There are many ways reviews are done, the most common is comparing features and functions. This is not such a review. It is titled 2019 Wealthy Affiliate Review – Build Yourself A Successful Online Income Site for a reason. It is an experiential review based on my experience, it answers the question of how I build my income site to get started and made my first dollar on WA within a month. I joined Wealth Affiliate as a Starter member and became a Premium member shortly because I was impressed with the capabilities the platform has to offer.
Who Is This Review For?
This review is for anyone who wants to build an income online, and interested in the critical success factors to get you there. Wealth Affiliate is a platform with the capabilities to take you on that journey to earn your first dollar online and more.
Wealth Affiliate (WA) is the vehicle, You Are The Driver.
- You decide on the Destination, WA call it Goals
- You need a map to get to your goals, WA provides 2 maps which are the training to get you started on the journey.
- Your journey is to build income, you need to choose where your income will come from, WA calls it niche or niches should you build more than one income stream.
- Your engine is the technology, WA uses the industry leading platform, WordPress with a special twist to make it simple for all, anyone can get started in 30 seconds.
- Finally, in any journey… You gotta be in it to win it! That is the community at WA sharing tips with you, giving you that occasional nudge when things are not going your way and cheering you on as you journey your way to success.
I want to make it very clear, THERE IS NO PERFECT PLATFORM! In fact, I have tried all kinds of software and training on internet marketing, many of which failed to live up to it's promises. Therefore, capabilities that are mapped to critical success factors are necessary to be successful in any endeavor. My experience tell me WA comes closest to a single platform being able to provide those capabilities.
Although we are targeting income site builders, which are:
- Affiliate Marketers
- Bloggers
- Home business
- Internet Marketers
- Entrepreneurs
I believe the following can also benefit immensely from Wealth Affiliate:
- Digital Marketers (employed)
- Small business owners building and hosting their business or e-Commerce website
- Product owners and creators needing to build and host a product website
- Project managers needing to build and host a project branding website
It does not matter whether you are a beginner or experience. Once you join, you will be interacting with members from various age levels and with a wealth of experience from the community.
Since Wealthy Affiliate is designed for affiliate marketing, we will focus here and look at the capabilities related to building online income from affiliate marketing.
For the benefit of those who are new to affiliate marketing, below is a quick description of affiliate marketing before we get into the capabilities Wealthy Affiliate platform.
What is Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate marketing is a way for you (the affiliate) to earn a commission for recommending products or services to someone (can be your family and friends, readers of your blog or Facebook followers etc.)
How do you do it?
Here are 5 simple steps on how anyone can start affiliate marketing:
- Find a product or type of product you want to promote
- Do a search for “product name” affiliate program. Amazon also have an affiliate program for all its products
- Sign up for the respective affiliate program
- You get a special link that allows the merchant to track the people who clicked your link
- When they buy the product, you get a commission.
Yes, It is really that simple to get started.
Critical Success Factors
You need knowledge and skills regardless of what business you are building. However, for online businesses you will also need a platform for your website which you can use to execute your business strategies to generate results.
The Wealthy Affiliate Platform is a comprehensive platform for Affiliate Marketing. Upon signing up, you will have your profile and personalized dashboard page setup. The capabilities of the platform will be discussed throughout this review.
ONLINE BUSINESS EDUCATION
You begin your journey with a map.
This map is the education you get at Wealthy Affiliate. It will equipped you with the KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS to build your online business successfully. It is designed as follows.
- Step-by-step micro-learning that is easy to follow
- Action based to develop skills
- Include both business and technical knowledge to build and online affiliate business
Online Entrepreneur Certification
The Online Entrepreneur Certification (OEC) training is a 5 phase (50 lesson) series of courses walking you through the process of creating and growing a business within absolutely ANY niche that you want.
The lesson breakdown is as follows;
- Phase 1 – Getting Started
- Lesson 1 – Getting Rolling!
- Lesson 2 – Understanding How to Make Money Online
- Lesson 3 – Choosing A Niche
- Lesson 4 – Building Your OWN Niche Website
- Lesson 5 – Setting Up Your Website
- Lesson 6 – Getting Your Site Ready For Search Engines
- Lesson 7 – Creating Your Initial Website Content
- Lesson 8 – Creating Customer Menus On Your Website
- Lesson 9 – Understanding Keywords, The Start of Your Content
- Lesson 10 – Congratulations and Your Next Steps
- Phase 2 – Building Your Own Traffic Producing Website
- Phase 3 – Making Money!
- Phase 4 – Mastering Social Engagement
- Phase 5 – Achieving Maximum Success through Content Creation
Affiliate Bootcamp
The second map for your journey is Affiliate Bootcamp. This training consist of 7 Phase (70 lesson) series of courses walking you through the process of creating and establishing a business in a niche related to the promotion of Wealthy Affiliate. If you are just starting out, it is more beneficial to choose either Online Entrepreneur Certification or Affiliate Bootcamp and complete it before moving to the next. There is quite a lot of content to cover as it is a hands-on training in which you are developing new skills and getting results at the same time.
My Training Activity
My Training Activity is a record of all the training you are taking withing Wealthy Affiliate. It will track the status of all your training so you can just continue from where you left off the last time. You can also review and retake any course as many times as you want. I find it useful to be able to come back and review every time I am working my project and needed to refer to the content.
Training HQ
Training HQ is the entire database of courses and tutorials. You can search for any topic you want to learn here that is non in your structured training program in Online Entrepreneur Certification or Affiliate Bootcamp. Believe me, there are more courses here than you have time for. This is the entire lifelong learning resource for anyone wanting to build an online business. This reason alone justifies the subscription you are paying many times over. It is like getting an MBA for online business.
Classroom
You can find classrooms by the topic, popularity and new class. Detailed information on each class is provided as in the image above. The top contributors as also listed. You can see the community playing a significant role in helping answer the questions. You can click on the respective classroom to join.
You can see from the above the systematic training you will be getting at Wealth Affiliate. More importantly, the step-by-step action oriented training would have actually produced results for you. As you learn, you are building your business at the same time. After just Phase 1, your niche website would be ready and up and running.
You just experienced “A Live Education.” It doesn’t get any better than this.
Absolutely everything about your learning experience is live and interactive. You can engage and communicate directly within the lessons and get help with any questions that you may have. Live Chat, Live Classes, Live Interaction, and Live Expert Help are all big components of the educational experience at Wealthy Affiliate.
WORDPRESS WEBSITES
If you completed Phase 1 training above, you have just build on the most powerful WordPress website platform for business in the world! It is designed for affiliate marketers and entrepreneurs.
- Site Manager managers all your WordPress websites from a single console.
- Site Builder – Setup your WordPress website in 30 sec
- Site Domains facilitate all domain activities
- Site Content write content in a single console and publish to your respective website
- Site Comments facilitates comments for your pages and posts
- Site Feedback facilitates feedback from the community
- Site Support allows you to access coaches and technical support
Every successful business starts with a solid foundation, a website. Create and grow your business with the SiteRubix website platform at Wealthy Affiliate. It is not just about websites, it comes with some of the most useful and integrated tools for website analysis, management, ranking, and security. It is ridiculously easy to use, and surprisingly fun. Building websites has never been this awesome.
If you are a small business owner and want to set up a website or already have a website. I challenge you to try this out for yourself because you will not go back to traditional website hosting after setting up this website for yourself. It would have saved you lots of time and money.
So Easy, So Quick!
Wealth Affiliate have yet to have someone tell them they cannot build a website. The youngest to build a word press website on Wealth Affiliate is 8 years old and the oldest is 97 years old!
Within minutes, you are going to have your very own niche website online and visible to the world.
A website that once took weeks, if not months to build, can now be built in the blink of the eye. When you don't have to spend your time messing around with the technical aspects of building a website, you can focus your energy on what matters. Your business.
Website security is a big part of running a successful business. You are in good hands with SiteRubix website platform at Wealthy Affiliate. They have defeated 27,195,900 hacking attempts this year alone.
AVERAGE UPTIME FOR WEBSITES 99.99%
All websites are monitored 24 hours per day, offer full redundancy, daily snapshot backups, and if there is any suspicious activity, they will get to the bottom of it right away.
It does not matter where you are in the world. Support is Always Available 24 Hours.
The last thing you need to worry about are the technical aspects of your website or how to deal with any issues when they come up.
Live Events
There are regular live seminar events you can subscribe to and attend. This above shows the event calendar and some scheduled events. These events have great value which you can expect to be paying to attend individual events. Here, your premium subscription gives you unlimited access. Believe me, there is no short of events and learning opportunities, only your time to attend.
Research
Site Rank
This tool allows you to monitor your website authority. It searches keyword by domains to find site ranking on Google, Bing and Yahoo. WA Premium membership will include 100 auto tracking scans monthly.
My Keyword Lists
Using Jaaxy, you can find keywords and add to lists. You can use this feature to view all the keywords in your lists. there is also a search feature to make finding keywords on your lists easier.
Search Analysis
Search Analysis will allow you to search any keyword in Google, Bing or Yahoo. You can then view the details of the specific keyword that appear on the website. This tool can be use for keyword research specific to the SEO on the respective websites.
Alphabet Soup
This tool will help you uncover hundreds to thousands of potential keywords using the “Keyword + alphabet” search method. example “keyword + a” all the way to “Keyword + z”.
Brainstorm HQ
Brainstorm HQ is a tool you can use to source for trending, popular and lucrative ideas from Google Trends, Alexa Topics, Amazon Best Sellers and Twitter Trends.
Affiliate Programs
Affiliate programs is a tool to source for products you can monetize from keywords. You can search from Clickbank, Commission Junction, Link Share and Digital River. This is a new capability and will continue to grow and expand.
Niche Keyword Lists
As a premium member, you can maintain list of keywords in various niches and save your search list for further research and actions. You can export these lists in CSV and TXT formats.
Jaxxy provides the complete suite of research capabilities to plan and improve the SEO for your website. This is the most effective and user friendly tool I have personally used. There are many other tools but most are too complicated for the entrepreneur to use on a regular basis.
Affiliate Programs
Affiliate programs is a module you can use to search for affiliate programs that may interest you or relate to your niche. You can browse by popular categories, popular keywords, trending opportunities and high commission, high percentage or top rated affiliate products.
GLOBAL COMMUNITY
Building your online business can be quite lonely sometimes, you wish you have people you can relate to and connect with. At Wealthy Affiliate, you are connected to the most helpful community in the world.
The most challenging part of building a business online is getting help when you need it. Getting help in a timely manner through access to a myriad of people with all kinds of expertise is exactly what you can expect. You get that with the global community that truly cares and will be there for you all day, every day.
This is where I met @Joes946. Joe is 81 years' old. He has accomplished most everything he wanted in life. He rosed to the top of his organization. Traveled 41% of the world. He wanted to be a pilot, he was a pilot. He wanted to write a book, wrote 23 books. Now what is Joe doing at Wealthy Affiliate? Joe is there to pass on his experience and knowledge to anyone who needs it. He has written many encouraging blogs and welcome every premium member. I was touched by his welcome and blogs. Thank you, Joe!
There are many more like Joe on Wealthy Affiliate. However, since we are all online income & business builders, this is a great network to be in. You can find someone who was in a journey like yours, and may be able to help you along the way.
Boasting the largest Internet Marketing community in the world, Wealthy Affiliate continues to be the #1 choice for people all over the world to create successful businesses online.
It may be big, 800,000+ big but every single person matters and you will feel your sense of importance immediately. Connect with people from 195 countries in the world, connect with people from your home country.
You can network and create long-lasting relationships at Wealthy Affiliate. There are very few platforms with people traveling on a common journey, this is one of them. There is no other community in the world that you can walk into as a complete stranger and create unbelievably powerful business relationships. Every single day there are 10,000's of people networking within Wealthy Affiliate, creating businesses together, offering each other insights, and building their network.
PAY IT FORWARD MINDSET!
This is truly a pay it forward community. Wealthy Affiliate breaks down the idea that we are all in competition with one another, rather we can all help one another and do so in a way that leads to much greater mutual success. You need help with anything, you get it and it is almost instant.
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I highly recommend Wealthy Affiliate for anyone looking to build their online income site. I have listed all the capabilities and how you can benefit from it. Don't take my work for it. You can try it yourself at no cost with the starter plan.
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Do leave comments and any questions you have below.
I agree wholeheartedly with you that Wealthy Affiliate is the place to be if you are interested in building your own business from the ground up. Everything that you need to do this is offered within this platform and you will learn a lot with the training on offer.
Can over 1.9 million users be wrong?
However, this is not a quick way to make money. If you follow the training and work consistently on your business, the money will come, but it could take up to a year or more to make your first sale.
I agree with you building a business takes time. It makes sense to be realistic about expectations. I believe we are sowing the seeds, nurturing the business for the harvest to come in the future.
Well, this is very detailed and I must say the most detailed post I have seen about wealthy affiliate. I have been a member for a few months now and I have started making a relatively small income but that is because I don’t do it full-time yet. I’m sure that as time goes, I’ll be hitting it well. The training as you have said is very good and there’s a very helpful community ready to help. The information can be a little overwhelming and you have rightly said that there is no perfect platform. This is a good analysis and insight on wealthy affiliate. I would recommend it anytime myself. Nice post!
Thanks. Yes, it can be a bit overwhelming. Guess I could not control my enthusiasm to share.
Very interesting review you have done concerning wealthy Affiliate and I cannot agree less with you concerning the various information’s you have made available here in this platform. The training on wealthy Affiliate is actually second to none and it is on this note that makes it totally unique more than all other platforms I have ever been on. It is simply massive and the community is very helpful and supportive. Though I qm still on the training, the affiliate bootcamp but I’m learning pretty well and practising the things I am leanrning too. Thanks
The step by step training will get you there. Glad to hear you are making good progress.
Thanks for this really nice review on wealthy affiliate program. Generally the online business is growing and everyone is willing and ready to go into it to make some money for themselves. So far one of the best online platform i have come across where one can truly make some cool money and gain some training on on some field of interest in affiliate marketing is Wealthy affiliate. The chance to get direct messages with the founders makes everything super cool. I’ll confidently recommend it to anyone at anytime. Best regards
Yes, I agree getting a chance to interact with Kyle and Carson is great.
This really is a very thorough and in-depth wealthy affiliate review, it explains everything anyone would need to know about wealthy affiliate, I especially like the free membership aspect whereby you can sort of try before you buy, in other words, you can join, take a look round and get a first hand view of what wealthy affiliate is and what it is all about before you decide if you want to sign up to the premium version, which is exactly what I did myself, I took advantage of the free membership before going premium and I have no regrets, in fact I would advise anyone thinking about starting an online affiliate marketing business to read your open and honest review here and sign up, after all, it’s free to join, there is nothing to lose, thank you for sharing this post.
Yes, I encourage all to try out. Nothing beats experiencing it yourself.
Wealthy Affiliate is the perfect platform for any affiliate marketer or any aspiring marketer who wishes to build a successful website and become an authority in their niche. The training made available on WA university is simply massive and very precise. With proper acfiojns and consistency, success is surely a matter of time. The website hosting made available too coupled with the ever enthusiastic to support community. Support is very integral to success and wealthy Affiliate provides that in massive ways. The keyword research tool, jaxxy is also excellent and beginner friendly. Wealthy affialite is just the perfect package for anyone to record success in their business website. Cheers
Wealthy Affiliate is the best at what they offer, no platform can offer a better option. I’m an affiliate marketer and I’m also a member of WA platform and so far, I’ve been my money cool and steady. Newbies coming into the online business should consider a trail with WA. This article has done a really good job by listing all the capabilities and by explaining to to build a successful online income site. Experienced and newbies can gain a lot from WA. I like this post, really good and full of useful facts.
Thank you for your comments.
I like how you described WA; you have reached absolutely every opportunity it offers. You don’t really have the physical time to complete all the courses. I’ve been in WA for 8 months. I have learned a great deal but I guess the learning process will never end. And that I like very much.
Buildings an online business education has been the main thing that made me joined this platform. Ever since u joined it,I have never had a reason to regret, but to rejoice for the beginning if a productive life and business because, i have tried all kinds of platforms and training on different internet marketing sites, of which many failed to live up to it’s promises. This is why i value everything about them it is the perfect place to learn, grow and own a successful online business site.
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You will absolutely be surprised when join to this platform.I remember when Wealthy affiliate had revolutionary ruled out the SSL(Secure Socket Layer) feature back then 2017-(No cost a dime)at the time,the minimum fee that all hosting companies would charge Users was around $150 a year.You have mentioned to all tools and features correctly and I seem better off say nothing any more.I just want to emphasis that this platform is truly Number One in the market. Thanks