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So, I'm still figuring out this social media thing. Last night I was on Facebook, and I started getting a lot of friend requests. ​This morning I had a lot more.

I

When I get friend requests from people I don't recognize, I check for the number of mutual friends. I look at the mutual friends and about all of them are fellow WA members, so I accept the request. I accept only if there are mutual friends. If it's a brand new FB account, I don't accept.

Sounds good. Thanks.

I just looked at your WA profile. Looks like you've added your Facebook link for people to follow you. This can be a reason why you get so many friend requests.

You can always check if you know them from WA or from somewhere else. If you are friends with other WA members on Facebook, you can always check if you have mutual friends with the one who sent you a request.

Most likely it's someone from WA who saw your Facebook link on your profile or saw you as a mutual friend with others in their friends' list.

But that's not only with WA members. In general, the more friends you follow, the more friend requests you'll get. For many people it's enough to see you're a mutual friend of their friends to send you a request.

Same goes for groups. If you participate in groups, you'll get a good amount of friend requests from group members.

At the end of the day, you decide which ones to accept or to decline.

Happy networking. I just sent you a request. :)

Yeah, I usually look at the number of mutual friends. If we have a lot of common friends then hopefully they're OK.

I have been trying to post more to groups lately also.

I'll be happy to accept your request the next time I get on FB.
Thanks Nicole.

Weird things on social media; That is one of the big reasons I don't belong.

A lot of sketchy people out there.
Thanks Mickey.

Sounds great as long as you check them out first.
Is this on your private account, or did you make an account for your website.

It's personal, and I've been checking their profiles.
Thanks Patsy.

I add fishermen all the time. I sent the requests to begin with. Now they come in after I post content.
Do be careful who you accept. I click over to their profile first. If they only have 1 or 2 posts, it's most likely a fake account.

Yep, I'll keep checking their profiles before accepting.
Thanks.

Always verify, the request is from a genuine individual, but we are in the business of attracting traffic to our page(s) and with that there is a risk that some of our visitors are not real.

Thanks, I always try to be alert.

The more friends you have the more news-feeds your post show up on. The more your post show up the more friend request you receive.

Yes check each one and make sure they are legitimate profiles as about 25% of the ones I get are fake profiles with only a couple of post.

Yes, I usually check out their post, and if there isn't much there, I don't follow. Good to know I'm doing the right thing.
Thank you.

Sounds like you are and the more friends you have the more newsfeeds you show up on so it all works together.

Cool. It's encouraging to see that my work on social media is starting to pay off.

I would check out their profiles first. I get a lot of people requesting too and then when I look at their profile I find shady stuff so I'll deny it.

Yes, I see some suspicious stuff.
When a hot young thang starts messaging ME, I know something's up.
Thanks Deborah.

you and your posts have been noticed I bet :)

I hope so. Thanks Rob.

Wow. You never know. Strange things happen.

It still feels like a strange new world sometimes.
Thanks John.

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What's the deal with all the friend requests?

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So, I'm still figuring out this social media thing. Last night I was on Facebook, and I started getting a lot of friend requests. ​This morning I had a lot more.

I

When I get friend requests from people I don't recognize, I check for the number of mutual friends. I look at the mutual friends and about all of them are fellow WA members, so I accept the request. I accept only if there are mutual friends. If it's a brand new FB account, I don't accept.

Sounds good. Thanks.

I just looked at your WA profile. Looks like you've added your Facebook link for people to follow you. This can be a reason why you get so many friend requests.

You can always check if you know them from WA or from somewhere else. If you are friends with other WA members on Facebook, you can always check if you have mutual friends with the one who sent you a request.

Most likely it's someone from WA who saw your Facebook link on your profile or saw you as a mutual friend with others in their friends' list.

But that's not only with WA members. In general, the more friends you follow, the more friend requests you'll get. For many people it's enough to see you're a mutual friend of their friends to send you a request.

Same goes for groups. If you participate in groups, you'll get a good amount of friend requests from group members.

At the end of the day, you decide which ones to accept or to decline.

Happy networking. I just sent you a request. :)

Yeah, I usually look at the number of mutual friends. If we have a lot of common friends then hopefully they're OK.

I have been trying to post more to groups lately also.

I'll be happy to accept your request the next time I get on FB.
Thanks Nicole.

Weird things on social media; That is one of the big reasons I don't belong.

A lot of sketchy people out there.
Thanks Mickey.

Sounds great as long as you check them out first.
Is this on your private account, or did you make an account for your website.

It's personal, and I've been checking their profiles.
Thanks Patsy.

I add fishermen all the time. I sent the requests to begin with. Now they come in after I post content.
Do be careful who you accept. I click over to their profile first. If they only have 1 or 2 posts, it's most likely a fake account.

Yep, I'll keep checking their profiles before accepting.
Thanks.

Always verify, the request is from a genuine individual, but we are in the business of attracting traffic to our page(s) and with that there is a risk that some of our visitors are not real.

Thanks, I always try to be alert.

The more friends you have the more news-feeds your post show up on. The more your post show up the more friend request you receive.

Yes check each one and make sure they are legitimate profiles as about 25% of the ones I get are fake profiles with only a couple of post.

Yes, I usually check out their post, and if there isn't much there, I don't follow. Good to know I'm doing the right thing.
Thank you.

Sounds like you are and the more friends you have the more newsfeeds you show up on so it all works together.

Cool. It's encouraging to see that my work on social media is starting to pay off.

I would check out their profiles first. I get a lot of people requesting too and then when I look at their profile I find shady stuff so I'll deny it.

Yes, I see some suspicious stuff.
When a hot young thang starts messaging ME, I know something's up.
Thanks Deborah.

you and your posts have been noticed I bet :)

I hope so. Thanks Rob.

Wow. You never know. Strange things happen.

It still feels like a strange new world sometimes.
Thanks John.

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I've been beating my head against the wall trying to get a form to work on a siterubix site. I've tried Ninja Forms, Caldera Forms, Contact Form 7, and Form Maker.

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I have Rainmaker - The Best Readymade WP Forms Plugin
WP Galerij Custom Links and
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Thanks Loes.

I personally has not ran into any problems. A quick visit to the Live Chat may give you answers. Customer support can help too.

Thanks.

You may be on to something.

Surely this isn't the first time this has happened to someone.
Maybe it's the theme.

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Do forms not work with free websites?

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I've been beating my head against the wall trying to get a form to work on a siterubix site. I've tried Ninja Forms, Caldera Forms, Contact Form 7, and Form Maker.

Final

I have Rainmaker - The Best Readymade WP Forms Plugin
WP Galerij Custom Links and
WPForms Lite
on my free siterubix websites and they are working perfectly

When none of yours are working, please contact support
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/websites/support

Thanks Loes.

I personally has not ran into any problems. A quick visit to the Live Chat may give you answers. Customer support can help too.

Thanks.

You may be on to something.

Surely this isn't the first time this has happened to someone.
Maybe it's the theme.

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Okay, I've completed the Certification Courses and started the Affiliate Bootcamp and I'm a little confused on the max number of affiliate links that are okay to use in posts.

In my opinion, 2 or 3 links in a blog of about 1000 words would be reasonable.

Thank you Achuthan.

A link to a WA blog or training is only considered an affiliate link by Google if it has your affiliate ID number at the end of the url.

However if you are the author/creator of the WA blog or training and you post the link WITHOUT your affiliate ID number, Google will see it as just an ordinary link, however it will still act like an affiliate link if someone joins WA from it.

Ahhh. So that's why Kyle can have so many links in his. Correct? That's very helpful.
Thanks Robert.

Yes. This is why I write many WA blogs that promote WA. Not only because the WA blogs will get indexed and ranked in Google, making it possible for someone to join, but also because I can place links to my WA blogs on my website and Google will not see them as affiliate links.

That's some great information. I may have to try that myself.
Thanks again Robert. I appreciate it.

You are welcome.

Depends. On an 800-1000 word article I use no more than 2. I just wrote a 2000 word review and used 3.

Thanks Geoff.

I guess it depends. I have more on my business site but I pretty link them. My fishing site uses Amazon so I can't pretty link them. But I link with big calls to action that lead to the main product page. Not the individual product. That way people see more choices. So I don't really need more than 2 links on my fishing articles.

Okay. I've heard of pretty links but haven't gotten to that yet. I think it's covered in the next phase.
Thanks again.

3-5 is the best range!

Thank you Michael.

3 is good even 4 too.

Take care

Marcelo

Thanks Marcelo.

5 is a good rule of thumb.
When I go over this, I tend to add more internal links.

Thanks Paul.

A link to a blog or training is an affiliate link. I use one only. I do two to three other links in a post, one affiliate and to internal.
I believe the longer the post the more links are OK.

Thanks Dianne, I guess what threw me off was the fact that Kyle had so many in his WA review. Why would this be?

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Okay, I've completed the Certification Courses and started the Affiliate Bootcamp and I'm a little confused on the max number of affiliate links that are okay to use in posts.

In my opinion, 2 or 3 links in a blog of about 1000 words would be reasonable.

Thank you Achuthan.

A link to a WA blog or training is only considered an affiliate link by Google if it has your affiliate ID number at the end of the url.

However if you are the author/creator of the WA blog or training and you post the link WITHOUT your affiliate ID number, Google will see it as just an ordinary link, however it will still act like an affiliate link if someone joins WA from it.

Ahhh. So that's why Kyle can have so many links in his. Correct? That's very helpful.
Thanks Robert.

Yes. This is why I write many WA blogs that promote WA. Not only because the WA blogs will get indexed and ranked in Google, making it possible for someone to join, but also because I can place links to my WA blogs on my website and Google will not see them as affiliate links.

That's some great information. I may have to try that myself.
Thanks again Robert. I appreciate it.

You are welcome.

Depends. On an 800-1000 word article I use no more than 2. I just wrote a 2000 word review and used 3.

Thanks Geoff.

I guess it depends. I have more on my business site but I pretty link them. My fishing site uses Amazon so I can't pretty link them. But I link with big calls to action that lead to the main product page. Not the individual product. That way people see more choices. So I don't really need more than 2 links on my fishing articles.

Okay. I've heard of pretty links but haven't gotten to that yet. I think it's covered in the next phase.
Thanks again.

3-5 is the best range!

Thank you Michael.

3 is good even 4 too.

Take care

Marcelo

Thanks Marcelo.

5 is a good rule of thumb.
When I go over this, I tend to add more internal links.

Thanks Paul.

A link to a blog or training is an affiliate link. I use one only. I do two to three other links in a post, one affiliate and to internal.
I believe the longer the post the more links are OK.

Thanks Dianne, I guess what threw me off was the fact that Kyle had so many in his WA review. Why would this be?

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I published a post today and my publishing frequency went down 10%. For the week I've published 3 posts and my publishing frequency went down 20%. What gives? This is very frus

Same thing has happened to me these last two posts and its truly upsetting when you're working your tail off trying to do all these task and write quality articles; your "publishing frequency" has been at 100% the whole time, then as quick as you post newbies, it drops 10% in less than 24 hours of publishing new content! WHAT IS GOING ON?? Between this, and FB I am beyond frustrated! I'm very cranky!

I have had the same issue in the past it will correct itself just be patient and I know it's hard to be been there a few times

Sounds like a glitch to me. I wouldn't worry about it because it will not harm your Google rankings, especially if you are consistently publishing content.

Great. Thanks Robert.

You are welcome.

Mine is also doing that. I contacted support and they told me that it would "correct itself" - it hasn't. Searching through some of the other posts and comments inside WA, I am starting to believe that the publishing frequency feature might be a tad buggy :P

I published content consistently every 3 days for over a month and my current publishing frequency is 20%

Okay, I hope you're right and they get fixed. Thanks for commenting

I'm not sure that they are actually working on fixing it. The posts I found about it were kinda old (a year-ish, or more). I'd say to just keep plugging away at your usual pace and not worry about what it says in SiteManager for now. You know how often you are publishing. If you are happy with that then don't worry too much about the green bar :P

Sounds good. Thanks a lot Nancy.

Thank you lunatrix! That is super refreshing to know! I have been running in to trouble with everything yesterday and today. It is all making me a cranky witch, lol!

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Why is my publishing frequency go down?

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I published a post today and my publishing frequency went down 10%. For the week I've published 3 posts and my publishing frequency went down 20%. What gives? This is very frus

Same thing has happened to me these last two posts and its truly upsetting when you're working your tail off trying to do all these task and write quality articles; your "publishing frequency" has been at 100% the whole time, then as quick as you post newbies, it drops 10% in less than 24 hours of publishing new content! WHAT IS GOING ON?? Between this, and FB I am beyond frustrated! I'm very cranky!

I have had the same issue in the past it will correct itself just be patient and I know it's hard to be been there a few times

Sounds like a glitch to me. I wouldn't worry about it because it will not harm your Google rankings, especially if you are consistently publishing content.

Great. Thanks Robert.

You are welcome.

Mine is also doing that. I contacted support and they told me that it would "correct itself" - it hasn't. Searching through some of the other posts and comments inside WA, I am starting to believe that the publishing frequency feature might be a tad buggy :P

I published content consistently every 3 days for over a month and my current publishing frequency is 20%

Okay, I hope you're right and they get fixed. Thanks for commenting

I'm not sure that they are actually working on fixing it. The posts I found about it were kinda old (a year-ish, or more). I'd say to just keep plugging away at your usual pace and not worry about what it says in SiteManager for now. You know how often you are publishing. If you are happy with that then don't worry too much about the green bar :P

Sounds good. Thanks a lot Nancy.

Thank you lunatrix! That is super refreshing to know! I have been running in to trouble with everything yesterday and today. It is all making me a cranky witch, lol!

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Is it always "better late than never"? I've always believed that it is, but I am still learning here and I recently discovered a comment from 3 months ago that I hadn't replied

Good content in a comment never dies. Go ahead. Reply!

Good point. Thanks Michael

It's never too late Gary!

Barbara

My thoughts exactly. Thanks Barbara.


Hi Gary, it will never hurt. If you reply to an old comment, I am sure that person will be happy to receive it. It shows that his comment is interesting and relevant and, who knows, it may revive another discussion among the WA community. He may reply back to you as well.

I agree. Thanks Irwan

I get comments that are months old sometimes and just reply no problem as they are there for ever!!!

Thanks Paul.

I've replied to some very old comments on old threads.
It can often happen that the thread is "not in the news" anymore, but sometimes, you'll get an answer from the blog author.
Very occasionally, from someone who still chances upon it....
The older the material, the more likely this is to happen.

If the comment is on your site, than I'd definately agree: Better late than never.....it's always better to show engagement than not to, and a fresh add to comments content is surely always good, if still relevant.....

Thanks Therese.

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"better late than never" is this old saying still true?

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Is it always "better late than never"? I've always believed that it is, but I am still learning here and I recently discovered a comment from 3 months ago that I hadn't replied

Good content in a comment never dies. Go ahead. Reply!

Good point. Thanks Michael

It's never too late Gary!

Barbara

My thoughts exactly. Thanks Barbara.


Hi Gary, it will never hurt. If you reply to an old comment, I am sure that person will be happy to receive it. It shows that his comment is interesting and relevant and, who knows, it may revive another discussion among the WA community. He may reply back to you as well.

I agree. Thanks Irwan

I get comments that are months old sometimes and just reply no problem as they are there for ever!!!

Thanks Paul.

I've replied to some very old comments on old threads.
It can often happen that the thread is "not in the news" anymore, but sometimes, you'll get an answer from the blog author.
Very occasionally, from someone who still chances upon it....
The older the material, the more likely this is to happen.

If the comment is on your site, than I'd definately agree: Better late than never.....it's always better to show engagement than not to, and a fresh add to comments content is surely always good, if still relevant.....

Thanks Therese.

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