Anyone a wealthy affiliate member??

Haven't tried WAU. But I think anything that tries to duplicate WP functionality is taking on more than is necessary. WP does the job well. So why reinvent the wheel. There is also the issue of long term maintenance. It will take a lot to maintain such a system over time.

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.

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.

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

I completely have the same experience. At first I was really excited to be a member and learn all I can in affiliate marketing because everybody seems to have a good review about the program. But I have just joined for a week that I decided that I can do better on my own.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Joined WA on $1 trial and left the same day, too much coming at you all at once and no sense of where or what to start from. I prefer Eric's Tips and ShoeMaker. I have been on this forum for two days too and am impressed with the wealth of information on here (w/o the mind boggling issues of course) and for free as well.

I too was a member for a couple of months but thought that prolonging the membership would not be beneficial.
I found the 8 week course informative and worthwhile for a complete beginner - as I was at that time - but in common with some comments on here, I found the guidance about what to do with the new found knowledge lacking. When you first start out some 'hand holding' (mentoring) is usually required and it was that aspect that was lacking with WA. I was also disappointed with their seeming obsession for pushing their own products and indifference about whether their charges are successful or not.
Maybe I am being a bit unfair with this review but at least it is my honest opinion.

I can't believe I've finally found some honest feedback on the WA program. I'm a fairly clever searcher, but every single link I could find in every search engine lead me to someone's completely bogus page trying to sell the WA program.

Most of them resort to misleading surfers into thinking they are headed to a website specializing in reviewing money-making programs, when in reality, they do no such thing. They are so blatantly dishonest in the approach, I'm surprised that someone more clever hasn't managed to get an actual review somewhere in the top 10 google hits (or even the top 1000). It's absolutely unreal.

It's obviously nothing but a very thinly veiled pyramid scheme to sell the "program", which in turn, lures users into doing nothing other than trying to sell it to others.

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!

That's a good point. WA is not for lazy people.


I also agree to this one. I mean if you think Wealthy Affiliate is bad, just wait until you try bunch of products out there - 90% of them worse than WA with higher price.

I'm thinking about cancelling my membership. I joined last week but it's not what I thought it would be at all. How go about doing that? Is it thru Paypal? Do I need to call Paypal. They are not forward about this information!

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for taking the time to post your thoughts on WA. As a complete newbie, I was about to join this program as I thought it would be the ideal place to start.
I will look at alternatives now as the general theme of this thread is there are better alternatives out there. I must say, the best thing I have done is found the warrior forum and I feel very fortunate I have found it before Ive signed up too any programs. Its very difficult to find impartial, non - biased reviews of programs like WA over the net.

Cheers Wilco

I was a member for 6 weeks. WA encourages not to utilize all methods of IM. Master one by one to avoid being overwhelmed. So I decided to concentrate with PPC and I followed the PPC training to the T.
Within a 2 weeks of doing PPC I lost $210 so I quit WA.
Nevertheless, I gained a lot in relation to article marketing which I use to this day. WA is a good start for newbie, but the road will be long and bumpy.

Yep 12 Noon EST June 7th , which is a bit of a hike alright

I joined again just recently. I was a member years ago and I thought it was pretty good then. A lot has been added and some stuff that was there before still is, such as CB research a keyword research tool, the forums, job board, site rubix, hosting, etc. New stuff that I have been checking out are the niche q packages and rapid writer tool.
I know much of the training that is there is more applicable to newbies, but there is some pretty handy tools for the seasoned affiliate marketer too.