Hi Karen

Apply for one non-Amazon affiliate link to complete the training module.

If you don’t have traffic you won’t sell anything and Google will typically rank a new sight without affiliate links faster.

Frank 🎸

I had the same concern and many others too. You can keep on training and go back to areas to check off. That's what I did.

Hi Karen...my thoughts are it depends on who you want to add as an affiliate. Amazon requires 3 sales within 180 days so that might be problematic due to traffic, but others affiliates like Clickbank, are easy to add. Hope that helps a bit.

Susan :-)

Hi - just as an aside, do you have Google Search Console set up?

As your site is approaching six months old and you have a lot of content, Google should soon be looking at your earliest posts to consider where to rank them.

So, assuming you have done some thorough keyword research and chosen low-competition keywords, once your posts start ranking, you will hopefully see some traffic.

Search Console will show you the current position of your posts and which keywords they are ranking for.

I echo what many others are saying. I also went through the training wanting you to place affiliate links and sign up for them. I marked them complete without doing so as I'm not ready for affiliate links but am ready to continue learning.

Less is often more, and sites that don't feel like they care about you whipping out that credit card are the ones who will build long term recurring visitors who appreciate the value you bring them.

Regards,

Jason

Except for Amazon, who require you to have 3 sales in 180 days or they'll delete your account, you can sign up with affiliates whenever you like.

Then as you build up traffic, you can insert affiliate links as appropriate, even though they may not rank until further down the track.

You should have at minimum of 15 to 20 unique and high value posts that are drawing growing traffic and are indexed in Google before considering joining.

You can continue adding more content to your site. And continue with the training. Later you can research and find better affiliate programs to add to your relevant content. If you already know the program you want to promote and have the link you can add them when you are creating content.
In my humble opinion there is not a set of period to start adding affiliate links and you don't need to wait to have enough visitors to do that.

Yes.

I would let them marinate in the search engines before adding/turning them into commercial intent.

Hi Karen…I haven’t experienced that but many are having the issue. It’s probably another update causing a glitch. Hopefully it will be alright.

Susan

Hi, Karen

My Jaaxy results seem to be ok, but others have also reported your issue.

Frank

Thanks everyone, I'll try your suggestions and see what happens!

Yes, it's happening to me too. There's a lot of updates happening in the Research menu item and it looks like a bug has crept in. Hopefully, it'll get sorted soon.

Sorry to hear that you are having issues. Have you tried clearing out your cashe?

Also, try using a shorter keyword (if you haven’t already)…sometimes long tail keywords do not bring back much.

Also, if you’ve run a search in the past that came back with a lot of suggestions — try re-running that one to see if you get the same results.

Jaaxy seems to be running normally for me — so try clearing out your browsers cashe first.

-Mike

Try to refresh your browser as Jaaxy is working you can also use Ctrl plus F5 to refresh