My other site is
trenchquote.com
That one does have many pages. I don’t know how great my look and feel is, but I do have control over it.
Both are SBI!

I found this post because I was googling wordpress and SBI. I want to be able to organize (tag) some product reviews like you do in blogs, but I want the rest of my content on static pages. Not too sure what I am going to do about that yet.

I have bypassed the block mode and created it in HTML. This allowed me more creative freedom in my theme, but now the site is harder to upgrade, but this will be solved by using new SBI server-side includes (a bunch of migration is needed).

The C2 module seems very promising and this is the next step – to upgrade my SBI site into a controlled community / directory.

Your point is quite valid.

* You have to be on the right topic.
* You have to be at least either a good writer or a good researcher or have access to those skills for love or money.

Where SBI helps is that it’s one stop shopping on the low end.

Just sign up, follow the instructions and you have a kick at the can.

Otherwise internet marketing is just too overwhelming for most beginners.

Foliovision is a similar company except we work mainly at the extreme top end, building hugely successful websites for already successful businesses. We do content, SEO, spam filtering, the works.

We just make the pain go away.

And make the phone ring.

Our clients are too busy with the rest of their business to want to take on all of these challenges. Why would they? They make far more money we do, their time is too valuable to want to spend it on the nuts and bolts of internet marketing.

It’s not just content…it’s the right kind of content. The process involves researching your niche and knowing how to find the keywords…

It’s a hit-or-miss project in sitting down and finding a niche and then finding a profitable area with the proper keywords and then developing content and organizing your site according to SBI’s guidelines.

When a newbie first gets involved in network marketing, he probably has a couple ideas he’d like to pursue and hopefully make money. The problem is that he finds out later after shelling out the $299 for the SBI website and then doing the keyword research for supply and demand, he finds there isn’t enough demand to support his website.

Then he has to come up with alternate ideas for a website and then develop at least thirty pages of content. The content for his website now has to be better than the millions of other websites with the same idea.

I’m still not clear on how SBI helps with its SEO wizardry to vault someone to the top of Google. I haven’t seen it with mine.

If you don’t like the look of SBI sites, it’s pretty stiff uphill sledding. I have yet to see a SBI site which impressed me visually. SBI is a good framework in which to start a site if you have a limited technical background. If I had a really successful site, I’d be unlikely to leave it in the relative creative and technical straitjacket which is SBI.

I’ve sent you a note.

Your take is a good one. If working within the constraints of SBI, keeps you focused on content instead of tinkering with layout, it’s well worth the $300/year. Content is where it’s at!

Once you have a really successful site, you may want to take it out of the constraints of SBI though. I know Ken Evoy keeps talking about removing the visual straitjacket, I haven’t seen much evidence of it.

Our clients pay a lot of money to have us wrestle with these questions rather than them. Most of the time, we even come up with the content – they are too busy to fiddle with websites and we stive to keep them that way: by sending them even more business.

I don’t think it’s a matter of building according to SBI – the vast majority of high ranked sites on the Internet are not SBI.

The issues you were running into are:

1. Not building a growing and dynamic site (generally you need to keep adding content and sections to really go up the SERPs in Google: exception made for some older authority sites with outstanding incoming links).
2. Using a single source of links (in your case article directories).

As you not, SBI, for the most part, incorporates these as well as many other useful rules for building successful websites.

Thanks for stopping by.