I’ve purchased and reviewed dozens of products over the past couple of years, and I am 100% committed to exposing every scummy product that I find. Wealthy Affiliate, however, really took me by surprise. With a name like “Wealthy Affiliate” I was expecting a pretty routine kind of “scum that grows between the bathroom tiles” negative review.
What I actually found was regularly added, up-to-date training, a very active and supportive community on a social platform that encourages interaction, and the best internet marketing product I’ve ever found due to very few drawbacks. Is it a scam? Definitely not. I’ll outline the strengths and weaknesses in my Wealthy Affiliate review below, and I’ll explain why it’s a great product for beginners and intermediate affiliate marketers alike.
The Best Thing About Wealthy Affiliate: It’s Free!
Well, kind of. Something I’d never seen in other products was the ability to create a free account to get a “taste” and decide whether or not the product is right for you. No payment information required – just your name, email address, a desired username, and password.
Of course you don’t have access to everything as a free member, but you have access to a heck of a lot. There’s more training in the free membership at Wealthy Affiliate than I see in most paid programs that I ultimately end up tearing to shreds because they’re so low-quality.
The free membership at Wealthy Affiliate comes with a couple of restrictions. There’s limited access to training as I mentioned above, but you also have limited access to the community.
Wealthy Affiliate is setup on a platform very similar to social media sites like Facebook which creates a living, breathing learning environment where you can chat with other members, post questions on lessons/training that you’re unsure about, etc… With a free account you only have 7 days to explore these communication options. After that, you need to be a premium member to comment, chat, and post to other members’ profiles. The benefits of communication within the members’ area will become clearer throughout the rest of this review. If you’d rather just check it out for yourself, you can create a free Wealthy Affiliate account here.
Pro #1: A Clear, Step-by-Step Path is Set Out for You
I think one of the biggest challenges most people face when new to affiliate/internet marketing is confusion about what to do first, then what comes after that, then after that, etc… You’re taking in a lot of information, so if it’s not given to you in the correct order it can be VERY overwhelming.
Kyle and Carson (the co-founders of Wealthy Affiliate) tackled this by creating a few step-by-step courses. The main set of courses is called “Online Entrepreneur Certification” and there are currently four levels, which are regularly updated to incorporate new techniques and remain up-to-date. Here’s a screenshot of level one, which you can access 100% of with a free account:
When you click on one of the lessons, it opens up into several easy-to-tab-through pages of instructions with video, images/diagrams, step-by-step text instructions, and a checklist to complete before moving on to the next lesson.
As a free Wealthy Affiliate member, you’re limited to the first level of Online Entrepreneur Certification, but if you like what you see and end up going premium, you’ll have access to the other three levels as well as a TON of other training, which I’ll cover in the next section of this review. Level one of Online Entrepreneur Certification covers getting started and setup (choosing a niche, picking keywords, technical site setup, etc…). Levels two through four cover getting traffic to your site, how to make money off of that traffic, and how to improve social sharing and engagement (which is a vital component of search engine rankings now):
Summary of Pro #1: Wealthy Affiliate gives you a clear, step-by-step from the very beginning (setting your site up), through generating traffic, then making money and master social engagement. You’re significantly less likely to get overwhelmed and give up, and your likelihood of succeeding in affiliate/internet marketing increases tremendously when following organized training. If you’ve read enough and just want to go check it out for yourself, you can create a free account at Wealthy Affiliate (no payment info required) and work through level one of their Online Entrepreneur Certification.
Pro #2: A MASSIVE Amount of Training (and More Added Daily)
When I say that there’s a massive amount of training at Wealthy Affiliate, I mean there’s a MASSIVE amount of training. In addition to the very clear, step-by-step created by co-founders Kyle and Carson, other community members and internet marketers are incentivized to share their best tips and tricks by creating their own training. Because of this, the level of high-quality, helpful training at Wealthy Affiliate increases daily.
Most of this takes place in the “Classrooms” section, which is a feature within Wealthy Affiliate that allows you to drill deeper into any individual topic you want to know more about. For example, if you get caught up in keyword research or choosing a niche, you can head over to the Keyword, Niche, and Market Research classroom and dig through additional lesson there.
You can also read through discussions, ask questions, etc… but I’ll go into greater detail regarding the communication aspects of Wealthy Affiliate in my next point. For now, here’s what the Keyword, Niche, and Market Research classroom looks like:
There isn’t much regarding affiliate/internet marketing that isn’t covered very well at Wealthy Affiliate. There are several different categories for you to look through and learn from in the “Classrooms” section. Here’s a screenshot of all the categories you can dig into deeper to find hundreds of extra tutorials, video lessons, training courses, and discussions:
If you decide to create a free account, you’ll be limited to the “Getting Started” and “WA Affiliate Program” sections, but if you like what you see and decide to upgrade to the premium membership, you’ll have unlimited access to all of the training, discussions, tutorials, and videos in every classroom. If you have trouble finding what you’re looking for, you can always search for a question and see what training/discussions pop up. As you type, Wealthy Affiliate begins suggesting training, videos, and discussions that might be what you’re looking for:
Summary of Pro #2: Not only is there clear, step-by-step training at Wealthy Affiliate, but you also have the ability to drill down deeper into every topic and sub-topic you might get stuck on regarding internet or affiliate marketing. Almost every questions you could ask is answered in their library of training, videos, and tutorials.
Pro #3: Interaction with Other Members and Internet Marketing Experts
In my opinion, this is the biggest strength of Wealthy Affiliate. If you read something in a lesson that you’re unsure about, just post a comment at the bottom of the training with your question (click the image below to see larger version):
If your question doesn’t tie directly to a specific lesson, go over to the “Classrooms” section and rather than looking at different training, videos, or tutorials, start a discussion with your question:
When you create a discussion at Wealthy Affiliate, other community members and experienced internet marketers will come along and help you. This is a really great thing to do if you get stuck somewhere, or you need advice from more experienced internet marketers that have “been there, done that” and can tell you whether or not you’re headed in the right direction. The co-founders of Wealthy Affiliate are commonly seen interacting with and helping members in discussions like this.
The last aspect of communication within Wealthy Affiliate that I want to highlight is interacting directly with other community members, and their ability to interact directly with you. Just like most social media sites, you’ll setup a profile with a picture and brief bio at Wealthy Affiliate. If someone wants to interact with you, they can stop by your profile and leave a comment:
Or if you have something you want to say to another member but you don’t it to be displayed publicly (say for example you’re asking someone to look at your website or asking for their opinion on the niche you’ve picked), you can always send them a private message. You can also private message the founders, Kyle or Carson, if you need their help with something. Note: Private messaging is restricted to premium members only.
As I mentioned earlier in this review, you’ll only have communication abilities within Wealthy Affiliate for the first 7 days. This means that if you sign up for a free account, you’ll be able to leave as many comments on training, videos, and tutorials, you’ll be able to post to anyone’s profile, and you’ll be able to create discussions for the first 7 days. After that 7 days runs out, you’d have to be a premium member to interact and communicate within the Wealthy Affiliate community.
Summary of Pro #3: Wealthy Affiliate is a living, breathing community that you can interact with, seek support, and learn from. I’ve never seen anything quite like it. Sometimes it can feel very lonely in internet marketing as very few products provide support of any kind. To be able to tap into the knowledge of tens of thousands of other members will make it so that if you’re ever stuck or left with questions, you won’t feel stranded, alone, and hung out to dry.
Con #1: It Takes Some Getting Used To
So I know this is nit-picky in comparison to the pros that I laid out above, but I want to completely honest and disclose the things that you might encounter difficulty with at Wealthy Affiliate as well.
Just like any new technology or website, navigating all of the training and interacting with community members at Wealthy Affiliate will take some getting used to. You’ll have to learn where everything is located, which buttons you need to click to comment, reply to comments, send a private message etc… If you’re even moderately experienced with technology this shouldn’t be a problem at all. If you struggle with technology it’s still very intuitive and easy to learn, but it’ll take a week or two to get used to it.
Summary of Con #1: If you’re at all familiar with technology, Wealthy Affiliate’s members’ area is very easy to warm up to. If you’re not so good with technology, you might struggle getting familiar with it for the first week or two, but with some practice you’ll be able to access everything and navigate it like a pro after a week or two.
Con #2: Be Careful to Not Get Stuck in “Learning Only” Mode
You’ll be floored by how much training there is to go through at Wealthy Affiliate, especially if you like what you see as a free member and decide to become a premium member. On rare occasions, I can see this lead to people spending days or even weeks straight studying the lessons but not applying any of them and doing actual “work”. They just study, study, study away!
If you don’t start “doing”, it’s impossible to get anywhere. By all means take some time in the beginning to work through some lessons until you feel like you understand things, but you don’t have to know every step along the way before you begin building out your first site. Use the training as a guide as you work – don’t try and finish everything before you begin working.
Summary of Con #2: There’s a lot of information to cover and learn. You don’t have to know all of it before you begin working. Start building out your site, adding content, etc… as you work your way through the lessons. Don’t try to finish every lesson and THEN start working.
Other Cool Things at Wealthy Affiliate
The team at Wealthy Affiliate provides so much content, tools, training, bonuses, etc… that it’s impossible for me to cover all of it with a single review. I’m pushing 2,000+ words in this review now and I want to be thorough, but not too long-winded.
There are other cool things that I haven’t mentioned like weekly live webinars, full web hosting is included with premium membership, the Wealthy Affiliate keyword research tool, etc… that you’ll find when you sign up for a free account that I haven’t covered in great detail here. There’s so much to explore and learn from.
Final Verdict: Do I Recommend Wealthy Affiliate?
Absolutely – hands down it’s the easiest product to recommend that I’ve ever encountered. I was really, really surprised at what a great product it was.
There aren’t a bunch of crummy upsells and it’s not some bogus, out-of-date training that’s five years old like I usually see. The co-founders of Wealthy Affiliate, Kyle and Carson, have clearly prioritized helping their members above making as much money as possible. That’s something you don’t see very often in this industry.
If you’re still skeptical of whether or not Wealthy Affiliate is a good fit for where you’re at in your internet marketing journey, then I recommend signing up for Wealthy Affiliate’s free account (no payment info required) and checking it out for a few days. If you like what you see, upgrade and gain access to everything. If you don’t, you haven’t spent a dime and you can continue on your journey elsewhere!
My Exclusive Wealthy Affiliate Bonus (Not Available Anywhere Else)
If you check out Wealthy Affiliate and decide you love it, I have a few exclusive bonuses for my followers. I don’t give away this collection of bonuses away anywhere else. They’re 100% exclusive to my Wealthy Affiliate referrals. If you want to gain access to that bonus, here are the steps to follow:
- Sign up for a free trial at Wealthy Affiliate here
- Check out the training and community for a few days to see how you like it
- Upgrade to premium at the discounted rate ($19 for the first month) within 7 days
- I’ll send you the bonuses via a private message on Wealthy Affiliate
- Enjoy!
Interested in Taking a Video Tour?
If you’d like to take a video tour of the Wealthy Affiliate members’ area even before joining, you can watch my Wealthy Affiliate Video tour here.
Have Experiences with Wealthy Affiliate? Leave a Comment Below!
Did you check out Wealthy Affiliate as a result of my review above? Have you had other experiences with Wealthy Affiliate? Leave your experiences and thoughts in a comment below for the rest of the community to benefit and learn from! And if you REALLY found this review to be helpful, sharing it on social media by using one of the buttons below would be greatly appreciated!
hi Ian, thanks for your site reviews really u are good guy.
i just signed up for wealthy affiliate free account yesterday without sponsor without referred link , so do can i cancel my account and create new one under your link ?
also can i know what kind of bonus offers you give away?
thanks
Hey Seudi, yes if you’d like to do that it should be possible (and thanks for making the effort!). My bonuses include several supplementary lessons that aren’t within the WA community that I’ve put together myself as well as direct support from me as necessary. Let me know if you have any other questions and thanks for reading/commenting!
Hey Ian it’s been a while but I’ve finally found my way back here after a loss of a good friend who has passed away and the loss of my home and now finding out my wife has cancer.. so life has been unfair BUT I’m hanging in. I’m glad to have found you, the warriors forum and the bestblackhat folks are just to much for me, so rude to say the least and then I found you.. What a God send and breath of fresh air!.. Thanks for being here and now I’m on the rebuild! I’ll be joining soon but at the moment I’ll be learning from you and checking into the forum when I’m able.. I haven’t worked in over 2 years now and man have I been looking. I did just recently start a new website since my freebie site isn’t going to do it for me anymore.. I’m looking forward to seeing you more often now. Take care and Hook’im Horns! Love Austin for sure. All the best.. Mike(cousinfizz)
I’m so sorry that you’ve been going through such a difficult time, Mike. If you need help as you go along, don’t forget to leverage the community at WA and always feel free to reach out to me if you get really stuck. Take care and I’m sure we’ll talk again soon.
Ian, could you post a full listing of prices? I am tired of joining programs, then finding out I have to pay a lot more to get anything out of it. Thanks.
Hey Clay, there really isn’t more to WA than $19 for the first month, then $47/month thereafter. The only other fee I can think of is $10/year to register your own domain name. There are definitely other tools that you can buy to supplement your business (as there are in any industry) but there aren’t a bunch of upsells or anything like that at Wealthy Affiliate. You have a keyword tool and full hosting included as part of being a premium member.
Hey , tried to sign up to the WA site today. wich gave the the message that ive allready got an account..
But..hows that possible..ive never ever come across this site before, and i did read your comment to another guy with the same problem, about WA logging IP address – so..what do i do ?
Hey Ben, if you haven’t gotten this worked out yet can you send me an email at ian@nomorebsreviews.com? I’ll be happy to help you out with this as it’s not too tough for me to fix. Let me know!
Been a member of WA for about 15 months now and can say I will probably be a member for a lot longer than another 15 months. It absolutely changed my life, wanted to stop by and let others know that Ian is speaking the truth here. DomW (WA Member)
That’s awesome Don! Thanks a lot for stopping by and sharing that with others in the community. I’ve connected with you on WA as well – I look forward to continue seeing you around the community for another 15 months
Hi Ian,
I’ve followed your site of NoMoreBsReviews.com & your Youtube channel for quite some time & decided to give it a go with upgrading my account to Premium (of course through your link for your dedicated effort to steer us on the right track of online marketing). I’ve some questions below:
1. Does this Friday promotion (47% OFF for yearly subsription for Premium membership) include their Services: Jaaxy, Street articles? Or we have to purchase separately?
2. As they say they provide their “state-of-the-art” or Clouding hosting, how would you rate their hosting? A little better than Shared hosting in Hostgator or bluehost? Do we have a Dedicated IP address too?
3. If I utilize this Friday promotion ($299/ year), how would I continue to pay for the next subscription after this purchase expired? Say, another yearly or monthy?
Guy, I know it’s a lot to ask like that but it’s really critical thing now.
Thank you so much for reading & answers to my questions above.
Hope to seeing you & getting from your help in WA community.
Have a great day man.
Vuong
Hey Vuong, I’d be happy to help with these questions concerning WA’s Black Friday promotion running through the end of this weekend.
1) There’s a basic keyword tool (not quite Jaaxy) that is included within WA’s premium membership. You can also get a limited number of Jaaxy searches for free by creating an account, but full membership at Jaaxy is not included in WA premium. They are separate businesses (I subscribe to both at the premium level). Street articles is free, so you can post there even without a WA membership.
2) I’ve found it to be at least on-level with shared hosting that I’ve experienced from Hostgator and a few other shared hosting companies in the past. Great uptime, and all of the functionality you will ever need for nice sites.
3) It isn’t automatically re-billed, so you can sign up for another year next Black Friday promotion (they have done one each year for the past couple of years too) or just switch to a monthly fee schedule if you’d like. It would be a up to you.
I hope that helps, Vuong! If you have any other questions, don’t hesitate to reach out.
Hi, Ian. After coming across the WA site and hearing their introductory video i came to your site to read your WA review and most of the comments. Since you say you get a commission if I were to go premium, (I registered with WA before writing this comment), what to I do to have your name as a sponsor with WA? It must not be much you make but one counts anyway.
Thanks for commenting, Mauricio! Yes it’s not a big commission by any means, but I don’t make recommendations based on commissions, I make them based on the merit of the product (as you’ve probably noticed if looking through the rest of my site). Well, if you’ve already created an account prior to reading my review you would have to create another account by going through my affiliate link, which may be difficult because they track the IP address when accounts are created and your limited to one account per IP address. You can go ahead and give it a shot, but it may be more trouble than it’s worth. I definitely appreciate the effort and you taking the time to reach out and ask and if it works out that way, awesome! But don’t worry about it if it’s too much trouble. I’m happy that you found some of my content helpful.
Hey there again everyone, I just submitted my 2 cents worth on BTF, now its WA.
Ok so after I cancelled BTF, I tried Wealthy Affiliate. I started out being a free member ofcourse and after a week I decided the content was worth paying to be a premium member to have access to all the other trainings available.
Let me just say that this is not like any other internet / affiliate marketing course out there where they promise you that you can make $5000 in 5 days or something like that and if anyone out there thinks that WA is a short quick way to make money, it really isn’t. Their approach to this is more of creating a website of value, one that has a lot of content in order to have one objective in mind which is to help customers. Again, they try to get you to see that my giving value to your visitors and building a relationship, the business and money side of things will follow. It will not be an overnight thing, their process to building a rich a valuable website will take a few months and you slowly need to build your content over time, because Google likes that!
So eventually if all things good, you can monetize on your traffic…. But again it will not be like in the next week or something.
Just like BTF, there’s a forum, there’s a lot of live discussions taking place, the people in there are oh so friendly!
And of course there’s a lot of trainings as well on different aspects of building your niche site etc.
There’s hardly any upsells, except for 2 things, the Premium membership and the keyword search tool Jaaxy. But they don’t hard sell it or anything as some programs out there do, but unlike BTF, you don’t feel that you HAVE to buy it to have a successful niche site.
As a premium member you get to create unlimited number of sites under their hosting account, which is great for those who don’t want to spend anything on hosting. Unfortunately I was in Google Sniper 2.0 and BTF prior to this that I HAD to get a hosting account. So I’m stuck with that.
As for the keyword tool, as a premium member you have a free keyword search tool of which I think is really great.
Its been more than a month and I’m still on it. Building my site slowly and surely……Although wouldn’t it be nice if there was a program that you can make money almost immediately?
So Ian, do let us know if you find such a program yeah?
Wow, Mark! Thank you for stopping by and sharing your experiences in such great detail! I’m very happy to hear that your experiences at Wealthy Affiliate are exactly what I hope for when referring people there – legitimate training that helps you move forward and grow as an internet marketer, realistic expectations, and a generous community to plug into for extra motivation and help. It sounds like you’re on a really great track so far!
I have never reviewed anything for new affiliate or internet marketers that delivers on its promise to make money quickly. Building a business takes time and you have to develop a lot of skills to be a successful internet marketer (which is an expectation I work very hard to deliver in my eBook and even lessons like “How Long Until I Make Money in Affiliate Marketing?” You can always start looking to paid traffic if you’re looking for a much faster way to generate traffic, but that is something that I advise against very strongly for new internet marketers because you’re extraordinarily likely to lose money and launch very unsuccessful campaigns until you understand engagement and conversions a lot better (which will happen over time as you build your site out). If there’s anything else I can do to help you as you continue on your journey, please let me know! But be careful looking for anything promising fast-tracks, turnkey or automated results, or shortcuts. I’ve reviewed dozens of programs promising that and they’re always, always, ALWAYS horrible scams. I’m definitely here if you need me!
Hi
Thanks heaps for your wonderfull reviews. What I would like to know is when someone buys wealthy affiliate course and wants to discontinue after some time, what happemts to the sites that were made using wealthy affiliate? Do they stay or are they taken off after someone ends the monthly subscription.
Secondly, can you review affilorama as well. Hearing good things about this .
Cheers and pl. keep on the good work that you are doing.
Veer
Hey Veer, you would need to transfer your sites to another hosting service before you canceled. Kyle and Carson at Wealthy Affiliate have made this very simple (just a few clicks) through their website management tools. I’ll try to look into Affilorama in the near future. Thanks for reaching out, Veer!
Ian,
Thanks for saving me from Profit Siege. Years ago, to supplement my teaching income, I dropped over 8k into a service that helped me build a website. The site has NEVER turned a profit, and I was in over my head to fight my way through SEO and affiliate scammers. Can I use or retool my website to work with Wealthy Affiliate? Is there some other course I can take to turn a profit from the site without dropping a ton of time and money into the site? I don’t have either. I do however have a mortgage, a three year-old, and no current full-time job. I’d like to make a living with my brain, not my back, but all the online scams I’ve run into have been a complete waste of time. And, yes, I’ll read your book when I’m not relentlessly searching for income.
Hey Gary, is it this JewelryByFaith.com website?
Yes, it is. Today, I got a follow-up call from a “branch” of Prestiege called Internet Services Providers in Eagle, Idaho. They desperately wanted me to spend 3k to make the site “go.” I’ll keep checking back for your input.
Ha! Goodness gracious some people in this industry just don’t give up. I know it’ll be disappointing to hear because that website was so expensive to setup, but you can definitely use to lessons and training in WA to grow a business similar to that, but the website is very out of date and will need completely re-done.
I’m afraid it seemed out-of-date and limited from the beginning. By re-done you mean…? Template design, adding motion, etc? I sincerely appreciate any time-saving ideas you can give me.
Hey Gary, yes – the template and design will need redone. I wouldn’t recommend much motion – it’s usually a turn of these days and can be like playing with fire if not tested properly.
Hi Ian first of all thanks for your great review, I’ve come across Affiliate Marketing a few weeks ago and it got me interested as I have a little knowledge of website building, however I have no knowledge of SEO or how to make make money online and it’s definitely something i’m interested in. I’ve downloaded your eBook and I must say it was an inspiring good read, so thank you.
So anyway my question is i’m close to signing up to Wealthy Affiliate as i’ve read your review plus other peoples comments, however there is something stopping me from signing up just yet… I’ve also been looking into Affilo Blueprint… I just wanted to know if you knew anything about that as that also seems like a good path to take, i’m sort of 50/50 and hope that you could make my decision a little easier… Do you know anything about Affilo Blueprint? I know that Google Sniper is a big no no, and thats thanks to your website. However it was google sniper that enticed me to Affiliate Marketing in the first place, but it just seemed too good to be true and in most cases when its that situation it usually is a rip off, Thanks for your great tips and advice. I hope to hear from you soon.
Hey Manie, thanks a lot for reaching out! Unfortunately I haven’t reviewed AffiloBlueprint so I can’t speak to its legitimacy. I did some looking around after reading your comment and it seems to check out as something that isn’t remotely as risky as a lot of the other products I’ve reviewed. Of course (as you know) I have reviewed Wealthy Affiliate extensively and can very comfortably recommend it. I don’t know if you’ve signed up for a free starter account, but doing that and digging into the free material and free access to the community for the first seven days might help you decide if WA is the right place for you or if you should spring for AB.
I hope that helps!
Hi Ian well since you have extensively reviewed it and recommend it and from what I’ve seen and heard I will sign up and might just sign up for a full time member too. P.S what does AB stand for? Also i’m from the UK, I hope I won’t run into any issues regarding that… Thanks again buddy.
Sounds great Manie! And regarding “AB”, could you give me a sentence it’s used in? I THINK I know what you’re referring to, but I want to make sure before I answer.
No I don’t know what ‘AB’ stands for I was referring to when you mentioned it in your first reply… ‘you should spring for AB’
I’ll sign up as soon as i get a chance
Oh! I was saying that you should sign up for the free membership with WA to see if it’s a good fit for you, and if not then check out AffiloBlueprint. I hope that clears the “AB” confusion up!
So how much money does a blogger get for each person that clicks on the link provided on their site and signs up with Wealthy Affiliate? Isn’t that the real reason you’re promoting it so hard?
No, I only get paid if a member I refer upgrades to premium – I do not get paid per click on the link. If a person upgrades to premium, it’s a great product and I know they’ll be in safe hands, but I do not make any commissions for referring you to their free starter membership. The only thing I get out of referring you to the free starter membership at WA is peace of mind that you’re in safe hands, which is the main thing that motivated me to creating this review website.
If you’d like to see my formal response to “only being in it for the money”, you can watch this video: http://youtu.be/B-GKPOnWJOE
Money is the furthest thing from my mind when creating my reviews. I just want people trying to find a safe place to study affiliate marketing to have a source they can trust for honest reviews.
Thanks for the info, Ian. My site is up, I am (and can) write wonderful content for years (video, images, postings) as I’ve been in the floral industry for over 40 years. My skills are limited, but did get it up and going through PurelyHosting with a WordPress (simple) platform. Whew, the time it takes for a novice! What I’d like to know is will joining this group help me from this point on, directing traffic, adding proper affiliates, etc. to bring in more cash? Or does it need to be from the ground up? I think I’m about 3/4 of the way there, but my site needs a much more professional look and don’t know how to achieve that, and NEED TRAFFIC. Thanks in advance for your help…..
Hey Joe! Thanks for reaching out with your questions about Wealthy Affiliate.
Wealthy Affiliate does help with a lot of the stuff you’ve gone through (hosting, setting up a website, etc…) but I’d say that material only covers about 10% of what is in the members’ area – probably even less. There are lessons about almost every traffic generation method you can think of (free and paid) as well as an incredible community to help offer improvements on your website and lend a helping hand whenever you get stuck. You could always sign up for a free account and check it out for yourself before signing up for a premium membership.
By the way, have you seen my tour of the members’ area that talks about a lot of the content, training, and community support Wealthy Affiliate has as well? If not, you can find it here.
Let me know if you have any follow-up questions at all Joe!
Great review. I’m just having issues signing up. Every time I try to make an account, it tells me I already have one, but then when I try to have the password resent, it tells me I don’t. Tried this with my primary email, and created a secondary email to test it. Is this a known issue?
Hey Keegan. Your IP address is stored every time you create an account to prevent abuse of the free membership. If you signed up for a free account in the past and are trying to sign up for a new free account, the system won’t let you. You would have to use that initial account.
I want to know if this is a program where you can get paid by referring other people to the program. Like an override… or like Empower Network.
No. They do have an affiliate program, and they have a section that is dedicated to help training people that WANT to promote it, but there is not at all a heavy push for that. If that was the “core” of the program I never would have rated it so highly. This product is made to help people get training on building out and running niche/affiliate marketing websites. It’s core is NOT to re-push the same program that you just signed up for.
I hope that helps Jeffrey! Let me know if you have any other questions!
Hi, so I had a question for you. After you learn the system and build a website, does Wealthy Affiliate also provide the product/company for you to advertise for or do we use this information to promote products we have to go out there and find like on overvault.com
Thanks!
No, they will not provide a product/company to promote. Most of those are either MLM programs or PLR content, and Wealthy Affiliate is neither of those. The membership there is 100% about training and access to the community. You would be building out niche websites, generating content of your own, and promoting affiliate offers that you find online (OfferVault.com being one of the notable options there). I hope that helps!
Hi, great review on Wealthy Affiliate, I just had one question.. So I understand this program teaches you how to run a website to make money, but what is being sold? Is it a product we buy from them or products that we have that we are trying to sell? Thanks, and again, great review.
Hey Matt, you’re paying for access to the lessons and community. All of the lessons within WA are written to help internet marketers and the community there is the best I’ve ever seen. Very encouraging, very supportive, and very generous. Let me know if that doesn’t clear things up for you and I’ll do my best to explain things a bit better!
Hi Ian I have enjoyed your review. I did some digging and I came across some negative information on ripoffreport for wa about 2-3 years back for not cancelling memberships of past members. Have they addressed these issue because I’m interested in learning. Have you heard of any such incidents as well?
I’ve seen those as well. I wasn’t associated with WA back then so I can’t tell you exactly what that was about, BUT I know that users can now cancel their memberships under “account settings” quickly and easily, and there aren’t any, “Are you SURE you want to cancel? How about you try it for another month for free and let us know after that” messages or anything like that. If you want to cancel your account, it’s very quick and easy to do so. I have not had any issues with this since I began referring people to Wealthy Affiliate a few months ago. I hope that helps!
I reading your review about the WA and I will be give it a try. I will currently unemployed (laid off) and have enough time to dedicated to online marketing. I will keep you updated on the status and hopefully is not like other sales pitches out there.
Thanks for the comment Benunte! I think you will find that I am very committed to never being just another sales pitch like a lot of the other guys out there. I look forward to seeing you around the Wealthy Affiliate Community!
Hey Ian, nice to re-visit Your blog again. How would You compare WA to Chris Farrell?
If You can, please share Your thoughts about WA vs Chris Farrell. I am also glad to see that You are out of Empower, I also cancelled a while back.
Wishing You all the best!
Hey Hubert, there are quite a few differences, but the main one is that CFM will get you to a “ceiling” of sorts without ever teaching you a lot of the most important lessons. CFM teaches the basics really well, but it doesn’t go much deeper than that. Also, when I reviewed CFM it wasn’t teaching WordPress – it was teaching how to build websites from scratch (which is a hell of a lot harder and leaves a lot more room for error).
Wealthy Affiliate on the other hand teaches the basics extremely well but also teaches intermediate and advanced techniques that will get you a lot further. They teach WordPress so you don’t have to learn how to build a website from scratch, and the community there is very active and very helpful. They support each other, encourage each other, and all-in-all make the difficult task of making it in internet marketing much more achievable because you’re surrounded by people with the same goals and challenges as you.
I hope that helps!
Thank you for your support. I always like to read your reviews. Last time when I read your website you talked positive about Empower Network, and now it is negative. And I understand you. I did not like that program.
I am interested in WA program. But how long have you been in WA program? And how long it will take a person to start to make some money from them?
Meg.
Hey Meg, I reviewed Wealthy Affiliate a few months ago (almost a year ago now) and have been with them ever since. As for your other question, there are way too many variables for me to give you a real estimate. It depends on how many hours you work per week, how efficiently you work, what niche you pick, how much knowledge you already have, etc… There’s just no way anybody could give you a real estimate there. Anybody that would give you a firm number would just be lying to get you to buy their product. It can take anywhere from three months on the early side up to a couple years if you’re not diligent in your work based on what I’ve seen in the past few years. I wish I could give you a more accurate time frame, but as I said there are just too many variables to be sure. I hope that helps though!
If I will sign up for WA program can I get a free hosting for my domain or not?
Yes, you can host your own domains with WA’s free hosting if you have a premium membership. Free memberships are only allowed sites on their shared domain, but premium accounts are allowed to host unlimited domains of their own, as well as unlimited sites on their shared domain if preferred.
Hey Ian,
Here it goes, just signed up for the free WA account. I am really anxious to start. I’ve searched for something that will help and everything turns into garbage. I am not expecting to make a million dollars but I need to learn how I can supplement my income or replace it completely. I have two small boys and will soon be having a third and I like working but if I could be at home more I would be more than happy to spend that time with my kids. Thanks a lot and we’ll see how this goes. Jayme
Hey Jayme – I think you’ll find WA to be much more realistic. Of course it will take work (which you clearly know), but if you’re willing to put in the time and the effort than WA has an enormous amount of content and an extremely helpful/supportive community to help you get there. Best of luck! I think you’ll like it there, and I look forward to seeing you around the WA community
Hi,
“There are monthly fees to help with constantly updated content and great support, but there is also a limited, 100% free membership too”.
I want to understand, how much do I need to pay for this WA program to get 100% free membership?
Thank you,
Meg.
You don’t pay anything for a free membership. They call them “Starter” memberships and they’re 100% free as I said. No payment information required either, so you don’t have to worry about being auto-billed at any point during your membership. The only time you would ever get charged by Wealthy Affiliate is if you decided to upgrade to their premium membership, which would cost $47 per month.
Do you get the help you need when you are a free member. Just asking about this one. I have herd that their is no support for free members.
Thanks
Sue.
Hello Sue, you still have some access to the community and Kyle and Carson (the co-founders) work very hard to respond to free members’ questions too, but in order to receive all of the support benefits and full access to the community you do have to be a premium member at $47/month.
Hi Ian,
I came across your no BS website today, via you tube and I just want to say thank you for helping me steer away from a few “get rich quick” scams. From your recommendation and the posts of some other readers, Wealthy Affiliate looks good.. As a matter of interest, what are the monthly fees once someone upgrades??
Hey George, Wealthy Affiliate is $47 a month. It includes access to all of the training, support, community, and unlimited website hosting as well. I hope this helps!
Hello Ian, I was wondering if you could check out a site and shed your expert light on it. A friend of mine was thinking of joining but does not know whether or not it is legitimate or even worth the time or money. The site is http://www.MackSystem.com and I believe the name of the product is “Quick EZ Money Formula”. I know that you’ve saved a lot of folks, including myself, from being scammed….and I don’t want my friend to fall victim either.
Thanks!!
Tom
Hey Tom, I can tell you anything that claims to be quick or easy isn’t going to be legitimate. You can’t make money in this industry without some serious time investment and hard work, so quick nor easy are possible.
Hi Ian,
Thanks for the recommendation. Please send me the original and latest review of the Wealthy Affiliate to me.. to see how they (Kyle and Carson) promote it. Don’t worry, if I joint I joint it through your site. Thank you.
This is the original and most up-to-date review I have of Wealthy Affiliate. The original review was added to as they added more features, so what you see above is an up-to-date version of the original review.
Hi Ian, I am seriously thinking about buying this product and following it. I would just like to make sure if membership is valid from day of payment and to the end of month or does it last until the same day next month (e.g. if I buy this product on 25th of March, will my membership be valid until 25th of April)?
Thank you very much for your answer and your priceless information.
Hey Primus! It’s good for a full month – it will rebill on the same day of the next month, not at the beginning/end of every month. I hope that helps!
Man, how I wish I had stumble upon your site before I parted with a lot, and I mean a lot of my hard-earned money to so-called internet money-making programs. I now am with WA and I did read your review. Kyle and Carson are the best. I saw you on WA and followed you over to your site, which rocks. Thanks for sharing your expertise with newbies like me and steering us straight and clear from the ‘guru wolves’ that abound on the internet. I have bookmarked your page and will come here often to check out what you have to say about new programs. Keep it up. We need more like you. Thanks again.
Hi Ian & Jed
Certainly it will take me quite some time to take it all in , ,
from what you see , do you think it is ok for me or should I think of something else .
Guy
Guy, no offense but why don’t you do as you say and ‘…join in and learn the process” I don’t wish to speak for Ian, but the way I see it, he’s given you pretty much all the info he can.
Click here https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/how-does-affiliate-marketing-work/how-does-affiliate-marketing-work/a_aid/1072c6b2
and you’ll get pop-up window which will invite you to sign up for a trial account.
I hope this helps?
Jed
Hi Ian , I do not see any other comments , , have you been away , I was waiting on your reply
Guy
Hey Guy. Yes, I have been out of town at a trade show and very busy. The comment below from Jed is correct, I can’t do anything else to help or make things clearer to you. At this point the only thing you can do is sign up for a free account and see how much you like it, and decide from there whether or not a premium membership might be something you’re interested in.
I guess the next thing is to join in and learn the process ,
Let me know what to do now and how
Thanks Guy
Heh ! thanks Ian
Guy
I find price , eh, $47 per month… that is too high for me, as I do not know if I can make some money (I do beleive you though). Is there better price than that? I can understand that when you do make money, then you can pay a little more.
How are amounts payable normally?
Guy
Guy, there are no discounts. The first month is $19 and the remaining months are $47. If that is too much money to you, then this industry will not be a good fit for you. It is a business and will require start-up capital.
The only other program I could recommend comfortably (which has a similar price point) is the Chris Farrell Membership. That is a link to my review. If you decide neither of these products are a good fit because they are too expensive, unfortunately there is nothing else I can do to help.
Hi Ian , & thanks for reply . What are remaining months ,amounts.
How many months ? ?
Guy
$19 first month if you sign up within the first 7 days of created your account
$47/month after that as I stated in my previous comment. This membership fee applies until you cancel – there is no set amount of payments.
HI Ian…firstly i just want to say that I love your site and the honesty and integrity that comes with it. There is not enough of it in the IM world. I am a newbie at IM and have an idea for a real estate investment website…its not affliliate marketing but more a subscription model but was wondering if the WA membership would be beneficial given I have no real experience in the IM field? thanks in advance Dave
It could definitely be beneficial to you even if you don’t have any experience in the IM field Dave. Check out the free 10 day trial and see what you think.
There are 10 days free, and the link for that is in my review above. And unfortunately you cannot pay by check, only by credit card.
Dear Ian,
Thank you for your NO BS review. Its funny, I showed my boyfriend the Automated Paydays website and asked him if he thought it was a scam or not… He said, “I teach you how to make money online… Make a book about ‘how to make money online’ and then sell it to others.” I now find it really entertaining that Mr. Shaw didn’t have a hand in any part of at least 75% of his product. Guess my boyfriend was right.
And another big thank you for the info on how to obtain useful FREE alternative to this product.
Cheers,
keep up the good work,
Jen
No problem Jen! I’m glad that I could help.
Hi Ian , , , , I notice , , free membership , , how could I get , , to get started that is
Guy
Hi Ian , , and thank you for reply , the price is a lot for me , , I am retired , 75 yrs .
Can I actually try for , say 2 months. I would have to learn for sometime .
Can I also pay by sending cheque , rather than credit card.
Thank Guy
Thank you so much for making this site. I was extremely close to falling for that Google Sniper thing, until I found this site. I took a look around and noted that you don’t seem to pull any punches in your reviews, so it really says something when you give a program such a good grade. I’ll definitely look into this.
I’m glad I could help, Cory!
Hi Ian, What is the price of Wealthy Affiliate by Kyle and Carson?
Thanks,
Guy
Quebec Canada
Hey Guy! The price is $47 per month. The first month is discounted (I think $19) if you join before a certain point in your free trial. I hope that helps!
Just a quick question from a ‘noobie looking to get into IM.. Chris Farrell or Wealthy Affiliate to start my learning?
Love your site and have read both reviews.
Mike (uk)
Hey Mike! If it were me, I’d go with Wealthy Affiliate. Chris Farrell’s program is great and he’s an excellent teacher, but his stuff never takes you past pretty basic information and you’ll have to upgrade to something like WA within 1-2 months after signing up for CFM. Wealthy Affiliate teaches basic and advanced lessons too, so you get the best of both worlds whereas you only get basic with CFM. You can always try WA out free for 10 days and see what you think too!
Hi, Ian, and thank you for your review of Wealthy Affiliate. I just heard of them a few days ago, and currently have a free membership. I don’t know enough about it to say whether it will be helpful or not, but the information I’ve seen about them on the internet makes me hopeful.
I see that the comments on this review are pretty recent, but I don’t see a date on the review itself (or I may have missed it). How recent is this review? I am considering a yearly membership to WA for a pretty good price ($299), but the offer is only good for three more days, and I wasn’t planning on getting one until I’d tried it for at least a month.
Thank you again for your review!
Hey Nikki, just out of curiosity did you end up springing for the Black Friday deal or did you hold on to your free membership?
I’ve only been on your site 30 minutes but am already much less discouraged than I’ve become after several years of looking into e-commerce and finding scam after scam, or beginning to think that I really won’t be able to learn the necessary skills…Anyway, it seems to me that affiliating with you is likely to improve my chances at creating an income online. Thank you. I’ll be all over your site and looking for an email from you some time when you can squeeze me in. Gonna learn more about the Wealthy Affiliate guys, too.
Hey Jonathan! Thanks for all of the kind words! I’m happy to help you any way I can and will be here if you want to reach out via comments, email, or even telephone. Just let me know what you need and I’ll do everything I can to help. Thanks again for stopping by Jonathan!
For God’s sake, get rid of the Texas shirt picture! If you do, I have a Texas joke for ya…Not going to mention I grew up in San Antonio in my teen years, hehe.
Thanks again for your reviews, bro. Keep up the good work,
Larry F. Lorgeree
Hey Larry! There are several ways I could explain the UT shirt, but I think this is the best way:
They have the top advertising program in the U.S. and although I can’t say that I’m too proud of our football team last year or the year before, we’re getting back on track, haha! I actually grew up in SA as well but moved here to Austin about four and a half years ago and the cities are completely different from one another. I only go back to San Antonio when it’s time to visit family, other than that I’m pretty attached to Austin
But I appreciate the legitimate concern!