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the top searched Bolivia site in the world?!
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Thanks to you, BoliviaBella is now the world's top searched Bolivia website in English. I think our efforts have been rewarded and THANK YOU for being one of the reasons BoliviaBella has been so well received! Just how remote is Bolivia? Suffice it to say that anytime Hollywood needs a synonym for remoteness or the vast unknown they write Bolivia into their scripts. Have you noticed? So how is BoliviaBella now the most searched English website about Bolivia in the world? It's all in the tools I use! It's so easy you can practically watch me do it! In fact, it's so easy YOU can build pages on MY site! When I decided to build a website about Bolivia (this came after giving up the idea of a book or a blog), I knew it would be a difficult task to make sure it was seen. What I found was SBI (Site Build It), a website building system that drew my attention immediately because it was first conceived for people who had absolutely no experience building websites. It's so good that professional web designers are now turning to it and it's being taught in universities worldwide but amazingly, before they caught on to it, most people who used SBI were NOT professional website designers - yet over 65% of all SBI websites were beating out millions of others and placing among the top 3% of all websites worldwide. Given my total lack of online skills (doesn't seem like it does it?) and the general lack of knowledge about Bolivia on a global level, those numbers were what convinced me SBI was what I needed to use if anyone was going to eventually ever see anything I wrote! Now I use SBI (Site Build It!) to build this site and GoSouthExpat.com, a website for expatriates in South America that I began to build in June 2009. BOTH sites now rank in the top 1% of all sites globally. SBI is the number one site building tool in the world. See how SBI helps people like me lead fulfilling and successful lives, turning what we love into amazing online businesses with websites we own and design ourselves. Imagine my amazement when...
BoliviaBella shot to the top 1% of all websites in the world ...by its 10th month online!
It does seem wacky that a Bolivia website could soar to the top 1% of all websites in the world within its FIRST year online, doesn't it? I mean let's face it, there ARE still people who don't even know where Bolivia is. So how can a website about Bolivia have been so well-received? It wasn't by chance. Let's rewind a bit:I began to build BoliviaBella in June of 2007 - not so long ago! It's initial ranking was horrible and during my first month online I had 2 (TWO) visitors! Downright embarrassing right? Wrong! It only had ONE PAGE and I hadn't indexed my site with ANY search engine yet. Even so, those 2 people found it. OK that probably doesn't sound too impressive. How's this:
There are over three trillion web pages on the net!
Now BoliviaBella has tens of thousands of unique visitors per month (unique visitors are first-time visitors). But it actually gets MANY thousands more because Bella has many repeat visitors too! You can verify Bella's rise to glory (he he) at www.alexa.comI've put up this page in response to the MANY people who've written to let me know they enjoyed and appreciate this site because most of them add "and who designed your site?" The answer is, "I build it". BoliviaBella consists of a single person sitting at a computer, adding page after informative page day after day. I have no employees, no website developers, no professional designer. However, I now build two websites and work full time at it. I'm making a living doing what I absolutely LOVE!!
Here's what makes it all worthwhile to me!
The other day I got a message from someone. It said "Dear Bella: thanks for all the great information on your site. You're like the Dear Abby of Bolivia." Although it was an amusing message I also took it to heart. BoliviaBella is now the most viewed website about Bolivia in the world (in English... there are online newspapers we haven't caught up to yet LOL) but although the numbers motivate me (after all, my goal was to build a site people would actually see) what really keeps me going is the knowledge that people appreciate and TRUST the information and are beginning to see Bolivia in a more positive light. Because that's exactly what my desire was when I started. That's the mission statement I posted in 2007 and that's what makes it all worthwhile. But I'm not alone really! Through our forums MANY site visitors and other people who live and work in Bolivia have also contributed pages to this site. Did you know anyone can add a page to BoliviaBella? Anyone can add their own full page about Bolivia to this site by using a simple 5-step form. You can even upload photos! If you were just curious, this probably answers your question. But for those of you who truly are interested in getting online yourselves, please read this more detailed page on how I made the decision to invest in myself and build my own website and why I KNOW you can do it too!
Go build your own website.
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