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Originally Posted by Rebecca800 
If this is what people are buying SBI for, then I'd say use Wordpress, no question. But that's NOT what SBI is about! And that's the point we SBI nuts are always trying to bring home. SBI is about building a profitable online business, not building a slick blog that gets no traffic. It was very easy to set up my Wordpress blog but - unless I'm missing some major tutorials - I was offered no information on how to put my blog in front of thousands of people. In contrast, SBI set me up with this attitude from the very start in its day-by-day guide.
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True, if you go the Wordpress route, you have to take it upon yourself to learn & apply those things that will build a successful online business. But the information's all out there & available. And Wordpress has some advantages, with its trackback functioning & commenting feature. And excellent education is available elsewhere regarding how to turn a Wordpress blog into a success money-maker.
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If Wordpress can teach me how to get 20,000 visitors per month in less than a year, then I'm all ears. That's what SBI did for me. So to compare the two is a little crazy, especially if you're new to blogging / website building, because ultimately Wordpress does not teach the internet secrets that SBI does... and that is the difference.
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You have 20,000 visitors a month to your site? Very nice... good for you!
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I'm not saying you CANT have a great website and high traffic with Wordpress. I'm saying it's a hell of a lot easier with SBI. We just have to look past the aesthetics and get to the real valuable stuff underneath that makes SBI the success that it is.
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The valuable stuff is just the knowledge of how to do it. If one relies on SBI for that, therein lies its value. If one doesn't rely on SBI for that information... meh... it's like wearing a straight-jacket and high-water pants to a formal ball, lol.
SBI teaches excellent basics about how to set up the site and intelligently build content so it's visible to the SEs, but there are people who are using Wordpress
without doing all the required things, and their sites are still visible & successful. I've seen it myself -- where I've released a content page in a hurry and didn't pay it any mind except to write what was at the top of my head, paying attention to absolutely nothing regarding keywords & tags, not even an official page title! And it will return at the top of a page 1 search result.
In addition, SBI does not teach anything about how to use social marketing & social media, which is the next step once you get your site together. Just something else to consider if one is to make a weighted decision.
The realm of internet marketing has continued to evolve at a rapid pace since SBI came onto the scene...