Let's start networking
Published on July 28, 2014
Published on Wealthy Affiliate — a platform for building real online businesses with modern training and AI.
I have been at Wealthy Affiliate for just over a month now and like most newbies, I have made a bit of progress moving through the training manuals and asking questions from people who have quite a lot more experience then myself.
I have also branched outside of WA looking for things other than the training here.
While there are similar perspectives I have found some interesting and new information that has also been helpful and it's always good to see different sides of every story.
With some of my new knowledge in SEO, Nofollow/Dofollow links, social optimisation, and general content writing, one of the most important things I have seen is the ability to network and become part of a community.
While WA considers itself as a community, I have recently come to see it as more of a township.
What I mean by this is, people DO help each other but with intent of help back and it's hard to create a close relationship with anyone in particular.
This can be seen in the multiple areas to drop your posts for comments: What we need is not a single comment from someone pushing up your bounce rate (There is an affect on google ranks for higher bounce rates) but people to dedicate themselves to revisiting blogs and pages on a certain basis (Weekly, Bi-Weekly or Monthly) and interacting with not only the owner (yes reply to the replies you receive!) but other members and creating discussions of interest, not just jacking a single half-arsed comment and wanting one back
Don't get me wrong, I'm loving WA and what I have created here.
What I'm trying to get at here is, we need to start banding together to create a synthetic living website until it can support itself through organic traffic.
I would like to see some people reply through PM and help me start building a community WITHIN this township.
I am already doing this with a user called Neilc. I have set up a excell document with a few of his posts (still expanding it) that tells what posts and pages I've commented on and shared through various social sites and on what dates. I plan on hitting his site every day or two, adding a few comments and shaing pages, always coming back for more!
I want to open this up to more people and introduce this roster to everyone in the hopes that we can build at a faster rate.
Share this insight
This conversation is happening inside the community.
Join free to continue it.The Internet Changed. Now It Is Time to Build Differently.
If this article resonated, the next step is learning how to apply it. Inside Wealthy Affiliate, we break this down into practical steps you can use to build a real online business.
No credit card. Instant access.