Put Volunteers Happily To "Work"
Building Your Business. Couldn't Be!
I have seven SBI sites and have added content 2.0 on 6 of them. I have a total of 3102 submissions on my sites.
It keeps my sites "alive". I see C2 as a way to put one's site on auto-pilot, so to speak. My sites keep updating all the time.
My sites get searched for so many terms. Some C2 pages outrank pages that I built myself!! How these pages become so popular is beyond me. (My best guess is that it's because of the good content.)
C2 makes one's site look real. With real people posting and interacting on a website it makes the site look so much more genuine to first time and even long time visitors. One of my C2 sections, about lyric feedback, is so loved by visitors, it's almost unbelievable.
C2 helps to differentiate my site from other non-SBI sites. They simply don't have this feature. It's a must-have.
C2 is the best form of leverage I've come across online. Visitors submitting content for free? What more can you ask for?
Mantius Cazaubon, electric-guitars-guide.com
MySpace and Facebook. YouTube and Flickr. These wildly successful startups became worth billions of dollars through the free, voluntary "labor" of others.
Chances are that you have a profile on MySpace or that you've uploaded photos to Flickr or videos to YouTube. You might even know that these are so-called "Web 2.0" companies.
But to most people, these are just Web sites where they can do "neat things." Your daughter at university likely has a Facebook account and uses it to keep in touch. Your best friend may upload vacation photos to Flickr and watch YouTube videos of Radiohead concerts.
They have no idea that "Web 2.0" refers to Web sites that enable people to create content (text, images, videos) for them, for free, in a way that virally spreads the word to others to come and read/watch/interact with that content. They, in turn, create their own content...
Prefer to watch rather than read?
Click here to view the "Intro to Content 2.0" video (7.5 minutes in length).
Round And Round It Goes, Faster And Faster
Web 2.0 sites are a blast, full of fun, interesting, offbeat "stuff." Surfers enjoy the outlet... communication, information, community. They don't care (usually don't even know) that they are actually building huge businesses for big companies.
How? Why?
Because Web 2.0 builds traffic insanely quickly. If you've ever built a Web site (a non-Site Build It!), you know that the biggest problem online is building free, targeted traffic.
All of this begs the question by small business people online...
"How can I capitalize on Web 2.0?"
Imagine visitors creating content for you. For free. Because they want to.
I have over 1,000 pages thanks to C2! Free and high-quality content on vintage guitar, pianos, bands, and so forth. I charge for requests on vintage guitar values. The most financially successful is the Drum Tabs invitation. I have made and sold over $5.000 in Drum tabs since May and it is getting better each week.
In addition, after a tab is finished, I put it on my "Almost Free Drum Tabs" page where it can be purchased by anyone looking for drum tabs. I am extremely excited by the growth of the drum tab business.
Thank you, SBI and Ken for this wonderful service. My site would not be the same without it!
Lynne May, may-studio-music-lessons.com
Unfortunately, Web 2.0 has been unavailable to small business sites (until now). It costs millions of dollars to develop the "platform" that enables people to create content on your Web site and share it virally with everyone else. That restricts Web 2.0 to large companies and well-financed startups.
That leaves you, the small business person, on the outside, looking in, wondering how in the world you can capitalize upon people's desire to share, to show off, to help, to have fun, to contribute, in areas and ways that interest them.
Not any more, now that Content 2.0 ("C2") is here...
C2 has more than doubled my traffic and 10x'ed the size of my site. By merely working my C2, my site has become a living entity that grows on its own. No more struggling for traffic or search engine recognition.
This is incredible, absolutely incredible. I am astounded. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Brenda Rowe, Ghostsandstories.com
Content 2.0: The Small Business Person
Finally Has The Explosive Viral Power Of Web 2.0
Content 2.0 ("C2") is "Web 2.0 for small business sites." Your Site Build It! ("SBI!") pages can now offer a potent "mini-combination" of Wikipedia, MySpace and Flickr. Better, actually...
- Your visitors don't merely create "Profiles" and gossip ("Whassup?").
- Participants don't overwrite each other's content -- no "insider fighting."
- They do much more than just upload photos. They create real, valuable content.
Unfamiliar with the power of Content?
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Take the best of Web 2.0, eliminate the worst, and you have Content 2.0, a new add-on module to SBI!. Visitors create valuable content for you, quality-controlled by you...
- Turn any page into an irresistible invitation for visitors to join in the fun.
- Other visitors then comment and rate the pages.
- Viral e-mail notifications are built into every step!
I have over 2500 C2 responses (pages) from my readers and it very quickly took me from about 500/600 html pages to over 3500 pages.
C2 is like a site building assistant that helps you carry the load of web development.
By far the majority of pages on my site are C2 pages.
Since adding C2 to my site, I'm more than halfway (income wise) to replacing a full time six figure job.
Thank God for SBI!
Onuora from windows-vista-update.com
P.S. I will (with my next site) start to build my sites with C2 in mind from the beginning!
Site Build It! owners have used C2 in many ways. They have created their own niche versions of...
- MySpace Create pages for people who want to be regular contributors.
- Super Blogs Compare C2 to blogging. C2 makes your site a low-maintenance super blog!
- Directories Enable businesses to create a presence on your site for a fee!
- Ratings/Reviews Services Visitors review/rate goods and services related to your niche!
- YouTube A ghost site even created "BooTube!"
- Yahoo! Answers Visitors ask questions. Others (and/or you) answer them.
My most successful invite is my 'ask a question' page. People are having fun with it, asking questions that I used to answer 1-on-1 by e-mail.
Now, by having people use Content 2.0 to submit their questions, I apply some impressive leverage. My answer is available to MANY more people with the same question.
The new C2 pages are nicely indexed by the search engines, drawing in even more visitors to my site with the same question. C2 not only saves me time while establishing me as "the expert," it gives me some opportunities to monetize on an amplified scale.
I have BIG plans for this module. It fits my site like a glove (or should I say, gauntlet).
Paul from sword-buyers-guide.com
SBI! owners use C2 to gather testimonials for goods or services they sell, to provide coaching services, to offer a place to share gripes and pet peeves, to hold contests, to have people provide book reviews... the list is endless.
The back-office tools make it fast & easy to control the quality and quantity of user-created content. The result?
980 Content 2.0 pages after one year of starting our contest. We have had entries from celebrities who have entered their children and child stars. One of the coolest things is that I have been invited to teach a training workshop at Universal Studios for Aspiring Talent with Disney Studios.
All this from them finding our site and contest. 2.0 is amazing. It brings your site to life. Start out slow and see where it will take you!!
Renee from childmodelsadvice.com
Traffic Soars!
C2's potential is, as they say, "limited only by your imagination." Nothing is left to chance. The C2 Guide shows SBI! owners how to really push C2's buttons. And speaking of buttons...
Content 2.0 is like having a "traffic-hyperdrive button" for Site Build It!'s already powerful, Top 3%, traffic-generating, business-building power. Traffic grows by leaps and bounds because...
- All C2-created content is optimally formatted (you are found for thousands of new keyword searches, the so-called "long tail of search").
- Visitors set more and more real inbound links to your site and the pages they create.
- Content 2.0 automatically creates the optimal, internal linking architecture.
- Repeat visits by your community increase dramatically.
- "Buzzzz" buzzes as e-mails fly around (ex., e-mail alerts tell contributors when folks have commented on their pages).
- C2 automatically updates and pings your site's Sitemaps XML file to all Search Engines.
- C2 also updates the RSS feed of your "site blog" (another special, automated SBI! feature), alerting both blog subscribers and blog engines.
If the above points sound complicated, they are not. It doesn't even matter if you understand them. Why? Because just like SBI!, Content 2.0 eliminates all the technical barriers, allowing you to focus on growing your business income.
I just wanted to thank you and your staff for being so wonderful & creating the best product on earth.
I stumbled across SBI! 2 1/2 years ago and my life has not been the same since! In November of 2005 I decided to start my first site www.cutest-baby-shower-ideas.com.
It was steadily growing, slowly but surely. I would get some nice affiliate & Google checks of a couple hundred dollars each month.
Then C2 came and turbo-charged everything! I had no idea what this was going to do to my little website!
I quickly jumped from 700 visitors a day to 2500+ per day. Yesterday I had over 3500 visitors (my highest day yet.)
I am now making over $100 a day in Adsense and affiliate commissions. And I currently rank #2 in Google for my main keyword!
I am not writing this to brag, but to simply tell you that SBI! is absolutely wonderful and I thank you with all my heart!
SBI'er for life,
Amy from cutest-baby-shower-ideas.com
Monetizing Is The Easy Part
A click of a button puts AdSense ads up!
Sell e-books, services or hard goods to your community.
Charge (recurring!) fees for specialized directory or ad listings.
Monetizing is the easy part (it always has been with SBI!).
My traffic and adsense income have both gone up with the use of C2. My SBI! site was already getting a huge amount of traffic before C2, but the constant addition of C2 pages is causing the spiders to visit more often. Many of the pages built by visitors are being found very quickly on the first page of google searches.
And SBI!'s automated RSS blog feed strengthens the results. Often times I'll find the new blog entries in google searches within 2 hours on the first or second page of google.
This is a huge advantage for me. I would never be able to do all this on my own.
Wendy from diva-girl-parties-and-stuff.com
How To Get Started
Unique to the Web, C2 is available now!
Only SBI! owners can use it because only SBI! integrates the world's most complete package of tools into an all-in-one, success-generating package, including Content 2.0.
SBI! owners start with a free trial of 25 user-created pages -- one heck of a free trial! This $99 optional super-module (unlimited pages) pays for itself 100-fold in short order.
So how do you get started?
I have 609 pages that were generated FOR FREE by visitors who used Content 2.0. Not comments, or blurbs... REAL pages.
If you figure $10/page if you use a ghostwriter, that's $6,090 in savings. Building my site bigger (more authority and pagerank), freeing up my time, and taking a seemingly narrow topic and getting hundreds of people's unique opinions on it.
Visitors: I looked in my Google Analytics for entry pages and found that 18,438 unique visitors had entered into my site through a C2.0 page. This is the long-tail at work. These pages increase the odds that I show up for very thousands and thousands of rare search queries.
Revenue: Analytics let's you track revenue if you have the e-commerce function enabled. The total C2.0 pages that were involved with sales was $41,422.
In 12 months of using Content 2.0, we're looking at $6,000 in savings from ghostwriters and up to $41,000 in additional revenue....All for $99!
David Roth, cornhole-game.org
