If you are reading this, chances are you have already heard about Wealthy Affiliate and you are seeking out more “information” 
on it before you make a decision. Because of this, I am going to try to help you understand first, what Wealthy Affiliate is, and also outline how and why it could benefit you.
First off though, let’s explain what Wealthy Affiliate is and who this type of service is for?
Wealthy Affiliate, THE Place for Internet Entrepreneurs
Wealthy Affiliate is a platform dedicated to affiliate marketers and helping internet entpreneurs create successful businesses online through training, having access to the tools and services and they need, as well as timely support from industry experts.
If you have struggled to build a business online, have been ripped off or feel that you don’t have the “full picture”, Wealthy Affiliate is going to clear things up. You are going to learn how you can literally take ANY idea/passion/niche and build a very successful business online. No experience necessary. No technical skills.
We are living in a world where it is true that if you have an internet connection and a device to connect to the internet, you can build a business online.
Here is a diagram outlining the process that will be taught to you in detail within Wealthy Affiliate.
This is a process that has worked since the early 2000s to build wildly successful businesses online and the fundamental principles behind this business model will work for MANY years to come. In fact, FOREVER!
I am going to explain the different aspects of this 4-step process in more detail just so you have a better idea as to what you will be doing, but if you want even more information about Wealthy Affiliate or this process you can get these details directly on their website.
Step 1: Choose Niche.
The first thing you need to do when building a business online is decided what type of business that you want. This is also called a niche. This can be anything but the most natural way to choose a niche would be to choose something that you are interested in or a hobby of yours.
For example, if I was as dog lover, I would probably make my niche something related to dogs. If I loved everything about remote control drones, then I could make my niche about drones. If I loved make-up, that could be a niche that I head into. If I like knitting, that can be my niche.
You can also build a business in niches that you may not have any knowledge of or that is not a passion of yours, completely up to you. There are truly millions of different directions that you can head with your business!
For this example, let’s say I head into the “drone” niche. That would be the basis of my business and it is what my website would be focused on.
**Wealthy Affiliate PROVIDES training on how to find a niche, and they offer personal support helping you select your niche and give you tools and techniques to come up with your own niche ideas.
Step 2: Build Website.
The next step after you have decided on your niche, would be building out your website. Your website is your business foundation.
Like a house, without a foundation the structure is weak and not sustainable. The same goes with an online/affiliate business. All of your content, all of your traffic, all of your rankings, all of your revenue is generated as a result of your website.
In this case, I would be building a website about drones. My goal will be to help people, inform people, recommend products/services to people, and offer my opinions on various aspects of this niche.
And no, you don’t need to be an expert or authority. As you build out your website and as you immerse yourself in yoru business, you become an expert.
Elon Musk wasn’t always the “electric car” expert, he became that through effort. Same as I will become a “drone expert” if I want, simply by putting forth the effort to build myself out within this niche.
**Wealthy Affiliate PROVIDES FREE Starter members 2 websites. As a Premium member, you can host up to 25 of your own domains, and 25 free websites on their domain.
Step 3: Get Traffic.
There is only ONE way to build a business. Traffic. In other words, people that buy stuff from you or take a desired action that will lead to revenue. This is the case for any type of business, offline or online.
Think of a hot dog stand, if you set one up in the middle of the desert, you are not going to sell many hot dogs. If you set one up outside of a nightclub after it gets out when all of the patrons are HUNGRY or at a fair around lunchtime, you are going to sell lots of hot dogs.
Same logic for selling anything online. If you don’t have website visitors, you don’t have anyone to sell anything to.
Search engines and social networks are the biggest driving forces behind traffic online and if you understand how to get ranked in Google, Bing & Yahoo…and understand how to leverage platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, SnapChat, and Instagram to drive traffic to your website, there is no limit to your potential.
**Wealthy Affiliate TEACHES traffic. They know the best strategies and techniques to get your website ranked and do it in abundance!
Step 4: Make Money.
Last but not least, how the heck do you make money. You have a niche, a website, and traffic, but you have nothing to sell to these people right?
Well, actually you do. There are over 500,000,000 (yes, 500 MILLION) products that you can promote as an affiliate marketer online. This means you don’t have to carry any inventory for any of these products/services. You simply link to companies through your special affiliate links, and exchange and they give you a cut (%) of every sale that you make.
This can range from pennies, to $1,000’s of dollars for every sale.
As an example, in the drone niche there are 1,000’s of different products/services/guides/etc that I can promote and generate revenue from.
On Amazon, there are 50,100 products related to drones that I can promote. I will earn 6% commissions on any of those products that I refer people to.
Your commissions on these drones will range from $6 for a lower end drone ($100) to $2,400 in commission for a high end drone (that costs $40,000).
And this is just ONE of the many ways you can generate revenue from your website once you have traffic. You can make money through advertising, building an email list, selling your own products/services, or reselling your traffic to others.
**Wealthy Affiliate not only has one of the most lucrative affiliate programs online, you are going to be able to interact and work with some of the most successful affiliate marketers in the world. There is beginner to advanced training on how to find affiliate programs and how to effectively convert visitors into “sales” on your website. It will only be a matter of time before you become an expert affiliate marketers yourself.
Reason #1: No Price Increases in 12 Years.
You read that correctly. The Premium membership price at Wealthy Affiliate hasn’t increased in 12 years, from and they time and they started back in September 2005. With inflation and other companies charging $1,000’s for a fraction of the services that Wealthy Affiliate provides, this is a pretty big deal.
$49 per month or $359 per year. The price is all-inclusive and includes everything you need to create, grow and scale your businesses to any level online.
Reason #2: 24/7/365 Support.
The community at Wealthy Affiliate is full of experience, knowledgeable and institutes a “pay it forward” approach to building a business online.
Not to mention, if you ever have ANY issues with your websites or hosting, you have direct access to the server admins (the technical gurus) how will immediately help you sort out your problems, regardless of whether it is lunch, or 2 in the morning…or your location in the world.
In fact, Wealthy Affiliate is a growing community of over ONE million members. That is a big number. Think of 20 full football stadiums and this will give you a good grasp of the type of audience you are dealing with.
Reason #3: Direct access to founders/CEO.
That is right. Not only do you have access to the most interactive and helpful community on the planet for Internet Entrepreneurs, you are going to be able to communicate and get help directly from the founders Kyle & Carson. They are active within the community every day and will be there to offer you help.
There is nowhere else in the world that you can expect this red carpet treatment, but it is something that has been part of the WA platform since day 1. Not a day goes by that you won’t be seeing Kyle or Carson interacting with comment threads, posting blogs, within the live chat, or helping people directly with their campaigns & businesses.
Reason #4: Current & Evolving Training. A Website Platform.
Every day, there is new training being added to Wealthy Affiliate. Every day, there are new training updates. The training is always been kept current within Wealthy Affiliate and covers a wide breadth of topics relating to building a business online.
If you are looking to learn ANY topic related to building a business online, from the fundamentals of WordPress, to coding, to affiliate marketing, the building a business online, to content marketing, etc.
Reason #5: State of the Art Hosting.
To operate a successful website and online business, you need services you can rely on. The hosting at Wealthy Affiliate is the “creme de la creme”, with enough power with the Premium side service to drive several multi-million dollar businesses from one account.
Here is a breakdown of the hosting offered within WA, compared to other “top tier” Managed WordPress hosting companies in the industry.
When you can rely on the stability, speed and performance of your hosting company, you can focus on other things that will help you grow your business. You can absolutely RELY on the speed, security and quality of the WA hosting.
Reason #6: All Inclusive Environment.
Wealthy Affiliate is unique in that you can get all the training, tools, services and support you need under “one roof” to create and grow a business online. Often times you will find yourself buying a product or service online only to get PART of what you need.
That is not the case with Wealthy Affiliate. From start to finish and everything in between, you are well-equipped to build a business online. You are not just getting the tools you need, you are getting the tool belt, and teacher, and 24/7 access to this all-inclusive environment.
Reason #7: Weekly, Promotion-Free Live Classes
Get back to class! This is something we never liked to hear in high school, but when it comes to building a business online, it is always nice to have current, live and interactive training you can take part in. Every Friday there is a live class that you can take part in as a Premium member of Wealthy Affiliate.
These classes are typically run by Jay, one of the top experts within the WA community but there have been guest experiences by Kyle and others over the years. There is a live chat and a full question and answer period with every live class. Each live class is usually around 1.5 hours in length and the replays will be available to you the next day (along with 100’s of hours of past live classes).
If you want to stay ahead of your competition, Wealthy Affiliate is going to help you do that.
Reason #8: Success is EVERYWHERE.
Want social proof of success? All you need to do is have a look around the community. Success is happening everywhere and there
are new stories every day, from people making their first sale online, to people making their first $1,000…to quitting their day jobs, to selling websites for $30,000+.
The fact of the matter is, if you put forth the effort and apply what is taught to you in the training (and follow the 4 steps to success methodology), you are going to come out on top. Sure, it will take some hard work. Anything worth working for takes, WORK…and owning your own, successful long term business should be one of those goals that you have.
Reason #9: Most Cost Efficient in the Industry. No Upsells.
If you had the opportunity to create, own, manage and get full support for your business for under $1 per day, would you?
Well that is the reality at Wealthy Affiliate.
The only worse thing than a half-baked product is realizing that you have to spend $100’s if not $1,000’s more to get the “meat” of the product. This is all too common these days in the internet marketing world, people are getting taken advantage of and you will never get a sense of this sort of behavior at Wealthy Affiliate.
It is $359. That includes everything you need. The hosting. The websites. The personal mentoring. The endless amounts of training. Access to network with over a MILLION fellow affiliates/experts. Live weekly classes you can look forward to. Keyword tools.
Less than a buck per day, this is by far the most comprehensive and cost-efficient platform in the industry. In fact, once you have access to Wealthy Affiliate Premium there will never be a reason to purchase another silly e-book, attend another overpriced conference, or get sucked into another $1,000+ mentoring package against.
All you need in one spot and it only gets better with each day that passes. Here is a comparison chart of the memberships and what you get within the membership.
Reason 10: Completely FREE Starter Membership.
You have no reason not to join and try Wealthy Affiliate. Why you ask?
It’s completely free.
Wealthy Affiliate offers a completely free, no obligation Starter membership. There aren’t many products or services online that have enough confidence in their service that and they allow you to try it for free before you spend a dime. That is why Wealthy Affiliate is different and always keeping a step ahead of the competition.
You don’t like what you see, leave. Never come back and you have lost nothing.
If you like what you see and like the services, then you can stick around. You can spend as much time as a Starter member as you like, and if you ever feel you want more and that Wealthy Affiliate Premium is worth your $1 per day, then you can decide on that later.
I am a fan of companies that back their product. You can walk into an Apple store and try the latest iPhone or MacBook before you buy it. There are no secrets and you know what you are getting before you buy it.
The same at Wealthy Affiliate and the FREE Starter membership offers FAR more than any other PAID program in the industry.
Conclusion. Try it. Make a Decision.
I want you to be the judge. There are some very good “salespeople” out there and pages trying to convince you that you need to join something NOW or the world is going to fold in half and disappear.
That is not me. I simply want you to make a decision based on what you “feel” and follow your intuition. If you think Wealthy Affiliate would be a good fit for you based on what I said, try it out. If you are not sure, then why not try it out.
What do you have to lose? $0.
If you do have any questions about Wealthy Affiliate, you want to chime in with your own insights, or you have any other questions related to affiliate/internet marketing, leave them below and we will be sure to help you out!
Do i need to write blog posts cause im not good on that+my english is not so good …only basic words very dry to read?content is a king right?
Content is king as it is a big part of any website online (and critical to getting ranked in search engines), but this is not to say that you can’t create your websites in any language you like. Wealthy Affiliate will facilitate the creation of any type of website, in any niche, and in any language. So this will be a non issue here Irwing.
I finally decide to go premium with WA earlier this year and even though I’ve just now chosen a niche, I can officially say that through all of the ups and downs, everyone in the community has been super supportive and so encouraging. Another thing I love about WA is that no matter where I am in my blogging journey, I can always count on an answer from the community or I can always go back and refresh my memory with the training that’s provided. I’m looking forward to seeing how far I can go and I love that I have so much time to work on my site now, since I’ve cut my hours at work and already purchased the yearly membership.
I’d HIGHLY recommend this training platform for anyone who is serious about learning how to build an online business and work from home.
Great to hear about your encouraging experience at Wealthy Affiliate. You can’t go wrong with the yearly premium membership and giving yourself adequate time to achieve success in your business. 2019 is certainly going to be another one of growth in the affiliate marketing space!
I tried Wealthy Affiliate 3 years ago and rejoined again last week. What a change? One thing I have always liked about WA is that it that they are always upgrading and improving upon it and I can definitely say I am excited about my future within the online space.
Sometimes you don’t know what you have until you venture out and try other things. I spent a lot of money over the past 3 years (and ran into a number of scams) and I just wish I would have stuck with Wealthy Affiliate. It’s going to be my home for all my online businesses moving forward.
Yes! Wealthy Affiliate is most certainly an evolving affiliate marketing platform and even if you were away for a few months, you would likely notice a vast number of improvements. This is why it is the most trusted and recommended program in the industry for both aspiring and successful affiliate marketers, because they actually evolve and innovate frequently.
Wishing you a brilliantly successful year ahead Raya.
How much money can I make with Wealthy Affiliate? I have tried a few other programs with no luck and I am getting frustrated by this entire internet thing. Is it real?
The question is how much can you make within the Intenret business world. The answer is, as much as you want. Wealthy Affiliate is less of an “opportunity” and more of an all-inclusive environment where you can create and grow a business online…and do so to any level. Everything is included that you need to create your business, and managed it. Really the only missing piece is you and a bit of hard work and dedication.
We can appreciate any frustration you have from the past. There are truly a lot of low grade and even scams in this industry, so your frustration is very much warranted. Honestly though, your experience is going to be much better and you are going to love your experience once you step foot into Wealthy Affiliate. There is not a more comprehensive, trusted and caring company in the industry for Internet Entrepreneurs.
If you have any further questions or need any help, just let us know.
You are in the right Place if you join Wealthy Affiliate a lot of Education on all thing about the internet Business, it’s the place to be. It’s really cheap at $49 dollars a month. That a good price for Education. the only thing cheaper is my $36 a month with help, not a lot Education. If you know it. It’s the right place to be for you on price. Even I am a Wealthy Affiliate Customer, I watch and learn what the people are doing and how they are a thing for my advantage, on the Internet. Remember it’s about the of your niche something that you are very passionate about or taste It’s – it in love with it, Most of all when you talk about it, It rolls right out of your mouth. If you have the love for making money, you can do it. You do not need employees, a building. Just your house with Computer.
Thanks for your feedback and sharing your experiences Sherman.
I have been a member at Wealthy Affiliate for 3 years now and I am nearing my first full year being full time online. If that isn’t a testament to the program actually working, I don’t know what is.
The thing that I really like about WA is that even though I feel I have some good experience now (not an expert yet!), I realize that I can get help from someone with more skills and knowledge than I have at any time. There are experts within WA, many with MUCH more experience than I have that I lean on for support and to advance my own personal skills.
Check the starter membership if you are unsure, and if you are sure, the Premium membership which is light years ahead of the industry is less than $1 per day.
So very true and your attitude will take you a long ways within the internet world. 6-7 figures (assuming you are not already making that) will be your reality if you continue to focus on advancing your business, and your website…as well as your skill set. There is a plethora of very skilled marketers and business owners within Wealthy Affiliate that are actively helping others every single second within Wealthy Affiliate, there simply is not a more caring, yet more comprehensive and technically advanced platform in the industry.
Thanks for sharing your story and I wish you nothing but further success in your future Jamie.
So how much is this, $29 a month or $49 a month?
The Starter membership is completely free and we recommend you get started on that. This alone includes a great deal and by lesson 4 alone you are going to have your very own niche website (business) up and running. It also includes 1-on-1 expert support, community access/networking, access to research tools, and all sorts of training and videos.
There is a premium membership that is $19 for the first month, then $49 per month (or $359 per year) if you are interested in that, but that is completely up to you and whatever you are comfortable with. We recommend you check it out, immerse yourself within the platform, and then make a decision. Hope this helps you out here Mike.
I just jumped ship from SiteSell over to Wealthy Affiliate to check it out. Ken the owner has been slandering this site for some time so I thought I would create a free account. Wow. Like night and day.
The community at Wealthy Affiliate is 100x more interactive and friendly, the website and research platforms actually work seamlessly, and it is overall a much nicer experience. I will be going premium in the next day or two and dropping my SiteSell account for good. I have never liked Ken’s antics, he is always slandering other companies.
WA is the real freaking deal and this review is on point. -John
Thanks for your insights. It is unfortunate that some companies/people behave like this, but in this industry there are a lot of unethical folks. Fortunately now that you are part of WA, you are part of the most trusted, ethical, forward thinking, and community focused platform in the industry. You are not going to regret your decision to make Wealthy Affiliate your home.
WA is a good marketing strategy where you learn and make money online at the same time. My experience so far has only been good so far. The community is very helpful and friendly.
I learned a lot about the internet industry and how it works, the technology and terminology I did not know before but now they are now clear though not 100% as I am still learning.
I love WA, and I plan to retire with WA.
Sounds like you are really enjoying your experience and learning lots. Implement and take action on that education and you are going to see results.
As a current member of WA I can attest to everything that TeamAMR has outlined here. I was skeptical at first, even when I first signed up, I did not engage but instead I was taking my time poking, sniffing around. Once I started reading the blogs, the comments I decided to take the plunge and begin the training. Now I’m a WA junkie, every time I see a member post a success story, I become more committed to my goal and work even harder. If you are skeptical, it surely is understandable but sign up and snoop around like I first did and don’t be afraid and you will soon see that WA is legitimate and genuine.
Naturally people are skeptical when joining anything online. That comes hand in hand with the sheer number of scams that are out there, most of us have run into one or two of these types over the years.
Wealthy Affiliate is truly different and sets itself apart from the rest of the crowd. It is the only program in the industry that lets you try their service before you ever have to spend a dime, that should say a lot about the caring nature of WA and their motives being nothing but good and people centric.
Hello, I am a member of WA and I like their approach type of business. What I find great here is the training offered, I have learned a lot at freely I would say so because all that is offered here surpass the monthly membership dollars.
I now understand more how the internet work, at first I thought what I read on internet was written by certain specific ‘experts’, but to my surprise those experts are just you and I.
However my question is since I am yet to go through on how to earn money training, you said once you have a website with traffic then you would start promoting products from affiliate programs such as Amazon, is that the only way one would be able to earn money? How does one earn money with the articles as part of the ninche you write about?
There truly isn’t a more comprehensive, supportive, technically advanced and cost efficient platform in the industry. We are really glad that you are getting a top notch experience at Wealthy Affiliate Nelly!
In respect to your questions, once you have traffic coming to your website there are going to be many different ways that you can monetize this traffic. An obvious one is through affiliate programs like Amazon, eBay, Etsy,etc…there are over 550 MILLION products that you can promote as an affiliate and earn revenue with.
But there are other ways to generate revenue on your website. Selling your own products/services (ecom), drop shipping, ad revenue, building a list, operating a membership site, etc.
This is covered in detail as you move forward through the training and there are hours upon hours of live classes available to you within the premium membership to help you with these topics.
One of the best reviews I have read about Wealthy Affiliate, it really is a steal when you compare it to other programs that claim to do the same thing. I also very much appreciate that they are constantly improving the platform, the owners are really dedicated to the company and the success of its members.
Conventionally when we looked to start a business within the offline world, we could expect to spend $10,000’s just to get our foot in the door (and that is without any marketing). You can get absolutely EVERYTHING you need to create and manage your business from scratch…no experience necessary for $359 per year ($29 per month) at Wealthy Affiliate.
Thanks for sharing your experience!
Hi there, I’ve been with Wealthy Affiliate for 6 months now, and have 4 websites built and hosted there. After reading your review I completely agree with your 10 points about why WA is not a scam – it’s pure gold! It’s just such great value for all of the training from the courses and the live coach every week and the members themselves. If you can imagine that over 1 million people are doing this too and are able to produce training then you can imagine the amount of value that you receive from this authority site.
Then there is one of the best affiliate programs right there on the site too if you dont currently have a niche to build a site on – 50% for each referral plus lifetime cookies is one of the best affiliate programs out there. Try it – you’ve nothing to lose!
All the best,
Michelle
Thanks for sharing your experiences Michelle!
What a fantastic package! I wish I’d found Wealthy Affiliates years ago. I couldn’t believe that they have been around for so long! With the training and support that they offer for the price they are asking, how can I possibly fail! Well, I suppose not taking action would be a big one. Thanks for putting together a very informative article. Great work!
I think that people could not find more legitimate platform than Wealthy Affiliate. I am with them for about year and I am more than satisfied. You really explained it in detail and it is good that many people see this because it is definitely possible to earn with them, you only need to work hard and be persistent.
So glad you are enjoying your experience at WA Daniel and thank you for sharing your story.
This may sound to good to be true? It’s not. From my own experience I can confirm 100% of what you said. Sure, the work is on you and nobody will do that for you. But you can be sure to get the best training, support, community – you name it, to start out in affiliate marketing. WA not only makes no up-sell, they actually provide a down-sell with their 1-year membership which comes for a special price.
That is where some people fall victim to scams out there. They are sold on the idea of a “click button” business, but anyone that is successful online realizes that is not a reality. WA provides you with all the tools, support and resources you need to build a business, the only missing piece is you and a little bit of hard work.
Hi there!
Thanks so much for such a great review on Wealthy Affiliate! I personally use them and man has it been great! Them not changing the prices is true!
I joined my first time a couple years ago but could not stick with, and I recently joined back up a few months ago and it is still the same price! The cool thing though is that there are even more features and tools than before!
All the Best,
Chris
We don’t know of another company in the industry that has evolved as much as Wealthy Affiliate or that offers as sophisticated of a platform, yet is so affordable. As you indicate, Wealthy Affiliate hasn’t raised their prices since 2005, yet have invested millions into their platform.
Just in the past few months, there have been several new platforms, and plenty of updates to the WA back office that have been made. That is very common and we anticipate some really massive updates and brand new platforms coming in 2019.
I’ve been a member of Wealthy Affiliate for around three months now. I couldn’t be happier with the decision to join. It has been absolutely wonderful! The community is like a family. Everyone is so helpful and encouraging. They root you on and in the process you start finding yourself rooting everyone else on. You learn from each other.
I had been searching for something for a while trying to make money from home to support my family and I was finally helpfully led to Wealthy Affiliate. It’s been the best decision I’ve made financially! I stopped wasting money and I am finally making something. It’s not much yet. I’m still learning a great deal, but I have already begun the process of making something. And I know it’s only going to get better!
What an awesome website! I am new to affiliate marketing, and there are a few areas that I have been a little unsure of, but you guys really explained it all well. The part I like the best is how there is no up sale, you know exactly what you are paying for, and that’s what you get. Too many times I have seen these scams where there is no end to what you have to pay out for. Thank you so much for a very honest, comprehensive review! Clay
Thanks for your feedback Clay!
It is almost impossible to mention everything about Wealthy Affiliate in one review, but you have truly highlighted the key aspects.
I agree with all the points you have mentioned. Talking about zero upsells, for instance, the best thing online, is setting aside a budget, and being able to respect that budget without exploding it. This is the amazing part about Wealthy Affiliate. You can plan 2,3,or even 4 years in advance and that budget will still be very relevant and applicable.
So you know exactly what to spend. I love this predictable side of Wealthy Affiliate. Even if you don’t have all the money to pay for a full year, you can plan ahead of time, and save gradually towards Black Friday deals. Those deals have not changed for many years, and once you sign up, that’s it. No more paying of extra charges. Everything is taken care of right down to the domain privacy of the domains you purchase in-house.
Seriously, Wealthy Affiliate is something else.
Thanks for your review!
Awesome and accurate review of WA!
I was a skeptic for years! I researched every which way to make money online, and could not find a program that interested me or I thought would work for me. I stumbled upon WA by accident, and it had something that others didn’t…A training platform. I really wanted to LEARN how to create a business online, and learn by trial and error yet have the support of a community to help guide me if I got lost.
I am so glad I joined WA when I did, it has really saved me in more ways than one. I can just tell that my outlook on life is brighter, I have a list of goals I strive to achieve now, and I and generally less stressed. Everything I am learning there really makes me feel good about myself.
Thank you so much for sharing this!
I have been with WA 2 years this month and I wouldn’t look back, the knowledge and financial freedom I have gained is a credit to the platform set up by WA. Some people say how $49 is too much a month however when you consider what’s included like hosting, training, great community, tools and more I would argue that they set the price to low as there is alot of value.
Before I decided to give it ago I had tried it all mlms, survey sites, biz opps, you name it. Now I have found WA it’s been a relief as I have finally found a genuine opportunity that will help me work from home
As you say and have listed there are many reasons why WA isn’t a scam and if you aren’t sure still, giving it ago for free is a no brainer you literally have nothing to lose.
Josh
There certainly are a lot of shiny objects out there. Often times people lose money to things like MLM’s, survey sites, etc before they end up finding a home in Wealthy Affiliate.
The cost of starting an online business has never been so affordable, considering all of the education, live classes, support, websites, hosting, research tools, networking, and personal mentoring is included in the membership fees. Sold independently, this would amount to $1,000’s per month.
Wealthy Affiliate unlike other platforms offers a free membership, which really shows that they believe in their service and their platform. People can truly try before they ever have to spend a penny, they can build websites, they can go through the training, get expert help, use the research platforms.
My recommendation to anyone considering this, create a completely free membership. Go from there, if you like it, you can consider the Premium membership (if it fits your budget). If not, there is no trial to free, so you can stay on as long as you like.
Your 10 reasons why Wealthy Affiliate is not a scam is a great list.
Wealthy Affiliate is indeed NOT a scam. It’s this fab place where you can learn everything there is to know on affiliate marketing, and where you’ll be equipped with your websites, knowledge, support and the industry insights you couldn’t get anywhere else.
The community at the WA is amazing. Just imagine, you are a total newbie and have the opportunity to ask questions and guidance from some of the coolest, most successful affiliate marketers in the world. Priceless!
I’ve been a member for some months now, and intend to stay a member as long as I am in this business.
Being able to ask for help directly from experts and those succeeding online is one of the key benefits of being part of the Wealthy Affiliate community, but that is one of 100’s of awesome perks to being a member.
So glad you are enjoying your experience.
Hi and thanks for sharing your experiences with Wealthy Affiliate. I agree with your points about the great coaching and the huge value for money that they offer you is unbeatable. They give you such a great confidence that they can teach you to be a successful affiliate marketer, and the community style support you have access to is truly a special benefit. Thanks again, Kenny
I had a friend tell me good things about Wealthy Affiliate so I am researching it online. Thanks for your information, but I do have a few questions.
1. Can I get started with no experience. I literally don’t know a thing about affiliate marketing.
2. What are the types of things I will be selling to make money. I am not sure I quite get how it works.
Looking forward to your responses.
Happy to help you out with your questions here Serena.
1. Yes, you don’t need to know a thing about affiliate marketing. In fact, if you have not been predisposed to training already sometimes that can be a good thing. There is a lot of misinformation out there about affiliate marketing, which leads people more often than not to failure. Wealthy Affiliate can and is consistently helping the absolutely newbie. You are going to learn the foundational building blocks and in the first few lessons alone you are going to have your very own niche website up and running.
2. As an affiliate marketer, there are 100’s of millions of products and services you can promote in exchange for a commission. You sign up for what are called “affiliate programs” and once you do that, you are given special links for that company that are unique to you. When you send people to one of those links (through your website, social media, email, or otherwise) and they buy something, you get a % commission. For example, if you sign up to Amazons affiliate program, you can promote any product on their website and earn 6% commissions. Commissions range from 5-75% typically, depending on the program.
Hope you found this insightful.
First you say the cost is $359.00. Then your chart shows $49.00/mo = $588.00.
Which is it? You can’t have it both ways.
This alone is a giant RED FLAG to me!
If you join as a yearly member, it is discounted (so $359 per year). If you are month to month, it is $49 per month. This is not a red flag, this is clearly outlined not only on the website, but in the members area.
There is also a first month discount of $19 so you can go premium for even cheaper. Also, there is a free membership offered unlike ANY other company in the industry, totally legitimizing the program. We recommend that you give it a try on the free membership before you make any decisions.
I’m 72 yrs old, retired and looking for additional income while not spending more then 3-4 hrs daily Monday-Friday.
Your thoughts?
That is more than adequate time to get a business rolling online. You get out of your business what you put into it. We have personally seen people operate 6 figure businesses (once up and running) on less than that, but as we said, the time and energy you put into your affiliate marketing business is what will equate to your success.
DOES WEALTHY AFFILIATE PROVIDE THE AUTO-RESPONDER FOR FREE OR DO WE GET OUR OWN?
There is no autoresponder included. There are many affordable autoresponder services out there that you can get when you need it, but building an email list definitely should not be the starting point for your business. That will come down the road, typically when your website is getting a sustainable source of traffic. You will be learning all about this as you move through the elite, industry leading training at Wealthy Affiliate.
Like to join but I don’t know nothing about internet marketing I need a lot of help and reason being that I want to do this fast cuz I ain’t got no money I need to make some money and I always get back what help me
Completely normal and completely fine Stanley. Everybody starts at some point with no experience of internet marketing. You are more than capable of learning this and Wealthy Affiliate is certainly the top recommended platform/training in the industry for learning how to properly build an affiliate marketing business online.
We think you will surprise yourself, within just the first course you are going to have your first niche website fully operational and the foundation of your business built out.
Can this be done on a library computer? Cannot download anything, but I can read emails and listen to lessons(got ear buds).
Yes, it can. You just need internet access, you don’t need to download anything at all. If you have access to the Internet, regardless of your location you will be able to run a business online.
I love Nike basketball shoes. Can I build a business somehow with that interest?
Absolutely. This is a big space, and even something like “Jordan Airs” could be a niche. There are 4 billion people online, many of which are going to have a great interested in Nike basketball shoes, and as mentioned you can go even more targeted than this and still be very successful within the online space.
As an example, there are many affiliate programs that you can leverage. Nike has one, Amazon has one, New Balance has one, and there are 1,000’s of products that you can recommend and earn 6-20% commissions in this area.
Wealthy Affiliate can help you get rolling right away. By lesson 4 in the training you are going to have your very own niche website up and running, that will be the foundation for your business. Whether this is something related to basketball shoes, or something completely different, that is up to you.
Wow, you weren’t kidding when you said Wealthy Affiliate is a supportive community. In my 2 and a half years seeking an opportunity I have never been part of anything like this nor have I ever really understood what to do. It appears that has changed with WA I have my website up already and I just started a few days ago.
Awesome, so glad you are enjoying WA.
I have been a member now for 7 months and I couldn’t be happier. The community is second to none and unlike other programs I have been part of, people actually help each other out instead of being in some sort of stiff competition with each other.
The keyword tools, websites, hosting, research platform, and training are top notch. I also look forward to my Friday nights now when Jay puts on his live classes, I always have some key takeaways from those that have really helped my affiliate marketing business.
Thanks for your feedback. Glad you are thoroughly enjoying your experience at WA Portis.
how do I join?
You can join directly through the Wealthy Affiliate website.
Here is a direct link:
https://www.wealthyaffiliate.com
We hope this helps you out here.
Hi! Like many other people, I too have been scammed of probably thousands of dollars. I have not been very comfortable building my own website(s), so I am hesitant for this very reason. I read several reviews comparing Affilorama vs Wealthy Affiliates and Affilorama does build your website(s) and allows you to choose from multiple “successful” and proven. Also, what about autoresponder fees, for that matter, what am I looking at in additional costs above the premium membership? I want to hear your response about these issues before I reach a decision! Thank you. God bless you and your team and members. By the way, I have a website from Youngevity, but the support is aweful. That’s why I didn’t fill in Website field since I have sold zero since upline has been very uncooperative to say the least.
We can totally appreciate that. The fact of the matter is there are lots of scams out there, and lots of seemingly legit programs to deal with. Wealthy Affiliate is the leader in the affiliate marketing education space for a reason though. You get access to everything you need within one environment to create and grow your business and there is no barrier to entry to get rolling (as there is a completely free starter membership)
Premium is $19 first month, then $49 per month. If you go yearly, it is $359 which is less than $30 per month. The only other potential cost would be a domain name if you wanted your own, and these are less than $15 per year.
All the support, hosting, websites, research tools, training, live classes, and networking is completely include…all under one roof!
How do you pay yearly? I’m only seeing a monthly option
You can become a yearly member at Wealthy Affiliate after you have upgraded to monthly (that is when the discount become available). You can upgrade right away and it will be pro-rated based on your initial payment, so it will be discounted even further.
Let us know if you have any further questions.
Hello, I’m really interested in WA. Truth is not being a wuss or nthn. But I’m to scared to invest as I failed many times in the past with online business. I just hate working a 9-5 so bad though. I want it to end. How do I know if I WA is right for me??? I have more questions. Can You please email me?
You will know when you try it out, that is what we recommend. Create yourself a free starter account and work forward from there and immerse yourself within the community. By lesson 4 alone you are going to have your own niche website up and running and I know you are going to get feel the warmth and expertise that is available to yo within the community.
Ify ou have more questions, leave them here and we will be more than happy to help you out.
Hello, I joined WA just over a year ago. Because of personal reasons I had to shelve it for the time being. My domain name has just expired.
I will be ready to start up again sometime in August. Would I have to start all over again? Oncertainly my domain name has expired is it gone for good?
thank you,
Tony
You don’t have to start again, you will be able to resubcribe and reconnect your membership. Your following, training history, content you have created…those will all still be available to you Tony.
You can resubscribe here:
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/resubscribe
OK, I have not upgraded yet when I do upgrade will they build the niche website for me?
Wealthy Affiliate provides you with the platform/hosting/website features you need to build your own websites, but they do not do the actual work for you. Templated website content is NOT GOOD for business, it will lead to zero rankings in Google and it will hurt your overall progress.
If you are willing to work hard, you can create a successful business. If you are looking for someone to do the work for you, it will be tough.
i am very interested in your training. I have already been scammed and lost $1850.00 so I am extremely cautious at this point and plan to learn as much as possible prior to starting anything again. I have a website but nothing works on it.
So sorry to hear about your past “scam” experience, there are surely lots of these out there on the Interweb. The best thing you can do here is check out Wealthy Affiliate as a Starter member. It is completely free and will give you a ton of access to the platform. This way you can try before you buy and we know that it will change your perception about online programs in a positive way. Wealthy Affiliate is truly different.
It sounds like you have a very good program about how long does it take a newbie to start making money. I didn’t understand $ 1.00 a day ?
Your success in business will of course vary based on the effort you invest into your business, but Wealthy Affiliate will provide you with the education, platform, the environment, the tools and the support you need to create, grow and manage your business. What you do at the end of the day is completely up to you.
Our personal experience indicates that usually around the 3 month mark you can start gaining some real traction with your affiliate marketing business, have your website in a state that is ready to grow and scale, and search engines like Google/Bing/Yahoo starting to rank you. Within a year, if you put forth the effort it is quite possible to be earning a full time income, and then from there it is just a matter of scaling your business to any level that you are willing to work for.
This is a broad answer, but everyone works differently. Everyone achieves success at different rates, and everyone works differently.
What we can tell you is that if you put forth the effort and take action on the training at Wealthy Affiliate, you can and will achieve any level of success you are willing to work for.
I have been researching this type of business for a while and i find it incredibly difficult to sort the ‘good’ guys from the ‘scammers’ all of which look amazing from outside.
I currently have a couple of businesses working through more traditional platforms, and am looking for something a little different to run alongside my current ventures, and for more personal reasons a sustainable, incremental growth opportunity that will give me piece of mind and more time freedom.
How can WA help me attain this? Hoping that you can help me decide whether to investigate this further.
Completely agree with you Martyn. There are too many programs out there that trick you into joining one thing at a certain price, only to realize you need to spend $1,000’s more on something else to get everything you need.
Wealthy Affiliate doesn’t do business like this, they never have. There is a reason they have been in business 12 years (the longest in the affiliate marketing education space) and the reason they let you try before you buy with their free Starter membership. There is a Premium membership ($49 per month, or $359 per year), but that is completely up to you whether or not you upgrade.
In terms of what you are looking for, YES Wealthy Affiliate can help you with that. You can build a business within absolutely any niche, and they provide you with all the training, tools, services, and coaching to build out your internet business to any level. No experience necessary. We recommend you get rolling with a free Starter membership, and then go from there.
Hi, thanks for your review. i just have a few questions:
1) You mentioned that you can stay as free member as long as you want, and also that most people start making money after 3 months. I notice that as a free member you only have 1-one-1 coaching and Free live support for the first 7 days. Does that mean i would have to work and learn super-fast the first seven days in order to the most benefit from the live support and coaching?
2) Also, noticed that you get 30 key word search’s, and 2 websites? Would it be a wise strategy to build 2 websites with 15 keywords each and wait for sales before upgrading?
3) I noticed mention that cost is less than 1$ per day. 49$ a month is more than 1$ per day?
Sure, happy to help you out with your questions here.
1) You won’t make money within your first 7 days most likely, this is the expert coaching/support that is offered within this period to give you a taste of what you can expect as a Premium member. There is no better support or help within the industry, or such a caring platform. All people will earn money at different rates, but typically if you invest your time and energy into your business (which is what you are creating), you will start to gain traction around the 3 month mark.
2) You could, but typically it is best to focus on ONE website when starting out, get that to a point of success and then you can consider diversifying. Don’t try to do too much at once. You can upgrade at the point when you are ready to take your business, education, and tools seriously.
3) There is a yearly option as well, which is $359 for an entire year. This works out to be less than $1 per day.
We hope this helps you out here.
I was learning and reading about wealthy affiliate on my phone, now i’ve gone to my computer. I don’t see a place to log in at, can someone help me out?
Do you have an account already at Wealthy Affiliate? If you do, you can go here to login.
If you don’t already have an account, you can create a completely free Starter membership here.
https://www.WealthyAffiliate.com
If you have any further questions here, please let us know Darla.
Do you have to work on ways to connect others with WA as part of the process once you sign up
Absolutely not. Wealthy Affiliate does not require you to promote WA, in fact it is recommend that you don’t when starting out. Instead, you are going to be taught in the early stages how to come up with the idea/concept for your business. This is also known as your niche.
There are literally millions of niches out there and 500+ million products/services that you can promote as an affiliate, across any niche. That is what you are going to be taught to do at Wealthy Affiliate and you are going to have access to the most elite training, platform, research tools, services, websites, hosting, and coaching as soon as you walk in the doors.
There are a lot of programs out there that claim they are affiliate marketing training and as soon as you join, you are actually forced into promoting the same program. Wealthy Affiliate is different, they are ethical and actually teach you how affiliate marketing works and provide you everything you need to create a proper business online in any niche.
What level of depth does the traffic training go into once the site is set up? I have struggled a lot online especially with traffic generation, which brought my sites to a halt. I have a mastery mentality rather than dabbler, so i would like to be taught from beginner level to advanced step by step – does WA provide this? Also do they teach organic and paid or do they focus on one? Also do they teach how to use Social Media to drive traffic to your new site and at what depth?
Traffic is the foundation to any successful business and within Wealthy Affiliate great deal of focus on how to build traffic in the early stages of the training. The initial focus within Wealthy Affiliate is SEO and getting traffic for free, but as you get more involved ALL paid marketing topics are covered in detail as well. This ranges from Google Adwords, BingAds, to Facebook Ads (the big 3 in the paid marketing space). Social media is also something that is covered and although many people over invest in their social efforts, the engagement side and how to get some “viral” elements of social working for you is a big focus within WA.
We hope this clarifies for you and if you do have any further questions about Wealthy Affiliate and what is offered, just ask.
I am tired of failing online. Can Wealthy Affiliate actually help me?? I thought I had given up completely and then my friend told me to check out this program so here I am. It appears to be legit, but these days within the online world I dont know what is coming or going. Help me please.
It is good that you are doing your due diligence, it is really important to do these days and it sounds like you have truly run into a series of programs that simply don’t deliver. What we can tell you is that Wealthy Affiliate will be a refreshing experience and even within the completely free Starter membership, you are going to experience much more than anywhere else that you have paid for.
In fact, by lesson 4 in the training (which is included), you are going to have your very own niche website up and running and ready for success. You will immediately have access to experts within the community who can coach you if you ever need a hand. So there is no risk, try it for free, if you don’t like it, then move on. Wealthy Affiliate is truly different than the rest of the industry, and in a good way.
I would love to join this team how do I create my account
You can simply go to:
https://www.wealthyaffiliate.com
At the top of the page you will see a form to register and create your free account. Simply fill out those details and you will get instant access to the back office of Wealthy Affiliate.
Hallo there,
I’ve been looking for posts that have solid reasons to prove that wealthy affiliate is actually a scam and I have not found any.
Seems it is legit and the teaching there really does pay off.
I believe this is my final post to research wealthy affiliate, and I will now take action on it. Thanks for comfirmimg what others have said in other reviews.
It is honestly hard to sort the wheat from the chaff out there. There are so many companies representing themselves as “affiliate marketing training” when in reality they are something completely different.
You cannot go wrong with Wealthy Affiliate and the fact that you can try it, before you ever have to pull out a credit card should be an indicator that they trust in their service, support and platform.
Also, if you have any questions (or anyone reading this) about the offering at WA or the overall affiliate marketing process, we will be more than happy to help you out.
Thanks for writing such a great article about Wealthy Affiliate. I have heard of Wealthy Affiliate before and read a few article about them. Your article is the most detailed and you covered everything I wanted to know about Wealthy Affiliate. I decided to go ahead and sign up and give it a shot. I can’t wait to get started!
Jack
Excellent Jack, I know you are going to love your experience within Wealthy Affiliate. You will not regret your decision and by the time you have hit lesson 4 of the Starter training you are going to understand the make money process, will have chosen your niche (direction of your business), and will have your very own niche website up and running.
Great review about Wealthy Affiliate. you just can’t beat what this platform offers. I love the training and support. It’s the best there is.
If you have a passion and want to spread the word about by helping others, then you’ll be successful with Wealthy Affiliate. Choose your niche and learn to build your website, get traffic and make money. Make helping others your number one priority. That’s what it’s all about.
Would you suggest doing bootcamp training or training with your own niche first?
That was true 10 years ago, and it is true now. If you aim to help people, you can build a business in any niche. That is at the core of all the education and Wealthy Affiliate and you are going to become very well versed in building a successful business within any niche taking this fundamental approach.
We would recommend that you choose a direction for your business that you are passionate about. So head through the Get Started training and within Lesson 3 it is going to be helping you narrow down your niche to something much more specific.
You can always be involved with many different niches and businesses down the road, but when starting out you just want to focus on one. It only takes ONE niche, ONE idea, and ONE website to be very successful online.
Thanks for stopping by and sharing your positive experiences within Wealthy Affiliate.
I have been looking into trying my hand at building websites I think it is the way to go however I really don’t know what I am doing.
I have heard of the Wealthy Affiliates before but thought is was some hook for a scam. Your article has me thinking a little differently though.
Is this really a good place for newbies? How is the support if I get stuck and need help?
Thanks for the insight, looking forward to hearing back from you.
Brendon
There are many scams in the industry, so we can appreciate any skepticism. In fact, we think it is a really good idea to do your due diligence before you invest into any program online. Better yet, if the service has a free membership or trial, then take advantage of that so you can get a good idea. That is exactly what Wealthy Affiliate offers and we would recommend that everyone “try” something before they buy it. If a company doesn’t offer this, then it is a good idea to avoid that company.
In response to y our questions, WA is a great environment for newbies and caters to all level of marketers, obviously with a focus on newbies and helping you develop a proper foundation of knowledge in the early stages of your business. That is critical with any business and even some marketers that would view themselves as intermediate or experienced can really benefit from the first few courses as well.
If you ever get stuck, you have several help platforms that you can leverage within Wealthy Affiliate to get immediate and thorough help. You have live chat, where you can go to interact live with fellow community members and get instant help. You can leave a question or drop a blog post where you will get feedback from many folks within the community. You can also leave your questions within the comments of the training and get help, average response time is usually less than 5 minutes (for any type of question).
And you have direct access to coaches, mentors and experts that are hanging out within WA regularly that you can connect with personally and privately (within Premium) if you ever need help.
I hated the feeling of buying into something only to feel like it’s not complete and that I need more. It’s definitely a gut wrenching feeling. Like seriously, how deep down the rabbit hole do I have to go before I start seeing any promise with my investment? Thankfully i never had that problem with WA. In fact, I have seen results from organic traffic go up on my website and I am just hitting my stride.
There are too many programs like that out there and most people reading this have problem been sucked into such a scheme. The thing that is truly unique about Wealthy Affiliate is that there is two membership options, Starter (free) and Premium (paid).
There are no hidden upsells, there are not multiple levels of the membership or surprise purchases that you have to make, everything you need to create, grow and manage a business (or multiple) within the online world is included in the membership dues.
And you can try before you buy. Meaning that you can utilize the Starter membership without ever having to invest a dime…and use it for as long as you like. It truly is an unconventional approach and something that a company would only do if they truly believed in the product or service. Wealthy Affiliate is that company.
This is a really cool review. 🙂 I’m a member myself and I really enjoy being one. First I was pretty skeptical but then I started to earn revenue from my blog thanks to WA. The things I love the most are there is an explanation for everything building an email list, set up an FB page the topics are endless. you will get free access to the Jaxxy keyword search platform (which you would have to pay for anyways outside of WA) plus a live chat with everybody if you have a quick question.
We are a community with over 1 Million members and believe it or not but we all work together.
It is strange when you have a community the size of Wealthy Affiliate and you have an environment where everyone cares about one another still. That is truly the case within WA and we don’t view ourselves as competition to one another, simply because there is plenty of room for all of us to be mutually successful.
It is great to hear you are generating consistent revenue with your campaigns and I would have to believe that this is just the start of much bigger things to come!
What I will do here is give a solid testimonial because this is a great overview of the 4 step process. I have found that my traffic has seemed to have come from other sources such as paid traffic and videos from youtube, however the build up of momentum has to be paying off as I am starting to see traffic coming in from many other sources since joining WA.
I am currently a premium member at Wealthy Affiliate and it truly has become my central hub for all of my activity related to my online business!
Thanks for sharing your experiences Andrew and it is great to hear about your growing traffic. At the foundation of ANY successful business, traffic is paramount. Traffic is the audience in which you can leverage to drive sales to your business and without it your business will not have any opportunity for revenue.
That is the reason why the training within Wealthy Affiliate puts so much focus early on into the traffic generation and building your website/business with a proper foundation that will lead to long term and sustainable traffic.
If you master this, you can literally head into any niche you want (there are millions of them) and come out very successful!
I am a member of Wealthy Affiliate and don’t exactly remember how I landed here in your website and was thinking this is of some kind of a company site promoting another affiliate marketing company, like for example “Home Business Team”. But going through the comments, I was surprised to see here is some really great information here! Wow, what a privilege landing at the website with actual insightful information such as this.
This experience got me into this question:
Is it possible to join Wealthy Affiliate not as an individual marketer but rather a “corporate entity”? Like instead of a person’s name, it goes something like “AffiliateMarketingAces” as the username in WA community?
You can join Wealthy Affiliate under any alias you like, whether you want to act as a corporate entity, an alias, your own personal brand…it is completely up to you. So by all means, you are in full control.
Does WA give you ideas about the most successful or popular niches? I don’t want go Waste weeks and months without going for a promising niche right away.
You will have lots of help choosing a niche that is write for you. You can literally head in any direction with your niche and create a very successful business doing so. This is what is taught and is an early stage focus of Wealthy Affiliate. Through time you can and will likely be successful within many different niches, that is the natural progression as you gain expertise as an affiliate marketer.
I have been with Wealthy Affiliate for over 2 years now, have four active websites that I am working on, and have been full-time with my online business for the last 4 months. To say that it works, is a natural yes. But it is not for everyone (especially if you are on an instant success kick).
Whether or not it works for someone though will come down to what you actually do with what you learn though. I see people coming in wanting instant results and the first question is “how do I make money fast online”. If that is you and you are asking yourself this right now, stop. Please. I was in your boat for awhile and I chased my dream of being rich fast down some dark paths and joined some programs that took well over $1,000 from me.
As a Premium member, I have access to everything I need now and I pay just over $300 per year. That is the reality, all in, business expense. I run all four of my websites through WA and I am very happy with their hosting platform, it offers features that I would be paying $100+ per month to get at Godaddy so I am happy overall with it.
That is just one of 100’s of benefits to being part of WA. If you have two hands, if you have an interest or a passion and you want to be part of a platform that will actually give a crap about you and your success go set up yourself a Starter account. I promise you, you will not regret it.
Back to working on my business here. lol
Awesome to hear about your success with WA Senica! Two years and full time, pretty typical stuff if you put forth the effort as we are sure you can attest to goes into building a successful business.
The great part about an online business is that you are not limited about your location or the number of people that live in your area (like an offline business). There are close to 4 billion people online and that is your audience. Because of this, there is always a significant amount of room to grow and scale your business and we imagine that you have some very big and ambitious goals for your company.
Thanks for stopping by and sharing your successes/experience within Wealthy Affiliate!
I am just getting started in Affiliate Marketing and a friend who is already using Wealthy Affiliate pointed me to them. They definitely do seem legit and want to help. I’m doing some research before I did in. Thanks for the great info here!
Definitely legit. If you are looking to build a business online, Wealthy Affiliate is the only platform you need. You will have access to websites, hosting, keyword/research tools, training, live classes & classrooms, expert support & mentoring and the ability to network with over 1.2 MILLION fellow entrepreneurs the second you walk into the community.
Heed their advice, they know what they are talking about and get rolling with your Starter account (no cost or obligation).
Do you register your business as an LLC or does WA help with this? Or does it matter?
When you are staring out, you do not need to register as a company. We typically recommend that you have a stable base of revenue with your website before you worry too much about operating as a business. There typically are financial benefits to incorporating a business around the $100,000 per year mark in your business.
So not to worry and there are lots of people running very successful companies within Wealthy Affiliate that can help you out when you need it.
I am not a complete skeptic, but I have been burned 1 too many times in my search for something that is legit. I just joined some solo ad scam and I made a whopping $0 after spending $500 on their traffic. it was completely bogus and I was unable to get a refund from their support.
This is just the latest in my series of bad experiences. What can you do to reassure me that Wealthy Affiliate is legit and that I will actually get the proper things I need to make money online and become an affiliate. Please help am at my wits end here.
We can appreciate any skepticism. There are in fact a lot of overpriced programs out there, or in your case, complete scams that are in the business of taking your money with very little effort to offer anything in return.
Wealthy Affiliate takes the opposite approach. You get offered A LOT for free, you can use the program, the training, the tools, the websites, the support and network with fellow affiliate marketers (and get help from them). THEN, and only then, you can make a decision as to whether or not Wealthy Affiliate is the right fit for you.
Some things you can expect for free within the WA Starter membership
(1) Two free websites, with hosting
(2) Comprehensive training, help choosing a niche
(3) Access to experts support and help (even as a free member, yes)
(4) Access to keyword and research tools/platforms
(5) A highly interactive, engaging community
(6) The ability to network with over 1,000,000 members
(7) No obligation or pressure to pay anything
There is a premium membership that is very advanced and offers a more comprehensive and cost efficient than any other program or platform in the industry, but you can decide on that. We recommend that you check out the WealthyAffiliate.com homepage to get a full breakdown and register for a free Starter account. You have nothing at all to lose, and everything to gain. We know the level of support and care will blow you away.
Look, I have been scammed before and I’m on a limited set income. I like what I read but my real question is any one making an income with this program, how much, how long did it take and where is the proof?
Yes, LOTS of people and lots of people are earning a full time income. There are 1,000’s of success stories you can look up once inside of Wealthy Affiliate.
Wealthy Affiliate is the most legitimate education platform and service in the industry for building an online business. Questioning whether or not “business” works is questioning business itself. Within the online world you have a potential reach of 3.75 billion people online, Wealthy Affiliate is going to help you capitalize on this regardless of the direction you want to head with your business. That is, your niche.
I was in as WA for about 3 months and learned a lot for free. I had to resign for personal reasons, but I am planning to go back in.and continue. It was a phenomenal experience for me. The training is very thorough and simple to do, and also the community is amazingly supportive.
Not a scam for sure. You can create your own success at your own pace. I would like to know how I can come back.
So glad you enjoyed your experience within Wealthy Affiliate. If you want to get back to your membership, you should be able to log back into your account and take off where you left off. That shouldn’t be an issue at all.
Can you open this business as a corporation? This would be what I would like to do since I already have a corporation.
You can run either as a corporation or an individual (sole proprietor) within the online world. We typically recommend when you are getting your start that you start off as a sole proprietor and that you incorporate your business when you reach around the $100,000 per year mark. Wealthy Affiliate will help you understand this with much more clarity as you are building out your businss.
We hope this clarifies for you.
I am the seventy-two year old granny that my husband and I,would like to build a business on line. We got really hurt one time with a company that took a lot of money from us and we got little training from them.
I like the idea of the free starter plan and from every thing I’ve read, it sounds like you are a company that really cares about helping people have a business on line. I don’t understand about the payment plan if you go pass seven days , does that mean you can’t pay for a year, you have to do the forty-ninth month.
Thank you,
Patricia
First off, so sorry to hear you and your husband got hurt by a company out there. There are many unscrupulous companies in this industry unfortunately that are only in the business of “taking your money” and they could actually care less about you.
Wealthy Affiliate is different and we know you are going to sense this the minute you come into the community. You literally have help directly from internet experts as a starter members (free) and access to everything you need to operate and manage your business.
How you pay is up to you, there is a monthly or a yearly membership if you decide to go Premium. The monthly membership is $49 per month and the yearly is $359 (made in one payment). So it is a discount if you decide to go yearly right away at Wealthy Affiliate. Hope this clarifies for you here Patricia and we know you are going to be really happy with your decision if you do decide to join Wealthy Affiliate.
This is all so new to me and with all of the pop ups and offers online, I am overwhelmed to say the least!
I started an MLM business last year that I truly believe in, but am tired of prospecting family, friends etc.
I am also probably the most self aware but least tech savvy person I know!! The mention of funnels and the like makes me squirm.
So my questions are, can WA help me in attracting traffic and interest in the products and business opportunity rather than me looking for people and as I am at the less than basic tech level, will this program be basic enough for me to understand and follow?
I am tired of the 9-5 and want to spend more time with my family and give back more. I just want something that is easy to follow and not overwhelming. I am happy to work hard, but also want to work smart to get to where I want to be.
Hope you are the partnership I have been looking for.
That is the problem with MLM companies, you run out of people to prospect within your family and then your source of opportunity dries up. Affiliate marketing is very different than this. You will be building a website in ANY niche and with your website, you are going to be able to target the entire world (3.75 BILLION people, versus just those within your family).
Not to mention that you are going to have access to over 550 million products/services to promote as an affiliate marketer…without having to carry inventory, deal with any support, and definitely not have to deal with any recruiting of family members. These range from all of the big brand companies in the world, to more obscure products/services. There has never been an growing opportunity like this and it is only going to continue to grow as online spending just seems to ramp up with each year that passes.
As for not being a “techie”, that is completely fine. Wealthy Affiliate will help you overcome any hurdles through their own technology. Building a website within the platform literally takes 30 seconds. Something that took days if not weeks before, is accomplished with this much efficiency. Not to mention that there are 1,000’s of people interacting at any moment within WA that have expertise in every aspect of the online business world that will be able to help you out if you need it.
I am looking to build a site for my offline business. Can Wealthy Affiliate help me out with that and the marketing side of things?
Absolutely it can. There are many offline businesses within WA running their online assets along with all of the marketing from within Wealthy Affiliate. The training can help you learn how to rank your business locally and if you need to, get reach globally.
There are many sources of traffic, and we typically recommend that you get comfortable with free sources (such as search engine optimization, SEO) before you risk any money. You can get a lot of great rankings with proficiency once you understand what you are doing.
So yes, absolutely!
I’ve been a member for three weeks now and I have already gone premium. I’ve been involved in what seem to now be some of the bigger scams online, and Wealthy Affiliate is the only community I have been part of where they are not ramming expensive purchases down your throat.
I’ve spoken with both Kyle and Carson since I have been a member and this is only three weeks in. BTW, they are the founders of WA!
I attended the live class on Friday, and it was nothing short of superb. These are included every week and I can tell you if they are the same quality in upcoming weeks that is worth ten times the value of my membership alone. As you can tell him gloating but I am really happy and I wanted to come back and thank you for the review.
Thanks for dropping back here with your review Obie. The live classes are great and they are all “value” only. This is something that is very unique within the industry because when you hear “live class” or “webinar”, you can typically expect that there is some sort of promotion tied into it. Not with Wealthy Affiliate. They are pure value, no promotion (or upsell).
We really hope you continue to enjoy your experience and trust that you WILL!
WA is not a SCAM. My name is Vivian Mahony. I don’t think anyone would remember me, but I was a member for more than a year and even though I did not make any money, I got all the support and training and help anyone could want. It is much more comprehensive than any other program can offer. Why didn’t it work for me? I just never got the hang of it and that is on me, not Wealthy Affiliate. I hated quitting because I had made so many great friends, who shared my journey and helped me everyday. That was the hardest thing to give up. I was willing to concede that I had failed at launching the right kind of money making website, but I did not want to lose the support and friendships. I am doing something different now, but still miss it.
My Advice is to follow the program exactly as it is laid out. Even if you think you know a lot, do it their way and see their successes. Upgrade to the premium level to get all the benefits. It is well worth the price to get the member support. Do all the lessons until you understand them. Ask Questions. Build a good website in a niche market that appeals to you and do your research on google.
Hi this is Siddiqui from Toronto. I would like to know I am not a computer expert and I have no idea how to develop website and host. Do you need experience? How much time it will take when I started making money? Can we make some money from your free account just to get an idea how it works. If one niche does not work can we switch to another one? Lot of question. Hope I will get the answers I need. Thanks.
You definitely do not need to be a computer expert in order to create a successful business online, the technology gaps have been removed. Building a website within wealthy affiliate will literally take you 30 seconds to get it set-up and live online.
As for making money, that will vary from person to person. If you’re looking to build an actual business online, we would typically recommend that you give yourself at least a year to accomplish this (but you can definitely be earning money far before the year mark). Most people start seeing the income from their efforts around the three month mark.
You can be involved in as many niches as you want, your first niche oftentimes will not be your last…In particular if you have a lot of interests. It is important that you do focus on one thing before you move on the next though. You don’t want to feel overwhelmed which can happen if you’re trying to manage many different websites at once when starting out.
We hope this helps you out Siddiqui.
I am having a tough time figuring out how to create a business online. I have recently join a site builder course on Udemy and I am nothing short of confused. I can somewhat understand how to build a website, but I don’t understand how a website will translate into money for me.
Can Wealthy Affiliate fill that mental gap for me and help me understand this? If so, how. Thanks for your attention here.
Great questions here Sonny, we can definitely help you get moving in the right direction.
First off, you are not alone. We are living in the “too much information” age of the Internet, where there is a lot of information out there but most of it misses the mark. Worse yet, in the affiliate marketing and online business space, there is a lot of outdated or training that is completely WRONG.
A website, is the fundamental building block of your business. To get rolling online, you are first going to want to choose a niche though, which is what your website is going to be about.
There is a four step process that Wealthy Affiliate teaches that will get you creating your own business as you move through the training.
Step 1: Choose a niche (the direction for your business)
Step 2: Build your website (can be done in 30 seconds at WA)
Step 3: Create content that ranks (this leads to traffic)
Step 4: Promote affiliate products/services (over 550,000,000 to choose from)
By lesson 4 alone in the Starter membership (which is completely free btw), you are going to have your own niche website up and running. So in long, yes, Wealthy Affiliate can help and will be your most comprehensive solution to building a business online. We know you are going to love it and recommend that you at the very least take advantage of the free membership.
It sound nice, maybe I’ll look into it before I rush into stuff.
Jennifer
Absolutely do not rush into things, and the one thing that is great about Wealthy Affiliate is that you are going be able to work at your own pace. When you join the starter membership, which by the way it’s completely free, you are going to be introduced rate away to the community and the platform.
Then from there you are going to have full control as to which piece you are going to move through the training, some move faster, some slower. Completely up to you and what works best for your schedule. By lesson 4 alone (of the core training) you are going to have your very own NICHE website up and running.
I joined WA a week ago and couldn’t be happier. I was to the point of throwing in the towel on this internet business stuff. I think I have found myself a home at Wealthy Affiliate and I have never been part of a more helpful and supportive community in my life. My future is bright, I know it.
Your future is definitely bright now that you have made your home Wealthy Affiliate. I know you are not going to have any regrets and we really do appreciate you stopping back to get your feedback.
Just one small recommendation moving forward. With your long-term and big goals, make sure you are setting weekly and very achievable goals. These small goals are what are going to lead to your ultimate affiliate marketing success.
Hi!
So far, I have learned quite a bit about affiliate online business through this review to the point that I have never experienced over the years. Thank you for such concise writing.
For years, I have tried to build an online business to sell digital information to guide people in the world to get medical care at a right time in a right way. For such, I have built two websites – formefirst and sick-ask – to guide people in the world to get the right care for their health and sickness. Now I wish to monetize the information from these two sites by having people at a need to click, pay, and read by subject(s) or by biannual or annual subscription.
Please review the Home pages to grasp my ideas and guide me how to accomplish my goals to help me and others.
Oh! I decide to sign up Prime membership and work hard to materialize it. Please help!
Medical care is quite a broad niche and I think that if you are going to want to head in this direction Warren, you are going to have to narrow down your idea. It is tough to target an entire category like this and be deemed as an authority by either your audience, or search engines (which will be a detriment to your overall rankings).
So that would be the first suggest that is recommended. Wealthy Affiliate will absolutely be able to help you refine your ideas and get moving in the right direction where you an capitalize on your great content, maximize your rankings (which leads to traffic) and of course maximize your revenue as well.
What are the true costs of Wealthy Affiliate. I have seen other programs that try to get you in for cheap and then get you to buy all sorts of other stuff in order to actually use their program. You mention that Premium is $49, is there any “surprises” I should expect if I do decide to upgrade.
The true costs of Wealthy Affiliate Premium are $49 per month. There is also a yearly discounted option that is $359 for an entire year (which works out to just over $29 per month).
That includes everything you need to create, grow, and manage your business OR multiple business online. There is a real difference between Wealthy Affiliate and the “other” companies in the industry and that starts with the transparency. They don’t tell you one thing, then hit you with costs for a whole bunch of upsells.
Included in your Premium membership is:
*Managed WordPress Hosting for up to 50 websites
*SiteRubix Website Suite – 7 State of the Art Website Platforms
*Real time help and communication
*Live Weekly Classes (promotion free)
*1,000’s of training modules
*Ability to network with affiliate marketing experts
*1 on 1 support and mentoring (including from the founders)
*24/7/365 Support and Help (including website/hosting support)
*Keyword & Research Tools.
*etc
Basically everything you need to run a business online. My suggestion to you is to try out the free Starter membership and this is going to give you a nice introduction as to what Wealthy Affiliate is and how authentically caring they are as a platform, community, and online business environment. From there you can come to your own conclusion and make your own decision.
Super interested I have a website idea which is available from go daddy a niche which pays 49 dollars through auto net just need true set up from somebody that won’t disappear got stood up from another company that was 47 dollars for nothing.
Wealthy Affiliate sounds like the perfect place for you then. It is an environment and a platform that you can leverage to take any ideas and interests that you have a create a successful and thriving business doing so. They have been in business since 2005 and definitely are not going anywhere. If you want to become part of the most innovative and most comprehensive platform in the online business world, we suggest give Wealthy Affiliate a go.
They have a completely free Starter membership that you can create through their website and it will give you a very good idea and access to the education, the mentorship, the websites/hosting and the community.
I’m new to affiliated marketing, some guy called my husband out of the blue and talked us into “purchasing a website, said we could make 3000 a month.
i’ve been working this site figuring out how to do this affiliate marketing stuff by my self. To make a long story short this company we went with yes build a website, kept in contact with me, but they had problem after problem and kept promising that going through amazon through them i could make money.
My husband and I are both are on fixed incomes, me on disability, him on social security and is a veteran. We took a chance all though we couldn’t afford to.This company just swapped marketers on us this guy only does business through Paypal. Anyway, i’ve been writing my own articles, putting in hours and hours, and still have not received any money since signing up 8 weeks ago. It’s been one excuse after another but we kept putting confidence in this guy who now is on vacation.
There went our money, my time, and I am in tears. We paid 495.00 and I got blog and training, no marketing training which I figured out on my own, we are now falling behind in a couple of bills and no money to show for the work I put in. Now the jerk isn’t calling me or contacting me what so ever.
I want to know can i stay a free member at Wealthy Affiliate untilI earn a check or two in order to become Premium or is there a time slot.
I’m trying to find a way do supplement our income and recoup our losses. Yes, I will have to start from scratch and all over again. BTW, I have over 5800 hits on this site and should have made some money.
It sounds like you have truly been given the run through with your past programs that you have been involved with. What we can tell you is that if you have invested that money into Wealthy Affiliate instead, you could’ve had a 10 year membership to the platform that would’ve offered you everything you need to crate grow and manage your business online.
You can absolutely stay on the starter membership for as long as you like and upgrade to Premium whenever you like. There is no pressure whatsoever within Wealthy Affiliate and you will be well supported either way. You are also going to be learning about traffic and ways to generate “high quality” traffic. The fact that you had over 5800 hits on your website, without a single conversion indicates it’s a VERY low-quality traffic source.
You may have to unlearn some things that you have learned in the past, but now that you are with WealthyAffiliate.com you are in good hands. 😉
Would like to join
Simply head over to:
https://www.WealthyAffiliate.com
And you will be able to set-up your free Starter account and get rolling right away.
Hi Debby, sorry to hear about your experience with the “website designer”. You can telephone PayPal, let them know what has happened and they may reimburse you the full amount. I experienced a similar situation with a “website designer” a couple of years. I was successful with a full refund.
I just took you on your recommendation and I joined Wealthy Affiliate. For FREE I have gotten more than I have spent $10,000 on recent programs. Insane. It’s about time I found a company like that actually cares and is not trying to sell me as much stuff as they can..
You certainly are welcome and glad you got a sense of what Wealthy Affiliate stands for, a company that cares about you and your success. This will certainly remain evident as you move through the training and continue to integrate yourself within the Wealthy Affiliate Back Office.
I joined the Wealthy Affiliate community recently and I can honestly say that it is truly a gold mine. The courses are so rich with a plethora of information. I love that you can try it for free and that you actually get valuable information. The people truly form a caring community ready to answer any questions you may have. Thank you for this post. More people should know about Wealthy Affiliates, so many out there could benefit from this opportunity of being able to do something they love and helping people, while at the same time making a living.
That is definitely the case David. Everyone can benefit from the offering at WA. Plain and simple, anyone can create a business online these days if they have the right resources and needs to do so. That is what is provided to people within Wealthy Affiliate.
You can take any niche passion or interest, and literally tapping into the 3.7 billion people online these days on the Internet. This is an audience and a marketplace never seen before and it is only continuing to grow. It truly is incredible and the opportunity only continue to grow within the affiliate marketing space.
I’ve been researching/reading about WA & a lot of it sounds great. A previous director of mine (for an MLM that didn’t work out) made the statement “The business Works if you Work It.” I whole-heartedly agree(d) with her, but also found that what it took to “Work” the business was not realistically feasible in my situation.
I’ve been promised in other programs (pre-sign up mind you) I could totally “make money on the side” working whenever I had time…Then you get into it and they look at you like your a moron for thinking you could expect any income by doing anything less than encouraging your parents to adopt a kid to stand in your place while you drop off the earth working 60+ hrs per week (this is while still working current job(s)) to “build” to that “self-employed nirvana.”
With that being said, I’m wondering (and I recognize there’s a great deal of variability possible):
What does it look like/take to Actually WORK WA?
I’m looking for hard numbers in hours per day/week/month in the “training/building phase” and thereafter to maintain income. I’m an extremely active person and my spine starts to seize at even the thought of being chained to a laptop for hours on end day after day (esp since it would be in addition to my current desk job). With all that I’ve described, is this even a good fit for someone like me? Thanks in advance for any and all feedback.
Blessings & Lattes,
– (Ms.) S. Smith
Wealthy Affiliate teaches you how to build a full time in sustainable business online, through the principles online business. The foundation of all successful online businesses start with the websites and a purpose for that site. Something that you can decide upon, as there are millions of different niche is that you can tackle with your online business. So that will be the core of your business and all the training, tools, websites, hosting, and support are provided to get you up and running with that.
From there, you will be building customer facing content. This will be the medium in which you connect with your audience, get rankings in Google and other search engines, gain authority and brand, and ultimately will just end up driving traffic to your website.
Then the make money part, you’ll be promoting either products or services through affiliate programs (meaning you do not need to actually own the products or services or have any inventory, rather you can promote over 500 MILLION products/services as an affiliate). This is a commission based approach, and there are millions of full-time affiliates online. Is saying this, you can promote whatever you like from your website once you have traffic. There’re many ways to monetize the website, from email marketing, from advertising, selling your own products/services, drop shipping, etc.
In respect the time, That will vary from person to person, but you get out of your business what you put into it. If you think you’re going to create a successful business within our dedicated to it per day, you might be waiting awhile. You wouldn’t expect to have a high paying career working an hour per day, why would you expect a business to magically appear working an hour per day. So be realistic about the process.
Some people start earning revenue within the first month, some within three months, some within the first six months. What we can tell you is that the skies the limit within the affiliate marketing and online world. Whatever you are weren’t willing to work for, you can achieve.
Wealthy affiliate offers everything you need to create, grow, and manage your REAL business online. The only missing piece is you and some hard work.
Hope this offers some clarity for you here.
I agree with you that Wealthy Affiliate is not a scam. My friend introduced this platform to me two years ago. I have been upgraded from Free Plan to Premium Plan as I love its website management, content management and website support.
Their Website Support Team is excellent in solving technical issues as I am not a computer technician at all.
I have learned a lot from its online training sessions and courses too. Now, I can handle most of the issues myself!
Then, would you recommend it to some website expert to use it too?
Being a website expert in the past and building websites manually, we would never move away from the platform like SiteRubix at Wealthy Affiliate. A good comparison of this is walking somewhere, versus riding in a car. They both are going to take you to the same place and one is much more manual, but why wouldn’t you get there with more efficiency so you have more time to spend on other things.
The same goes for the website world. SiteRubix Is a platform that is going to offer you state-of-the-art hosting as well as over 7 platforms within the website suite that will lead to much more efficiency and stability in your business so you can focus on other things.
What may have taken over a month to build in 2005, Now literally takes less than 30 seconds. That is what happens when technology progresses.
Wow, reading about this really gave me the confidence that Wealthy Affiliate (WA) is absolutely the best online business!
When I see the comparison between WA with the rest of the website building platforms, WA offered so much more at so much lower price. This is absolutely value for money.
I have just signed up as a Premium Member of WA. Thanks to you, I know that I am on the right track.
Cheers! =)
Having been online for many years I can honestly say this would be the most comprehensive program and platform I have been part of. For $49 a month it is a steal. It truly is.
I have been part of other blogging platforms and I can give you the tip, they said go and blog, but never gave me the step by step training to get my posts ranking. I have people coming through Reviews, because they are on page 1 of Google now, and sign up as referrals and even go premium. I mean how cool is that !
Just very grateful to have found this fantastic company and looking forward to my website rocking a year or two from now.
Cheers, Sharon
I have been part of other blogging platforms and I can give you the tip, they said go and blog, but never gave me the step by step training to get my posts ranking. I have people coming through Reviews, because they are on page 1 of Google now, and sign up as referrals and even go premium. I mean how cool is that !
Just very grateful to have found this fantastic company and looking forward to my website rocking a year or two from now.
Cheers, Sharon
Success is truly happening for you Sharon and it will continue to do so. Sounds like you have really made some break-throughs in the search engines as well and your understanding of that is going to continue to drive your affiliate business and revenue moving forward.
The next few years are going to be eye opening for you (in a good way), we can sense it!
Wealthy Affiliate is NOT A SCAM! I’ve been an affiliate marketer for 10 years and have joined my share of programs over the years.
Even though I’m an experienced internet marketer I have learned so much more at Wealthy Affiliate.
The training tutorials are top notch. All you have to do is follow the course in order and success will follow.
I also love the Wealthy Affiliate Community. This is the best affiliate marketing community online, PERIOD.
If there is a problem you are having with the course or just need the answer to a question, there is always an experienced marketer to help you out.
The customer service that Wealthy Affiliate offers is second to none! I can’t tell you how many times I screwed something up in one of my sites.
All I have to do is send in a support ticket and my errors are fixed within the hour, every time.
Wealthy Affiliate is the best learning platform for those that want to learn how to make money online.
This is especially true for all you new guys out there. Wealthy Affiliate is designed specifically for YOU!
Keep up the GREAT WORK Kyle! I ‘ll be a Wealthy Affiliate member for life!
Best Wishes from one of your successful students,
Jack Taylor
A key element of any education and training, is support. That is something that is paramount within Wealthy Affiliate and that you will find at every turn, whether it is through the live chat, through the question & answer platforms, through private messaging/mentoring, or directly through the training comments area.
But, with an online business you are bound to run into technical issues once in awhile with your website as you build it out and having access to the 24/7/365 SiteSupport to help you if you screw up your site by accident (we all do it) or if your website is not running optimally because of plugin, theme or other issues, then the SiteSupport crew will be there to help you. It sounds like you have gotten a really good taste of this.
Wonderful to hear you are enjoying your experience at WA!
I think that your review says it all. If you’re looking to make money online and want to be successful, then Wealthy Affiliate is for you.
It is 4 things you have to do as you described. Picking a niche, building a website, getting traffic, and making money.
This program can be done by anyone and the most important thing you have to is follow the training.
Everything else will fall into place. The biggest online community is there for you if you have questions.
Where else can you go and get so much and join for free?
That is the process of building a business in any niche. Once you get the formula down, you can head in any direction and start scaling out your businesses by being involved in many niches.
One of the exciting parts about an online business is the ability to be involved with whatever passion/interest that you have and build an online business doing so. You can enter any niche with the confidence that there are going to be 10,000’s of affiliate programs/products that you can promote to your audience, and that it will be rife with opportunity as there are 3.7 BILLION people online.
And you are absolutely correct, there isn’t anywhere else online or no other company in the affiliate marketing world where you can try their training, tools, service and support without paying a dime. That should say a lot about Wealthy Affiliate and the fact they have incredible confidence in their platform, so much so they can offer it for free to check out.
What an excellent review. If I hadn’t already joined I would have joined through you. It addresses the meat and bones of WA and this reflects the value that you get within. I couldn’t believe it when I received a private email from the owners Kyle and Carson and I have had quite a few emails now from the owners all privy to myself which I wouldn’t get with other affiliate programs. This is truly a remarkable opportunity and I can say hand on heart that WA is definitely not a scam.
Thanks
I have to agree with you that Wealthy Affiliate is definitely not a scam. All your reasons are 100% correct. I happen to also be a WA member, and have been with them for over a year now. The rewards have been tremendous. The training, the community and all the tools cannot be beat. I don’t think I would be successful today if it weren’t for Wealthy Affiliate.
It’s wonderful to hear about your affiliate marketing success up to this point, and I can only imagine that this is going to continue to grow in skill as you build your business within the Wealthy Affiliate environment.
The fact of the matter is, most people don’t their abilities when it comes to creating a business for themselves. Wealthy affiliate is going to give you the tools and the training that you need, but also the support that you need every step of the way. Support from mentors and experts that have been there and done that. These are definitely one of the huge differentiation factors between Wealthy Affiliate and other copycats.
Wealthy Affiliate is a fantastic way to learn the basics to advanced aspects of affiliate marketing.
There is a stack of support and the training is well set out and easy to understand. The fact you can build a website around a specific targeted niche makes it very appealing to somebody starting out.
Highly recommended, cheers!
That is definitely one of the exciting things about the affiliate marketing space. You can build a website and a business around any passion or interest that you like, and Wealthy Affiliate is going to help you do this (from the ground up).
We are really glad to hear your experience at Wealthy Affiliate has been such a good one!
My biggest problem so far is getting traffic to my affiliate site which is the make-money-online niche. It’s a 3 year old blog, has about 200 posts and more than 2000 comments but I am only getting an average of 50 to 70 clicks per day from organic traffic (only) for the past 2 years. Is that normal?
Needless to say, I am not making as much as I hope either.
What can I do to improve my ranking and traffic? My progress feels very stagnant and without seeing improvement on my side, it’s becoming harder to write convincing articles every week.
Will one thing that we can say is that you’re getting a decent amount of traffic, but probably not as much as you should be getting from the amount of content that you’ve created. When you’re billing out your site, your biggest focus is obviously going to be on the keywords that you were targeting in every pager post. Keywords lead to rankings, rankings lead to traffic, and subsequently the traffic is in the lead to your revenue potential of your website.
Consider this though. 50 to 70 clicks per day of organic traffic, it is around 1500 2000 clicks per month. If you were to pay for this traffic he would be averaging around $.50 per click. That is $750-$1,000 in free traffic per month and if you are not monetizing this properly, this is the first thing that you should be looking into.
Secondly, you are getting some rankings and traffic. This to us indicates that you are getting results from your efforts and search engines have some love for you. Perhaps there are some modifications in the way you will want to build out your new content that will have a positive impact on your rankings.
There should be thousands of things that you could potentially write about on your website, and if you’re stuck for ideas, I would recommend asking the community at Wealthy Affiliate or contacting the owners directly. You will surely get lots of help and quality suggestions!
I have been a member of Wealthy Affiliate for about three weeks now. The training has been amazing, and extremely helpful. Going back over the basics again in this article made me even more excited about what can be accomplished here at Wealthy Affiliate! Thanks for the great read. Hope you have a great weekend!
Kyle McKenney
Hi Kyle
This is awesome. I wish I read this post before I joined Wealthy Affiliate, your explanation sounds so much better… haha than the ones I have read while I was doing research on WA. But they were great as well. But regardless, I know I made the right choice. I joined WA just 2 months ago, and I can not believe what I have learned already, not to mention created my own website that is ranking in Google…. I could of never done this without you 🙂 I had no experience in affiliated marketing before. It’s like a whole new world just opened up for me.
THANK YOU
Agnes
Well Agnes, it is wonderful to hear about your progress thus far in affiliate marketing world. We have no doubt you’re going to be on to some winning campaigns very soon and the fact that you’re seeing great Google rankings and just the first few months, is a very good sign.
The Affiliate marketing world is a very exciting one when your eyes get open up to it and you realize just how VAST it is. It is certainly not going anywhere anytime soon, and every company is going to be adopting affiliate marketing within the next 1-3 years that isn’t already taking full advantage of that. This means as an affiliate you are literally going to be able to promote any company in the world, and any product/service in the world, and earn revenue doing so.
What if you don’t have a computer, can you use a smart phone until you acquire one?
Yes, you can use a smartphone to build your business and work within WA. You won’t be as efficient as you would on a desktop/laptop (or even a tablet), but you will absolutely be able to get rolling on your phone.
Hi Kyle,
Thanks for this post. I joined WA more than 2 years ago. After having a very horrible experience with “the coaching department” I am extremely happy to be at WA. I have learnt a lot, finding a niche, building a website, writing posts and lots more. With Wealthy Affiliate evolving everyday, I am looking forward to learning a lot more.
That is wonderful to hear About your experience at Wealthy Affiliate. There are probably a lot of people that can relate to your negative experience in the life coaching space as there are a lot of programs in a lot of companies taking advantage of people in that space.
WA Is the platform that is consistently evolving almost on a daily basis. We think you can expect some really great things out of Wealthy Affiliate in the future, just based on what has been released so far this year (SiteContent, a ton of new training, keyword & research platform updates, SiteRubix platform updates, over 35 live classes, etc).
I have been a Wealthy Affiliate member for over a year, and I can definitely agree with everything you wrote. I do believe that anyone who signs up will be light years ahead of those who try to go it alone.
I find I still struggle with SEO. I get a little traffic, but still average less than 20 visits a day to my site. If there is one thing that someone can do to improve traffic to his site, what would you recommend?
If you’re taking the SEO approach to your business, the best way to scare traffic is to scale your content. The two go hand-in-hand went going to create a larger base of traffic.
One thing people get too fixated on is the idea of high traffic keywords as well. We recommend that you focus on low low competition keywords first, regardless of the amount of traffic that they’re getting. The law of numbers and with scaling, you can create an incredible amount of traffic from very low traffic keywords.
Think of it this way. If you have rankings under 100 keywords in each of these keywords drives 2 clicks to your website each day, you’re getting over 6000 clicks your website per month. This is a good deal of traffic and this can drive a great deal of revenue.
Even at your 20 clicks per day, you are getting on average of $300 in your website per month. The average cost per click these days is around $0.50. Just to put things into perspective for you. Keep working at it, and keep pushing forward and there are no doubts that you will be sitting on 200-500 unique visitors per day by this time next year.
I joined Wealthy Affiliate program 10 months ago. I can confirm WA is not a scam but very useful learning platform for beginners in affiliate marketing and any online business as well.
I have a question regarding SEO. On-site SEO is very clearly explained in WA courses. I am afraid on-site SEO is not enough for good ranking in Google, especially for very competitive keywords. Other sources stress the importance of building backlinks. Within WA courses there is nothing about backlinking.
Is backlinking as part of off-site SEO still important for ranking or not anymore?
Thanks for the help.
Igor
That is the main misconception that many marketers are trying to muddy up within the SEO world. A few years back, Google basically delisted any website that pays their entire rankings on backlinks. Google indicated that back links will easily cheated and anything that can be cheated should not be part of their core ranking points in terms of SEO.
Now you have an entire called of people that are fixated and focus on back links once again. They believe they have found a long-term hole within PBN’s, But the reality is that Google is going to be shutting the door on these very soon as well. You can rank without a single backlink. You can rank very well without a single backlink.
Google and other search engines are after the best quality content and the indicators of that are becoming less and less about incoming links and more about the actual content itself. Our suggestion Is to be careful if you get advice from an who you listen to (there is a lot of poor advice out there).
Wealthy Affiliate is going to teach you the actual process you need to know to get rank in Google and other search engines and to get ranked very high in these search engines.
Hey Kyle,
Nice article. This seems a great platform for starting an online business and affiliate marketing. As an affiliate marketer myself, I would like to ask you what are the best platforms for Affiliate Marketing – besides Amazon. Would you suggest promoting physical or electronic products?
Also, is it possible for someone to transfer an existing website to this platform?
Thanks!
Thanks for your feedback and questions. Wealthy Affiliate is most definitely a great platform for starting an and affiliate marketing business, but not only that it is a great platform to manage and scale your existing business off of.
There is an illusion that it is only geared towards newcomers to the affiliate marketing world when in fact the case is that it is very much set up for very experienced marketers. So any level of marketer is absolutely going to be welcome within the community and benefit from the community.
As per your questions that you have asked, we are happy to help.
Would you suggest promoting physical or electronic products?
There are many affiliate programs outside of Amazon. It shouldn’t be the only focus of your business and in fact there are many many very successful affiliate marketers out there that don’t use Amazon at all nor do they ever want to use Amazon. So there should be some sort of internal fixation on Amazon as part of your business as it is not a requirement.
In saying this though Amazon does allow you to promote over 500 million products from one interface.
We would recommend you promote products that are relevant to your audience. Whether this is digital products or whether this is actual physical products that will be dependent on your content itself. In some cases of this maybe digital product. In some cases and maybe physical products. I website can promote them both and a website over time as it is built out will likely promote many different things. That is the beauty of affiliate marketing!
Also, is it possible for someone to transfer an existing website to this platform?
Yes you can transfer your websites to Wealthy Affiliate quite easily. This SiteSupport will also help you if you have any issues with the website transfer. They can actually get your website up and running on a test domain before the transfer takes place so you can see and make sure your website operating correctly.
The website and hosting platform at Wealthy Affiliate is excellent. It is fast, it is secure, and it is leading the industry with many elements such as SiteSpeed, SiteProtect, and SiteHealth, WA only features.
We really hope this helps you out here Marios.
What kind of websites will I be dealing with Wealthy Affiliate? Are the website building tools included in my membership and what sort of quality is the hosting. Sorry if these newbie questions are annoying.
The website that you build can be on any topic/niche that you like. You can literally enter into any niche you want and create a successful business doing so. You are going to be able to utilize Wealthy Affiliates state of the art website/hosting platform, SiteRubix. This is the most advanced website platform in the space and you are going to be able to build a website (up and running and live online) within 30 seconds.
The hosting, which is included, is Managed WordPress Hosting and is comparable to $250 per month hosting packages. This is included in both your Starter and Premium memberships. You are definitely in good hands on the website side of things, as well as the training/support/community side of things as well within Wealthy Affiliate Doug.
How do I try this for free?
You can try Wealthy Affiliate for free simply by registering on the Wealthy Affiliate homepage. No credit card required, literally will take you less than 30 seconds to get rolling and into the members only platform area.
I joined Wealthy Affiliate as per your recommendation yesterday. In a word, awesome! I’ve been involved in a few other programs that we’re recommended to me on Facebook. Nothing comes close in comparison to the experiences that I’ve already had within one day. I’m sure you hear hear this all the time though. Thanks again I can now see the light!
Glad to hear you are seeing the light Sylvia and Wealthy Affiliate is living up to your expectations.
Can you answer me this please, if someone does a search for a product (and Amazon is usually the top ranked) how as an affiliate, would a customer doing a search be directed to my website and not Amazons direct as surely their keywords and SEO would outstrip mine.
There will be some cases where Amazon will outrank you. Believe it or not you can outrank Amazon, And a lot of the other big players in the industry if your content is superior to others. You need to remember Google is a content-based search engine. If you deliver content that is more relevant more engaging and more useful, then you are going to get rankings and outrank top sites like Amazon. Any given niche that you enter into will have an endless amount of keywords that you can take full advantage of, so that shouldn’t be a concern either.
This won’t happen overnight but it will happen. These are the very principles that Wealthy Affiliate focuses on in the early stages of your training. This is going to lead to a sound foundation and one in which you’re going to be able to build a long-term business from.
Thank you for your informative article. I have been going back and forth with SBI and WA, trying to decide if either of them is the right format for me. Perhaps you can help. I am a recently licensed travel agent and I’m not so much looking for an affiliate marketing site as I am a standard website with home page, about page, services, contact, etc. Would either SBI or WA be the right choice for me or would I be better off with a service like Squarespace, Weebly, or Wix? Thank you!
Wealthy Affiliate is going to be your best option. Hands down. It sounds like you have a Fairly straightforward sites, But wealthy affiliate will position you in such a way that you’re going to be able to scale your business alongside Wealthy Affiliate.
The SiteRubix Suite (where you will be building your website), includes 7 different platforms to facilitate website creation, management, optimization and efficiency. Not to mention you’re going to have access to all the education, tools, live classes, and mentoring/network you need within one environment.
We would rather you check it out for yourself though. That is the beauty of the free starter membership, there ss no obligation at all.
I have been a wealthy affiliate member for three years now.
Wealthy affiliate has changed my direction in life and has truly open my eyes to what grass roots affiliate marketing looks like. I never realized the opportunity and I thought that everyone made money online by selling other people on the idea of making money online.
I’m a huge fan of parrots and if you told me three years ago that I could build a business working with other people that are interested in parrots I would’ve told you you’re nuts! I’ve carved out myself as an authority and I’m generating a full-time income within the parrot world as a result of what what I was taught at WA. I don’t even own products. I sell other peoples. I am just considering my first parrot patent that I am hoping to be submitting this fall!
Although I’m usually working on projects behind the scenes, I do still frequent within the wealthy affiliate member area and network with others. So you may even see me in there if you are a member. If you’re not a member what the heck are you waiting for? lol
We really appreciate the feedback Fresno. It sounds like you’ve made a real good run inside the parrot niche. One thing that has always been the case is that no matter how small a niche seems, there is almost certainly endless opportunity within it within the online world.
We wish you all the best with your patent as well. Sounds like you are on to some really exciting things with your business.
I have read wealthy affiliate program and it sounds interesting.
Question, After 7 days i decide not to go any further, there is no charge i believe.
If after 7 days i decide to continue at say $49 per month, can i break the contract at anytime.
It actually isn’t a seven day trial. You can remain a starter member for as long as you want. There is a discount if you joined within the first seven days, but by no means is there any obligation to do so.
There’re also no contracts whatsoever at Wealthy Affiliate. You can come and go as you please and you can resubscribe if you want to ever reconnect your membership after quitting. It is very flexible in that respect, in particular when most companies try to lock you in the contracts these days.
Hope we have answer your questions here Leonard, but if you have any more let us know.
First off, great reviews for WA. I am interested in healthy living, supplements, oils, skin care, dieting, exercising. But I do not have anything to sell. ?? How can a make a website with nothing to sell? Are gaining access to affiliate websites in this niche a possibility and how? Your time appreciated. Thank you.
Very good question. You actually do not need any product to sell. That is the beautiful part about affiliate marketing. As an affiliate marketer you can choose from over 500 million products and services online and promote them without actually caring any inventory at all. You are simply driving traffic to these particular merchants websites in exchange for a percentage of the sale.
In your case if you’re interested in promoting things related to healthy living or supplements or skincare or dieting, there are literally going to be millions of products with in these categories that you can promote. Just one example affiliate program is Amazon.com, You can promote any product on their entire networkWithout having any inventory. You don’t have to deal with any of the support, any of the payment, etc. You will simply be driving traffic from your website to the Amazon site and if someone purchases something You will get a percentage of the sale. For Amazon, This typically ranges from 6 to 10%.
So you were going to be golden. We recommend that you get your free starter membership at wealthy affiliate and by lessons 4 you’re going to have a very good grasp of how this all works and you’re going to have your very own niche website up and running.
So you make money in WA by selling a product or just by enrolling people.
There are many ways in which you can make money online, but one of the most viable and sustainable methods of doing so is through affiliate marketing.
You make money by promoting products and services that are relevant to your niche choice and you can choose ANY niche (something that you are passionate or interested in) to build your business around. Wealthy Affiliate will help you not only refine your niche, but find products and services to promote within that niche.
There are over 500 (and change) million products you can promote as an affiliate so the opportunity is vast and it only continues to grow as the popularity of buying stuff online does and the number of people that are actively using the internet to research and buy stuff continues to grow.
Wealthy Affiliate can help you with every aspect of your business, from the fundamental understanding of the process, to choosing the niche, to building out a website in that niche, and then of course turning your efforts into revenue.
Joined Wealthy affiliate 2 days ago and I am up to lesson 5 already within the training, have a website setup in a niche I have been in love with for some time and have probably learned more in 2 days at WA than I have in over a year fiddling around with other programs online. I plan on going Premium this weekend when I get paid so excited about what the future has in store for me now.
Amazing, great to hear you are making such good progress through the training already. To be completely honest, everyone is warmly surprised when they enter into the community and finally realize what they can accomplish and what a real affiliate marketing platform and community should look like. Premium is going to look good on you!
What is the best part of Wealthy Affiliate over other affiliate programs online. Do they really work?
Wealthy Affiliate is not an affiliate program, rather a platform that you can leverage to learn affiliate marketing and run an affiliate marketing business. No experience required.
In respect to other companies and services in the industry, none of the all encompassing platform that Wealthy Affiliate offers. Not only are you getting the education you need to go from complete newbie to expert within the affiliate marketing space, you have access to mentors and experts within Wealthy Affiliate 24/7 to help you build your business online.
Outside of this, you get access to top tier services and platforms that you need to operate your business. At Wealthy Affiliate you have access to the SiteRubix Website Suite that includes 8 different platforms that are critical to running an efficient business online. This ranges from a website builder, website manager, website content management, site engagement/feedback, and direct website/hosting support.
If you are looking to build a business online, there is no other program or expenditures that you should need outside of WA. Everything all in one place and yes, online business “works” if you work at it.
You mention “If you are looking to build a business online, there is no other program or expenditures that you should need outside of WA. Everything all in one place and yes, online business “works” if you work at it.” What other outside costs do I need to be aware of? Don’t you have to pay for advertising your webpage?
If you came through as paid Google ad, then yes there are fees associated with that. That is not what is taught in the early stages though and that will come later as you have a budget from the income that your website already generating.
Traffic should not cost money when starting out though. You can build a significant amount of traffic for free using proper search engine optimization techniques. This is taught in the early stages of Wealthy Affiliate training. Their are no upsells within wealthy affiliate, But at some point you may want to register your own domain name. These are usually under $15 per year for your own.com and can be purchased through any domain registrar, including not offered by WA.
So there are no surprises. Our recommendation to you is creating a free starter account and that will give you pretty pretty good handle on how things operate and how ethical Wealthy Affiliate is as a company.
I am going through the training at Wealthy Affiliate and since I joined because of your recommendations here I thought I would jump back in here and give you some feedback based on my experiences thus far.
First, the community is refreshing. I spend lots of my hours, more than I would like to admit on social media and the endless scrolling of ads and political posts. I am getting sick of it. What I found at Wealthy Affiliate is that the community is very supportive and the conversations there are mostly on topic and related to my business and many answer questions about stuff before I even have them. I have also spoken directly to one of the owners and he seemed very willing to help me.
I am at lesson 5 of the training so I have my website live online and I chose my niche. I am not going to let out the secret on my niche, so don’t ask! LOL
Training has been easy to follow, I found a few of the videos length being close to 30 minutes but they probably need to be that way for all the material being covered. A bit smaller would fit my small brain and my life of constant distractions.
Overall, I am extremely impressed by my experience thus far and I am just getting going. Can’t wait to see what is in store when I go Premium but i can safely say the starter program which is free is by far the best I have seen yet.
If you like the Starter membership, you are definitely going to love the Premium membership. The community is definitely there for you when you need it including even the most senior members and the founders.
Totally agree on the social feeds these days. They are nothing more than ads and senseless rants. As you hang out within Wealthy Affiliate and interact with others, you are going to continue to naturally acquire a great deal of affiliate marketing knowledge and it is not going to be long before you are able to pay it forward yourself.
Here’s to a bright future ahead in the affiliate marketing world. Remember, every successful business (online or offline) starts with a seed. Nurture and incredible things will happen.
I have been trying to make money online for about 10 years,and spent about eight thousand dollars and have not made any money, I have just come across Wealthy Affiliate and i love what i see.Would you suggest that i start with the STARTER then move on to the Premium.After setting up the STARTER program will i be able to see some kind of revenue coming in?moving on to the PREMIUM program,having set the program up ,what time factor could i see myself making money.
thanking you Ken
10 years is a lot of time to be spinning your wheels, but with so much information out there we can definitely appreciate how this can happen. Let’s change things for the better moving forward though Ken, you are more than capable of achieving success when you have the proper process and a proper plan to focus on. That is what Wealthy Affiliate is going to offer you.
There are 4 CORE steps in the process that you will be following within the training at WA.
(1) Choosing your direction (that is, your niche)
(2) Building your website (the foundation of your business)
(3) Building your content (which leads to rankings and traffic)
(4) Make boat loads of money (well, not at first)
The #4 point is the one that you are after here. That is far from the starting point when you create an online business though, first you just have traffic and people to promote to. So steps 1-3 are the immediate focus, and then when you start generating traffic (which isn’t all that difficult), you are going to have a great deal of revenue opportunity.
Starter membership will allow you to get your hands dirty and see if the platform is for you. It offers a heck of a lot, but of course the Premium option offers quite a bit more…but it offers much more than any other program in the industry and it is just over $1 per day to take part in. There has never been a time and a place to start a business online with such cost efficiency.
As for time to reach the MONEY, usually this happens with months 2-6. If you put forth the effort, your business can be in a growth position by the year mark and many people tend to go “full time” within years 1-3 being online. We really hope this has given you some perspective here.
It is hard for me to tell what is truthful and what isn’t these days. I have been burned badly by a network marketing company where I had to pay over $46,000 for basically the opportunity to sell this same program to others I would prefer not to mention any names though.
How can you assure me that Wealthy Affiliate is not a scam and what sort of experience can I expect if I join for free. Nothing is for free.
Wow. We can appreciate any apprehension to join anything again and hope for your sake that you will be able to recoup some of the money that you lost to that program. Perhaps you should consider contacting your credit card company or bank if you feel this was unfairly taken or the company misrepresented their services.
In respect to Wealthy Affiliate we don’t want to spend a bunch of time trying to convince you that it is the best. Instead, you should try it for yourself and get the true experience by using the service and communicating within the community. It is truly free, of course as mentioned though there is a Premium membership, but that is not something that is required and there definitely is not a credit card require for your free account.
As a quick overview, here are some things that you can expect within the Wealthy Affiliate Starter membership:
-2 free websites w/ state of the art hosting
-access to 10,000’s of experts within the community
-help directly from the founders
-the first level of the certification course (10 lessons w/ videos)
-the first level of bootcamp (10 lessons w/ videos)
-100’s of other training modules
-website builder tools
-4 additional website products within the SiteRubix Suite
-and much more
That should give you an idea of what you can expect in advanced, but as mentioned you should try it out for yourself and this will give you a much better idea. It will be a breath of fresh air.
I joined Wealthy Affiliate 2 days ago. Blown away! Still a Starter member but this site is the real deal and you surely can bet that I will be going Premium before the week is out there. Top notch training, I already have my website up and running and I have interacted with what seem like some of the biggest players in the affiliate space!
So glad to hear you are enjoying your experience and nice work getting your website live within the first few days. Expect more of the same treatment as you move forward and as the Premium red carpet gets rolled out for you.
Give me three ideas of what I can use as a niche.
There are millions of niches out there, so giving three will really undermine the actual opportunity online. Three such examples could be:
-anxiety relief
-soccer exercises
-photography with drones
If you head over to Amazon.com and look through the categories and products alone, you will see 100,000+ different niches. If you ever want to run any niche ideas by us, we can help you narrow them down. Also, with Wealthy Affiliate there is a great deal of training on now to come up with a niche and by lesson 3 alone (which is included in the Starter membership) you are going to be very well versed in niches.
Right from start, I agree with you that affiliate marketing rocks. It’s online marketing simplified, especially where one enrolls with WA as a premium member. It’s normal for some people to claim that any platform that charges for service delivery especially online is a scam. However, this changes with the first phase i.e course 1 where anybody with a positive mind will have gained the concept and decided to give course 2 a trial. kudos for your well put posts on whether the wealthy affiliate is a scam
A service is a scam if it takes advantage of people, fools people, or schemes people into buying something that they probably shouldn’t. Wealthy Affiliate is subjectively, the furtherest thing from this. It is a service that offers someone everything they need to operate and manage their online business.
They also have very clear breakdowns of what their service offers on their website and how you will be building a business online. I would suggest anyone visits this page that wants more clarity and a complete breakdown of the difference between the Starter and Premium memberships.
==> Wealthy Affiliate Website
The thing that is unique about Wealthy Affiliate is the free membership. This is the best foot forward approach and something that legitimate companies do. They let you try before you buy, they don’t hide everything behind masked doors using that as bait to get you to pay your money. If you like the service and the first course as you mentioned, then you can consider going Premium. If you hate it, then move in. That’s the beauty of anything that lets you have a true test drive before you buy.
Awesome Article…
In my opinion, Access to Wealthy Affiliates SiteRubix platform and website creator using Worpress is reason enough to start a FREE membership. Personally, I have been using WA for just a month now and have been involved in affiliate marketing for a few years. I can honestly say in this past month, I have learned more about affiliate marketing then I in the cumulative two years combined. Again, excellent article!
Joseph Barrera
That is wonderful to hear. The thing about Wealthy Affiliate that differentiates it from the entire industry is that you can truly try before you buy and within the Starter membership alone you are going to have your very own niche website up and running within just the 4 lessons of the certification training. All included, for free.
Our recommendation to anyone that is “questioning” it, they create a free Starter membership and let the service and the support of the community do the talking. If you feel it is not for you, nothing has been lost. If you find the platform that you have been looking for to run your business, there is a lot to be gained.
It is great to know there is a site where you can actually have trust.
So many places these days are such scams or even if they aren’t scams they just don’t compare to what you are telling us in this review.
I know people are still weary but I also know Wealthy Affiliate is the last thing a person will ever need to succeed on line. This is a great review. I hope you all the best.
We think it is healthy to have a certain level of skepticism before you try anything online. If you aren’t, then there is a good chance you are going to get scammed. Lots of scams running around on the Internet taking full advantage of the naive and those that are not doing research before they buy online.
It is also important that you are able see the wheat from the chaff. Any program that leaves you in mystery after you visit their website as to what they are probably should be left a mystery lol.
Thanks for your feedback here.
It’s definitely not a scam. But here’s where I’m struggling and maybe you can help me out.
I started with Wealthy Affiliate a couple months ago. Myniche deals with utilizing credit card point to travel for free.
Credit cards pay their affiliates pretty well. The problem is it’s really hard to get approved for them. You have to have a decent amount of traffic in place already.
So now I’ve got a bunch of content about traveling for free and all I have available to me are links that charge people for travel. So I don’t think things will convert well with that mismatch. Do you have any advice?
What I would do in your scenario is focus on the rankings and traffic before the affiliate programs. If you don’t have a presence online just yet and you are not getting people to your site, having affiliate programs on your website really won’t be of benefit anyways.
Then, when you start to gain clout and at that point you will be getting traffic, your website is going to be one that companies would like to get exposure with. This is a case of promoting before you have people to promote to and because of that, I recommend that you aim to build out your website, build out your content, get some rankings and traffic and at that point you can start applying for affiliate programs.
So, I try to set up an account and ….
1) I create a new email account on hotmail to separate this from my personal stuff,
2) Load in the information on the sign-up page,
3) Am told that I am apparently already on the system … with the email address I created 30 seconds ago.
4) Go to the Login page
5) Get told that my login credentials do not work ….
I guess you just don’t want me to be a part of the group …
Are you signing up from a computer where someone else is already a member. If so, that might the situation here as you cannot have multiple accounts created from the same location (IP address).
If you send Kyle an email, he should be able to get you sorted here and set you up an account.
kyle@wealthyaffiliate.com
I hope this helps you out here Stephan.
Been online for 6 years now without an inch of success yet have spent a lot of $$$ trying to make it. Something just isn’t clicking for me. I am frustrated to the point of giving up here guys can you help and do you think that Wealthy Affiliates can help my fortunes shift in my direction. Awaiting your response.
Wealthy Affiliate will most certainly help you out here Ryan. There is a proven process to building a business online and one that will lead to long term success within this business. That is something that Wealthy Affiliate teaches right from the start.
Step 1: Choose a direction for your business (the niche)
Step 2: Build a website
Step 3: Create content and get rankings (and subsequently traffic)
Step 4: Make recommendations of products/services (the money)
You are going to get detailed training that will walk you through this process and get you taking action. You will be learning, but while you learn, you will also be building your business.
I highly recommend if you haven’t done so already you get your FREE Starter Account set-up. You will be off and running within the first few hours inside of Wealthy Affiliate.
I agree, Wealthy Affiliate is definitely not a scam. Not only is it not a scam but it is the best affiliate program online. Before I found Wealthy Affiliate I nearly signed up to some scam affiliate program. Luckily I found a review online that showed me the truth. I am so happy and lucky to be part of such a supportive community!
Awesome post! I’ve been a member of Wealthy Affiliate for just over a year & a half and never cease to be amazed. The integrity of the owners, Kyle & Carson is impeccable. They are always coming up with new innovations to make their offering and their system better than ever and all enhancements are included in the cost. How they do all this with no upsells is a mystery. I can only imagine its because they put the community first, before their own profits. It’s not often you find this in business and its definitely one of the many reasons I stay.
Other reasons: wonderfully supportive community, brilliant step-by-step training, superb keyword tool (I never write a post without it), site comments and site feedback tools, secure hosting, 24-7 technical support. Plus they’ve also just introduced a site content tool which I now use to write all my posts and its fab. Oh and another great thing, as member of the community you can post your own training and earn bucks for it if it’s popular.
There are two memberships. Starter, which is completely free. Premium, which is $19 first month then $49 per month (or $359 per year if you want to pay yearly and get a discount).
Starter includes a lot, two free websites that you can use to build your niche websites, lots of training (100’s of resources), live help and support and access to 10,000’s of industry experts.
Premium takes things up a notch, a serious notch for those looking to have everything they need to operate everything in relation to their online business under one roof.
Community and customer before profits as you say. Something that you just don’t see that often these days in the business world, in particular the Internet Marketing industry.
If I join as a Starter member, is there a time limit to my free membership. I don’t think I want to pay for anything this week because I am about to leave for a good 7 day vacation with my family and I don’t want to be cut out of access while I am away.
There is no time limit to the Starter membership. You can keep it as long as you like and when you get back from your vacation, your account will still be open and your websites/training progress will still be maintained just as it was when you left. Have a wonderful vacation!
Congratulations, I believe your post about Wealthy Affiliate is one of the most complete, comprehensive, factual, and easy to grasp, post that I have seen
Does Wealthy Affiliate really have one million members? Are they all active and can a new member actually chat with them?
I am impressed with you laid back no pressure content and it will lead to success for you. Your attention to details about the Wealthy Affiliate program and not having any thing to lose was very strong and appealing to me.
If someone joins through your link, will you be there to help them get started?
Thanks and I will talk you soon,
Jim Sullivan
Thanks for your questions here Jim and your positive feedback. I am happy to help with your questions here.
Does Wealthy Affiliate really have one million members? Are they all active and can a new member actually chat with them?
Wealthy Affiliate has over 1 million members all time, with over 862,000 members since last 2013 when they started offering the “free” starter membership. Of course not all of those folks are active every day, but they all have the capabilities to be active within their membership as they are active members.
If someone joins through your link, will you be there to help them get started?
If someone joins Wealthy Affiliate, regardless of whether or not through this site or another site online, or directly through WealthyAffiliate.com, they will have access to us and to the community to get help.
One thing that you will find about Wealthy Affiliate is that although there are 100,000’s of members co-existing within a single platform, there isn’t presence of flamewars and belittling. There is enough room for all of us to be successful affiliate marketers online and that idea is definitely embraced within the helpful, forward thinking and very knowledgeable community at WA.
So yes, you get access to us and EVERYONE else. Hope this answers your questions here!
How many websites do I get with this site and is the hosting going to be included? I currently have a website over at Godaddy that I have been managing for some time but I haven’t had any success. It is time for a change I think and I really need help from a website side of things as well as I need marketing help.
Is this something that Wealthy Affiliate can help me with?
A quick breakdown here.
Wealthy Affiliate offers a completely free Starter membership, no cost and no obligation. Within that membership you will have access to TWO free websites with hosting included. These website are on the .siterubix.com domain and you are in full control of the content, what you promote on these, and the theme designs.
As a Premium member, you have the ability to create 25 free websites on the .siterubix.com domain, and you can host up to 25 websites on your own domain for a total of 50. This is on the state of the art “managed” hosting platform offered to you within Wealthy Affiliate and you also have access to the SiteRubix suite which has 8 different products/feature extensions that will help you with your website efficiency (SiteManger, SiteBuilder, SiteContent, SiteDomains, SiteFeedback, SiteComments, SiteSupport).
You can learn more about the hosting offered within Wealthy Affiliate here.
If you want websites, hosting, marketing/website training, tools and support all under one roof, Wealthy Affiliate is where you need to be. We do recommend that you get rolling on a free Starter membership first though and this way you can acquaint yourself with the community and the platform before you spend a dime and you can see whether or not it is a right fit for you.
Yesterday I took the leap and joined Wealthy Affiliate after reading your article here and many others online. Most were very positive, with the exception of one or two negative ones.
Anywhoo, I am BLOWN AWAY BY WA. Within the first afternoon I was able to get through the first 4 lessons of the training and I have my own websites up and running. I just my website link it to my friend today to check out and they were also blown away (and I think will be joining me soon).
You were the final review I looked at before joining and I wanted to come back and thank you for your realness here. I am thinking this decision of joining Wealthy Affiliate is going to do big things for me and my life. Did I mention that I am still on the free starter thing? Anyways, thanks.
The free starter thing (the Starter membership at Wealthy Affiliate) is more than other companies in the industry offered within their paid platform. A lot more. We are so glad you are blown away by the experience you have had thus far at Wealthy Affiliate and you can expect more of the same as you move forward within the training and continue to immerse yourself within WA.
There is lots of help, support, and amazingly kind experts at every turn. Our suggestion to you is that if you ever need a hand with anything at all as you move through the training, even on the free Starter membership, just ask.
I have read through your well explained review. And I like it so far.
But one of my questions is: How can I just join for free, and be allowed to build Website and add niche to it? After all the tricks that invade the Internet, you really think I should believe this?
How will I make money that make sense from becoming a premium member, paying only $1.00 per day?
Are you saying that for me to become a successful entrepreneur I will has to join in the classroom at Wealthy Affiliates?
This one hit me hard. But because of all that you have explained about this platform. I think I will give it a try.
That is the reality of Wealthy Affiliate. You can join for a free Starter account with NO obligation whatsoever. It is truly free, you get two free websites, you get training and access to support. There is also a good chance that you will be able to run into one of the owners and surely you will be able to connect with many experts within the community. And that is included within your free membership.
As for the niche, that will be covered early on in the training. Typically you want to head in a direction that you will be passionate about. There are millions of directions that you can head online and Wealthy Affiliate helps you harness your passion and recommends that you build a business doing something that you enjoy. That tends to lead to much greater success and naturally will lead to you enjoying what you do (which is important).
The money part is going to be as a result of your efforts. One thing that is not guaranteed in life is “success”, although you have everything in between provided for you within WA including the websites, hosting, tools, support, mentoring, and live classes, you still need to put forth the effort. You do you.
Finally, if you are a member of Wealthy Affiliate your chances or building something of substance online and building a long term business are drastically going to go up. But by all means get rolling on the FREE starter membership, that is what I recommend when starting out. Never give money to ANY company online until you are comfortable doing so and they can show you what they offer.
Wealthy Affiliate is one legit training platform that anyone who wanted to venture into internet marketing should enroll in. I’ve been with Wealthy Affiliate for more than 1 year and all I’ve got are good quality training. I like the fact that it’s being realistic in achieving success and doesn’t give any empty promises of get rich quick overnight.
Getting rich quick isn’t a thing. Well, the only way to accomplish this is if you are robbing from the blind or taking advantage of folks.
Often times in the “opportunity” industry you will see quick success pushed, but the people that are making money as a results of this are those selling this products. Not the actual people using it.
There are live classes on a weekly basis? Darn! I need this program.
I have really been misled by other marketers from other systems who are good friends of mine. They told me the program is no better and you pay about $600 per year and the rate of success is low.
But with such good stuff going on in there, it is all a lie. I’m definitely joining you soon after this comment.
Thanks a lot man!
There are at minimum 52 live classes per year, sometimes there are “special” guest live classes as well on top of this. That is over 52 hours of promotion free live training that you get as a Premium member of Wealthy Affiliate. This is 100% included in the membership costs.
I have been a member of the WA community and it is really easy to understand how affiliate marketing works. The only place where I usually get stuck is finding the right niche.
I think choosing a niche specific topic for your site is very important and then comes creating the right content.DO you think it is possible to make money in any niche?
Niches are something that people have the tendency to overthink when starting out. What we usually find is that folks are hoping to find the perfect niche in that it is more lucrative than another. The reality is that every single niche or direction you could head online is one that is full of millions of customers and a great deal of potential.
Once you understand that and appreciate that, you realize that you could head in 1,000’s of different directions online and come out with a long term business. Wealthy Affiliate helps with this and has a lot of support and training on how to refine your first niche.
I am a WA member and one of my favorite things about it is the community. I’ve met some great people who are always willing to help and even share their secrets.
My other favorite thing is the training. It’s training on how to build, own, and control an online asset. It isn’t just about setting up a site and writing content.
I was very overwhelmed at first, but I have a long term approach to this business.I know that over time, my sites will rock just like the great ones I’ve seen thanks to the community and the training.
Blessings.
Mike Jay
When learning anything new, it can leave you with a sensation of being overwhelmed. Whether this is learning how to ride a bike, learning how to multiple numbers for the first time, or creating an online business.
The training within Wealthy Affiliate does break things down into bite sized pieces so you can follow along the process with efficiency without the sensation of being too overwhelmed, but there is also a great deal of training offered within the community.
My suggestion to a newcomer is to follow the Get Started Training and to not worry about any of the other training outside of that. You can advance your skills in many areas of affiliate and internet marketing down the road, but initially you should focus on getting the fundamental process down and getting your hands dirty by taking ACTION on the training.
Hey there! I’m a college student and I’m looking for a way to earn extra money online. I heard positive things about wealthy affiliate and I’m interested on trying it. My problem is that I don’t have enough knowledge to it and also I don’t have a lot of money to invest. But I have plenty of spare time to spend. Do you think this is worth the time and money?
John, great questions here.
First, in respect to the knowledge aspect. Nobody starts of with any knowledge with anything, it isn’t born into our brains and affiliate marketing surely isn’t. We all had to learn it at one point in our journeys to become successful and of course you can learn it too. Wealthy Affiliate is a brilliant platform for learning the ropes and and the exact process to building a long term biz. Once you have that knowledge you can go in any direction you like and build a business to any level you like.
Next, the money. The start up costs are very low for an online business. Especially these days. Whereas a website and hosting used to be a technical and expensive process to set-up 5-10 years ago, now it is very seamless and you can actually have a website set-up within just the first 4 lessons at Wealthy Affiliate (without spending a dime). I would suggest if you have a budget of $400 or so for the year, you will be able to operate your entire online business within Wealthy Affiliate and that includes all costs (websites, domains, classes, training, support/mentoring, keyword tools, etc). Compare that to start up costs of another type of business and it is fractional. Compare that to university and that won’t even get you into your first term.
And if you have time, then that is great. You don’t need to do this full time when starting out, but gradually as you start to see results with your affiliate marketing business there is the tendency to dedication more and more time to your business.
We really hope this helps you out here.
Great review. I joined Wealthy Affiliate 2 weeks ago after trying a bunch of other programs online and spending more money than I would like to say here. I am still on the Starter membership but when I get back from my vacation to Denver with my family I will be going Premium.
The welcoming atmosphere at WA is second to none, I have gotten direct help from Kyle the owner. which is pretty cool and I my first actual website moving along just dandy! I was ready to give up online and this was my last hope and I am hoping I can make something out of this. Wish me luck.
The great part is that you can stay for as long as you like on the Starter membership. So enjoy your vacation to Denver and when you come back and you will be able to take off from where you left off within Wealthy Affiliate.
It really sounds like you are getting a good handle on things Helena and nice work on getting your first affiliate marketing website up and running!
I have been working on a Shopify business with no luck. I am getting very frustrated trying to sell products through drop shipping because of the advertising money that I have to outlay. The guy that sold me on this idea made it sound easy little did I know that i need $1,000+ to spend on Facebook ads just to see if my store will sell. Not a test I can afford.
Can Wealthy Affiliate help me? If so, how can it help please explain.
A lot (and I mean A LOT) are falling into this Shopify => DropShipping craze. Not so say there isn’t money to be made with this strategy, but the margins are usually very thin and the only way to get exposure to your Shopify store is through paid ads like Facebook ads which are getting incredibly expensive.
Like you said Bill, there is nothing all that exciting about buying into such a program only to realize that in order to monetize your store you need to spend $1,000’s on advertising to “test” your market.
The other thing that is working against Shopify Dropshipping businesses is the time it takes to ship. With most companies these days offering free next day shipping in the US, it is hurting the entire industry as a whole when people have to wait 4-6 weeks often times for their stuff coming through these Shopify stores which primarily lean on Chinese drop shippers.
Affiliate marketing is much more sustainable and it allows for you to promote over 550,000,000 products/services as an affiliate. This way you can focus on truly helping people, informing them, and then making recommendations based on their needs and wants versus trying to operate your business within a short lived scheme like what you have been doing.
Wealthy Affiliate gives you the tools, the training, support and the resources to build out your business within any niche online. No experience at all necessary and whether you are interested in building a business helping folks build “tiny homes” or you are a “car enthusiast”, there is an incredible opportunity online. WA helps you find that.
I have been a member of Wealthy Affiliate for 4 years now. I am not only a proud to be part of such a community they have helped me change my life in ways I couldn’t have imagined when I was working construction. I get to stay at home with my 5 year old and 9 year old which is more of a blessing than I could have ever imagined.
I am up to my 4th active niche site that is generating me consistent revenue online perhaps more than I can handle with my busy schedule but it is fun being able to be involved in many different business. I am hoping to hit some huge numbers of over six figures this year with a few of my sites.
Affiliate marketing is not all that confusing unless you are taught in a way that is confusing. In my 4 years I have seen Kyle & Carson and the whole team from WA continue to simplify the process. So easy that Grams could build a site now and build a business online haha.
Thanks for sharing your review/feedback Jamie. Great to hear you are enjoying Wealthy Affiliate and it sounds like you are truly living the @ home lifestyle.
I would agree with you that affiliate marketing doesn’t need to be all the confusing, but sometimes as a layperson or a newcomer to this business there can be information overload. On top of that you have many different people affiliated with many different companies, telling you different things…not to mention lots of outdated content floating around out there. It can be hard to filter the wheat from the chaff.
Hoping you hit your huge numbers this year and far beyond!
I have been trying to build a business online for close to 5 years now with little to no luck. I have made a few sales but my output of money has been far greater than my incoming revenue by a significant multiple.
What can Wealthy Affiliate do to change that?? I have read nothing but good stuff about it but I am still a little apprehensive.
Looking forward to your response and I hope you can help me make up my mind here.
Quite often when people fail, it is the result of them not having proper direction. They are given pieces or fragments of the greater puzzle and it is tough to see a full picture if you are never given everything you need.
So my thoughts are that you may have had some great training, but it hasn’t been complete enough to help you fulfill the entire process of building an affiliate marketing business. There are key steps that you need to follow, like the 4 steps I have discussed above.
Wealthy Affiliate will teach you these steps in detail and provide you with the support and tools you need during every stage of the process.
From the niche, to the website, to the rankings/traffic, to the monetization methods and understanding affiliate programs, you are covered.
I recommend at the very least you check out the free Starter account. That will get you going and give you a really good idea as to what you can come to expect from Wealthy Affiliate. By lesson 4 alone you will have your niche website up and running, without outlaying a penny of your own money.