Let's take a step back 12.5 years. Carson and I, independently successful within the affiliate marketing space, decided to launch Wealthy Affiliate, at the time a keyword list website.
At the time, we knew the value of keywords to our businesses. They are the fundamental starting point of every search, and if we could help people understand which keywords were good (and handpick some awesome ones for them), we knew we could help people be successful.
Each and every month we would deliver a list of keywords targeting a brand new niche/segment. It was a simple service, simple platform, and the price was affordable. It was $29.99 per month, or $359.88 per year respective.
Well, it worked. People succeeded. People loved Wealthy Affiliate. People started to recommend our service.
Then something interesting happened.
As I am sitting here recording new videos for our new UX at Wealthy Affiliate, it brought back memories to the days when Wealthy Affiliate was a simple keyword list website.
Within the new UX, under Research (which is essentially all the Jaaxy features) we have a Niche Keyword List section. See below.
This is what WA was 13 years ago.
We didn't offer anything to do with websites. No hosting. No personal support. No way to communicate or engage. No training platform. No live classes. No research/keyword tools. No coaching. No live chat.
We are a keyword list membership site. Nothing more.
That is precisely what Wealthy Affiliate members were paying $359.88 per year for, and were incredibly happy with it. Our members at the time felt they are getting a great deal.
Fast forward 13 years...
And this is one TINY component of what is offered here. I would say that the Niche Keyword List platform is 1/1000th of the membership offering, yet one thing has remained consistent... our pricing. Our premium membership is actually now LESS than it was, at $359.00 per year!
Crazy right?!
This also reminded me how far we have come, how much we have evolved, and truly how many lives have been positively impacted by WA over the course of the last 13 years (almost).
It also excites me how much we have left to accomplish, although we are synonymous in the affiliate marketing world as THE place to create, grow, and manage an affiliate marketing business, we feel as though we are just getting started.
We are weeks away from our new UX (User Experience) at WA.
This is going to be an innovative new foundation for you to run you business(es) from, and it is going to lead to many new technological advancements, community improvements, streamline all levels of support, and subsequently more success.
We care about you. We care about you business. We care about you success.
Let the exciting times roll on!

Site Content is also newly launched allowing us to create content easily with plenty of images to use.
Keyword research tool - Jaaxy is being included into WA platform as well.
I see more features and tools coming into and allowing us to manage and increase our Online business easily and effectively.
I like it and will encourage more people to join WA platform.
Because bottom line, nothing else online like this exists.
Pure gratitude to yourself and Carson for all that you offer here, it is just mind boggling. And if others stick around for long enough they will realise it too. Or.... go off, waste money, time and realise that WA is truly the bomb to build a business.
Once again, thank you guys!
I am grateful to you and Carson for your innovation, generosity and care.
Forever Grateful
Mojalefa.
In the early years I found it too much of a challenge to navigate - now it is a piece of cake.
So many membership sites come up, seem good and then dwindle to nothing new.
Thank You for sticking with it, staying current and working so diligently and letting me come back (several times I might add - I do always eventually return home - like the prodigal son/daughter)
TY again
Liz
Awesome work!
Thank you!
Louisa B
If the vision is there and you are prepared to work for it and won´t stop working when there are setbacks, then many things are possible. I try to learn daily and would like to thank you again for your help.
I'm looking forward to the new UX - it will probably be time to update the WA Review then ;)
I'm genuinely thrilled to be here. WA already exceeded my expectations when I joined, and it just keeps getting better and better. I can't wait to see the new UX!!
Thank you Kyle and Carson and the team.
Thanks for pressing on with new ideas. You could have sit back and just taken in the "profits" and lived a life of leisure. But you didn't,.
Sue and I are grateful for our your innovations now and in the future.
Thanks again for moving the WA platform into new and wonderful levels of assisting us members into greater growth and higher income.
Bill
What I really appreciate even I've joined only for 4 months, it's you keep updating it.
I'm pretty sure WA has a lot more to offer in the near future, It's why I'm sure I will be a WA member for many many years to come.
Not only you teach us how to build an affiliate marketing business, you also offer us the opportunity to make a solid income by promoting your platform. This is brilliant!
I'm excited to see the new UX.
I really appreciate your efforts for continuous improvements.
I'm so happy that now Jaaxy is integrated in the system.
I'm so happy that now we have sitecontent.
I'm so happy that now we have ssl and its free
I'm so happy that now we have "pageSpeed insights"
and much more.
Hope to be still a premium member for the next 12 years.
Since the excellent Jaxxy integration we have had very few updates and improvements. Have been here a while I figured this meant only one thing.
A big update was imminent. I knew you hadn't been slacking, it's just not your style. I knew there had to be something big in the offing, and clearly, a whole new UI is that big update.
Can't wait to see it as it's not something I felt needed tweaking, it's pretty good. But I am rarely disappointed with WA Updates.
I don't know the progress details between 2005 and 2014, which was when I joined, but certainly the last 4 years have been phenominal and I have learned and implemented so much in that time.
This from someone who previously had never really used the Internet professionally; my only real online activity was email correspondence!
I fully appreciate how awesome WA is here in 2018 and look forward with great excitement to further evolution.
Kyle and Carson - and I must here acknowledge the magnificent Support team - I am truly grateful for all the help on a continuing basis and most of all for the fun
Terry
If I go to my third month I hope it will help me succeed in a successful way
It just seems that whe. I try to make one step forward I end up
Dropping back fore steps.
I pray Gods will be done.
I will make a. Other attempt to make WealthyAffitiate an extra
Comment.
I want to get on line the right way by learning
The real thing thru WA
Cheers have a great day.
THANK YOU!!!
MrGus
TKS.
How W.A. have started out and to what you have become is out of this world.
I often think to myself how amazing this platform is and how much more this Platform could actually be worth, a lot more than it is.
I have only one regret and it is I have to say!
How the heck did I not find you years ago. That is the only thing that gets me down.
I wished I had found you years ago. I am here now and I am in for the long wrong.
Awesome and thank you so much to both of you. Your amazing team behind the scenes.
Thank you.
~Deborah :)
Marylou
I can’t say Thankyou enough !
Keep Doing What Your Doing
Your Truely Amazing
Lisa
I am looking forward to the new UX that you and Carson have devised!
What people paid then does not compare to what they are getting today, and the price has not gone up ... which is a plus for members! There is a lot offered here for us, and I'm glad to be part of it and learning some new things daily.
Honestly, there is still a bit that I am not familiar with (and get frustrated with myself at times) because I want to know everything about all of this ... but it will take time.
Thanks for the post and keeping us informed!
Regards,
Cathy
Thank you and God bless.
Because you and Carson were not afraid to serve and to get down to the work right along with us who are trying to build businesses, even when essentially, you could have a team do this for you, has always shown the integrity you both have, which has made all the difference in the world with this keyword list website gone wildly successful and led to your leadership in the current industry.
Right from the beginning, in 2008, when I first found WA, I knew something was very different about this place and I had no skepticism after having already read some books about entrepreneurship. I was looking squarely at what I was looking for and knew my search was over.
Wealthy Affiliate was already busting out at the seams in growth by the time I found it, and as I have said many times before, is a legacy of our time - one which will be remembered for many years to come into the future.
We should never be afraid or feel it below us to bend down to lower levels if it means serving and being a servant. Those who have the attitude that they are above doing this are those that appear for a time, may get wealthy, but then fizzle out.
The Internet is chuck full of this. Even though success is slow for me, for I am slow myself in many critical ways, I am proud to be a member and seek out only the best of whatever it is I am looking for - and the business platform is no exception.
The motivation is never ending. I am so grateful to stretch beyond my comfort zone.
Thank you for that thirteen years of expertise that I enjoy today.
Thanks for your post on where You and Carson were at the start
and NOW where we are. I say, THANKS to You, Carson, Jay and
your entire team that has assembled this tremendous platform.
As a result, this unbelievable community that contributes
constantly to this organization is such a driving force. It is no wonder that WA is recognized to be a "State of the Art" Training Platform that has turned people's lives around. I have learned so much since I joined and have much more to learn. I can only
speak for myself, but I am HONORED to be a member of WA and
cannot think of anywhere else I would rather be on my journey
than where I am! Thanks to all!
Cheers,
Ken
You, Carson and the rest of your behind the scenes team have given us so much to be thankful for.
I can not wait to get enough knowledge under my belt to start pulling in referrals.
I have never believed in anything online, until I came to the site that landed me here.
When I first started here I was reluctant to write my review as I didn't know enough about this place, although I had a very good feeling,
I still wanted my review to be as honest as I am.
It didn't take me long until I was totally comfortable in writing that review.
Thank you Kyle and Carson for your desire to help others like myself and for making it possible for even the newbiest of noobs to be able to create their online business.
Thank you and I look forward to whatever Wealthy Affiliate has in store for us in the future.
I am sure it will be amazing.
Lee Ann
Open my mailbox and reads this tidbit of news.
To get any better would be impossible if this platform wasn’t genuine! Because of it’s rarity Wealthy Affiliate will reign for centuries to come
I have to tip my hat to you guys for your constant efforts accompanied with ZERO SQUEEZE on our ends!
Excited to be a member,
Shannon kamal
Keep up the Great Work Thanks
Thanks for sharing your amazing journey. It's an encouragement for me to know that this is a real market let alone one in which you could be successful at.
Wishing both of you 13 more years of success and may there be more stories that can only happen in your wildest dreams!
Cheers...Charles
Thank you for all the hard work you do
Christine
I am a slow learner but enjoying and learning on every bit of the trip with WA, and looking forward to the new UX! I am sure that it will be an exciting asset for WA and each of us who are one this journey with you!
Thank you and WOW!----to Carson, Kyle and "Little" Jay and the rest of the gang!
Keith
This time business is survival, business is life.
I'm talking net revenue not gross sales
As we grow our life our ability expands with a quality of well-being.
Team work is our strength driving ability beyond our dreams and building an infection of positive success with honesty in all members at Wealthy Affiliate that is not seen in most of the internet.
Thank you for your time, Tom Short.
Believe it or not about 6 or 7 years ago, I was actively looking for ways to make money online and I actually did stumble upon Wealthy Affiliate back then, but like a lot of people when I started digging into it, I wanted to make money as quickly as possible and felt that I could not be successful at WA so I just left it alone. Needless to say I did come back a few years later and here I am. While I'm not reaching the financial level I want yet, I am on my way there and have made some revenue here which proves to me this does work if one is willing to put in the time and take action. I'm so glad I came back to WA and have seen all the wonderful changes you've made. I look forward to see what the next 13 years will bring to Wealthy Affiliate! :)