When Wealthy Affiliates Work Hard

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I love the ranking system on the Wealthy Affiliate Site. When you work hard, it is easy to see. Your rank decreases. When I first signed up, it was amazing. I was not ranked. With simple things like completing my profile, uploading a profile photo, I saw myself ranked. At first I was shocked that I was ranked somewhere as far back as 85650.

Activity Improves Ranking.

I then realized that when I worked on my lessons, my rank improved. When I wrote a blog my rank improved. When I helped someone else, my rank improved. It was great to see the rank improve and I was quite pleased with myself when I got to top 200. That was a great milestone.

Inactivity Leads to Rank Regression

One day I rejoiced that I was 155. The next day I found I was 164. I was perplexed. Then I understood that ranking is not a static achievement. You have to keep working to keep it. Take a weekend off for a wedding...great. It will show in your ranking. Recently I worked hard and got to 149. Two days later I was at 174. Then I realized what was happeneing.

Hard Working People Do Overtake You

The harder people work, the better their ranks. Since no two people can occupy the same rank, when someone progresses towards the lower numbers, those who are not working as much will regresss. So I learnt I have to keep working to maintain my rank.

Prestige and Productivity

I had to ask myself why I felt disappointed about my regression. There is something subtle in each human being that wants to see us at the top. Call it power or anything you like. It is not difficult to see that the prestige of a high rank can make one loose sight of why we are all on WA. I realize that productive activities towards the goal of attaining financial freedome must always remain my fucus.

What is in The Rank For Me?

I had to decide whether blogging was helping me achieve my goal. I can sincerely say not really. Working on my website and helping other people on the other hand will help me reach my goal. Therefore, I have to choose which route to pursue. My resolve is to spend more time working on my lessons and building my site.

What if it is difficult?

Whoever said it was going to be easy? When I spent one day trying to figure out a simple assigment on the site, I finally took courage and asked. The answer came within 2 minutes from another use. I was able to complete the task. Then I realzed, I could have completed the task even earlier if only I had asked the question.

At Wealthy Affiliates, I am learning that you have to ask and it will be shown you. Seek and you will receive the answers. Knock at the doors of the live chat. Great resource there.

Ask and You Shall Recieve

So in conclusion for the benefit of those who are new, Ask. Ask. Ask. Ask. Forget about your rank for a minute. Work hard at your site. The ranking will take care of itself. Be one of those hard workers who cause my rank to shigt constantly. Congratulations.

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I am conscious of my ranking, and I work on it a little everyday, but I am not making it my number one priority. Making and meet friends has taking up my time, as well as working on my site. I think being an Ambassador would be awesome, though and it's in the scope of my goals.

As the traditional ballad goes "Seek and You Shall Find, Knock and the door shall be opened, Ask, and it shall be given". So true in WA.

You struck a few nerves and for reasons beyond my control, the heart is willing but the opportunities are few. I took note of the ranking and tried to understand it. Ranking must be for me unimportant or it will become more important than it should be. Life happens and I'd never miss an event to live so that I could maintain rank.

Watching the heart intentionally is crucial. I had to make sure my prioritiesa re right and that I am not chasing the rankings.

Interesting thoughts on how this rank works and where to decide on what to focus on. Thanks.

Great insights! Thanks for sharing!

Honestly, I don't give rank here much attention. My main focus is on my website that is going to make money. When I'm on breaks or early morning, late evening, I will help. Must keep your eye on the prize, your business. Thanks for sharing and very well said.

Lots of true and good information. The ranking thing is cool but can be disappointing when we watch it drop, we humans and our addictions with numbers I am fascinated with the mpg feature on my car in a similar way. Not wanting do anything to negatively impact the numbers. Yet if you spend all your time here you don't do your work- on your own site. I have sought to find a balance between the two I learn even when I answer others questions, this helps me too as there are many ways to do things, rarely just one. Yet that instant help is awesome and I appreciate it so I try to take a bit of time to give it back and not waste people's time with cheap answers but to reflect and give thought to what I am saying hopefully to add and gain something of value from the conversation. Where nice job comments are great, taking time to really reflect and discuss topics helps to build strong relationships and takes things deeper enabling us all to do a better job on respective sites as we grow from our interactions and relationships in community. I think a lot of the power of wealthy affiliate comes from the strong community and awesome education combo. :)

Thanks for the sharing a thought on ranking...and the encouragement to work hard at your site. Having lost a few days was frustrating but will get back to working hard at my site!

I just can't believe in 6 weeks I have a website that is indexed and have learned enough to contribute and have some answers for others. I make an effort to read the blogs and questions and answers for everyone I follow. It takes time, but the value is so worth it. So many questions are answered for me before I even know I need it. Also, the quality of people here at WA is amazing. I just love it.

Congrats!

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