Such a great point Lisa. I too considered buying SBI! but it wasn't in my budget at the time. I had a designer do my first site (not the one in my sig) and he was really good at PHP, XML, ABC or whatever languages are out there but he had no idea how to get me ranked in Google. So that's when I started researching SBI!. It's a little steep for my budget now but I have read Ken's free books and I've learned it's about the content, not about the fancy tools. Who cares about PHP if no one is coming to your site, ya know?
So I plan to buy it at some point, just not now. But Ken Evoy's content tips are spot on. He's made me a better writer and that's what gets people to your site. Plus if you do a site in Flash, PHP, or whatever the search engines ignore you. Yeah the sbi sites are very basic with little flare... but they get traffic and no other host can brag about those traffic results like Ken Evoy can.
I keep getting off topic, don't I? But back to the original subject, if SBI! is going to start offering what other hosts offer that will be awesome and I may have to bite the bullet and try it out!
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