You have to actually earn commissions first, did you earn any?

Hi innocent

Payments of commissions earned by referring others to Wealthy Affiliate are paid out on the 1st of every month

Articles on your Dashboard are for you to communicate with the WA members. These posts are only for WA members but can be searched out on Google as WA has a very high domain authority. So if your WA post gets searched out by some stranger on the internet sees your WA post, they will have to register a free account to read it and if that happens you will gain a referral. These posts have nothing to do with your website or affect your online business in any way.

The posts on your website is for YOUR online business, for your niche. These posts should be created according to the training lessons in the OEC course, under Training on left menu.

I hope you see the difference and if you go through the lessons, you will learn how to write on your website.

Are you talking about your personal blog post on WA and the content (Article) on your web site... If so they are two separate things. The WA blog is internal only and seen by fellow members. On the WA one I like to write about my progress, Day to day things that are happening to me or some training information. Jim

The WA Rank just tells people how active you are on the WA platform. You don't have to pay attention to this and working on your website is much more important.

WA ranks has nothing to do with how successful or how well a member is doing on their online business.

Hi,
Ranking benefits here in WA is your activity progress towards your goal and the transformation towards success. This will remind you how far you are going and the knowledge you gain, like me I have no clue and zero knowledge with online Marketing or networking. Since WA have ranking and this motivates me to do more work building my website.

there are no benefits whatsoever in your ranking. It is an internal metric and you cannot assume because somebody has a high rank that they are more successful economically or that they know more. It reflects activity and time spent in the community and nothing more. Your primary reason for being here is to build a successful website to give yourself financial freedom

Only blog posts you write on WA blog can be read by others and live on the internet. Any posts to your own website are not read by WA members unless they know your site url which most won't unless you put it under your profile (under Follow Me... section) or you are asking for comments on your blog for your own website. But all posts on your website are live on the internet as well, but most people aren't going to see your posts on the internet until your website ages a bit more and it gets indexed and ranked by Google.

As Alan says and to confirm it, he has you covered.