I receive many questions like the one below from clients and potential clients about all kinds of “site builders”. It really does not matter if they are free or cheap or if they are offered by Godaddy or SiteSell.com, these types of one stop website builders all have quite a few things in common and in my opinion, free or cheap is not a good deal.(if you have any idea that you may want to build a business around a website, or support your business with a website.)

My new client Maribell sent me this question, not long after she signed op with us here at iBusinessLogic.com for a WordPress niche market website development project.

Hi Scott,
A quick and totally off topic question…

What is your opinion about the SBI or SiteSell by Ken Evoy?
I just have a friend who uses them and keeps mentioning/recommending them.

I understand that wordpress is much better but I’m not clear why or what the difference is and I’m curious to get your opinion because I know I prefer wordpress but I can’t explain it.
Thanks so much.

Maribell

My Answer to Maribell was pretty much as follows:

Dear Maribell,

I looked at the the SBI or SiteSell concept several years ago.

Deal or Scam? Maybe neither - But Why?

Seems to me… that the old adage – if it is too good to be true…. Usually is! – Applies here.

Site Sell websites are templatized and not attractive in my opinion. Going beyond the basic lack of appeal of the final products I would say that it seems to me that the tools SiteSell touts as being huge features of the program, are all available as plugins for WordPress and many more tools and plugins are available in open source programs like WordPress than will ever be available in any proprietary site builder framework.

Several examples of why using a content management system is a better choice for your company:

1. Usually in a Site Builder there is no database, so no one can search your site except if they use the menu. (Not user friendly)
   
2. You only have one option for every add on, the one they provide , otherwise, if you do not like the tool they offer – well, you are out of luck.
   
3. Also, ask if you can back up your data and move it elsewhere if you like? – I think this may be more difficult than they may claim if they offer data backup at all.
4. With WordPress, you have literally millions of developers working for you, every day, providing tools and applications that you could hardly imagine were available at little or no cost. If you choose a tool (plugin) and it does not suit your purpose, or does not work with your other plugins, or you just want more features… Then you simply remove that old plugin and replace it with a newer and better one, or one that suits your purpose better.
   

This is why it is a good idea for you hire a “Developer” like iBusinessLogic.com to help make the decisions about what works for your application and about the trade-offs that inevitably occur in any project – no matter whether you are building a house or a website there are always decisions to be made about features and options that can and should be used or not, with a Site Build It website – those options are non-existent.  Proprietary web site builders like this do not allow for trade offs, they have one application for every feature you may want for your site (if they have one at all) there are no choices, no alternatives, no way to make your site look or work any different from the thousands of other sites they have over promised and under delivered.

I could go one for hours on the advantages of using open source software over proprietary single supplier web building tools that lock you in for life to a monthly payment, even if you find that the hype does not match the actual product.  (Locked in for life – unless you want to lose all of the data that you spent a great deal of your time assembling and publishing on any website). But whats the point? Some people just want to take the easy way, and some people will always sell stuff that is too good to be true. It’s just part of the human experience.

Another blogger and Internet Commerce specialist Lis Sowerbutts wrote about Site Build It

Its a “one stop shop” for someone who wants a website but doesn’t know where to start. You pay them a hefty fee- PER SITE – around $300 ANNUALLY. And for this sum you get:

• “free” domain name
• “free” hosting
• drag and drop website builder
• newsletter manager
• autoresponder
• search engine ranking help
• traffic reports
• hand holding: forum, tutorial etc.

Now if you Google for “site builder scam” – you will find a lot of  “reviews” which are just affiliate pitches? Why because Site Build It pays affiliates around $75 a sale, and that’s an annual fee to remember. You don’t even have to a user of SBI to be an affiliate – how can you sell something you don’t use yourself – that’s what I turned me off affiliate marketing initially. You will find no link here for SBI – if you want to join – type in their url direct and then sign up as an affiliate and pay yourself the commission as a discount!

So Why is Site Build It a Scam?

1. You don’t own your domain – the Anguilla-beaches .com site which features prominently in the sales pitch is owned by Ken Evoy – who owns site build it – according to domain tools anyways; UPDATE: yes you do own your site but this is still disingenuous marketing
2. You can’t just move your website elsewhere to say cheaper hosting – you are tied up with SBI for life. You have to make $300/year just to break even on the deal! UPDATE: you can with varying degrees of difficulty – its not easy appears to be the consensus
3. They spend a lot of time quoting Alexa rank of SBI sites – Alexa ranks just proves that you have a bunch of internet marketers visiting your site – probably because of the link from the sales page – as they are the only people who use the Alexa tool bar. Internet marketers are unlikely to buy your homemade chocolates or rent your condo in Puerto Rico;
4. The search engine help according the site build it’s own sales promotion video involves submitting your sites to the search engines -  do not ever do this - this just prooves to Google that your site is not worth visiting cause no one is linking to it.
5. Further more to rank your site they suggest you use pay per click (PPC) advertising – this is as about as risky as say foreign exchange dealing as it not something any new on-line marketer should be doing.
6. You don’t need a newsletter or autoresponder unless you are selling crap – sorry I mean affiliate products to visitors. If you site is just for attracting niche buying search traffic – you don’t need these products.

So no SBI is not a traditional scam. They no doubt deliver on what is promised – though you no doubt have to pay extra from the PPC champaign. Yes traditional hosting and free software won’t give you support on how to build your business.

But $300 for support is pretty darn expensive.

In a follow up review page the same writer offered this opinion after being descended upon by the faithful affiliates and users of Ken Evoy’s Site Build It SBI program.

Is Site Build It a Scam?

No, SBI is not a scam – its a lot, lot more dangerous than that – its a fucking cult: a group of people who are in love with Dr Ken Evoy who believe that the sun shines out of, well you know where, who believe the one true way as provided by Ken Evoy and brook no  interference or dissent either within their ranks or outside of them.

Why Were There No Negative Reviews of Site Build It

 

Site Build It Troll – At Rest

Because your average blogger when faced with the barrage I have had over the last 48 hours would have dropped the whole bloody thing, probably deleted the post and run for the hills. Or their useless hosting would have dropped their site for resource over-runs. They would have believed the threats legal and otherwise.

Some of us are old enough to remember that a mob was something that happened in person, and trust me a real riot or mob is pretty bloody scary – but at least the individuals are there in person and not hiding behind made up emails and generic IP addresses. The online version doesn’t scare us old people!

So, lets just say that signing on to such a program is risky at the least and possibly less than optimal at best.

Why am I comparing this to using WordPress or any open source Content Management System for your internet commerce goals?

I guess I am simply confounded at the audacity of people who offer inferior platforms and tout them as superior all while limiting expandability, growth and options. WordPress is not that difficult to master, there are millions of resources available to help even the most timid users understand how to optimize the CMS to fit almost any website niche or need and anything that a product like Site Build It can do, can be done better, with longer lasting value and ROI with a well designed WordPress site. Drag and drop has it’s disadvantages, including limiting accuracy of placement, compatibility across all browsers and just plain time wasting. A WordPress page can be constructed in minutes, and the typography, options for placement of video, audio and/or image content is superior than any easy site building program I have ever tried. Writing a wordpress page is darn near as easy as writing an email in your favorite email client.

Everyone in this world is looking for an easy solution to every problem.  Whether that problem is World Peace, Losing 100 pounds, or creating a website for their business. I think that if a politician were to have a moment of honesty, they might tell you that World Peace is unattainable, your doctor will tell you that losing weight takes effort and fortitude, and I will tell you that building a website that supports your business goals costs more than a night at a Jimmy Buffett concert!

There are options that are less difficult than the old fashioned way of creating websites with Dreamweaver or Front Page (like WordPress or Joomla) and it is true that todays options for getting your message online are greatly expanded, but the fact remains that for every great result, there is in most cases a story of great effort – either of mind or spirit or plain old elbow grease. Buying into a quick fix method of creating a website which supposedly offers a one size fits all system, but a limited number of options is not the wisest of decisions.

I will let others tell you if Site Build It! is a scam, that is not my job really. I can tell you that in my opinion there are smarter, stronger, and more economical options available in Open Source Content Management Systems, which will allow you to start, build and grow your website with your business and maintain control over that website, just as you do your business.

By Now almost everyone in the World is aware that iBusinessLogic specializes in building websites with the content management system called WordPress. We have tried the others, but there is just no denying the features and capabilities of WordPress are superior as a content publishing and management platform for the any business website.

Today we will share a feature that makes WordPress one of the best solutions to use. This feature is  “shortcodes”… Yes, WordPress offers shortcuts in code which make the process of creating interesting articles even easier, and they explain the entire process here:

What are the WordPress shortcodes?

What is a shortcode?

A shortcode is a WordPress-specific code that lets you do nifty things with very little effort. Shortcodes can embed files or create objects that would normally require lots of complicated, ugly code in just one line. Shortcode = shortcut.

What shortcodes does WordPress use?

[audio] converts a link to an mp3 file into an audio player. See full instructions here.

[caption] adds a caption to an image. See full instructions here.

[digg] embeds a voting button for your link on Digg. See full instructions here.

[flickr] embeds a Flickr video. See full instructions here.

[gallery] displays a thumbnail gallery of images attached to that post or page. See full instructions here.

[googlemaps] embeds Google Maps. See full instructions here.

[googlevideo] embeds a Google Video. See full instructions here.

[livevideo] embeds a video from LiveVideo. See full instructions here.

[odeo] embeds an Odeo audio file. See full instructions here.

[podtech] embeds audio or video from the PodTech Network. See full instructions here.

[polldaddy] embeds a PollDaddy poll(use without the space). See full instructions here.

[redlasso] embeds a video from Redlasso. See full instructions here.

[rockyou] embeds a slideshow from RockYou. See full instructions here.

[slideshare] embeds a slideshow from Slideshare.net. See full instructions here.

[sourcecode] preserves the formatting of source code. See full instructions here.

[splashcast] embeds Splashcast media. See full instructions here.

[vimeo] embeds a Vimeo video. See full instructions here.

[youtube] embeds a YouTube video. See full instructions here.

Keep an eye on this page for more!

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When potential clients ask me why WordPress is the ideal foundation for the Web design for a small business web-site.  I sometimes have to withhold the chuckle inside my brain. I mean really, why has the world not yet recognized the incredible power and yet simplicity that is WordPress?

WordPress is just the blog software that bloggers use to create little blog sites and talk about pet rocks, or whatever, isn’t it? The client might ask…

WordPress is much more than simple blog software!

Yes, WordPress is utilized by tens of thousands of bloggers around the world yet it also it powers millions other (non-blog style) websites as well. According to Wikipedia, in September 2009 there were 202 million web-sites driven by WordPress throughout the world with 62 million here in the USA. An incredible 54% of all Content Management System managed websites published today are run by WordPress and WordPress is the sole technology operating 13% of all of the top 1,000,000 websites in the World! It is simply the most used, and most popular Content Management System in use today, no other CMS comes close.

What makes WordPress Ideal for a Small Business Owner?

• WordPress is extremely simple to use.

Not long ago, the majority of small business web sites were developed and managed by web-site designers or web masters. This is great if you have a good relationship with your web person but If you wished to add anything to the web site or modify a bit of its content you would really need to see your web design specialist and pay them to make the modification. Sometimes this turns into a weeks long ordeal and really, should it be that hard?  Adding your own content, or changing a paragraph here, adding a new employee profile there, is a breeze in WordPress.  If you can write an email in gmail, you can also create a page or post in WordPress.

Today, as an interactive web presence becomes more and more important to small businesses, business owners need to be able to keep their own sites up to date without having to hire an expert.  Compiling, adding or changing content on a WordPress content management system site is as easy as using a word processor. Really, anyone can do it.

• If you can dream it, WordPress can pretty much do it!

WordPress is considered the most powerful and flexible publishing software available today period.

This simply means it can be very easily extended to add functionality and so can be almost any type of web site a small business might want.  With commercial and open source plugins (software, or Apps) WordPress can be morphed into whatever task its owners and developer wants it to do. WordPress can be a portfolio site, it can be an e-mail marketing site or a unique social network. WordPress can also be a members only website, allow some content to the public and keep other content for exclusive access and it can be set up to perform multiples of these features or tasks at the same time.  You can add a product catalog and run an e-commerce business with it. Use it for event scheduling, sell event tickets. Offer video streaming and podcasts, image portfolios and more. And yes, it can also be a blog even if it does not look like a blog.

• Using WordPress,  – you have control

There are lots of proprietary website systems out there that one can use to build a website. However, those proprietary systems are dependent on you continuing to use the service provider. You can’t pick up your Hubspot website and take it to your own Internet host. You can’t take those Site Builder sites anywhere else. A Go Daddy “Website Tonight” website has to stay at Go Daddy. And in most cases so does all of the data that you spent your time and effort in compiling on “your” website.  With WordPress you can simply export an .xml file of your content, back up your database or with certain hosting companies using a cpanel you can back up the entire installation in one file and move hosts in a matter of hours, without losing anything.

• WordPress is always growing

Yes, WordPress started off as a blog engine, but it has turned out to be much more. With every new release new methods are added. And since it is “Open Source” there are a huge number of developers creating plugins to extend its operation and the way that WordPress displays information is constantly changing.  Premium theme and plugin developers are constantly adding new features and design capabilities to the framework that is WordPress.

The modular nature of the system is one of the most incredible features. If one particular theme design that your company starts out with is not what you have in mind for your site a year after it was implemented, you can change the look without losing any content, without re-creating a single page and without having to worry about losing your ranking in search because your page URL’s remain the same.  Similarly, if you decide next year that you want to add a directory of your best suppliers or customers, (or both) to your website – poof, you can just plugin either a custom, customized or off the shelf directory plugin to do the job.  Need to offer banner advertising and manage that from your back end administration panel? No problem.  The tools available to customize a WordPress website are nearly endless and they are growing every day!

• WordPress is SEO friendly!

Really, this is the core benefit to WordPress, it takes the mystery out of SEO!

With a WordPress CMS website, properly set up and optimized. with the correct SEO plugins and a Site-map export to Google, Yahoo and Bing… New content can be indexed within 24 hours, not months as in some other website platforms.  This is not magic and it does involve some common sense, diligence and establishing best practices for publishing content related to the keyword phrases you wish to target for your business, but without a doubt WordPress has the highest percentage of opportunity to place anyone on the first page of results for any targeted keyword phrase.  To rank the entire site will take time and effort, just as in any marketing and advertising strategy but with WordPress as your CMS and if you follow the best practices, not one moment of that time will be wasted.

• Lots of help available

WordPress is the reverse of proprietary, i.e. it’s designation as an Open Source content management system (the best in the world as voted on in 2009 by Packt). You can take it anywhere, add virtually anything to it and easily find someone to work on it. There are thousands of web developers and web designers who specialize in WordPress. Is there some new thing you want to try with your site? You won’t have to look very far for an expert.  It has been said that, if you can conceive of it, it can be done with a computer, but WordPress takes the difficulty from it. The real difference is in who actually does your Web design for you. Yes, you can, if you wish, add content to your WordPress web-site, but an expert WordPress designer can add usefulness you’ve probably only dreamed of in the past.

• Access anywhere

WordPress has advanced tools and capabilities that other website publishing sites just do not offer, some of the most important of these are the basics which are included in every install of WordPress. RSS feed generators which publish your content to the world via Real Simple Syndication will bring in readers (and possible customers) from the far reaches of the world or from your very own neighborhood through the advanced system of RSS readers.  WordPress also “pings” or notifies search engines, directories, and other sites when you have added new content to your website.  This increases real traffic as well as search engine spyders which is one of the reasons why WordPress is indexed so well and so quickly.  In addition, you have access from anywhere. You can publish to your WordPress based website from any computer or smart phone in the world, as long as you have Internet access, you are in control of your website.

• Database Driven

WordPress uses mysql databases to manage content and data. Why is this important to a small business owner?  Because if you decide to use a free web builder or website tonight to manage your business website, you will not have a database.  If you do not have a database, your users can not search your website for information. You can not manage products, or a catalog, or images, or do any kind of data capture from your potential leads.  Without a database a website is simple a virtual brochure with no way to capture or track leads, create forms or manage & sort any kind of data you enter.  This means you will need a menu item on your home page of your website tonight or site builder site for every piece of content you ever want your clients to see.  How cluttered will that become?

• Widgetized Display of Content

All WordPress websites installed today are what is called “Widget ready”.  Widgets are really just modules which can be displayed in what are called sidebars (which can be both verticle and horizontal and on some WordPress themes can be located anywhere within a page or post).  These widgets can be as simple as a text paragraph with your company address, or they can display an interactive Google Map of your location or possibly an interactive Google map of all of your locations (if you have multiple retail stores).

Once you decide what you want to populate a widget with (map, text, video, form, etc etc) then you can decide where it should be on the site.  Not only can this be moved or changed to suit your testing and style, but widgets can also be designated to display only on certain pages or posts or both.  This make WordPress a serious CMS because every page created on a WordPress website can offer task specific information in an easy to use and managable way.

• Multi-Site Capable – perfect for business

Multisite or MU or Multi-Site, what does that mean?  WordPress has merged it’s two main forks to become an all in one publishing platform, no matter whether you wish to manage just one website or 100 websites.  Multisite simply means that any installation of WordPress can be setup to offer the same capabilities of WordPress.com (the free blogging version of WordPress) which hosts and manages millions of websites and blogs.

For business, this means that any firm who has multiple locations but does not want to have to manage a website for each location or store, can install WordPress on a single dedicated server and then create individual websites for each location throughout the Country or State. Why is this great? Let say you have a company with 10 or even 25 locations and lets say you want to present a consistent look to the public of your brand but you also want each location’s website to draw traffic from a geotargeted search strategy instead of a national search campaign. What would you do?

Without WordPress you will either be creating multiple separate websites in each area for each location or store and then have to maintain each one of those websites with a different login and with different schedules of backup etc.  With WordPress this can all be done from one installation, all software and plugins are updated by one administrator and all design criteria can be managed in one place. Yet, each store manager or local marketing person in each local area can manage the content, adjust the keyword strategies, place local menus, or special pricing or offer deals to local geotargeted consumers in a way that a single corporate style website can not do as effectively.  Each localized website can have it’s own identity with it’s own specific domain name and be found online as a local site yet still be connected to the main brand website on the back end and through internal linking strategies.

Multisite WordPress is the premier way for a company to manage it’s national Internet marketing campaigns while also being capable of drilling down to localized search strategies for each locations website. This is true if you have 3 stores or 3 hundred stores.

Why should small business be interested in WordPress?  If the ten reasons above do not peak your interest I should say that you will be quite happy with a basic static HTML hand coded old style website, but I know that you will not.

Touch base with me sometime to chat about it, I am sure we can come up with a few more reasons why your business should have a WordPress website leading the way online for your marketing strategy.

by: Scott Pooler Contact me here at iBusinessLogic.com

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This project is something I have wanted to do for a long time, frankly our old portfolio page was just simply not all that user friendly but like a professional auto mechanic, web developers never seem to find time for the projects we need to do at home. Now anyone can go to our new portfolio, which is really a directory, and find completed projects and projects under construction of all kinds. Joomla and WordPress Content Management System Development is our specialty so these projects are the ones we have presented on our directory.

I have created a new portfolio of work (both in progress and past projects) publishing it on our server here: @ iBusinessLogic.com/portfolio .

Use the portfolio to inspire your thoughts on how you would like your web site to look and feel.  I have had many customers sit down with me and after I showed them some of the work I have done, they get very excited.  The possibilities start to percolate inside the creative mind of the client when they see what can be done, it is at this time that I usually get a shopping list of features and designs that the new client wants to emulate from a completed project.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with using features of other websites, as long as your content is original and you brand your site to be yours alone, popular features and great ideas are always good to incorporate into a new project.

So… take a look around our portfolio, grab an idea, think about how you want your site to look and feel.  If it can be done, we can do it for you.

Thanks for checking it out!

Scott Pooler – iBusinessLogic

Keith Sanders Law P.A. is a local attorney in St Pete Beach, Florida who specializes in Bankruptcy, Foreclosure Defense and Loan Modification.

Prior to working with iBusinessLogic this local attorney’s best form of advertising was either word of mouth or the occasional Craig’s List Advertisement. iBusinessLogic went to work on changing that situation with a fully optimized easy to manage WordPress as CMS website development project.

This legal specialty site inclused a custom premium theme with rotating banner header, a custom beach oriented background, call to action buttons and easy to update testimonial displays that rotate automatically on the home page with every new page load.

Attorney Sanders and his staff have been impressed with the speed and efficiency of this website development project.  From start to finish this complete web site was completed in less than 4 weeks.

Keith Sanders stressed his desire to focus on three primary forms of law in which he specializes:

• Bankruptcy – Chapter 13 and Chapter 13 Bankruptcy Law in the State of Florida
• Foreclosure defense in the State of Florida
• Loan Modifications

Needless to say these are very competitive keyword phrases and we of course wanted to hone the niche down to a more localized result. With this plan the site was optimized to capitalize on search traffic in the local Tampa Bay area and of course in Keith Sanders home town of St Pete Beach.

The results are impressive, even for us… All of these results are for Organic search within 60 days of the site going live.  This shows the strength of a properly set up and optimized WordPress based Content Management System website.  To attain these kinds of rankings in such a highly competitive search phrase landscape is quite impressive.

These screenshots are taken in early October 2009 – the site went live on 8 September 2009.

Keyword Phrase #1 – Bankruptcy Attorney St Pete Beach

#4 in Google for Bankruptcy Attorney in Local Search

Keyword Phrase #2 – Foreclosure Defense St Pete Beach

Google #2 - Foreclosure Defense

Keyword Phrase #3 – Loan Modifications St Pete Beach

Google Results - Organic #2 for Loan Modifications

Attorney Keith Sanders and his dedicated staff can continue to rank for other keyword phrases as long as they use this website as it was intended. By adding new information on a regular basis and concentrating of specific keyword phrase content, this attorney’s website should provide a very attractive return on investment.

Oh, and one other bonus from this optimized site… Attorney Keith Sanders can be found without having a Linked In or Twitter account. We always promote the use of these social networking tools, mainly because they are great for building a personal brand.  In Keith Sanders case, his name had already been taken on both of these social networking websites.

Keyword Phase #4 – Keith Sanders – Ranking #2 in Google

(Outranking both Twitter and Linked In)

Beating Large Sites like Twitter and LinkedIn - is Possible!

For more information about iBusinessLogic legal website development please contact us

Introduction to WordPress

Watch this WordPress introduction video first, clients may gain access to all of the training videos simply by asking for the training password.

Learning how to effectively use WordPress is essential to effectively managing your new nimble small business website based on this fantastic Content Management System.

To see all of the WordPress and other Training Articles and Videos, follow this link.

• ibusinessLogic Client Training

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Please contact us to get the password for the other videos in the training series.