Sitesell.com vs. diyestores.com

marias17 · Joined: 07 Jul 2008 Posts: 6

I am in the middle of craziness and am having a hard time trying to figure out the best place to start my website .. does anyone have any idea or thoughts on whether I will get more bang for my buck so to speak between sitesell and diyestores.com ... Confused

Jim Hutchinson

Comparing the two companies, DIYeStore.com charges extra for the graphics. SiteSell.com has an option to Brainstorm your site before you build it, plus they offer more tools including promotions and are better known than DIYeStores.com.

If I was just starting out and had to choose between those two, I would probably go with SiteSell.com.

marias17 · Joined: 07 Jul 2008 Posts: 6

Thank you ... I have used sitesell in the past and while they are very good I was looking for something alittle more simple that would do what i needed also I am hopefully having one of the designers do a webset for me which i am in love with .. so that other then brainstorming which im familiar with .. anything else that might tell me dont do it go to sitesell .. sorry to bother ..

Jim Hutchinson

Since I have not used either one, maybe another member here has more input on that. I was just comparing the offerings between the two sites.

marias17 · Joined: 07 Jul 2008 Posts: 6

Much thanks nevertheless ... hope I can help you one day although still in the new to mid newbie stange Laughing

Joseph Ratliff · Joined: 11 Jul 2008 Posts: 19

SiteSell has a better reputation for "user-friendliness"...while DIY will probably do you better overall for "business".

Depends on what is important to you. Cool

marias17 · Joined: 07 Jul 2008 Posts: 6

Thank you so much for reading my question and helping me out .. I think you are right it may come down to just getting the graphics i want from one of their designers and either trying it myself or well i am in the process of finding out how user friendly their system in .. alternatively, they dont charge tooo much for having someone just set ip up for me which might be even better ... again thanks so much for the help as well as that of Mr. Hutchinson .. its nice to know people can help even if they dont even know you thats awesome .. THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

stephenlks · Joined: 01 Nov 2008 Posts: 1

I have just recently sign up for Sitesell. Actually 4 months now. Haven't tried DIYestores. So no comment on it. Wink

From my experience with sitesell so far I find it very easy to use for a beginner. It has instructional videos i think for all the ten modules as well as written instructions. So its great especially if you learn better by viewing. Plus they update their videos with new topics.

The brainstorm keyword tutorial is good. It teaches you how to build your site on a main theme. Then it teaches you how to expand tier 2 and tier 3 pages with other keywords based on demand and profitability.

Its sitebuilder allows a novice to build a page with ease. Furthermore, it has an analyse it tool which tells you whether you have build the page that satisfies the search engines. However, I do find the sitebuilder to clunky. I guess I have to learn some html to build a 3 column website as opposed to the two column you buiuld using sitebuilder.

I have just build my first site its here http://www.stock-investing-for-beginners.com, still need more time to learn how to build a website using html editor. Anyone got a good recommendation?

Sitesell is indeed more popular than DIYestores judging from its Alexa ranking. So, no bias here, but would always prefer something that more people have found useful.

It cost about 300 per year for hosting, domain and all the tools but if you know a friend who has SBI you can ararnge with him/her to give you a rebate of 75$. Hope this helps...