Success on the internet and building an online business is merely a sequence of steps. If you take all the right steps you will succeed and if go down the wrong path you will fail.
The purpose of this article is to ensure you take the right steps and learn from people who went down the wrong path before you.
Before I start on the main topic today Wordpress vs. Sitesell there is something I am going to repeat over and over again throughout this blog and if you fail to do it you are already taking the wrong steps.
I want you to buy a book you will not come across unless you know where to look and I guarantee you will thank me later for pushing you into the book store to buy it. The System Secrets by Ken McCarthy only costs something like $20 and is a bargain at twice the price.
You will find I refer to Ken McCarthy and The System throughout this blog and for good reason. He is probably the best coach on the internet still presenting at the top internet conferences across the world. I know because I attend them!
Buy the book and it will be the most important investment in your business today because you will learn what those early steps are for a successful online business.
I will expand on The System Secrets in another blog but for now BUY IT!
Back to the main topic of the day Wordpress vs. Sitesell.
You need to ask yourself a question now and be honest with yourself.
- Can you set up a website?
- Do you know what seo means?
- Do you know how to optimize your pages to get good rankings?
- What are a title, description and meta tags?
If you are unsure about any of the above then I am going to share with you how I learnt. …Sitesell.
Ken Evoy’s concept for Sitesell and his main product Site BuildIt! is fantastic. When I first started I thought I knew a little about building a website, I could use software such as Dreamweaver and could upload pages through a ftp client.
How naive!
I didn’t know anything about search engine optimization, titles, title tags, meta tags, pinging search engines and all the other technical stuff that is required to help you succeed on the internet.
What Ken has done with Site Build It! is simplify all that. You don’t need to know any of the technical stuff because it is all done for you. Then, over a period of months as you are building your website you become accustomed to all the jargon and begin to learn it.
But none of the jargon stopped you building your website.
Sitesell has been set up to help the newbie succeed by handling all the technical stuff and letting you control how much technical stuff you want to handle yourself so your skills develop one little step at a time.
Does it work?
Well, seeing as my website www.florida-scubadiving.com was built using Site BuildIt! and ranks #1 or #2 on Yahoo and MSN, and is on the first page of Google for 1.2 million search results I’d have to say yes it does! Try typing in “Florida scuba diving” into your favorite search engine and see where I rank today.
What then happens is without trying, over a period of time building your site with Site BuildIt! you learn all the technical stuff and may want to take your business that one step further.
Once you have a grounding it is easier to understand platforms like Wordpress and Drupal. Now you can start building multiple sites if you choose and can use the power of blogging to get your pages and articles ranked sooner.
If you are familiar with Wordpress and fully understand seo and all the other technical stuff I would recommend Wordpress as a platform to build your online business but if you are starting out you need to start with Site BuildIt! so that you are successful whilst you are learning.
Once you read The System Secrets by Ken McCarthy you will realize that your focus over the coming months is on your content and not on the technical platform that you have built your website on.
Choose wisely now so that you can focus on the right thing, your content and building your business. Do not let the technical stuff get in the way!
