DEERFARMER

I was checking out the Wealthy Affiliate university. It looks like a good place for newbies to learn affiliate marketing. I checked to forums but could not find any reviews.. Anyone here a member or know anything about this program?

JessicaL

Hi Deerfarmer,

I'm no longer a WA member so I can't tell you about what Kyle and Carson have added to their site in the last month or so, but personally I left their program after a few weeks because it wasn't doing anything much for me.
Their keyword research software isn't very impressive, and I find that using a WP site is much more powerful than the website builder and template they provide. If you go to a free site like "affiliate-minder" I'm sure you'll get more valuable information (at least I did, and I'm not getting paid or anything to recommend this, it's truly good quality stuff).

If you're looking for a to z guidance there's also Niche Profit Classroom that has a huge section on affiliate marketing, a great new WP template, and a method you can apply to affiliate marketing. It costs about 17$ more than the WA membership though, but I think it's worth it.

Hope this helps.

DEERFARMER

Thanks for the info Jessical.

YaniB

Hey, I was in WA for some months too, but left. They have some good stuff, I won't bash them, but be prepared to stand on your own two feet when you get in there. There isn't alot of hand-holding like I thought there would have been, unless you keep asking and asking and asking on the forum. I suppose if you do, you may get different results from me, but that wasn't my thing. If you don't mind doing your own digging, go ahead. There IS valuable stuff to be learnt. Just don't expect it to be given to you on a silver platter. They may have added stuff to make learning even easier since I left, I can't say. So don't hold me to it. Good luck!

YaniB

vs8598

I am looking for reviews of WA too as I am new to the internet marketing and don't know much about IM and I have ever considered SBI but too expensive to afford it.

vs8598

grdesigner79

no, not even sure what that means

grdesigner79

no, dont even know anyone who is

thomashoi

I have been a wealthy affiliate member since April 2007. When I first joined, i was like you very skeptical and even think that the whole internet marketing stuff is scam.

Also, the monthly subscription was something which hold me back for sometime before joining. But compared to ebooks which costs much higher and without much support, I decided to give it a try.

There's a 8 week course where you are taught from "what is all about internet marketing" to "creating your 1st webpage that sells". You are given all the resources and step by step guidance in doing all this and if you need more help, you can turn to the forum for more tips.

It's here that I realize that internet marketing is all about "internet" + "marketing". Internet as a "media" to send your offer before your customer, and the most important part about marketing: "how to persuade your customer to buy what you have to offer?"

Once you understand what marketing is all about, you then proceed to write articles or use ppc to drive traffic to your websites.

Some of the members even get a full time job because they can help companies to get more sales with less investment, getting a much higher ROI. And they themselves practicing their ppc skills using other's people money!!

So for those who really want to build a solid foundation in internet marketing to make a long term and consistent income, do consider wealthy affiliate.

But for those who just want to make a quick buck by "pushing a button" to automate all your campaigns, then Wealthy affiliate is not suitable for you.

Yes, the quick money may excite you for sometime, but when the money stop coming in, you will have to spend money to look for the next "instant-cash" ebook or software.

blingish

I have been a member of WA for about 6 months and I must say that I am getting ready to cancel my subscription. I learned a lot from WA but I believe that my growth as a marketer was stunted as a result off all of the information within WA. I have learned just as much on this forum (and made more money from it too). I suggest saving the money and joining the war room... everything you'll ever need to know is in there. Most importantly don't look around for the next great thing. find a plan that you can understand and DO IT! big ups to fellow warrior Jay Deiboldt and his Google Slapper system for finally giving me what I needed to actually start some campaigns and work on them until they made me $. (No I am not an affiliate) I hadn't even thought about WA until I saw this post. Hope this helps

trump44

I joined as a newbie and never really got anything out of it

Dave d

I agree, I was a member for about 4 months. Im not gonna bash it as the other poster said. I joined it as a complete IM dummy and it will teach you everything you need to know about IM but not necessarily enough to actually go out and make money, however I got bored with the 8 week course and learned 10 times from more One Week Marketing. The forum is excellent and so this.

So its up to you

Joshua McCoy

Umm...

Wealthy Affiliate doesn't really teach advanced internet marketing strategies, in my opinion.

If you want to make alot of money online, you're going to need to eventually learn some advanced tactics, and put together a gameplan, some sort of blueprint to success, then take action.

I could be more specific, but I don't know what direction you want to go in with affiliate marketing, and even then it would take more than just a post to lay it all out.

I'd say the warrior forum is better.

pilotjoe

I used to be on WA. It was okay. Its a very big community. I personally like Coaching with Josh best.

makezsense

I am Currently a member of WA, about 9 months now. I have actually landed a job with a great company, partly because of what I learned from being a part of that community, granted it is not the only reason. I do use many resources to learn and have a professional background.
I do have to pay my respects and I can give credit to WA for the education.
Overall for a newbie, it is worth the investment to get your feet off the ground. Real world experience has taught me so much, but like people have said, be prepared you are on your own in WA. Its just like anything in life, you only get out what you put into it. If you follow their program, stay focused and also do your outside homework, it will be worth the investment as a newbie.

mywebwork

It's a well put together site, I was a member for a year but left when I found that I was spending more time on other aspects of Internet Marketing (i.e. not selling affiliate products).

Kyle and Carson had put together a very impressive site and a lot of the training material is valuable. The forum is where I usually ended up, it's good but not as useful as this forum.

Bottom line - well done site but like anything you have to put something into it to get the most benefit from it.

Bill

1Probiz

If one has already gone through the AffiliateGod Nuclear Niches training, would you find anything in Wealthy Affiliate that you have not already learned?

Thanks
Yhvonne

amjonzez

I have been in a working from home program for 1 month now and I am earning an honest income. Ripoff.com and Scam.com do not recognize this opportunity as bogus. It is working for me. Maybe it will work for you.

youdiezst

no, not yet

I hope I will be one in the near future though

bwh1

I'm a WA member since 07, and never quit.

I bought many 'get rich' books, where the main secret was to sell the book I just bought.

After landing at WA, I finally understood how the different items in IM are work together, and what you must taking care about in order to make sales online.

I'm not going to give you a review here as warriors could think that I like to promote it. WA has a referral program where you get commissions for a sign up. I see this simply as a logical part of the membership, as it's about affiliate marketing.

So what I will do is telling you what WA is NOT

It's not a "get rich quick" program. As learning resource it focus on teaching you what's Internet marketing.

It's not the main source to make your money. Promoting WA is not the main task after you join. You will learn what's Affiliate marketing, and what it takes to convert a visitor and ultimately, how to get a visitor to your site. Selling ANY product whatsoever.

WA is not the holy grail. Off course there are other places as good as WA, not to forget this Forum. But what's the main point why I recommend it is --- guidance.
If you are new to this you actually have no clue what to do, what will work, and how it works. Without guidance you are like a dead fish in the water.

If you already tryed to get answers over free sources (if you know what to ask) then you know that you will get 10 different directions, and 20 different opinions. So you will end up with a info overload. WA is giving you guidance, a path to walk through from start to the end.

WA is NOT expensive. That's my opinion tough. You get hosting per month, you get a article spinner (one of the best I know), you get per month a full blown niche report with sites and PLR material, you get a website editor (simple, I agree, but for review sites it's OK) and a bunch of other great tools and free reports and books. And a great user forum just like this one.

WA is not for advanced IM's (if not a member yet). As well that's my opinion. You are right if you say that after a certain level, WA isn't that valuable anymore. At that time you know what you need and what works and what not, so picking the raisins is easy and you can win the game over free resources like the WF or similar.

I'm still a member there due to following reasons. First, I simply LOVE it to be in the community there. Second, I have several referrals which I do coach inside WA, so can't just leave. Third, I'm no full time IM (one day maybe?) and need to re-read several stuff as there is a lot to learn. And finally it pays for itself after you have 2 referrals, so why should I quit something which doesn't cost me a thing?

There are several full time IM's around in WA, incl. Travis Sago, Ryan Moran, Justin Brooke, DaveB to mention only a few. To get in as a advanced IM will only make sense if you like to be a coach in there. Provide value and build your group of followers, then you can make money within the community. The basic Forum strategy tough.

So that's it. I think you can join to give it a try, the investment is definitely not a waste. If you like it, stay, if not, take your free bonuses you get access to and quit. That way you will have at least the value of the membership fee in books and PLR material.

I give you a tip. IF you like to join WA, contact the guy at the website you like to sign in
and ask for the special bonuses.
You can get as a free sign up bonus a book which is currently on Clickbank, you can choose between "Who Loves Money", Inside The List", or "Beating Adwords". But you need a special link from someone (perhaps from me?).

Hope that cleared it out.

G.

djleon1

I am not but did a ton of research on it and similar programs and found that places like the warrior forum are great for learning the ropes (and free) and a wordpress based site is much more manageable for developing affiliate sites.

I was tempted to join but it seemed the best thing about it everyone touted was the forums which I did not want to pay for.

Kecia

I was a WA member for 2 months, and I didn't see anything impressive about the forums either. Most of my questions/concerns went unanswered. I searched the forum over for the answer I was looking for, and if I didn't find it, then I would post a thread.There were so many newbies coming in asking the same questions over and over, I guess the experienced got tired of answering anyone's questions.

As for the rest, I don't think it's worth the monthly fee. Sure, you get hosting, but you can only host 3 sites on it at a time. For a smaller fee, you could get set up with HostGator or somewhere similar and host unlimited domains. Site Rubix (their website builder) is pretty awesome, but I wouldn't pay $39/month for it.

The 8 week program, which is the main course, contains info that can be found for free elsewhere, or at least purchased in IM ebooks for a one time fee.

lienadla

I've been a member for 2 months last year. I was a complete IM newbie and I've learned a lot of things from them. However, after the 8 week course, I felt that I haven't learned anything to forward my growth so I decided to cancel.

jsb1022

I been a WA member for 3 months now and even I can tell that their content is old and out dated - pretty bad when a newbie can spot that. I dont want to bash but I am disappointed. A member posted a few newbie tutorials in their "spaces" area and I did what the tutorial said, then I asked Carson about it and asked him to take a look at my work, so he did and then he came back to me and said that those tutorials do not work and that I should not use them. Then he removed one of the pdf's. The only thing WA is good for is pushing WA and teaching you how to market WA as a "Super Wealthy Affiliate".

Sonni

I was in WA for 2 months when I was a complete newbie I didn't get much from it. They give you pieces of the puzzle, but now how to put them together. When you're a newbie you need step by step.

And the other problem is to be an affiliate you have to belong to WA, so if you leave and have done a ton of work promoting a WA site doing all the back linking etc to make affiliate sales then when you leave WA all the work is down the drain. The site is no benefit anymore.

Of course, there are no real reviews or very hard to find a real reviews since all the reviews are bogus to make affiliate sales by WA groupies. Which is what I call them, they live and breath WA.

Then there were the times WA members tried to scam me via PM's.

Anyway, I moved on to the 30 Day Challenge which is free and it is much better. They actually show you what to do with the information they give you, which is novel idea. I also trust Ed Dale way more than the 2 at WA, Kyle and Carson. Those 2 are always coming up with some product to try to push on the members.

I don't believe they're a scam, but I do think the WA stuff is hyped for what they really are and do. That's my 2 cents on WA.
Sonni

Nomics

I was a member for a few months as well. The true value, like someone stated before, is the forum. You can talk to the big wigs, and get feedback from them.

simba999

I was a member as a newbie, but honestly all the SERIOUS overload of info got to me...i never did anything w/ any of it, since there was too much...and it confused me very much. I get more info and help here...when i get to a stumbling block, i just "search" for the topic i need help with....and i get it...if its not here yet, i post to get the help I need. The problem I found w/ Wealthy Affiliate is its too much too fast...and they didn't talk much about how to create your own product...duh...i guess since they want you to be affiliates that is one reason why...but also, they pressured us to sell their products and that seems odd...why have a huge community and teach everyone there to sell your product, now we are competing w/ each other, and learning how to do it exactly the same way...so....it was not helpful. I felt like i was being used as THEIR affiliate and if I didn't use their product, i felt a little pressure...

i got not much value out of it, and i had some customer support issues there also, not too happy about, so I don't really recommend them for anyone, if you are new, its too confusing, if you are not new, there is nothing there you need....so where is the market for them? I guess people that want to sell "wealthy affiliate" products...

I tried (with no success) to use their website builder software, full of glitches and bugs and never could FTP it to my site. Also got no value out of the keyword finder, i like google's much better for finding good keywords (which is free).

everyweek it seems they would tell us about another great product they want us to promote for them, their products, and there are no good reviews about their site since all their affiliates (or um...members) are promoting them saying wonderful things...

also, you must STAY a member FOREVER if you want to keep getting your affiliate earning checks that you spent your time and money promoting links for their products, if you are not a member of their site anymore at at a monthly rate of $39 I think it still is....then you get none of the money you spent on getting those sales). That seems like a rip-off in my book.

In the forum, there were a LOT ( I mean a lot) of the same newbie questions, all w/ no answers to them. I like the Warrior Forum much much more, more helpful, and more advanced people here to help guide the newbies.

Mary Laine

Like everyone else, I belonged to them for a short time..that is, 8 weeks for the course to finish. And by then, so was I. Too much to see, no one to help you but others that have the same questions etc. Sonni, the exact same thing happened to me, scammed by pm's, and everything I did I had to leave there.

"And the other problem is to be an affiliate you have to belong to WA, so if you leave and have done a ton of work promoting a WA site doing all the back linking etc to make affiliate sales then when you leave WA all the work is down the drain. The site is no benefit anymore.

Of course, there are no real reviews or very hard to find a real reviews since all the reviews are bogus to make affiliate sales by WA groupies. Which is what I call them, they live and breath WA.

Then there were the times WA members tried to scam me via PM's."

tssen

Hi, I'm a current member of wealthy affiliate. Started out in Feb, I made my first sale there 3 days after i joined. I had no idea about it, i just thought id give it a go because i was on summer break from college and was bored AND lost my licence for a year. (get it back in oct thank god)

I actually didn't think i would stick to internet marketing but now im so in love with it, wait i dont know if love is the word i think more curious..yes curious with a passion! I want to figure it out, to me internet marketing is like a rubix cube. At first its so confusing and you feel hopeless, but then as you eventually start taking a few steps you get the hang of it, and eventually you can solve it. Not that you can solve internet marketing but i think you get my picture.

Anyway WA is great for beginners its just like everyone says though...information overload, but the info is all there and its great once you learn to be patient and take it one step at a time. Baby steps to success right?

The forum was fine, didn't get many replies though, but the general success forum was a gold mine.

-Site rubix, hrmm very standard, drag and drop, cant get a really good looking site i think, but its designed for beginners i believe and it does do a good job at it. However it can be quite slow sometimes and thats a drainer.

-The free hosting, you get up to 3 host domains, not bad i havent found a problem with it yet.

Apart from that, i think you will benefit a lot from it if your a beginner. I havent reread what i wrote so i dont no if i made sense or not! but oh well.

Im planning to end my subscribtion soon though after i learn a bit about PPC and that opt in form that everyone is talking bout.

thats my 0.02c

petermack

Have had a couple of goes at WA. Save your money it is a good site but I have learnt more here reading the forum posts than I learnt there. Just keep reading the forums here some good info in here.

wealthangel

I was a member there for several months, but I should have left after 2 or 3 months. Their forum had a nice, friendly atmosphere, which was the reason why I ended up staying there longer than I needed. But for learning, WA was not the best place for me.

I agree with most people who said WA is good only for newbies. I also want to add that WA's focus is largely on affiliate marketing by article marketing, so it is definitely not for those who want to learn other types of internet marketing (e.g. website flipping, domain flipping, resell rights, AdSense, eBay, dropshipping, selling on Amazon, etc). They do teach PPC, but it is rather elementary. For learning more advanced aspects of PPC, I had to turn to other resources.

But reversely, for those who are new to IM and want to just focus on article marketing (and don't mind paying $39 per month), WA might be a very good place.

Steven Heron

I've been a member at WA for some time now and have to say that it's a top community, especially if you're new to IM.

The forum there is incredibly resourceful, and is filled with very successful Internet Marketers. I'd say the advice given there is paralleled only by the Warrior Forum itself.

Those who didn't have positive experiences I believe failed to grasp what WA is about - the community. It's not the Site Builder, the Share Zone or the Tutorials that make the community valuable, it's the members, and I've made some solid connections through there that I still work on JV's with.

In short, Carl and Carson do a great job keeping the community up to date, and I highly recommend the program, especially if you're still finding your own two feet.

Azlan.MY

If I have to choose between these two, I would rather go to Wealthy Affiliate. Their system is much easier for any newbie compared to Ken's Site Build It. Not to mention you'll start making sales faster with WA too, since they focus on both PPC or article as traffic source.

I'm a member of Wealthy Affiliate and although I'm experienced, I like the program a lot. I already bought lots of books and join a few membership sites, but WA Dashboard is the easiest to use. If you are newbie, WA is the way to go.

However, once you make thousands, you may cancel your membership and look for more details about PPC or SEO marketing somewhere else like PPC Clasroom.

I don't recommend newbies to learn for free. I was a newbie before and learning for free is somewhat hard - you don't know which way to go, which one work and which one doesn't.

bwh1

Yep buddy

The word "trial" refers to a limited time of 7days in stead of 30. Other then that the short gig is a full access membership.

Including downloads.

I highly recommend to get the 2 niche specific reports with detailed research data, PLR material etc., they are worth a good piece of money.

Other then that, those 7 days give you the opportunity to get to know WA personally.

Not much time to make money if you are a total Newbie, EXCEPT you take your affiliate link and try to make 2 referrals in that week, what would pay you your monthly fee.

G.
P.S. I use the same nick in WA, easy to find me in the forum

thomashoi

As a newbie 2 years ago, I learn many things from WA, especially what internet marketing is all about. They do teach us on driving traffic using article or ppc but .... the most important thing they teach or breathe about is.......

What makes a visitor decide to buy a product through your website? What went through their mind before making the decision? What are the emotions & feelings your visitor is having when they look at your website?

Sadly, most IM products nowadays is only interested in driving traffic but does not care about the emotions and feelings of a customer who is looking at your website.

Now you know why so many newbies has been mislead to spend thousands of dollars on worthless products and never made a dime for many years!

You should know by now that IM is never about article or ppc, these are just the basic tools to drive traffic to your website..... So if you are still looking for advance aspects of ppc or article, then You have missed the whole point of internet marketing!

Waldo Claassen

I joined Wealthy Affiliate but cancelled after I joined Affiliorama.
Did learn some interesting things from the website and did enjoy the forum they provide.
So I guess if you are new then Wealthy Affiliate could be a good option but also have a look at Affilorama they do provide some interesting articles and free training.

Waldo

ebizpromo

they dont have anything new. all they use are plr contents. you can learn that from top class plr ebooks. i dont this its worth of monthly subscription . but anyways its users choice.

Sean S

I havent read any reviews, and dont know any memebers. Anyone out there know any memebers/

jondavidson

I have been a member of WA for about 7 months just to pick up on any news out there from their forums. They do offer great support, website building and hosting up to 3 sites for the price of the monthly membership. If you know how to manipulate a site builder into a good site, is great for the price.
I know that it is a great place to start, but you will end up doing your own thing after a while.
If you have never been in IM before I would get knowledge from them or any other resource that provides support fro the price, and the price has to fit the picture.
Feel free to give me a yell if you need any answers on WA I might be able to provide some other detailed information.

wealthangel

No, I did find elsewhere what I could not find at WA.

But I am not bashing WA. WA is great for some people, and not so great for some others. Like anything else, its value is relative to what each person is looking for. People have different goals, different backgrounds, and different preferences. One thing cannot meet the needs of everybody.

Sean S

how do you really trust whats being told to you on these forums ?

Dave B

It's open!!

The full access, seven trial to WA for just $1 is now open.

Don't miss it!

Dave B

LB

Notice a large majority of the people in this thread have low post counts and an affiliate link to WA in their sig (which will be deleted soon enough).

noelma

Does Wealthy Affiliate host your domain or do you have the option of hosting with whoever you want ( Hostgator, Bluehost, ??? ). If you host with them and decide to leave, any hassles with moving your domain???

M. Noel

mmslax2

No they don't host your domain; however, you have the option of using their free hosting. Be careful though once you stop paying for membership you free hosting is gone, which means your website could be as well if you're not careful.

noelma

Thanks mmslax2. Actually, I meant "Site" hosting, but thanks for clearing my confusion.

M. Noel

Biggy Fat

I left WA after seven months. IM never made me a single penny and I wasn't gonna continue to waste time and money on something that isn't going to work for me. They weren't any help for me. There are even some guys in there that act like they don't wanna help you in fear of "more competition".

So save the $40 a month and go find something that DOES work, i.e., site flipping.

Revolves

I was a Wealthy Affiliate Member. I left because I had other priorities at that time.

Now, many new stuff has been added recently. I don't know the exact details of them.

There were people in the community willing to help a lot, while others were plain jerks. For example, a person (who was respected by many), said that having a PR0 website meant that it was not "indexed". I refuted his claim, but he had a hard time understanding my post. But there were equally good people too.

You can always contact either Kyle and Carson for help. I accept, their replies sometimes are not very detailed (they have a lot of posts to answer), but still, helpful.

It depends on your own dedication. I remember that, following their advice, I had once created a squidoo lens promoting WA. I didn't get any sales. But 4 months after my membership expired, I got a affiliate sale notification. Now that's a funny situation.

Whatever information inside WA does work, if you do ENOUGH of it.

Dave B

BTW The $1 Seven Day WA Trial has now been extended for a further 12 hours until Midnight today (EST)!

Dave B

debtfreehispanic

Sounds like this program is easy to get overwhelmed with it. Information is good only if you can apply it. Be careful what you sign up for.

Valorie

I've been a member since November 2007 and I don't regret it at all. They are adding new features quite rapidly, and the forum is full of helpful people. Some of them are getting pretty big names and selling their own quality products and software now.

Now that they have the try it for $1, there's no excuse not to jump in and take a look around for yourself!