Site Build It! Updates
This summer has been a really exciting time for owners of Site Build It! (SBI) Websites. SBI! is the all in one hosting and business development system that I use and recommend for making a living online or promoting your massage business online.
They keep adding new features it seems like every week! The big release of the summer was Content 2.0 which allows the users to post their own content - kind of like a cross between myspace and a wiki. The result is an interactive website and the expanded ability to do things like create a directory or testimonials.
The most recent is the new Brainstorming (Version 2) which is a piece of software that actually will help you decide on a site concept or a niche for your website. The way this works is that you start brainstorming different topics that you know a lot about or are passionate about and choose keywords people might use to find a site that you develop on the topic. The Brainstormer brings back data such as the search volume and the number of sites out there to give you a profitability potential of the concept. You can then compare the results and choose a profitable topic for your site. It also helps you choose profitable keywords for your massage business site so that it will get you to the top of the search engines much faster and will also help you get better results (get your most wanted response - which is a phone call or email for an appointment!)
If you are still on the fence about a website for your massage business, or making additional income through a website or even making a living online using this system, you can take a look at the forums and read about all of the other people doing the same thing. The forums are really like one big family of people helping people. Whenever you don’t know how to do something or want feedback on your site or need help with anything - the forums are the place to go and get information. You can actually take a look at the forums through my special login which I can give you when you email me.
I have also gotten some recent comments about SBI! and their simple user templates and the lack of design abilities. You can do most anything with the design if you know other software like Dreamweaver or Front Page. The thing is that hiring someone to do a fancy site may look really nice - but what good does a nice looking site do if there is no one to see it. What people are looking for is information anyway. (They do actually have some updates in the works for the blockbuilder templates to hopefully make things more appealing to those who really think they need it.)
With all of these improvements the Content 2.0 does cost and additional fee of $100 per year but you can test it for free for 25 pages to see if it is something you can use. Everything else is still included in the $299 per year…
analyze it - checks your pages for you and tells you what you need to do to make your pages more search engine friendly.
- link fix it- checks your pages for broken links and sends you an email to fix them. Broken links make search engines unhappy.
-SBI! stores all your pages in a database instead of a regular web server. Every activity, including spider visits, rankings, traffic, etc. is tracked and analyzed, based on the content of your pages, the changes you make to your pages, and its effect on your rankings, spider visits, traffic, etc. Because of this, SiteSell is THE authority on SEO advice (other than the SEs themselves, of course). We can trust what they say is important (or unimportant) for our site rankings, because they base their advice on solid data, not theory or anecdotal “evidence.”
-WorldSubmitter creates a Sitemap file for your SBI! site, locating it at the “root level” of your Web site. This is an XML file, in the Sitemaps.org protocol format, that contains information about all the pages on your site. This file is updated if you add, delete or edit a page on your site.
WorldSubmitter automatically pings (informs) Google, Yahoo! and Ask once per day (if you’ve built, edited or deleted a page), alerting them to changes on your site. This tells the SE spiders to “come and get” all your pages and update their indexes with your new, edited, and deleted pages.-A video and written Action Guide to help you plan your site concept, figure out how to make money, guide you in creating a site and helps you track your results so that you can keep improving and finding sources of income
-Value exchange - automated link exchange system for getting back links to your site which helps the search engines find you.
-Rss/Blog It! - adds a blog and rss system to your whole site which pings the search engines everytime you update or add a page.
-Search it! - Brainstorming and research tool Free for anyone to use.
-Search Engine HQ - Shows all site pages, with Search Engine rankings for each page which tells you what search engines found you using what keywords, plus it automatically creates the Search Engine Sitemap you can submit to Ask, Yahoo and Google, plus keeps it updated!
The list goes on but you can see it all for yourself when you decide you order you SBI! site.
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