wealthyaffiliate.com

Leading scamster makes his profit by suckering people into signing up for his website which is just another affiliate marketing scheme for Amazon, Airbnb, etc. which all have agreements with him to help him help sell their stuff. In short, it is a scam to separate you from your money and personal information. STAY AWAY.

It actually takes a lot of effort to begin generating money from affiliate marketing. No one said it was easy. Though you're required to pay after a month of free membership, they have many useful information which could help you kickstart your blog. But that can only happen if you're willing to put in actual effort.

In 2018, I signed up with Wealthy Affiliate while looking for legitimate ways to build an online business. I wasn't looking for get-rich-quick schemes and intended to treat this new venture as an actual business with hard work and dedication.

Right away, I was concerned with what seemed to be a too-simplified approach to making money online, but honestly, was a complete newbie at the whole process and thought maybe they knew something I didn't. A lot has changed in the online world, and in 2023, creating a website, and writing some (hopefully) high-quality articles with affiliate links in them believing traffic (customers) will come and buy through them is not a reality. Any online business will tell you that getting traffic is HARD! Getting targeted traffic is even harder. To rank well in Google, there is a lot involved -- even with many low-competition long tail keywords. For this reason, I feel WA gets people's hopes up for a successful website, and therefore sales, without telling people that sustainable success often takes YEARS of work -- and for some, it never happens.

The community within WA is actually not bad at all. There are some genuinely helpful people and kind souls who are there to help you when you feel stuck, discouraged, or need fresh ideas about something. For some people, WA's 'social community' aspect could make their subscription worth it. However, their internal 'ranking system' for members leads many people to leave unhelpful and spammy comments in response to questions asked just to 'rank higher in the community.'

Another positive (for me) was having Jaaxy keyword research tool included in your membership. This is the ONLY reason I have kept my WA subscription to this point. Using Jaaxy I have been able to rank pretty well on some of my websites for different keywords and have had some success because of it. I like the interface and trust its results. Yes, I can get Jaaxy without WA but it's more expensive.

However, the absolute WORST part about Wealthy Affiliate is their included website hosting and customer service. OH MY GOODNESS --- PLEASE DO NOT use this service if you start a website. I just went through one hellish experience with our local plant nursery website and it led me to write this review for anyone reading.

WA servers are SLOOOOOOW. My websites performed absolutely terrible there, and as you know, this hurts the customer experience and Google rankings. So no big deal then, just transfer it to another host. Uh huh, that's where the problem is.

My new website host wanted to use a migration tool so that I could transfer my complete site over. With WA, this is not allowed. They have blacklisted plugins such as Jetpack, All in One WP Migration, etc. We also tried transferring it via SFTP and this also did not work because critical files were inaccessible. This led to me having a broken site on my new server, a skeleton of what it should have been without theme files, media files, plugins, etc. When I contacted Site Support about this issue, they very rudely told me none of this (migrating my site elsewhere) was allowed with them and all they would offer was a backup file that my new provider could restore on their end.

When I shared that file with my new host (Wordpress.com Business), they explained to me that many of the required files were still missing and the permissions for other files were wrong, and therefore, could not be restored without a ton of manual labor.

The ONLY reason my site got restored outside of Wealthy Affiliate hosting was due to the incredibly hard work of my new host's team and willingness to help me out of this crappy situation with WA. They saw how I was being treated and it made them pretty angry too. We both agreed that we had never seen such shady business from a hosting company before. I have migrated sites from other providers before and have never had them make it hard, until Wealthy Affiliate.

They made it outrageously difficult for me to take my site somewhere other than them. Many people would have had to make the choice to stay with crappy hosting and service at WA or lose their site because not every hosting company would be willing to put in this much work for their customers, as mine did.

Also, be aware that if you stop paying for Wealthy Affiliate Premium service, your website gets disabled and then deleted once it has been dormant for a period of time.

*****PLEASE DO NOT HOST ANY SITES WITH WEALTHY AFFILIATE ******

I hope & pray that people will read this and not have to go through what I've just gone through these past few days. It's truly unbelievable.

Be aware also that WA does not offer refunds. If you pay for one year's worth of subscription, it's a done deal. You're not satisfied? Too bad. There is just too much here that should cause you to pause.

There are other places that offer valuable affiliate marketing training with up-to-date, realistic expectations. Maybe consider them instead.

Trust me this is the leading site when it comes to affiliate earning. 100% legit and paying site. Stop wasting your time on other sites that promise you heaven and all that within a short period of time. Trust me this site is awesome. It's free but Nigerians have to pay to join.
Hope the review is helpful

Wealthy Affiliate is a learning platform for entrepreneurs looking to learn the industry. At first I figured it was a scam but I signed up and started building my website. After my first month I decided to upgrade to their Premium membership because it wasn't expensive and at $47.00 a month and really had a ton of training. Being over 40 and working as a U.S. Marine and then as an electrician I was burned out with manual work. I needed to learn this digital marketing stuff and not to back to back breaking work. So I kept building my website, went through the tutorials and videos and learned the industry and perfected my "sales" writing. Now at 2 1/2 years my website "bloggingtipsfornewbies. C om is pretty big with about 350 posts all with different keywords and calls to action. I have made sales with it and my membership gets paid with my earnings and I make some extra on top of that.
But I will say this. The platform does cost $49.00 a month now and while the training is great there are tons of people who join and quit in a few months. They get impatient because it takes a while to learn and earn any money. I would not suggest joining if you are looking for a push button formula to make money online. In fact I have spent probably a couple thousand hours writing blogs and studying the lessons. So be mindful of that. It does work but it has to be treated like. A business and not a hobby. I do not work for the company or am being compensated in any way from the Wealthy Affiliate. I am simply a member who has used the platform to build my own web business.

This website gave me one of the best experiences in my life, it made me learn how to make a blog, how to make money with the blog using links to products, and how to make those links. It made me learn more about programming and about affiliate marketing. I didn't make money with it but it's because I was more focused on trying to download all the content and cancel my subscription because I was broke at the time. For 30 CAD$ (or 21 USD) I got access to 5 levels of Basic certification courses (with 10 lessons per level), I got access to more than 100 classrooms where I was able to learn more about affiliate and other types of online marketing. They also give you more than 169 1-hour long live video classes (that you are included in your subscription) and you can download them without paying more money, you also get access to live chat without a lot of other users if you ever feel like you need help fast, you'll get an answer in a couple of minutes or even sometimes in seconds. And even if you only learn and apply the stuff that is contained in the live video classes, then you will become an expert in affiliate marketing and will have a pretty clear idea on how to make a money making website with wordpress or even out of scratch without using wordpress(using HTML).

Wealthy affalie is the worst website. It's a affaliate marketing website. You can start free but they want you to pay for more and better services. I payed to start at premum and that gives me 50 money making sites. To build and more coures 1month went buy no one came to my sites so I decided to go back to free and they wouldn't let me they cut of my hole account I couldnt use my domain name I payed for or the site I bought. I couldn't use that account at all..