How Can You Make Money At Wealthy Affiliate?

byDmonyer

249 followers

6 years ago

How I Used the Wealthy Affiliate Training to Generate My First Commission!

I wanted to write a post to show everyone how you can make money at Wealthy Affiliate and how I went from having no website, to starting a blog, to getting my first commission!

I hope this can show the newer members how Wealthy Affiliate (WA) worked for me and how it can absolutely work for anybody!

First, a little about me. I am 53 years old and work full time from home as a technical support specialist. I basically talk on the phone all day solving problems.

I also have a family that keeps me quite busy, so free time is hard to come by. I have no professional experience with websites or online businesses, only what I have learned on my own and through WA training.

The fact that you can build your online business in your spare time is a huge benefit of the WA platform. All the tools are available to you at any time! You may progress at your own pace., even late at night or on Sunday.

It took many months to get to my first commission, but it can happen quicker if you have more time to devote to the business

I Finally Made Some Money with Affiliate Marketing

I won't get into the details of my years-long search for an online opportunity, so lets just say I recently stumbled onto Wealthy Affiliate as I was researching good affiliate marketing companies and this is where things actually started to happen.

If you have the drive, desire and ambition, the only other tools you need to be successful is an account with Wealthy Affiliate and an Amazon Associates account which is completely free.

Wealthy Affiliate does offer a free account which will get you started. The free account will allow you to see what is possible, look around at all the tools and be a part of the community and ask questions. You will also get 2 free websites included and a starter keyword tool.

I started with a free account and took the training provided and was able to see very quickly that this is a legitimate business opportunity, and Wealthy Affiliate provides absolutely EVERYTHING I was going to need to make this work.

I knew from other online marketing platforms I had tried that I was going to need a good keyword tool, a good hosting platform, an easy to use tool to build my websites, a lot of training and the support of people that are already making money online.

Since Wealthy Affiliate has ALL of this and more, I upgraded to Premium and that is when things started to open up for me.

This is How I Got to My First Amazon Commission

I started following the step by step training in Wealthy Affiliate. All the things I am about to tell you are explained in detail in the training, so you do not need prior knowledge about any of it!

I thought about finding a niche. I have a few hobbies and as I considered these as possibilities, I wrote down all the topics I could write about within those hobbies.

I decided to go with my interest and experience with firearms. I was able to list dozens of things just off the top of my head that would make good posts.

I used the keyword tool and found some words related to firearms that had low competition but a good number of monthly queries. I then used these keywords to find a good domain name for my new website. This is all taught in the training at Wealthy Affiliate.

My First Post

Once I selected a Domain name, and created my website (an easy task), I decided to start by writing a review of an item I already owned. This was something I really like so it was easy to write a positive review on it.

This review became the first page of my website. I researched keywords on Jaaxy, which is the keyword tool included with the WA platform. I found some keywords that were similar in scope to my domain name and were low competition and wrote my review around them.

As time went on, I kept progressing through the training modules and following all the steps. At the end of each module there are some things you need to do. Some are quick and others take some time. But each item is designed to move you closer to success.

After a short while, I started another website around one of my other hobbies and started to write as much as I could for both sites. I am not sure I recommend this approach, because now my limited time was split between two sites, and my progress on each slowed as a result. I think I should have concentrated on one website at a time.

Content is the Key

I kept writing new posts. Some were reviews, some were training, some were instructional.

I simply wrote about the things I knew about. I wrote about things I have experienced and things I learned about my topic. Once I got started, it was not hard to write about my interests.
Eventually I started to add affiliate links to my pages and posts. I just started mentioning things that I recommended.

For example, I wrote about a training class that I took and I mentioned some of the gear that I took with me. I explained why I recommend these products and added Amazon links to them.

Another example is a post I did with step by step instructions on cleaning a particular firearm, and recommended a few of the tools and cleaners I use, and I included some affiliate links to these items on Amazon.

Nothing crazy here, just mentioning stuff I like and helping people find it on Amazon!

Eventually I started getting clicks on my website!

This told me people were actually finding and reading my articles and posts! This made me want to reread them and make them even better. So I added more new information to each one, added pictures, made some short videos and added them as well. As I started getting more visits to my site, I continued to be motivated to do more and more.

I also did more keyword research and made sure I was using lots of related keywords in my posts.

It did take me a while, but finally I am seeing actual affiliate commissions coming from Amazon!

Success at Wealthy Affiliate

So now I am a yearly member of Wealthy Affiliate Premium and am officially on my way to success!

I would say to anyone out there that is struggling with starting an affiliate website that you will need to put in some work, but it is not hard to figure out. Here at WA, everything is spelled out for you and if you just follow the steps, be patient, ask questions and write about the things you love, you will be a success story!

Dave