The REAL Site Build It Review
Get the facts about Site Build It from one who knows firsthand

Another wrong assumption about Site Build It is that all Site Build It sites are ugly and old-fashioned looking. This may be one of the biggest stumbling blocks to making a buying decision about SBI.

When you’re first starting out on the Web with your first website, most of us tend to think mostly about how the site will look. I mean, we all want a cool-looking site, right? Something that reflects positively on us, that we can proud to show off to our families, friends and neighbors? It’s a natural desire, and in my opinion, there’s nothing wrong with feeling that way.

Here’s where I have always disagreed with Dr. Ken Evoy of Site Build It. He’s kind of a plain and simple kind of guy. He doesn’t put on airs and he doesn’t think websites should either. But I know that I and many other SBIers have never really bought into that opinion 100%. Dr. Ken’s assertion is that it’s the content that matters… and I don’t disagree with that. Content is your #1 priority when you build a website that you want people to actually visit.

But… if you want them to stick around, your website has to be reasonably attractive and to portray a professional image… or at least an image that matches the niche you’re targeting. When Site Build It was first made, it had 10 templates, each in 2 different color schemes. I didn’t find any of them particularly attractive, but you were allowed to upload your own header, which helped. And that lasted for several years. Then, they ran a design contest and introduced about 100 more designs, but you had to be willing to dowload/upload them, which was a barrier for some people.

About a year later, they ran another design contest and introduced 100 new designs. But all of them were designed to work with their standard, left-aligned, 2-column format, with a narrow content pane. So although there was some design variation, you could still recognize an SBI site a mile away, even if it didn’t have the ubiquitous “Powered by SBI” graphic at the bottom of the page.

For many years, you could upload your own HTML pages and then, of course, your design could be anything at all that you wanted. But you had to know how to do HTML and be willing to learn how to upload… not that hard, but still too hard for a lot of folks.

But NOW… exciting changes are in the works! The folks at Sitesell.com ran yet another design contest in the fall… this  one for 3-column designs, which many of us had been clamoring for. 107 new designs won out of over 400 that were submitted. And here’s the really great news… they’re all going to be available in the block builder, which means even if you don’t know and don’t want to know anything about HTML, you’ll be able to have a very modern-looking 3-column design. And your design will be so unique, there will no longer be easy identification of SBI websites… at least not by their look and feel. (They’ll still be the ones dominating the first 30 results in the search engines for their niches!)

Along with the new templates will come a totally new web-based WSIWYG page builder. They’re saying it will be along the lines of Weebly, if you’re familiar with it. This is going to be a HUGE improvement, and should remove one of the final barriers to people purchasing this product, in my opinion. Not only will it be easier to use, it’ll be based on CSS (style sheets), which will give you basically endless possibilities for a totally customized design. Here are a couple of samples of the award-winning new designs:

Sample SBI Template

Another very Web 2.0 template

We’re not sure when all of these changes will become widely available… some time this year for sure, but how soon is anyone’s guess. However, there is no reason to delay getting Site Build It if you want to build an online home business. The truth is, SBI sites succeed, no matter what they look like. I’ve seen some pretty ugly sites that are still getting tons of traffic and making their owners steady money every month… because they contain quality content and score high in the search engines, which don’t really evaluate what a site looks like, only what it contains.

And in time, you’ll be able to not only have a site that performs well… it’ll also look great!

There was recently a firestorm of posts and comments about Site Build It initiated by unscrupulous people claiming to offer reviews of SBI that were really just attacks gauged to elicit anger and indignation from SBIers, thus bringing traffic to the sites and making it look to Google as though the sites actually had something of value to offer. Dozens of SBIers unwittingly enabled this strategy to succeed.

One of the wild claims made by the interlinked bloggers who started the firestorm was that the only people who are positive about SBI are those who are affiliates, meaning they’re paid to say nice things about SBI through their affiliate commissions. They went on to say that most of the SBI review pages on the net were written by people wanting to make a buck through their SBI affiliate links.

This SBI myth — or false claim — is a bit harder to disprove, because you can never really know for sure what is in the mind of someone whose writing you read on the Web. People can say anything they want and without body language or facial expression, it’s much harder to judge the tone of their written words.

But I read what the slammers I mentioned above said, especially the original blogger, and she clearly had no idea what she was talking about. She had many errors in her so-called review of SBI that made it clear she’d never even used SBI. So it was hard for me to see that what she and her ilk were accusing SBI affiliates of was much different. But I digress.. Read the rest of this entry »

Some people try to discredit Site Build It by saying things like, “It doesn’t work for everyone.”

Well, duh…

No program, system or strategy works for everyone, no matter how great a product or service it is. That’s just common sense. We’re each of us different, with different tastes, skills, interests and preferences than the other.

SBI is one way of building a successful online home business. In my opinion, it’s one of the best, if not the best. But I know it’s not the only way. And no, it isn’t the right online home business system for everyone. For instance, if you’re looking for a get rich quick method, that’s not SBI.

Or, if you are not interested in creating a content site about a topic you know or love, then Site Build It is probably not for you either. Because that is their basic model for online home business. If you can’t conceive of writing at least 30 to 50 pages of content, then you’re not going to succeed with a content-based website.

Another reason why SBI doesn’t work for some people is that they don’t follow the program. There’s a saying… “Work the program and the program works for you.” But for various reasons, people don’t work the program and then they complain that SBI doesn’t work. Site Build It offers an extremely detailed, step-by-step Action Guide to teach you how to build a web-based business. It’s divided into 10 major stages, each of which has to be completed in sequence in order to achieve success. Read the rest of this entry »