tackle Hollywood.
As what they always said, building an online business is just like building any offline business. Looking at the bright side, with online business, you just have to sit in front of your computer and do all the work from there. You experience all the hard work, including any headaches, in one place. What’s best of all, you can do it in a comfort of your home with no commuting needed and working near your family.
Of course there’s a lot to learn when building any kind of new business, but with SBI (and a good mentor
), it is always nice to know that a kind helping hand is always there for you.
But is SBI good for sites that already exist? I haven’t yet figured out how it can work with existing sites…
If you have an existing site I suggest you register a new domain and build a keyword focused content rich site tightly related to your original site. The SBI site will eventually get lots of traffic which you can then “send” (link to) to your first site. Links will at the same time help with the rankings…
I bought site build it recently and feel that it is a total rip off. The website templates are horrible.
Hey anonymous,
That’s a very good point. Do you think traffic from search engines like Google depends on the color of your template?
My tennis site http://www.tennismindgame.com is based on the basic SBI template where I only had the header designed for $50. It gets more than 1200 visitors per day and earns around $2,500 per month. Do you find it ugly and not very user friendly?
What is your next complaint?
SBI does NOT suck. I own two sites; I’m pretty new to the SBI world. It really does demonstrate to the user the right perspective: Do you want to build a web site or do you want to build a business?
I’ve been creating web sites for 10 years and I still use the blockbuilder tool SBI offers because I don’t want to mess around with coding anymore (at least not a lot of it). I’m more concerned with creating value that people want to view, buy, investigate, research, etc.
Lots of folks put down SBI, but I think they’ve got their priorities backwards. The web site you create should serve a purpose. And that purpose for me, at least, is to build valuable businesses that provide me the ability to spend more time doing what I like (family, fun, etc.).
My experience with the SBI community has been fantastic, too. There are a lot of very helpful people in the forums.
Take the plunge (I’m an affiliate, too, but join using Tomaz’s referral — he did all the work) — now is as good a time as any. 2 for $399 is quite the deal.
Hi
I recently took the plunge and bought SBI. I am very impressed with the action guide and all the tools built in. I’m alittle afraid because of the costs, but I am hoping to recover them in a few short months.
So far I’ve just been busy building content, and love all the support from the forum.
I am glad that lots of people have had success with SBI. But like anything it takes work, it’s not a get rich over night. But like Tomaz I hope to retire from my day job.
SBI does truly suck. Every time I click on a link and am taken to the tacky websites it builds, I immediately leave. The dead giveaway is the-dashes-that-everyone-uses-on-their-domains.
To all those who think SBI is actually useful, you have no idea, how much more traffic you would have if you used a half-decent CMS like Joomla, Drupal or WordPress.
On the other hand, umm… no SBI doesn’t suck. Please use it and fork over your money to Kenny boy… more traffic for the rest of us.
forgot to add… the only reason SBI is pushed so much and you won’t hear an objective review of it is because of the affiliate $$$ that people want to earn from it.
word to the wise
Thanks for sharing your views, Kathy.
Just a logical correction of the CMS you mentioned: Google has no idea what CMS one uses: SBI, Wordpress or Joomla whether that’s HTML, php or something else.
Googlebot only sees content and Google ranks it according to the on-page and off-page (quantity and quality of incoming links) optimization.
The dashes-between-the-words-in-the-domain also have nothing to do with rankings or traffic. Some people definitely overdoit but that’s not what the SBI Action Guide suggests.
Some people also promote SBI because of the affiliate sales but to tell you the truth, it’s VERY hard to make a sale. I definitely didn’t spend hundreds of hours writing this blog to make 2 sales per month ($150).
I want to share my journey and help people find something useful to start their online business. I know SBI that’s why I recommend it.
If I earn something through my effort, that’s cool too. But to make some decent money selling SBI is very very hard. There are just a few people making nice bucks with it (the super affiliates), the rest of us make a sale here and there.
I’d earn 10 times more if I invested the effort in promoting SBI into a nice content site and slapped some Adsense on it.
And you have been using Site Build It how long?
LoL – you really think Google doesn’t know what CMS is being used to create a site? LoL okaaaay
btw I’ve never used SBI/sitesell crap but I have 4 friends who got suckered in and forked over hundreds each only to abandon it for wordpress (and one of them went with joomla, if I remember correctly).
sitesell would have been so-so back in 1992 but check your calendar, we’re in 2009.
Kathy, you’re missing the point. Even if Google knows what CMS is used, do you really think it ranks the content according to the CMS used?
There are “so 1992″ pages written that still sit on top of Google for many keywords.
Btw, I have over 40,000 friends who use SBI and are obviously happy with it since they keep renewing the subscription and of course, SBI keeps growing at the same time.
Please don’t fall into the trap of judging SBI by its templates. The real value of Site Build It is in teaching you how to build a successful online business. Once you know that, you don’t need SBI for a simple affiliate site.
Of course, knowing what to do, having a structured, organized system, simple tools to help you get started (instead of going through a learning curve for HTML, Wordpress, plugins, trackbacks, SEO, link building, newsletter modules, form modules, RSS, social bookmarks, etc.) is invaluable to people with jobs and families.
Most of those who criticize SBI are computer geeks who are quite savvy with computers and internet and have spent hundreds of hours accumulating knowledge (and of course wasting hundreds of hours on incorrect information spread by thousands of guru-wannabees) and skills.
But let me ask you this (and all your knowledgeable friends who are making hundreds of dollars per day, right?): why are you reading my blog and reading about SBI if it sucks and you already know how to build a successful online business?
If you know how to do well, why don’t you share your knowledge with other people and stop wasting time criticizing other systems.
I don’t go around criticizing the “mini sites” systems, or Infoproduct system or Wordpress affiliate sites systems or …
What good can come out it?
SBI works for me, it’s a fantastic product which is constantly improved, it is totally flexible and can use any type of template if one wants, and it has all the tools and knowledge in one place.
I can now focus my energy on building quality content and not worry about missing any new important info, because Sitesell team monitors hundreds of RSS feeds and authority people (like Matt Cutts, …) and it filters out the crap from the key info and then lets all SBI users know what is important in 2009. (and 2010, 2011, …)
That’s why I love SBI and hate people who criticize it without at least using the product for 6 months or 1 year.
If you have some important FACTS to share about Site Build It, please do, but if anyone has an OPINION about SBI and has NOT used it, I (and my visitors) am NOT interested in hearing it.
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I signed up 4 months ago to make a website for my offline business, and like most SBI’ers proudly admit, if you use SBI your website will look like crap. Maybe that doesn’t matter when your website is just about tricking people into coming there by having the right keywords and then not answering their question so that they click on a sponsor link, but it doesn’t work for a real business that has an image to maintain. They should really have a button that you click somewhere before you buy it that says “are you going to make a website for a real business?” and if you click that it explains that it is only for scam sites that draw meaningless traffic for adsense money.
Hi Thomas,
There are good points at first look (but with lots of faulty thinking) so let me address each of them:
a) Your SBI site will look like crap. I agree that most SBI templates don’t look very exciting BUT in most cases, you only need to redesign the header (which cost me $50 for http://www.tennismindgame.com) and your site will suddenly look very nice.
You can also have a template created (which cost me $100 for http://www.vacuumwizard.com) and simply upload HTML. This is exactly what you would do without SBI, right? Except that you’d have a template and no knowledge, no Action Guide, no forums and no tools. Not a smart idea…
b) Tricking people into clicking sponsor links. Sure, you can trick people but I don’t see how ONLY SBI templates can achieve that? I am sure you can design a fancy template and trick people into clicking ads…
Also, Google has very strict policies now and you simply cannot disguise their ads as you could in the past. How about tricking people to enter into a business agreement with you based on your fancy template design?
Imagine how many people have fallen for this trick online? A fancy template, intriguing sales letter and then a scam. Do you really believe that fancy templates have anything to do with the quality of your business?
b) “…but it doesn’t work for a real business that has an image to maintain.” Your business will create the image through the quality of your service and through word of mouth and NOT through some fancy template. That sounds more like tricking people into believing your business is really good without really knowing some facts about it.
Here’s one really not fancy template of quite a successful company: http://www.google.com