Comments on: Update on “Site Build It Scam” Post

By: kelly@building materials

kelly@building materials — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:52:58 +0000

Right well, I signed up to Site Build It a short while ago to conduct a review and I can honestly say that although it’s not a scam, I’d recommend to people to steer clear. It’s not that it’s crooked, it’s just that it is very expensive and in addition, you can’t seem to see any genuine people involved with it to give you the downsides. Most people get suspicious in this instance and Site Build It takes too long to come up with real information for real people, it takes far too long to get beyond the hype.

By: Lis

Lis — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:09:11 +0000

They only match on the name ????? Thank heavens that your name is not John Smith LOL

By: Paul in Croatia

Paul in Croatia — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:26:10 +0000

Hi WordPress Fan, I contacted the domain company who say I have 48 domains (copied Lis and happy for her to share that email with you). I can totally understand your suspicions and I had no idea where the 48 came from. Here is their reply – makes you wonder why they bother really…

Thank you for contacting DomainTools.

In most cases like this, you are not the only “Paul Bradbury” that we show who owns domains.

Thank you again for using DomainTools.

Best regards,

Brian W
DomainTools Client Support

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: DKD-738578
Department: DomainTools Memberships & Transactions
Priority: Low
Status: Closed

By: Paul in Croatia

Paul in Croatia — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:18:12 +0000

thanks for that – interesting site and will take a closer look later. i get the keyword and backlink bit- have done the keyword research prior to kick off and the content has been written accordingly for the first two tiers at least. working now on the linking bit but making good progress on that score. I will probably submit my site for review on the SBI forum in a week or so. As an interesting exercise, are you or anyone else interested in doing a review of the site at the same time? WOuld be interesting to compare notes and I will benefit from more good advice. Let me know.

The mention of beer is making me thirsty… cheers Paul

By: Paul in Croatia

Paul in Croatia — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:04:42 +0000

Very interesting to be honest and I don’t normally contribute to forums that much. It is obvious that both sides have strong feelings. As for me, my focus is trying to get some passive income moving (am staying in the debate as I am learning lots), so am a little surprised at the lengths people have gone to to attack SBI. But an interesting debate and a heap of suggestions from your good self and others are certainly worth looking into when I get a min. You have steered a good moderating ship I think and appreciate the time you have put in to post replies to me. So a beer in Croatia for sure! And an even bigger one for whoever can give me the list of 48 sites I own…

By: Paul in Croatia

Paul in Croatia — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:59:18 +0000

Good to hear you are not into slanging matches – me neither and thanks for the link to whois.sc and you are right, I do apparently own 48 sites (I don’t) – anyone know how I can find out what they are? I have registered a few over the years (starting Feb 04), but even if I did own 48, doesn’t mean I necessarily build them, just as i have owned 4 cars in the last five years but didn’t build them either. Am really intrigued as to where this info has come from and how I can find out – suggestions welcome. As for my being an internet beginner, in my first post I said – I am not particularly web savvy (can edit my own sites by cut and pasting – they were built by others) – and that is where I am at.

Re getting through the manual quickly, I have 3-4 weeks free and made a decision to give this 100%. I am sure I have overlooked certain bits in order to get started. Maybe there are better things out there, but as I said above, which beginner would not have gone for my current position after 3 weeks, having never looked at online marketing before? Now that I know a lot more, when I have time, I will look at alternatives, but while SBI continues to exceed my expectations and I now go back to my job, I am happy with the status quo. It is obvious from the comments above that SBI is not for everyone, but so far I am more than happy.

By: Lis

Lis — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:42:35 +0000

BTW quick question – as you are a self-described fan of SBI Paul – how did you find this little discussion? Just curious

By: Wordpress Fan

Wordpress Fan — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:41:11 +0000

Sorry Paul, yes I was referring to you. I don’t know what your other sites are but my suspicious mind made me look you up on whois.sc As you can see for yourself, it states you have 48 domains. Not exactly the complete beginner in the internet world you’re touting yourself as then. I don’t mean to be rude, I’m not into slanging matches or anything, but something just doesn’t ring true here. You say you have no axe to grind yet your comments read like a sales pitch. I’ve tried SBI myself so I know that it’s far from perfect, and if you got through their training manual in 4 days (took me weeks) then you’re too clever to need to use something as expensive and inflexible as Site Build It.

By: Lis

Lis — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:40:29 +0000

People who visit you via Facebook, twitter, other blogs, etc generally are wasting time at work – I have spent hours and hours on travel sites on other people’s time LOL They are browsers not shoppers. If they are acutally planning a trip they are googling stuff like – “hostel under 10 euros dubrovnick” (sp!)or “stag party beer garden splite” – those people are about to make a booking … if you see what I mean.

In the make money online niche its a little different – I do have “social” people here who follow me who – because they understand affiliate marketing – will come back and give me the commission if they decide to use a product I’ve talked about – but thats a little unusual. Few people booking a hostel understand that the website they click thru to hostel world from is the one that gets the commission (that’s a hint BTW)

By: Lis

Lis — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:36:16 +0000

Paul – to answer some of your questions – I have no web design skills and no little html and less CSS – WordPress is now so easy to use it should be illegal – if your site was in WordPress you would be able to have a beautiful design and interaction with comments – like you get on this blog. Your photos are stunning and deserve to be properly featured – maybe something like this site (not mine- http://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-blog/ ) You built the website – you added the content and the photos – from everyone I’ve heard do both it would have been quicker and easier in WordPress. And you don’t make it easy for your users to add content (and travelers love to add content – see Matt’s site – because they can’t comment easily and have a converstion like we are here)

Not SBI or any other program can guarantee traffic or rankings – but decent keyword research and backlinks are the key to both – the actual architecture of the site is irrelevant.

You are doing well but you are focussed on the site as the most important part of getting website up the rankings – a common mistake – the most important thing is understanding which keywords are a) worth ranking for (ie has traffic) and b) has competition that you can beat. Get that wrong and a 1000 pages of brilliant content won’t help.

Happy to be wrong about the plant bit – buy me a beer if I make it Croatia – I’ve only ever heard good things about the country!