SBI (Site Build it) is it a good recource?

[Rob_TID]

Why should you explicitly mention it?

Because you have a conflict of interest in recommending it. A pretty clear one actually.

[Linda Buquet]

harzt03,

Sorry I missed your link drop which is totally against the rules here.

You can't say check out my site or link to your site in posts - period!

If you wonder why... if we allowed it everyone would start posting to try to put money in their own pocket instead of helping others. This place would be like other forums that are so full of spam and self promotion that you'd be hard pressed to find any helpful information.

[harzt03]

Hi Willy,

Thanks for the complement on my website. Once you have your domain name and a few pages written, your site is submitted to the search engines by SBI automatically. It can take up to 2 months for your site to be indexed and then your rank will be showing in Alexa. The 2 months will go faster plus you will be busy learning and creating pages. I remember when I started and thought I was never to get there and now, I am up to 153 pages and counting.

You will learn a great deal of information. My website is well optimized and people are finding me every day. My website is only 4 months old and I'm getting 50 unique visitors a day on average and I have not advertised my web site yet. The only exposure my website gets is by participating in forums. SBI helps you build your website in a way that it can attract visitors on its own.

I have learn so much that and I am so happy with SBI that I will never join any free or pain website builder.

Make sure you visit the SBI forums. There are a lot of people who are willing to help.

Thanks,

Hector

[Rob_TID]

Originally Posted by Linda Buquet

harzt03,

Sorry I missed your link drop which is totally against the rules here.

You can't say check out my site or link to your site in posts - period!

If you wonder why... if we allowed it everyone would start posting to try to put money in their own pocket instead of helping others. This place would be like other forums that are so full of spam and self promotion that you'd be hard pressed to find any helpful information.

Rhymes with "orrior corum"?

[Linda Buquet]

or rhymes with "igital joint"

[Rob_TID]

A nervous shiver runs up my spine when I think about those places.

[danl]

Originally Posted by Wild Willy

I would have signed through her link but I decided to sign 2 days ago. I am on my 3rd day of the build and enjoying the learning. I do have one question for you...If you build the site like they say, how long does it take to see the ranking progression?

It's going to take some time. I started with SBI about mid October. I've seen a steady increase in traffic to my site (from about 1 visitor per day to around 15 visitors per day on average). SBI automatically notifies the major search engines each time you update or add a new page. Some of my pages are actually showing on the first page of Google search results. Others are showing on the 3rd to 5th pages of Google search results. You'll need to help SBI (and yourself) out by promoting your website. The more backlinks you have to your site, the better your chances are of ranking higher with the search engines.

[sam]

Have been using word press but have heard about SBI and havent used it though. But got some reviews that its a good software to try out..

Was not able to get sufficient info on the same but the link provided helped to know a lot of things.

Thanks for sharing.

[Rob_TID]

Personally, I would simply read every post on yoast.com (not my site) and then learn how to use wordpress properly.

There are only so many things that can be done to a web document to make it "search engine friendly" and it really doesn't matter which system is used to create that document. SBI, WP, Drupal, Joomla - they are all no more SEO friendly than each other - it just depends how well you can use them.

[Forexwarrior]

I have a SBI site and I've been pleased so far with the results. My site has been online about 6 months and its up to about 100 visitors a day. The major strength of SBI is that they can take a newbie with absolutely no experience in website building and teach them how its done in the most efficient way. I have gone from knowing nothing about how something gets on a computer screen to feeling pretty confident about being a webmaster.

The other good things about SBI are the tools and forums. You won't find any better ones on the net. The only down side is that they are expensive compared to some other programs ($300 a year).

I would determine my major needs and compare to the features of SBI before making a decision.