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Mar 19 2009

Is Site Build It A Scam?

Lis wrote an interesting post called: Site Build It Scam Review.

Thanks for mentioning MyStarterBlog.

I wanted to leave a comment but found that a post would be better since it's content on my blog and expected to write a lot. ;)

Anyway, Lis found, mostly the same SBI users, commenting and I give Lis credit on approving those comments. They corrected/answered Lis and that's okay. Some comment were so long that I guest some of them were writing their comments at the same time thus duplicating the same answers.  It's a longer read than I expected.

I can also understand using the word "scam" from her point of view when there are many other cheaper alternative elsewhere. But for someone who start in this business, it could be a good way to have everything centralized in one place. That's is you have the first $300 to invest.

But since they show them what they need to do, why should they pay $300 for the the second site?  A user could have a site with 300 products while another have 100 sites with 3 products each.   The second user would be using the tools a little more but pay $300/year!!! Is it fair for her/him?

For example, if SBI would let them use the tools on unlimited sites with a small extra fee, this would be a better deal for users.   Otherwise, just buy software(with free lifetime updates like BMD, FBF, Keyword Elite, SEO Elite... ) and create unlimited sites at a lower hosting cost. Creating the site is not the problem. It's the getting traffic part that's time consuming and dull.

For some with only 1 site  and earning that money back, $300 could be enough for them to keep using SBI and not to have to deal with the technical side of their site. Then again, they remain at their "mercy". That's the real downside. I know that from personal experience with a site I bough from another person(not SBI). I know a lot more now by being more independent.

Last year, I bought around $700-1000 in SEO software. Then again, I have more than 100 domains. If I had used SBI, my cost even with their 2 for 1  or spring sale would be much higher ($10 000-15 000).  At $300, you must be sure that you chosen the right products or it will be a costing lessons for a newbie.

In the next weeks, I plan to be in a "build sites mode" thus increasing and diversifiyng my revenue streams.  I will pay $1 for .info so if I failed, then it's less than 1 hour +$1 I waisted. I will learned months later if I picked the right keywords. If I'm wrong, at least it's not $300 per site being waisted.

But with all those comments, Lis was not answered on the cost of getting you domain out of SBI if someone would want to stop using SBI.

Also, some mentioned that they own their sites. Okay, but following on Lis questions, what if someone used a graphic belonging to SBI. Can they take it with them? Are the images exclusive to SBI or royalty free?

Those that answered are those, I'm sure die hard users, who made or about to make their $300/year back and I'm glad for them. But those few commenter's anti-SBI were accused of not following the steps.

This bring me to ask what is the success rate using a centralize model like SBI after 1 year? I specified 1 year to be fair because you have to put in the time in any model.

Also, what's the average profit margin of those who made more than $300? It's important because if you put 100 hours(part time) but only made a $200/year profit then, it's not a good ROI. Most would not work for $2/hour, at least in develop countries(cost of living).

Some mentioned getting targeted traffic. Okay, but what's their converting targeted traffic reate? If you have 500 targeted visitors/day but no one buys/clicks then it's crap traffic. The only traffic that counts is the traffic that earn you money. It's a business not a blog for the social bragging rights of visitor or RSS readers.

One comment made me laugh about typos on her blog. This showed me the lack of understanding of getting traffic from typos. Heck, I make a lot of typos since English is not my first language. I do try but I'm sure that if I read at my older post I would ask myself what I was thinking at that time. I'm not saying that you should make types on purpose.

So, is Site Build It a scam?

From reading the answers from comments, I don't think so. For me, it's over price and even more on the second site. It's my opinion.

Also, Lis was slammed for making too many mistakes in her review of Site Build It Scam.  But how many potential clients would read the same thing on SBI and passed on it because they were thinking the same thing as her? That's the most important point here that SBIers missed.

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    1. Passive Income said:

      LOL Steve I hesitate to click notify me of followup comments, my inbox is a little out of control at the moment! I’ve never had so much free unique content in my life!

      March 19th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
    2. Erwin Steneker said:

      Hi Steve,

      Thank you for your more balanced post. Since you touched on the subject of price, I’d like to give you my 2 cents on it. Keep in mind that I’m Dutch… we Dutch are notorious for being cheap. Remember the term “going Double Dutch”? — That’s us.

      Anyway… back to price. So is $300 per site per year a lot or a little?

      If you consider Site Build It! as ‘just’ a webhost, and compare it to cheap webhosting (ie. $5/months) at first glance cheap hosts may LOOK cheap. But, SBI is more. And different.

      First, before you even start building a site, you are guided through the process of researching for good niches to work on. This research is very similar to making a business plan. You know, that work that serious businesses do before they start doing business.

      To do this you have at your disposal Brainstorm It!. This is a tool similar (not same) to Wordtracker, which let you brainstorm for keyword phrases. It not only gives you demand (how many have searched for that phrase) but also supply (how many have built pages for that phrase). The free Google Keyword tool doesn’t give supply, you have to research that differently (don’t know how). WordTracker does give you that, but costs $59/month or $329/year (which you admittedly can use across several sites).

      Anyway, after the research (which also involves looking at monetizability of a niche, and researching the website name for possible legal issues like trademarks) you then decide on the niche you will work on and under what domain name. Note that most (if not all) webhosts skip these steps and tell you you can register and start building a website within 5 minutes.

      Then you can start building your site. Selecting a template is simple, and you have plenty of options to adjust it to your own taste. The template is, by design, very simple. The focus is on the content, navigation is ultrasimple (but too simple for the taste of most web designers I know). Regular (non-webmaster) visitors don’t seem to care about the simple look, as they come for the content.

      The content you build with SBI!’s blockbuilder. This is not your regular website builder. It’s also a teaching tool that shows you all the elements that go on a web page, and gives you strategies on how to best use these elements. There’s the constant reminder on building real, valuable content. The sort of content that makes people want to read more on your site, (social) bookmark it, sign up for the newsletter, and return again and again.

      After you’ve written your content, you can use Analyze it! to check your work to see if the keyword phrase you are targeting is used enough, in the right spots, and not overused. So you don’t have to guess if your page will be understood by the Search Engines that it is about that keyword phrase. Not a tool I found elsewhere, but pretty useful.

      The pages that are live on your site are, if you choose so, automatically added to your ‘Site Blog’. This isn’t the same as regular blogs (like yours), but is designed to look like one. Since blogs are usually more time-sensitive, they are usually spidered faster. I have that benefit for my site, without having to maintain a separate (real) blog. New articles are also added to an RSS feed, which is automatically pinged. Buttons on subscribing to the RSS feed are added automatically. All pages are added to an XML file, with the proper makeup for the major search engines. You submit this file once, and then they use it to spider your site more easily. All this with 0 (zero) technical knowledge needed. And whenever it’s broken, it gets fixed.

      Adding a newsletter subscriber box and a contact form can also be done without technical knowledge. Just select the ezine block at the proper position and it handles double opt-in confirmation and e-mail address changes and unsubscribes. Form Build it! is versatile enough to be able to make a single autoresponder (contact form) or multi-autoresponder (f.i. a 5 day course). Is it as versatile as Aweber? No. But it fits most business uses, and comes free with SBI!, where Aweber costs upwards from $19/month, up to more than $149 if your #subscribers is higher than 25000.

      Do you NEED to use Blockbuilder? No. I use Adobe Dreamweaver, and upload my files. These are also added to the database of pages (yes, pages are put in a database, very similar to a CMS)

      Then, after your pages are live on your website, the database is used to track your pages. It tracks when spiders come to spider each individual page. But it also checks at regular intervals how high your page ranks for the keyword phrase it targets across the 4 major Search Engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN/Live, Ask). Are there free tools that automatically check and report how high all your pages rank in 4 SE’s? Not that I’m aware of. Yet very useful information for any webmaster! Plus you get info on which keywords your pages are found for. Regular traffic is also measured and reported of course.

      Okay… what have I left out? More technical stuff like setting up MX for integrating Google Apps e-mail, or setting up an A record to integrate multiple servers. Don’t ask me how to on regular webhosts. Too technical. Links on your site are automatically checked, and broken links are e-mailed to you. Want private whois data? Free. And easy.

      And for all the stuff you can’t do automatic, there’s plentiful information available to you, when you need it. For instance, on the best strategies to build incoming links. On how to write great content. On writing a privacy policy (including what you need if you have adsense). On making a video and putting it on your site. On the best strategies for Google Adsense (just a few examples).

      And, whenever you get stuck, you have the forums to go to. This is a very busy place, where you can ask questions and receive answers in no time. Most forum visitors are very helpful, mainly because of all the help they received in the forums. How busy? Well, I’m one of >30 volunteer moderators that work on keeping the forums tidy. This includes keeping it free from spammy users who’d like to target forum visitors with whatever they have to offer. Putting threads in the right spot. And yes, we are very vigilant in stopping flames. There’s virtually no name-calling (ok, a bit name-calling recently) or swearwords, or personal attacks in the forums. Some people may throw up on the positive attitude that reigns there, but I enjoy it a lot more than the negative stuff I find elsewhere (and which I regret I sometimes get caught up in, like on that other blog you mentioned).

      Anyway, all this surmounts to the only thing that actually counts: a lot of sustainable, targeted traffic. And a lot of strategies (17 if I recall) on how to make money from that traffic.

      All this in one place, and no technical knowledge required (although a bit of HTML knowledge is helpful). If any of these tools are broken, it gets fixed for me. Now, it may seem like a lot, 300 bucks a year, but if you make about $16000/month, like I do, you’re glad that the technical stuff is taken care of, and you can focus wholy on your business.

      Developing functions like this AND keeping them current for the Internet costs a lot of money. Maintaining a data center that gets a lot more traffic than most cheap webhosts (because SBI! sites usually outperform most regular websites) and that can cope with sudden influx of major traffic, as a site demonstrated when they reached the first page of Stumbleupon or similar, also costs a lot of money.

      That’s why I don’t even hesitate to pay the yearly fee. But I don’t aim on owning 100s of websites that do marginally. I’d rather focus on a few that do great.

      Anyway, that’s my point of view.

      Thanks for listening.

      Kind regards,

      Erwin.
      a “True Believer” — for one reason: SBI! works.

      P.S. This is my first and last post here… I spent too much time on this already! :-D

      March 20th, 2009 at 11:08 am
    3. Vic said:

      Erwin Steneker 16k A month get the F*** out of here with that S*** son you might be able to bull your way with noobs I just looked at your site and priced the traffic vs the adsense ads you show son you make S*** money you make but a few hundred a month if that. I just do not get the need to justify a service with lies. Look if your happy spending 300 a year for a site that is great no matter what money you make what is important is your happy but please do not try to justify the 300 with a bull income report again I am a real IM guy so please be real LMAO!!!!

      March 20th, 2009 at 11:42 am
    4. Jenna said:

      Vic:
      What makes you think a site’s only income is from adsense?

      March 20th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
    5. Vic said:

      Jenna if you understood IM you would not be asking. Because the predominant link color is the adsense box so the highest bounce will be the link also the more monetization on a page the lower the CTR which in this case please name me the other monetization on his site. Now lets say this was a hybrid and he drives traffic to convert into primary offline income lets say consulting then you would be an idiot putting adsense ads and having people click out for 3 cent ads when you can make 50-100 an hour in consulting. Again if you understood how IM works you would know, this is why schmucks like this can make a post like this and have noobs really beleive they make 16k a month from a $300 or less adsense site LMAO!!!

      March 20th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
    6. Andre said:

      Adsense is a part of an overall monetization strategy.

      A site visitor is NOT automatically a targeted visitor, no matter how good you have worked your keywords and the content of your page. A site visitor is NOT a rat and won’t just click the flashy blue text box just because…they look around, see if anything looks like what they are looking for and if not they click out.

      Simple. True.

      Why not give this visitor the chance to click out on an adsense ad instead of your back button?

      Not every visitor is going to fall in love with your site and buy your consult services or whatever else you’re promoting on your list (At least I hope you’re promoting your affiliate products on your list and not right there on your site!) Those that decide to leave do, no matter what. Better to profit from them leaving than not eh?

      Well that’s my 2¢ anyways. :-)

      March 20th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
    7. Erwin Steneker said:

      Thank you Vic, for your very well thought out response on something you cannot possibly know anything about (unless you work for Dutch taxes).

      I have no need to justify anything to anyone by naming my income and I’m sorry if you feel that I did try to do that.

      *My* income is indeed irrelevant to this discussion. I’m not saying anything about what anybody will make if you buy a single SBI! site (nor could I with a straight face, or you with any products you market). That was not my intention, anyway.

      As you can read in my lengthy post, I shared what SBI! does for me for the price that I pay… and I think it’s very reasonable from a business standpoint for a business person who’s not an IM whizz kid.

      Kind regards,

      Erwin.

      March 20th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
    8. Vic said:

      Andre and that is why you make probably 2 cents in adsense LMAO!!!! Yes you can target exactly who you show adsense but then again if you knew you would not be using SBI right? LMAO!!!

      March 20th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
    9. Vic said:

      Common Erwin try me I have an MBA lets see what you got give me the keywords you work ;) I might not be able to tell how much money you make but I can tell you how much money you make from the crap adsense niche you put in the url LMAO!!

      March 20th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
    10. Andre said:

      This is what I like about the forums at SBI.

      Nobody gets treated this way for posting a view or opinion. The way VIC responds reminds me of when I was in grade school.

      Empty attacks with no substance.

      Some (Like VIC) would probably call this censorship, but I believe these people are missing the point.

      I view the SBI forums like an office, a place where people with the similar goals and objectives (to build a web business) congregate and exchange ideas, strategies, consult with each other. That’s why they are private forums.

      Just like in a work environment, if everybody were permitted to tell their colleagues to piss off all they want, what kind of environment would that create? How willing would you be to express an opinion or ask a question if you got flamed for your supposed ignorance?

      This posting by Steve is more akin to what I consider a responsible opinion, than what I’m reading from VIC. but then again, I doubt VIC is all but interested in intellectual conversations, from what I’ve been able to witness of your postings here and elsewhere.

      In life I’ve learned that being loud and obnoxious, does not mean you are right…it just means you are loud and obnoxious.

      March 20th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
    11. Vic said:

      Andre when all is said and done why is it you do not post a link to your 2 cent site? LMAO!!!!

      March 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
    12. Steve McGrath said:

      Wow! I go away for an afternoon(rare for me) and come back to all this lol

      Now, I have read all the comments and my opinion did not changed. Erwin went beyond by giving a lot of information about SBI tools/method.

      But for me, it’s not the best use of my money for my business model(multiple sites). Don’t have all your eggs in the same basket. ;)

      SBIers like the service and hope for them that they earn their $300 back every year. Hopefully, it’s not by selling the affiliate side only. I can’t comment on the success they have or not. Maybe SBIer should have an internal poll to see how they fair vs others in the program.

      I always consider affiliate sides of services/products like extra money. That’s how I view it with mySee free movies legally(and make money too) ebook. The real money is in the report and the affiliate side is “the extra on the sunday” like you say in English. In French, we say: ” C’est la cerise sur le sunday”. :D

      Btw, in the comments on both blogs, I see many referencing to the XML sitemap. On WP, it’s a plugin and in MyStarterBlog, it’s build in already. ;)

      March 20th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
    13. Rhys said:

      Hope you benefit from the extra traffic Steve!

      I’ve been on forums before when there is discussion about a cult/scam element, and would you believe they all sound exactly the same – they hand out their particular Guru’s mantras ‘ad nauseum’, and if you don’t surrender and roll over, they start in on the abuse! I reckon ‘trolls’ is the perfect name!

      Anyway it’s great entertainment watching them registering outrage and hurt! Pity they can’t come up with any verifiable sites to prove their supposed point.

      March 21st, 2009 at 2:25 am
    14. Steve McGrath said:

      Rhys, I don’t do it for the extra traffic since it’s not a paying traffic for me. ;) Heck, most should had bought MyStarterBlog to replace their WP/SBI sites lol Anyway, I voiced my opinion.

      The cult element is what I don’t like. A fan would find flaws in what they use unlike a zealot who will not and be blinded.

      For example, late in 2007 and early 2008, I was involved in the HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray battle and picked Blu-Ray based on facts before I owned my PS3. In the end, I was right.

      I mentioned this because I also stated the good points of HD-DVD overs Blu-Ray also. I even corrected Blu-Ray fans who gave wrong facts even if I did not own either players. Early on, I was corrected too and appreciated that because I wanted both sides of the issue and not give false or outdated information. The j6p consumer had enough to think about.

      Because I was fair in my opinion, HD-DVD zealots who attacked me for my opinion were often put back in their places by Blu-Ray and also…. HD-DVD fans. It happened on a major Canadian tech blog and the owner/moderator even reminded the zealot that was not a Blu-Ray troll because I gave both side including flaws.

      Is MyStarterBlog perfect? No, I’m the creator and find flaws in my own creation when I compare MSB to WP. But I found enough flaws in WP to create MSB which must tell you something.

      I don’t mind fans defending a products or service as long they can think for themselves and see flaws. For example, the $300 for the second site was never mentioned as a big “flaw”. Perhaps most SBIers only do 1 site and are happy with that.

      Maybe because I’m a programmer-analyst by trade that I have the tendency to see all sides(good and bad). Plus, I often like to be the devil’s advocate to have fun too. ;)

      March 21st, 2009 at 7:10 am
    15. Jeremy M said:

      Vic, why don’t you and Erwin both begin two sites at the same time, using the same exact keywords.

      See who has the most targeted traffic & the most earnings within 6 months.

      Up for it?

      March 21st, 2009 at 12:02 pm
    16. Tonia S. said:

      The only thing I’d like to say is that I’ve never pushed SBI on any of my websites. Yes I own both SBI sites and regular cheap-hosted domains. My earnings come from my niche(s), which are not related to internet marketing at all.

      Thought you’d want to take a look at this:

      http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/782/1/How-to-achieve-10000-visitors-a-day-with-Site-Build-It/

      March 21st, 2009 at 12:08 pm
    17. Steve McGrath said:

      Jeremy M,

      This kind of competition is not something Vic would do for free despite the earnings. Erwin would have to put serious money on the line for him to waste his time on this. The last guy that went against Vic back down.

      Personally, I would not take that bet because Vic has some serious infrastructure/experience on his side.

      Plus, I know Vic has a project that will be bigger thus little time to waste. ;)

      March 21st, 2009 at 12:13 pm
    18. Vic said:

      Steve pretty much said it all right now we have huge projects Steve knows this personally that are important but shit for $100k it would make it my worth but of course as with all these fake income posters he will not have money to back it up so as always it will be a waste of my time.

      But Jeremy just keep in an eye on Google search term “Site Build It Review” the post was indexed in 4 minutes first show in results was in the 500 plus page this morning from my data center is position 21 and you will see it position one real soon this is what real IM guys can do ;)

      March 21st, 2009 at 12:29 pm
    19. Max said:

      Steve, you are the man.

      Waving at you across the tundra.

      March 21st, 2009 at 4:22 pm
    20. Steve McGrath said:

      LOL

      Waving at you from the now melting snow ;)

      March 21st, 2009 at 4:36 pm
    21. Steve McGrath said:

      Tonia, you comment was in Askimet thus the delay.

      I’m glad that you went beyond SBI and really use your niches to make money and the affiliate.

      I have read the article but they don’t say “How” but “look this site has 10000 visitors a day”. In a business, the traffic is only good if it’s “converting” to money.

      March 21st, 2009 at 6:35 pm
    22. renee' said:

      Good day, just wanted to say that I have a site with SBI and I could not be happier with them. I started and I did not even know what a keyword was 2 years ago .. now my site is in 5th position on google with my book right behind it in a very competitive field. SBI was what I needed to get started with a site having not a clue how to build or work a site or the time to do it on my own- I needed a company to show me step by step how to do it and they did. I may not be techy or internet savy but SBI works for me and my business. And for me the $300 yr is bypassed over and over again in what my site brings in and I am not an affiliate site. But more important my site helps a lot of people to learn the business and from contacts from it I have columns in National Fashion Magazines and I enjoy what I do and it is a new learning experience each day.

      have fun!

      March 23rd, 2009 at 9:03 pm
    23. Steve McGrath said:

      Renee, I’m glad you make your money back each year.

      I even visited your site to check it out. In your case, you have your own book to sell thus more options to make money. If it was a niche, I would only had Adsense on it. Like you, my site use more than Adsense since it’s not a niche.

      Here a few pointers:

      First, you should watch this video:
      http://www.viddler.com/explore/bloggerunleashe/videos/47

      Second, since I clicked from this post, I saw your Adsense ads. You should only show your ads to search engines. I made the switch myself recently and I increased my Adsense revenue by 64%.

      Third, your could switch to free/low cost alternative. I had to mentioned it ;)

      Since it’s been 2 years and make money, you should no longer have a need for SBI. But, if you still want to stay with them at this time to play “safe”, you could start another site(niche) on your own and learn from it. It could be a sub niche in the fashion field. Later, when you feel confident, you could leave SBI or not.

      The last recommendation goes to those that did not go beyond the world of SBI. Just use a sub niche of your main SBI site using alternatives to the SBI tools. In any case, you will learn to be more independent.

      March 24th, 2009 at 8:42 am
    24. Justin said:

      I honestly do not understand all these site build scam theories. In my opinion if you can not make money with site build it you are ignorant and would never be able to make money with anything online. If you are smart Site Build It will take you to the top of the search results. I have achieved over 75 top 10 google rankings out of 200 pages. Scam right? How incredibly off. I am reaping the rewards of it so Im not sure how it is a scam.

      June 9th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
    25. Michael Pedzotti said:

      SBI is not a scam. That might be a bit harsh. It can be considered over-priced if you were to add up the value of what (it seems) some SBI users actually access each month.

      The range of tools, data, tracking and page building tools all taken together would be of more value than the $30 a month it costs. However, who actually needs all that?

      For some, SBI will be a welcome relief as a lot of the backend stuff is done for you. So in those cases people are paying for a service. For others it will be a $300 (per year) failure as the SBI model does not suit everyone.

      For the most part I think SBI has got a bad name because of many unscrupulous affiliates (you do not have to own an SBI site to be an affiliate) who promote wildly unbelievable cr*p about the earnings potential.

      For the record, I have an SBI site but I do not wildly promote it or rave about it. It pays for itself and I get to use a range of powerful keyword tools for no net outlay. It is also a great way to get my other sites indexed real quick.

      As with any product/service it will suit some and will be totally inappropriate for others. It’s a choice really. If you want to know more about my experience, visit my blog for a bit more info. The link goes to my blog, not the SBI site and there are no affiliate links there.

      Regards, Michael

      July 18th, 2010 at 9:46 am
    26. Seo said:

      Amazing thread, thanks and greets for publisher.Greets, Ken

      September 29th, 2010 at 1:37 pm
    27. sağlık said:

      Was a beautiful page. Thanks to the designers and managers…

      October 23rd, 2010 at 4:50 am
    28. Randy Brickhouse Sr. said:

      Any way you look at it, people for SiteBuild It, or against it, there sure is plenty to read, watch and listen to over the net about the service.

      Thanks and God bless.

      January 10th, 2011 at 2:58 am
    29. dental said:

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      February 4th, 2011 at 4:32 pm
    30. haberler said:

      thanks and greets for publisher..

      March 13th, 2011 at 9:11 am
    31. okey indir said:

      Thanks, good posting for site build. How willing would you be to express an opinion or ask a question if you got flamed for your supposed ignorance?

      April 29th, 2011 at 2:29 am
    32. Frank said:

      Hey just wanna say I have 2 SBI sites and I’ve been working my ass off for ages on them.

      The results? BS!

      The only gains I’ve made are by reading warrior forum tips. I can’t wait to give up SBI and just host elsewhere, but I’m not sure how to do this.

      SBI has some good stuff for new people learning but there’s something VERY weird about how all the top earners on SBI suddenly come onto any forum where someone expresses a doubt.

      It’s just not normal. Some guy with a kiddies’ games site turns up out of the blue on an SBI forum where people doubt SBI for one minute. Where’s he been for the last 2 years? Nowhere. Does he really exist?
      Yes he exists and he gets a PR4 link from SBI! Guess why his site is doing so well? Perhaps the PR4 link provided by SBI?

      Yep, SBI doesn’t deliver what it says for MANY people. I’m happy for those who succeed with it, but those who fail (and there are many because I’ve linked to their sites and later found their sites are dead) don’t ever say anything about their failure. If they dare to, they get ejected and banned from forums. Their posts get deleted and they get pushed out by strange forum freaks.

      They tell you to put on SBI blinkers but I’ve only started doing ok since I took them off and started reading other stuff.

      SBI works for some of us, but certainly doesn’t work for a lot of others.

      They won’t tell you that though.

      By the way, I won’t post my URL because the man at the top might end up banning my website.

      May 13th, 2011 at 12:57 pm
    33. Malcom said:

      Saw this somewhere else….SBI = Suckers Buy It, lol.

      June 3rd, 2011 at 10:17 pm
    34. ofis mobilyaları said:

      thank you nice sharing…

      July 25th, 2011 at 3:46 am

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