Does Wealthy Affiliate Really Work? More Proof!
Hello to everyone out there in the world of Wealthy Affiliate! Today I wanted to share a little something with you that hopefully you will find encouraging and inspiring. This will be especially important if you have yet to get your business off the ground or you haven't seen any money coming in yet.
It's quite common for people to get very frustrated when creating an online business. Despite everything that we have here at Wealthy Affiliate, it can be hard to push forward when we aren't seeing the money roll in. Building an online business never happens overnight! How quickly you start earning money will entirely depend on the time and effort that you put into your business.
Today I wanted to share something with you that just goes to prove how your business can grow and evolve over time. I started building the Make Money Online Zone website in October 2015. It took around 4 months before I saw any sign of money. I could have done things faster but I was working on another project at the time. Going on previous experience before I joined Wealthy Affiliate I knew that I had to gain the trust of Google if I was going to get good search engine rankings.
After writing around 50 articles for The Make Money Online Zone website, things really started to pick up. During that time there was a noticeable increase in traffic and I was starting to make a few sales.
2 Of the products that I promoted at the time are still paying me a monthly commission to this date.
You can see more about my online earnings in these two blog posts.
Wealthy Affiliate proof of earnings
How much can you make with wealthy affiliate
So does Wealthy Affiliate really work?
There is no doubt that the Wealthy Affiliate training really does work. But if you have yet to see any signs of success, let me tell you the secret...
The real secret to success within Wealthy Affiliate is in creating content on a regular basis. I first noticed a change in my site when I got to around 50 articles on my site. Since that time I have published many more! My site grows stronger the more I publish. The more keywords I target, the more traffic I get.
I believe the key to success is in targeting your audience as much as possible, creating quality content and sharing regularly on social media. And that's it!
If you are still struggling to get traffic to your site, you might also find this post helpful:
How to get free targeted traffic to your website
And here is some training that I put together on optimizing your content for the search engines.
How To Optimize Content For SEO
Hopefully this post will give encouragement to the newer members of the Wealthy Affiliate community and those that are yet to see their business become successful.
Have a great day guys!
Andrew
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You speak the truth more than anything else. Consistency on producing content is the key and the right content is also important which in turn makes that quality content.
I have over 220 posts on my website, but I've made very little money and I believe I know why. While 220 posts does seem like a lot, part of the issue is how long it took me to get to 220 posts and what most of those posts center around.
You see, I should have A LOT more posts considering my site has been around for almost 4 years, but my biggest issue is that I have not been very consistent on when all of those posts were done on my website.
Second, I haven't been promoting as much as I should have. I only have 6 official reviews on my site when there should be more. I've mostly posted about different aspects of one of those products and how I utilize those aspects, but never had a clear call to action at the end of those posts.
I realize now that I'm letting fear hold me back because I have fear of being a pushy salesman and people getting sick of my content because of it, but if you truly love a product and want others to share in your enjoyment of it, there's no reason you shouldn't tell others to buy a specific product because of the enjoyment it has brought to your life.
So now I'm trying to develop a consistency plan and starting to do some more promotion. I'm still creating posts of my experiences of the products I use, but now at the end of my current posts (not all, but some), I create a clear call to action by saying something like "Do you want to have a similar experience to what I just talked about above? If so, Amazon has an amazing deal for (said product) that you just don't want to miss out on so pick up a copy for yourself today and explore the country just as I have".
My goal for one year is to put much more of a heavy focus on product promotion and start shifting away from Google AdSense as well as utilizing Jaaxy a lot more and get better rankings and putting out much more content consistently. I've been going back through the training to catch things I may have missed and it has been extremely helpful.
Wow, thank you for sharing your story. I was exactly the same as you in the begging. I had several fears that held me back from success. Firstly, I had a fear of being boring and writing posts that were too long. Secondly, like yourself I didn't want to come across as being a pushy sales person. And finally, I also had a fear of promoting anything that I perceived as being too expensive. I now realize that I had it wrong on all three counts.
You can make money online without even trying to sell a product. Simply showing the reader where they can get the best deal is often all it takes, after an informative review. Lots of content and longer posts give your site authority. You have no problem with content though from what you are saying.
I think you are right to try and focus on keywords more. You might also find it beneficial to get more involved within your niche. Being one of the first websites to release a piece of news or review of a product often puts you in a really good position within the search results.
Going back through the training is also a good idea as the training here at Wealthy Affiliate is often updated with new material.
I wish you the very best of success for the future and hope that you will be able to share your success story on here soon. You are definitely on the right tracks with your 220 posts!
Take care,
Andrew
Thank you Andrew for sharing that and understanding what I've been going through. You're definitely right in that I need to get more involved in my niche. I certainly need to start visiting the forums more often and participate in them, not just to promote my site, but to offer help when needed and see what the biggest problems are that people in my niche are facing.
Going back through the training has been immensely helpful this far and I found some things in the training regarding Google+ that I missed my first go round or was it was just recently updated. I definitely want to have a great success story and this year I can at least say that I've gotten my first affiliate sales, I just to be more proactive and consistent so I can reach my financial goals.
Thank you for sharing, Andrew. I appreciate the information. Best wishes to you on your continued success.
Randy
Really great blog Andrew. There are times when you wonder if what we are doing is worthwhile. You are living proof that it is, congratulations.
Thank you Harvey. Believe me, I've been there so many times! I'm still not where I would like to be, but I'm very grateful to be able to earn money online.
My pleasure! It can be hard when you are working on a project, not quite knowing if it will work out or not. Sometimes we just need a little bit of reassurance that it will work out.
Keep learning and keep pushing forward. Eventually you will make it.
Take care,
Andrew
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Encouraging and motivating.Thanks for sharing Andrew
My pleasure, thanks for commenting!