My remaining question about SBI is how well it works to incorporate a blog as one feature on an SBI site. SBI says it is doable — but others out there don’t seem convinced.

That’s also a good idea for a blog post, although I don’t know that I have a conclusion yet. What is worth the time depends a lot on the person.

For example, I’m not at all attracted to dropshipping via Ebay. But people make livings that way. I *am* attracted to content creation, but have fairly limited time to spend on it, so my results are limited. Give someone who was out of a job an SBI site, and they’d likely do very well.

But even with part time effort, niche sites are bringing in most of my online income. It’s all additive, so none of your effort is wasted. It just takes longer if you don’t spend the time on it.

The main benefit that SBI gives you is the ability to compete in more competitive keywords. My SBI site currently gets about 75 visits a day via search engines, and that’s with an almost total neglect on my part (I add about one page a month to it). Other niche sites I’ve created using Wordpress get 10 to 15 visits a day (also with almost total neglect).

I came across a mention of Site Build It, which led me to the SBI site, where I found an article contending that blogging is NOT always the best answer. That initially struck me as heresy, since my online activity began with blogging and I have accepted by faith that blogging is the big wave to catch. But a lot of what SBI says in that article struck a chord with me.

So, I searched for other SBI reviews, which brought me to your blog. I have read ALL of your SBI posts. I became curious to know who you are, so that led me to numerous other Internet locations — your personal blog, your Squidoo pages, Hubpages, Ezine articles, etc. Looks like you have experimented with just about everything, from MLM to niche websites to blogging and all things in between.

Suggestion for a blog post (or website or Squidoo lens or ebook or whatever): You know what I would really like to know? Having experimented with so many different online activities, which ones are the ones that are REALLY worth the time, and which ones not so much? Your approach seems to be to make a little bit of money in a host of of different ways. But surely some of these activities have proven to be more productive than others. Are all of your multiple income trickles adding up to a healthy stream? Or if you had it to do over again, would it have been better for you to have put more of your online eggs in fewer baskets?

Perhaps your answer is that there is no way to know which ones will pay off and that the best strategy is to try a little bit of everything. If that’s what you think, then an article fully elaborating on that view would also be very interesting.

Thanks for a couple of hours of informative reading. I think I’m going to give SBI a try — sure hope you aren’t steering me wrong. I’m going to wait and see if they repeat the Xmas special they offered last year — two sites for the price of one. When I sign up, I will come back here to do it through your link.