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Originally Posted by Rebecca800  I make $500 each month from Improve Vision Natually (not hosted by SBI, but using all the same principles) |
Hi Rebecca,
I'm seriously considering signing up for SBI. At the moment I'm getting my "internal ducks in a row," so to speak (basically, that means I'm doing research, making sure that SBI is right for me, and pondering what it is I want and need from a website platform).
I'd very much appreciate it if you could answer some questions for me.
- If your Improve Vision Naturally site isn't with SBI, what keyword research tools do you use for that site? E.g. Do you just use the keyword research tools that SBI offers for Improve Vision Naturally (I assume you still have access to them if World of Lucid Dreaming is still with SBI).
- What made you host Improve Vision Naturally on something other than SBI? What platform are you hosting it on now? (I checked it out. It seems to be just a standard HTML website. Please correct me if I'm wrong.)
I figured I'd ask these questions publicly, since I'm sure many people could benefit from the answers to those questions.
To give some context to my questions...
To explain a bit about my situation, I'm already tech-savvy enough to launch a website without SBI, and I can learn the rest as needed; however, (1) the tools SBI comes with, (2) the completeness of the education, and (3) the access to support resources (i.e. forums, and being able to contact SBI) are reason enough for me to seriously consider SBI over alternatives (such as Wordpress).
That said, I'm pretty sure I'd eventually break off from SBI and transition to Wordpress, simply because Wordpress offers much more flexibility (unless I'm mistaken. I guess you could say the flexibility is potentially available with SBI, but when you consider that Wordpress has plugins available, I think Wordpress comes out as the platform that offers more flexibility, more easily--although I may be wrong! I've no experience with SBI, so I can't say. It wouldn't be a surprise to me if I was wrong. I know the automation aspect of SBI is definitely nice, and something Wordpress lacks).
Edit, 21 May 2009: I learned yesterday that you can actually host a Wordpress blog when using SiteBuildIt, so that's handy. That said, it's not so great doing it that way, since you lose a lot of the nice automated features SBI offers. SBI has me thinking about a good way to build a website--i.e. as more of a "blog", or as more of a highly structured resource. I've always loved the idea of blogging, but I'm kind of thinking "what might be a better format for the end user?" Blogs may conform to convention, but I think there's things you can learn from the SBI, "structured resource" way of doing things. Anyway, that's just something I've been musing about.
I'd probably still stay signed up to SBI to make use of their tools (if they allow that in their user agreement), but I don't have a long-term interest in using their platform (although I may reconsider that... we'll see).
Anyway, that's the context I'm coming from.
If you answer my questions, thanks for your time.
