I think I have a good chance now with the Federer vs. Sampras Grand Slam comparison I just posted on my tennis blog.

So I am asking you to help and digg that post and I will share the results with you – if we get to the top page.

While I haven’t gotten to the top page, I have analyzed a few posts that reached the top page and there are some often missed benefits that you get when you manage to reach the Digg homepage.

Will keep you updated on the progress!

The key section was this one:

We recommend selling your foreign language product as a completely separate product from the English version. ClickBank allows publishers to specify the language of their product when they submit their product for approval. When you do this, customers will automatically be sent to a ClickBank order form in the appropriate language. We also send out Spanish, German, and French receipts, as well as other notifications.

I also checked the Interned World Stats and came across this graph:

While SBI doesn’t currently support Chinese characters (but I hear that it will!), I decided to translate my tennis videos into Spanish – as there is obviously a huge number of people searching the net in Spanish language.

It’s a one time investment and the reward – earnings – keep coming in. I found a Spanish translator on getafreelancer.com, and he translated the sales letter and the videos for $450. He was also kind enough to add the subtitles to my videos too.

Setting up a new sales letter was a little bit complicated because SBI doesn’t have special characters like ñ, but as you can see you can use special HTML code to display such characters. Here’s the code for this letter in HTML: ñ

All in all it took me about 10 hours to set up the new sales letter, set up a new product in Clickbank and upload the new videos to my hosting.

The videos de tenis page soon started to rank well in Google since I gave it a few good links from both of my tennis sites and also exchanged a few links where I asked other webmasters to link to my Spanish sales letter.

You can see the traffic and the keywords for which is being found below.

There are also many affiliates on Clickbank that are promoting this page and sending lots of traffic to it. It’s now my third most visited page:

The earnings are not that great though; based on a few emails from Spanish speaking visitors, they worry more about online credit card abuse than English speaking visitors – therefore fewer buy.

But still, they visit my site, maybe subscribe to my newsletter and maybe recommend the site to their friends.

Here are the earnings this year:

I earned around $1500 in the first 6 months so it looks like I’ll get to around $3000 per year. That’s a pretty good extra income considering that it cost me $450 and 10 hours of work.

I am quite sure that once SBI allows Chinese characters, I will translate my videos in Chinese too. Reaching an extra billion people is definitely worth it…

So… Have you translated your products yet?

1. Why did you decide for Site Build It?

I first bought SBI and got a refund because I was all over the place, I was trying every GRQ scheme out there and wasn’t prepared to put in the work.

Then after awhile I bought SBI again and haven’t looked back since then. SBI seemed awesome, people loved it and Ken Evoy was giving out a lot of free valuable stuff so I thought I’d try it for real this time.

2. Did you know what you wanted to write about or did you have to find a niche? How did you decide?

My first website was about poker and I almost completely ignored keywords and I paid for it. After around 1˝ years my poker website has 100-150 uniques per day.

Around 5 months ago I started my colon health website which just yesterday had 623 uniques. Just goes to show you how powerful keywords are.

I used to have stomach problems so it was a pretty good niche for me that looked good. I could write a lot on the topic and liked learning about the subject, so I just went with it.

3. How did you progress?

After I had my a-ha moments about keywords and links (thanks to Tomaz), my progress was amazing.

I started out by writing 2 content pages everyday. When I had around 50-70 pages I started submitting to all the big directories (including Yahoo!). It cost me a few hundred dollars but it is worth it in my opinion.

After that I built more pages. At 100 pages I started doing a few link exchanges with people who had PR2+ link pages or other pages. I’ve actually been a bit lazy with link building. I’ve done it in spurts where I contacted 20-30 people, and I’ve only done it a few times so far.

I am not in a hurry though, my traffic is constantly increasing. My plan is to start building links when my traffic stops growing.

Other link building techniques that I use are article submissions (almost entirely to ezinearticles and buzzle), hubpages and I should really get start a lens on squidoo, but I am too lazy .

4. Can you share a few tips of what really worked well for getting more traffic?

#1 – Keywords
The most important thing is keywords. Read Annelie’s thread in the SBI forums and follow her keywords to a tee.

#2 – Directories
Many are hesistant to submit to directories because it costs, but it is worth it. You get a few hundred good links to get started.

#3 – Building Links
Link exchanges are still very much alive. People love to reciprocate and link back, so why would google give that a lot of penalty? Make link exchanges with high-quality and relevant sites. It’s tough when the majority of people you contact never respond, but again, it is well worth it. You can also try requesting links, and I’ve had some success with that, although it is a lot harder .

#4 – Article Submissions & Other Pages
Post one article to ezinearticles and buzzle for each of your Tier 2s with your anchor text. After awhile I recommend you also build a few hubs at hubpages and a lens at squidoo.

#5 – Guest Posting
I’ve got a good gig at a health website where I write health news articles and get powerful links back to my website. This might be hard to land, but if you keep looking it will be an extremely good place for high-quality links and getting your name out there.

Do those 5 things over and over and you WILL have more success than you can imagine. It’s all about mastering the basics. Build content and links around good keywords and you’re good to go.

5. Your plans for the future? (or anything else you’d like to share!)

I am currently working on a new site with my girlfriend about Natural Skin Care. It is not an SBI site. I am experimenting with if there is a different between SBI and non-SBI sites.

When I first started my non-SBI site I was surprised at how much I had to learn. It really made me realize how valuable SBI is for beginners. If you were to do everything yourself that SBI does, believe me, you could easily spend weeks on getting everything to work, or more.

I am currently helping my girlfriend with her Small Dog Breeds website. We also plan to expand our empire and build more websites around topics that we are passionate about. I have no doubt that we will be making a living thanks to SBI in the near future.

So if you’re thinking about jumping in, there is plenty of room and the water is warm. But you have to ask yourself if you’re willing to put the work in to succeed. If you’re just looking for a quick fix then you’re in the wrong place. Work hard, work smart and you’ll have success guaranteed.

Expect to make mistakes. That is my biggest obstacle. I want to learn everything before I even start, but I’ve realized that it isn’t possible. The best thing you can do is jump in IF you’ve decided that you are ready to commit to building a business online.

When you’re commited and know what you want, you will succeed sooner or later. That has been true for me so far.

Good lucK!

Rumi and I decided to keep her imperfect English in this post so that you can see how she writes and how not having perfect English grammar is not something that will stop you on your quest for financial freedom.

At the beginning of 2005 I decided to create online business – I
wanted a website that will earn me money. I started to research how to
build a website technically and how to earn money from it. Actually at
the beginning I knew only the topic/niche of my site and wanted to
build it on a right way from the first try.

I had some bad experience from off line business which I did only for
money, doing something I don’t like, no research, no preparation. I
learned my lessons and with my online business I wanted to be
something well planned, researched, fun and love.

I love to live healthy, this includes healthy food and exercises on
daily bases. I knew that in USA there is a big issue with weight gain
and I decided to create a site about how to lose weight.

At the end of 2005 I read lots of articles how to create site and only
SBI has topics how to earn money from website. I stumble on SBI site
around October 2005, I read the site 3 months and finally in January
2006 I decided to try it. $299 are lots of money in my country (the
minimum salary is less) and I remember that I planned purchasing SBI
in Friday night, so I would have time during the weekend to read the
whole SBI, lol.

Of course I didn’t succeed to read the whole SBI help articles, but I
read the Action Guide for 2 days and because I have decided on my
topic – Exercises for women – (I only changed to have female point of view for my site
according what Action Guide advices, so my niche is becoming  not so
broad) I registered my domain name on the 3rd day after purchasing
SBI.

I was very afraid, because I spent lots of money, my English was not
good (this is not my mother language) but because I loved the topic of
my site everything started to move smoothly. First 30 articles I wrote
in Bulgarian and paid an agency to translate them in English (but
translation was so formal), after that I polished the articles according to
what Action Guide says.

Than something strange happened I lost my fear to write in English and
started to write many articles. And the most helped me people who
wrote me letters to thank me for my diet tips and exercise videos. I
understood that people value my wish to help them and they don’t care
about my spelling and grammar.

At the beginning I used some competitive keywords in my articles but
after I asked for a review in SBI forums, SBIers gave me some good
advices how to improve my site and the best I advice was to start
target keywords with less competitions – this is the strongest
approach for a new site.

At the 4th month I put Adsense on my site and I earned $12 – this was
wonderful, because I calculated: If I earned $12 with 20 visitors per
day, than with 200 visitors I will earn $120 and with 2000 visitors I
will earn $1200.

And I started to add articles and links and the visitors continue to
some and my income increased every month.

Till the 9th month I earned $299 and last 3 months to the end of the
year I made profit!

I reached $1000 per month around my second year with SBI and would
happen earlier if I put more effort, but I like that with online business you can take a break at any time 

Now my site is 3.5 years old and gets 4000 daily visitors.

What helped me the most is love of my topic, writing content and
getting links – this is the formula.

Now I can go to a holiday when I want, I feel confident that my bank
account is not empty, that I can support my family and meet them more
often (they live in other city).

Online business is wonderful    But you need a guide along the road to
success. SBI made true my dream to be independent and to do what I
love.

1. Why did you decide for Site Build It?

I chose SBI, because there was so much free information on the Sitesell website. I never had seriously considered having an online business, but I have always longed to be my own boss.

Then, I searched the net to look for negative reviews of SBI, and I just kept coming across success story after success story. I read every single bit of free information that Ken made available, and I figured with the money back guarantee, I had nothing to lose.

2. Did you know what you wanted to write about or did you have to find a niche? How did you decide?

I had no idea what I wanted to write about. I really surrendered completely to the Action Guide. I brainstormed many different topics, and it came to finding something that I could feel comfortable writing many pages about without feeling overwhelmed. I actually started dreaming of topics and niches, but I kept brainstorming to make sure that the numbers fit.

I found a niche that looked “good” number wise and asked myself the question, “Even if I didn’t make a nickel, would I feel good that I spent time doing this?” The answer was, “Yes,” so I took the plunge – with my Thank You notes website.

3. How did you progress?

My progress has been pretty rapid, because I have been working on my sites full time since the start but many of my friends have progressed quickly just working on their sites part-time. One of the things I like about working online is that I can work at my own pace. I’m a night owl so I can use my most productive hours for my business!

Some of my favorite milestones:

My first 100 unique visitor day! This happened after two months with 40 pages of content and beginning link building via article and directory submissions.

My first over $1,000 month, which coincided with my one year SBI anniversary. (This was from just one site, even though I had started my second, I had not monetized that site, yet.)

And SURPASSING my former full-time monthly, salary earnings via my combined income from four SBI sites, which happened roughly around the 20 month mark.

4. Can you share a few tips of what really worked well for getting more traffic?

What worked best for me to get traffic quickly and set myself up to make sure that I would have more traffic later was to build a few pages around easy-to-win keyword phrases (those with a supply of less that 200 or ideally 100) and then write a few page on a still profitable, but very high demand keyword. This way I was capitalizing on holes in the market and getting quick traffic (before they close), but still setting myself up for the future with harder-to-win, but profitable keywords.

5. Your plans for the future? (or anything else you’d like to share!)

My plans for the future is to expand my four SBI sites and create my own products. Thus far, all of my profits have stemmed from advertising and affiliate program revenue. I have been a stand-up comedian for over 12 years and my inspirational humor site actually gets more traffic that comedians who have been on Comedy Central and The Tonight Show. SBI has allowed me to live a life filled with all of my artistic pursuits and tons of free time for family and friends.

If there are any writers, artists, musicians out there reading this: BUILD AN SBI WEBSITE! Don’t start with one related to your art or do what I did (get a buy one get one SBI special). Just learn how the internet works and make some money. It is amazing how much better your art gets when you no longer have the worries of having to pay your bills or compromising on what you want to create for money. Then, apply what you have learned to your work, too.

This Summer I will be able to travel to Australia and the Philippines to perform comedy. I don’t have to worry about money or getting time off from work, because my business travels with me! It is the IDEAL day job for any musician, comedian, travel writer, road reporter, traveling vagabond, because you can take it with you and maintaining a successful site is so easy.

The key is to keep working at it and make sure to take advice from the right people (like Tomaz!).

So many times in my life, I said to myself, “I’ll do that later or tomorrow.” And for some reason after days and days of just reading about SiteBuildIt, I just took the plunge. Even thought I hadn’t followed through on other things. Even though I wasn’t sure I could even afford the $300. Even if my friends would say, “Oh brother! That stuff doesn’t work.” A part of me just wanted to give it a try.

I decided for once in my life, even if I fail that  “Today is the day,” and like Nike says, “just do it.” And one moment of action just two years and two short months ago, set in motion a whole new life–the life of my dreams! It’s so corny, but it’s true. I’m traveling the world and taking care of all my responsibilities and sharing my gifts. And it really is all because of SBI.

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There are tools to automate most processes on twitter that will take some time to set
them up but these tools will reduce your time on Twitter to several minutes a day.

Twitter is also a great way to make yourself and your web presence more visible to a
broader audience in your niche, helps you find link exchange opportunities, and get to know other interesting people.

Every time you “tweet” (send a message of a 140 characters) on twitter you will get an
average response (a user clicking on a link in your tweet) of about 2% or 2 clicks per
100. These numbers may be slightly different for you.

Sign Up With Twitter

Sign up with Twitter @ http://twitter.com/

-Use a user name that includes your niche keyword preferably.

-click settings and give yourself a name. I used mydomain.com

-More Info URL: URL to your website, blog or other site.

-One Line Bio: be descriptive and interesting (you only have 140 characters)

-Location: this should be obvious

-Click on the pictures tab and upload a picture of your pretty self preferably.

-Click the design tab and play around with it a little bit. Upload a background image if
you like. Make it look a little different than standard look.

-Click the notices tab. Uncheck it all if you do not want emails send to your email
account. I unchecked it all since I don’t need more emails. I have enough of those
already.

Are you happy with the look of it?
If not you can come back later and change it.

-Click the Home tab at the top of the page.
On the right hand side do a little search for your niche and follow a few users. A few
will do for now.

Automate The “follow” Process

Go to http://www.twollo.com/ and Login with your Twitter username and password.

Once you are signed in you will see a box which reads “follow”…leave that.
The “up to” drop down menu – set that to “up to 500″. (It’s “up to” you)

In the box that reads: Twitterers talking about: Enter your niche keyword. Click Add.

You can add as many keywords as you want. One at a time (can be more than 1 word).
You will figure this out later as you get familiar with this.

Test It
Click on “Quick Run”next to your keyword.
This will add a few followings to you Twitter account.

Twollo will periodically find Twitter users with the keywords you are adding.

Add more keywords later if you want to grow your Twitter account faster.

Wait a day or so and see what it does for you. Don’t go crazy with this in the beginning.
The beauty is that Twollo will find users to follow for you which tweet about your
keyword/s.

No manual work to find Twitter users to follow, unless you want to.

You can always find people to follow by going to http://search.twitter.com/ or use the
search function on twitter.

Bulk Follow and Unfollow

When you have too many people that don’t follow you, you do not have to unfollow them manually anymore. Every 2 days or so you can go to: http://www.dossy.org/twitter/karma/

Sign in with your Twitter ID and password. Click on Whack (I didn’t pick that name).

Twitter Karma will download all your followers and followings from Twitter. Be patient.
This may take a while.

The larger your twitter “followship” the longer it will take. It’s worth the wait and it’s FREE.

This would take you forever manually especially when your Twitter account has many
followers.

Where it says Show: drop down menu. Choose “only following”. Now, this will show you the people who you are “following only”. You can choose one by one or just bulk unfollow the checked.

Do the same with “only Followers” which means the ones that you have not followed yet. I just check them all and bulk follow.

I don’t want my Twitter account to look too unbalanced. If people don’t follow you after a couple of days, they probably won’t follow
you.

Automate Your Tweets

Sign in with your Twitter username and password @ http://www.tweetlater.com

Check: Automatically send a welcome message to new followers.

My message goes like this:
Thanks for your follow! I will make sure to follow you back. Find out more about me on my website: http://www.paradise-pattaya.com/

Check: Automatically follow people (new followers) who follow me from this point
forward.

Check: if you select this option, TweetLater will automatically unfollow those folks who
unfollow you. To protect you from any system glitches, we will never unfollow more than ten people in one single go.

Don’t check the email option unless you love hundreds of emails because tweetlater will send an email to your email account every time someone follows you.

Click save.

On top click on “Tweets”, then on “New Tweets”.

Tweet: here you write your tweet 140 characters. I usually check Save As Draft: Save
this tweet text as a draft that can be re-used later.

That way you can find the same tweet for later re-use. Here you can also schedule your tweets to be “tweeted” at a later point in time. This is a very useful automation.

***Sidebar***
Occasionally Tweet something that is not just focused on your site. Talk to someone from your twitter account. Maybe upload an image to twitpic. I get traffic from http://twitpic.com/ as well since they allow you to have a link to your web site in your
account.

You will have a lot of online marketers as followers. Let them market what they want. You only see them in your twitter “timeline” anyways and they may sometimes Re-tweet your tweets. Each person only sees the tweets of the person he/she follows anyways.

There is no way that you can read everything (or want to read) what others “tweet” about when you have many followers. People can connect with you via “direct messages” or by replying to your Tweets.

Most people who are interested in your tweets usually only follow a limited numbers of
“Twitterers” (a new vocabulary here). These people will see your tweets and maybe click on them today or tomorrow.
***Sidebar***

It usually takes me around 5 to 6 months before I get 200 daily visitors. I need to add at least 50 pages of content – probably around 70 to 100 – and I need to get quality links to my site.

But look at these stats:

As you can see, that traffic is rising very fast; at the start of May the site just started receiving a few visitors and a few weeks later it was already getting over 200 daily visitors.

And that’s not all; I’ve only published 9 articles by that time on that site!

What’s the secret?

Buying a high pagerank domain or a website which already has many quality incoming links!

I knew for quite some time that there is a huge market of domain names which are being sold and bought all the time but I never knew how to make the best of this system.

I then watched Chad Kimball’s video on buying dying domains and realized that it’s not such a big deal. I didn’t exactly follow his system but instead, I checked the DigitalPoint forums where there are domains and websites sold all the time. (you can even sign up for the RSS feed for Domains subtopic…)

I first bought a PR3 domain for small money to get me started. I then learned how to transfer a domain from  someone else to me – I had to open a godaddy account and start a new hosting account.

I then learned how to host that domain on godaddy, installed wordpress on it (automatic one click install with godaddy’s tools) and started a blog! I used some old, not very well written articles on that blog and it started getting some traffic and the pagerank remained.

It’s possible if you buy a dropped domain or a domain that hasn’t had content for some time that Google will remove the pagerank once it figures out that the domain is now a new website…

I then became braver   and spent some time looking for a PR4 or PR5 domain. There are many offers, but you need to check whether that website has had some pages indexed in the past with archive.org and if there are really quality links coming to it. Check Chad’s video I mentioned above…

Here’s what I did next:

1.    I found a domain that had PR5 incoming links from Yahoo directory and some other sites which seemed quite good. I could see from Yahoo and incoming links what this site used to be about. Yahoo had a description and incoming links had some anchor text.

2.    I then checked whether these keywords (based on which the site was created before) had good PPC in Adsense and also whether they had good demand in WT. The exact keywords didn’t have good PPC, but tightly related had. (Adwords suggests synonyms…)

3.    I then did the basic keyword research, decided on a niche with good demand and not too much competition and requested articles from my writers.

4.    Then I installed wordpress on that domain and started adding articles. Since the articles were optimized for certain keywords, the site had PR5 and the incoming links were tightly related to my theme, it started to rank immediately for these keywords!

5.    I’ve now created an author account on wordpress so that my writer can publish the articles herself! I now only check the site here and there, do some minor corrections with tags or categories and all the rest is done. The pagerank is already there, the articles are written AND published for me so all I do is watch the traffic and earnings. The earnings are not spectacular, but I am testing some Chitika and Adsense and other stuff to see what works best here.

I’ve recently started another SBI site from scratch but I think it will be my last one. Getting a PR5 domain where all you need is to publish articles is really worth the money and time which would have to be spent on getting those darn links.

Not only that, I now own 2 PR5 and one PR3 websites from which I can link to my other sites and which enable me to exchange quality links with others.

If you want to take your internet marketing business to a new level, I strongly recommend you learn how to find buy domains or even websites with quality links and high pagerank which you then »refurbish« and use your SEO knowledge to transform them into passive income ATMs.

If you’re interested in buying an old domain or a website, get in touch with Faisal from whom I already bought 2 domains. His email is marriot11 (at) hotmail.com…

If you’re not yet using the Amazon affiliate program, you may be losing on quite some income.

I’ve already shared my experiences with Amazon Context links before, but this program has been cancelled by Amazon and now you have to build links yourself.

My earnings with Amazon has not been comparable with how much I made with Adsense and Chitika but then I changed a few pages and focused more on Amazon affiliate links.

The results can be seen on the picture…

So what do you need to do to increase your earnings with Amazon affiliate program?

1.    The affiliate links convert best if your site is product based and people are actually looking to buy something. If you have an informational site, then your conversion will be very low.

2.    The conversion according to my stats is from in-content links which point to a product. The widgets like Omakase and other types of banners do not convert well.

3.    If you have product based pages, sneak in one or max two affiliate links so that people get on Amazon. Most people trust Amazon and have shopped there before. They will buy tons of other stuff besides the products you promote. I get around 70% sales of products which I don’t directly promote (books, DVDs, video games, …)

4.    Promote products that have lots of 4 and 5 star reviews. That way the visitor will be reassured that the product is really worth buying.

5.    My best converting pages (on a couple of sites) are those with »best« in the keyword. (best vacuum cleaner, etc.) People who type in Google »best vacuum cleaner« want to know which one is best and buy it. They are not looking to research for hours themselves but they want an expert opinion and move on.

So I’ve recommend top vacuums based on Amazon reviews and made a very comprehensive page where I recommend top 5 vacuums. That page converts really well.

The earnings from Amazon affiliate program have almost caught up with Chitika and Adsense last month and I keep adding one or two links to most new reviews I post.

See if you can implement Amazon links into your site and get those extra dollars squeezed out of your site’s potential…

I have been building SBI sites since 2001. However, they were mostly support for a consulting business, and not really for making money online.

I got serious about taking what I had learned to the next level about a year ago. I started using my BrainstormIt! credits to find a niche that could generate the traffic I needed to monetize the site and one where the competition was manageable.

I’ve been following Tomaz’s efforts since I stumbled upon his tennis site (I’ve played all my life). I don’t quite remember how, but I stumbled upon his vacuum site last year while I was planning my niche.

This is what prompted me to explore the product review concept in more depth. I could tell with my Compete toolbar that, while not super accurate, he was getting a ton of traffic. Doing a quick search at Google showed me why. LUCKY!

Once again, I somehow found the Freedomideas blog. Don’t ask me how, he must have a link from his tennis site or blog. But, I found it.

It was then I realized that he was putting a lot of thought into his strategies and that I needed to read every post. Which I did. It was eye-opening even though I had read the Action Guide a number of times.

I began my site, The Gas Grill Review, 6 months ago. This past week, it reached the 1000 visits a day mark and it’s growing quickly. I haven’t even ranked for the top two keywords I’ve targeted on this site yet; gas grills and Weber grills.

If that happens, it will be an incredible income generator for me. It’s already starting to do well (about $1000 a month). So, how did I do it?

• Proper research and planning
• Motivation to create content
• Proper interlinking of pages
• In-bound links – I wrote articles and interviewed BBQ bloggers to get links from high PR blogs.
• Regular publishing of content – not all at once.
• Let SBI do the rest

I planned out my site structure in advance based on not just BrainstormIt, but also the suggestions Tomaz has; like the free keyword tracker. Value demand is great, but a high VD may mean low search volume and high Adwords CPC.

The keywords I selected tap into scores of thousands of daily searches. I might have made a mistake in keyword selection if I hadn’t read this blog. I also have literally thousands of lesser searched for keywords and key phases to support my tier 2 pages and will never be short of anything to write about.

After a few months of courting with Google, I went from zero pages indexed to many page one rankings overnight. That was a glorious day.

As Tomaz wrote to me in an email, once you get past 150 pages, “good things will start to happen“. That is very true in my case.

I have a mixture of personally written and outsourced content. At the moment, I’m writing most myself. I’ve only had marginal success finding decent writers.

The best service I’ve found was needanarticle.com, but this can get expensive in the early rounds of site building. Once I feel I’m earning enough, I will be more comfortable finding an excellent writer and paying them what they’re worth for bulk content.

I can’t wait for that day because it will mean “auto-pilot” and time to plan my next site.

David is very passionate about his internet business and always comes up with new ideas so that I can barely follow all the things the does…

1. Why did you decide for SBI?

I knew the type of reputation Dr. Evoy had so I tried it. Although I have been an internet marketer for years, I still don’t consider myself a techie.

With SBI, you “really” don’t have to be a techie at all. It really is that simple. Have I been happy with my purchase?

I own 3 SBI sites now so I think that speaks for itself. I wouldn’t pay $299 a year if I wasn’t making money.

After doing internet marketing for years and knowing SBI in and out, here are the two reasons I tell my clients to go with SBI. If I were talking to you on the phone, this is what I would tell you:

1) 10 day video action guide – The video action guide literally walks you through what to do over the next 10 days to become successful with SBI. I LOVE it. You just watch the videos and do what it says to do.

Having this video guide is like having someone like Tomaz right there every day teaching you what to do to become successful. They have TONS of success stories so the model is proven.

2) Forum – I refer to the SBI for as a cult. Not in a bad way but when you have problem or can’t figure something out, if you post a question in the forum, within 30 minutes someone is probably going to answer it for you. They love Dr. Evoy in the forum. People are just so giving in the forums because of the value Dr. Evoy has built up with SBI.

My favorite thread of all time is the “$500 a month club” thread. All it is is stories of SBIers who are making $500 a month. I read it every couple of months.

2. Did you know what you wanted to write about or did you have to find a niche? How did you decide?

I am known online as the “most connected man on the internet” so I have made money online doing joint ventures with people for years. Some of my newsletter subscribers thought I had an advantage over everyone else so I thought I would do an experiment.

I would start a website in a niche I know nothing about AND in a niche I had zero connections.

I chose the travel niche because it is huge. There is still a ton of money to be made in it. My site is called Coolest Places to Visit.

3. How did you progress? Let us know the process and what you learned from the SBI Action Guide, what from forums or anywhere else. Include major things you remember like getting 100 visitors or earning $10 per day or something like that.

After using the brainstormer in SBI to find keywords, I found a little niche where people wanted to know about “places to visit“. I then realized people where typing in related keywords like “places to visit in europe” as well. That is how my website came about.

At the time, Tomaz and I were becoming friends and he told me about outsourcing content to NeedAnArticle.com so I decided to try it. They have ghostwriters that will write articles for you for really cheap.

Before I did that though I like to use mindmaps or process maps to map out an entire site before I do anything. I found 184 good keywords and I put them on the mindmap based on the structure the action guide teaches (and Tomaz teaches).

I started with a few articles but soon realized that I was on to something. I ramped the volume up to 10-20 articles per week. I did this until I had articles written for all of my keywords.

The action guide teaches you about internal linking so I did that correctly as well. I got good at building pages and SBI being so simple, I could build an optimized page in 4 minutes. No lie!

My traffic was almost doubling every single month because of the massive action that I was taking. I went from 150 monthly visitors to 200/300 PER DAY in months. I am now getting as of May 2009, 517 unique visitors per day and 626 visitors… for free.

4. Can you share a few tips of what really worked well for getting more traffic? (ideas about writing content, where and how did you get good links, …)

You mentioned “good links” Tomaz. You know my entire story of this site and how “lazy” I have been so feel free to add your own comments to this section.

I never even got links to my site. Just my internal linking alone and the fact that I had 184 pages of related content help me dominate this niche. I am found for over 2,000 keywords in the search engines with several top five rankngs.

I would say one tip though is good keyword research and that I went for a “niche” inside of the travel niche. I have WAY less competitors.

I also took massive action…for the first 3 months. I haven’t even worked on the site much since then but Google deposits a check into my bank every month since July 2007 and the site still grows in traffic.

5. Your plans for the future? (or anything else you’d like to share!)

I plan to redo the way the site looks and make it look more appealing. I also plan to double the amount of pages that I have this year by outsourcing content. This will easily double my income.

One last thing that I would like to share is this was not a fluke thing. I started a site called www.Fun-Greeting-Card-Business.com where I help people who are wanting information about “starting a greeting card business“.

I have $270 invested in that SBI site. I bought SBI for $200 because I went in half with someone on the 2 for 1 deal and I bought a banner to go at the top of my site. That site has made over $5,500 so far and I don’t even build pages for it really anymore.

In fact, just last Thursday someone called me on the phone because they found my site in the search engines (imagine that). He wants to sign up in my greeting card business so I just made another $220. Those calls are fun!

In closing, if you are thinking about SBI then I suggest you dive in and give it a try. It obviously works. You have tons of proof with Tomaz, Marius and myself.