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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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Look forward to hearing more of your successful story. Thanks. Chris.
Thank you for this post, for me, it works like a good pep talk. I am only halfway with my 25 posts for each of my 2 websites so I understand I still have a long way to go. The more I learn along the way the better the posts are getting. Put a video, internal and external links, you name it. There are so many things one has to think about. My websites are focused on spreading the news on the subjects of my interest but I would not mind earning some money in the future. I think you have missed my monthly WA post which I published some days ago, please have a look. All the best.
Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
Greetings from a rather dull England by the way! I would rather be in Spain right now!
Take care,
Andrew
All the best, Taetske
I always appreciate your updates! I like your advice!
Jessica
Never the less, fantastic news about your site. I wish you continued success.
Take care,
Andrew
It is really amazing how much comments can pull a post up through the ranks on Google etc. Do you notice that? I have seen this work, literally overnight.
It's great to know that you have achieved a level of success here at WA, Andrew as well as the fact that it is inspiring to other members!
Jeff
Thanks for sharing yourr journey and it's great to see some success here at WA
it will definitely inspire and motivate people here to keep going
keep doing the hard work and as you rightly pointed out
our business will pay us back in due course
cheers PB
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.
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
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.
Randy
Keep learning and keep pushing forward. Eventually you will make it.
Take care,
Andrew
