Site Build It!
October 26th, 2008 Posted in Building my websitesReaders of this blog will know that I’ve been doing much work recently on search engine optimisation and techniques for getting a website as close to the top of the search engine results as is possible.
My reading and online research resulted in me discovering a new service which I’d never heard of before, but which seems to pull together best practice in one product.
It’s called Site Build It! and it helps you to build websites from the keywords up.
Take a look at this video for a quick overview …
The key concept behind Site Build It! is that there’s no point building a brilliant website unless people can find it.
You can spend as much money as you want and throw as many flash animations at your front page as you can, but if no-one is interested in your website, you’ll do no business.
It seems so basic, but it’s actually THE crucual point about making a website.
Site Build It! reverses the usual process that you’d go through to build a website.
It starts with keywords … you generate three ideas, keyword search them, then work out what niche online searchers are looking for but not finding … and that’s your business opportunity.
The range of tools built into the package is superb.
You get Wordtracker with your annual fee, along with many other tools which help you to spot and refine your niche, then work out its profitability.
It completely removes the ‘finger in the wind’ approach to website building … you know you’re onto a winner before you even start to build your website.
Site Build It! uses a system called C>T>P>M … full details are available by clicking the info banner below:
C>T>P>M involves:
a) creating content that you know people want to find … because you started the entire process by doing your niche keyword research.
b) creating traffic because your nicely keyworded content is being found in the search engines.
c) your pre-sell to customers, because they’re already interested in the subject covered by your website and you’ve built a relationship of trust.
d) finally (and not firstly as in most websites!) you monetize your website … and hopefully create a good income stream.
Site Build It! uses a step-by-step, systematic process.
You bolt in searchable keywords to each page you build - as you go along - and your ads and extras reflect these niche keywords too.
The system is also suitable for beginners - templates and ‘hold your hand’ guides are provided - but you can also use the system with Dreamweaver, Wordpress or whatever you use to make your own websites, making it good for webmasters too:
Having built your website, you then sign up through Site Build It! to a number of RSS feeds, which effectively blog your content.
Readers of this site will know how I’ve been instantly impressed by the results delivered by RSS and blogging.
The entire blogging/RSS system is integrated into the package, saving time, effort and removing the need for technical knowledge for people who are new to the web.
It’s even got a built in newsletter manager … as far as I can see everything that I’ve discovered as ‘best practice’ whilst looking at how to market websites effectively is in this package.
And if you don’t like the modular/formulaic look to the templated sites? You use the tools, but author your website with your favourite software package, whatever that is.
So why am I resting this blog?
Well, Site Build It! seems to offer absolutely everything that my research has recommended … and to be honest, I think the sites that I’ve built so far haven’t done brilliantly because I left the SEO and the ‘niche’ bit until last.
So I’m going back to basics.
I’m parking this blog for a while so that I can give Site Build It! a good run for its money.
I’m going to follow it through from beginning to end, build a niche site, and see if it performs as well as the Site Build It! say it will.
It’s cost me £175.23 GBP for 1 year … which includes all the tools (Wordtracker, template builder, hosting costs and so on) and the support and resources available for that money are superb.
It’s a tad ‘Americanised’ but don’t be put off by that, it really is rooted in best practice and there is lots of evidence to show that it works as a system.
Check out some of the demo websites and look at their Alexa rankings - you can’t fake those figures!
If it doesn’t work, I’ve wasted £175 … though there is a full refund on offer if I don’t like the product.
If it does work, I’m going to Site Build It! all my existing websites. Although they’re beginning to do some business, it’s not enough and they’re just not making the progress that they need to.
So, once I’ve built my new niche website, I’ll be back on this blog, talking you through it and letting you know how it goes.
In the meantime, take a look at Site Build It! yourself and see what you think.
They claim 62% of SBI! sites, in a recent study, were in the top 3% of all websites.
That’s quite some statistic, the ’science’ seems to add up, so let’s see how I get on with it.
If you’ve had experience of this product, I’d be interested to know how you got on.
One Response to “Site Build It!”
By Eamonn on Oct 27, 2008
Hi Paul,
Welcome to SBI. I’ve been with it since July and I have to say I’ve been impressed. I’d say it’s well worth working through the action plan methodically, even when you’re thinking, ‘Oh no! I cant read this again’.
You’ll already know a lot of the stuff, ‘cos you’re obviously no newbie, but if you follow the process it really grounds your efforts and makes everything feel ’solid’. And there’s always some nugget you’d missed before.
One of the first things to do is introduce yourself on the forums if you haven’t done this already. It really is a goldmine of ideas, answers and support. For my money they’re worth the subscription alone. Test your niche ideas with the community, which is very supportive. You can pick up great info and experience that others would gladly charge you $40 a month for. I wish I’d made better use of the forums at the outset because I realise now that my chosen niche is probably a little too broad - so it’s been hard going, but enjoyable all the same.
Also, there is a growing number of SBIers here in the UK and scattered across the Continent, so it isn’t completely skewed to the North American environment.
I’d also say that it’s still no ‘magic button/bullet - get rich quick’ portal. (We all know they don’t really work, anyway) It takes a fair bit of commitment so anyone taking it on, just like any business, needs to be thinking about where they want to be in 6 months, 8 months and 12 months down the line. I’m about five months in now and starting to see a steady growth in traffic, but I’ve only just begun to monetize the site so I can’t say I’m making big bucks on it, but I’m quietly confident.
And, without any great effort on my part (apart from following the SBI process, I was happy to discover that I was listed in 7th place on the front page of Google for one search term. This may have been a fluke, as it hasn’t resulted in an avalanche of traffic so far, so I’ve not dared to revisit :o)
Regards
Eamonn Riley, Manchester