I feel there should be specific training on mindset.A lot of people come into this business and fail because of incorrect mindset and the wrong attitude.
There is a myth out there that this industry is a get rich quick industry.
Correct mindset may also help our referrals to stay longer in this membership.

Hi Kyle and Carson,

First of all, I am amazed with the system of Wealthy Affiliate. Amazed that there is such a great community build up here and that it is kept alive. I mean, I know plenty of places where they build a community site and then the people lack to keep stuff going such as forums and chat. That could have happened here easily as well, as people would be busy with their own website and so everything would come to a standstill, which it has not ever here so far I know.

Also I'd like to say that most systems here on WA are fantastic, if not perfect. I really like what is under the hood right now and what is to come and to be improved. I love to be part of beta stuff such as the SiteSpeed I just became part of. It looks really good and will do a big thing for websites on WA.

Having that said, I have come also across some small things that cause annoyance or at least mild irritation among us WA-ers. So having said all the positive first, I come with my constructive feedback now, as I do with all my feedback reports.

1) Live Chat
Live Chat is fantastic, but it needs a little update in two areas.
First of all the biggest annoyance or irritation among members is that it goes really really fast. Sometimes it is hard to follow the replies on stuff. This is difficult for both the one asking questions and the one helping out. Especially when there are several people being helped, it can become messy. The quick popup version under the dark blue button is nice, but is perhaps a little small for following, plus that it pops away easily too. I am not asking to remove that anyhow.

I see the same Live Chat within Activity Dashboard. There it is a bit easier to follow, but it is still very small. I know that one can open Live Chat in a separate window (tab) I do that most of the time. This however bugs from time to time and doesn't load at all. When it does work it goes fine, but after some minutes it stops working all together and a refresh or a re-opening of tab is in place.

The live chat in separate window misses all WA navigation.

My suggestion is to make that live chat in a WA with full navigation page, where the chat becomes part of the middle column. The area of chat is than a static box with scrolling content and below that the area to type.
Possibly you could add tabs to chat that automatically appear when you are in different conversations with people, as in to follow replies easily, whether that is a question you get replied to or as a helper a function to easily track questions. I am not entirely sure what is best there. Maybe colour coding can be enough already, but I thought of extra tabs per 'customer' as they have this sort of mechanic in livechat support for sites (bit experience with them).

I also often wonder whether the person I was asking for is still active or not. A way of seeing all members-in-chat would be great for as far as possible.

2) The Green "Success?" Button.

This was a question I asked recently: When is my post a success post? Many answered with their view. member 'TheBuilder' also gave me a great answer.

After that TheBuilder posted a blog: The Green Button The community responded massively on this.

Okay, I will go into detail now. This is a two fold story. In Activity Dashboard there is this category to sort on Successes. Here I personally always looked for monetary successes, because they motivated me as a newbie member that this actually works and that I should just continue with what I was doing. Unfortunately many successes were not of the monetary type, so I scrolled just along until I found a few monetary and congratulated these people.

When you write a blog there is this extra green button saying "Success Post?" I have never used the button so far, because I always felt it was about the monetary success. I have not made a monetary success yet. As soon as I do, I will report it and use that button.

After the discussions on both "my question" and "TheBuilder's blog", I figured that this button was used by many for many smaller successes such as building a site within siterubix, starting the first course, completing a course, writing their first blog on WA etc etc etc.

So on TheBuilder's blog I had a little discussion on how to improve this button's functionality. We came up with the following:

What if when one clicks on the green famous button Success Post, there would come an extra question saying:
"Congratulations on your success!

What did you achieve? Was this a monetary success or an other success?

[Monetary Success] [Other Success]"

That way you will be able to sort on monetary successes within Activity Dashboard.

It will perhaps also be an option to build a javascript / iframe code for us website builders to implement the 'testimony' of WA (because of the monetary successes) to put on our Bootcamp sites and on the WA frontpage outside login.

3) SiteComments
I understood much later that SiteComments and SiteFeedback share the same credits. I am not sure if that is a good idea, because it becomes than perhaps easier to send feedback to get credits to request comments. I leave that decission to you two, but I do see the behaviour of very short and non-constructive feedback on my sites, while I do my best to make big feedback on everyone's request.

My main problem and I think many with me, is that it is easily misunderstood sofar. Comments on a website.. unless you are an active surfer on the internet and been commenting sites before, you maybe do not know this term and so a comment can easily be feedback and vice versa.

For one part it has to do with the explanation in both the system itself and the course material.

Nathaniell had an excellent post on the problem recently: One Thing To NOT Do When Leaving Comments For another it is perhaps the naming. I have my suggestions, I am not sure if they are ideal either, but here it comes.

SiteComment should perhaps be named SiteEngagement because we have to make our content engaging and so we need engagement of the community or any visitors in general. It could also be named SiteVisitor or something, but that is perhaps less describing the actual matter of commenting the posts.

SiteFeedback for that matter is perhaps properly named, but could in the event that someone misunderstands it, also be renamed in something else, such as: SiteOpinion, because we like to hear people's opinions on the website you created.

I also noticed that when you click on Give Feedback, that the describing part of which we want to have comment/feedback on is very small. I think it is easily to oversee that someone wants "General Feedback" or "Content Feedback". I have seen several cases where the requester is totally ignored and just gets some feedback on the colours while there was a request on the content itself whether it was written properly or not.

Perhaps we need an extra describing field (textarea) where we can actually write a bigger explanation on what type of feedback we are looking for. If not, at least make it bigger and easier to see for the feedbacker, so that we can minimize wasted credits.

On the SiteComments side of things: In SiteFeedback it actually links back to the person. It is still possible to contact the person posting the feedback afterwards.
In siteComments it links to gravatar for some reason. I am unable to find members with the gravatar name.

Does one have to deny a comment if the comment was a feedback instead? I have sofar never done so. I have always just edited the original poster to something of my suiting. That way I didn't waste a credit and the person didn't get a warning.

Of course I would have loved to take contact with the person to tell them that they did their comment wrong and whether they would bother to go back in there to edit there comment accordingly.

4) Member search
Searching members can be a drag sometimes. There are many of the same name with all sorts of numbers. Its hard to find anyone, except for the one's with clear profile images or normal sounding names. There are neither enough results coming up in the top search bar.

I wish a more google approach to searching where:

A) There is a certain amount of results when one just types on autoComplete (remembering jquery now) functionality in the top.

B) When one also presses ENTER/RETURN a full search results page comes up where one can also specify what category to search for. Such as members, classrooms, training etc.

5) Where are my favourite Tagged trainings, blog posts etc?
I keep tagging stuff I think is important, but where do they end up? I cannot find them anywhere. I am sure it was once a function and not anymore.. or it was meant to become functionality and it isn't yet?
Either way, I favourited and tagged stuff that is still as hard to find as it is without those.
I just started making bookmarks in my Chrome browser for WA with subcategories such as WA Liked sites, WA Tools, WA Daily Stuff to WA Rank, WA Daily Tools to Website Rank etc.

EDIT: I just found out how it works. You click on the star on the top search box, and you get to see all your liked content. Not sure if I like it the way it is however, as it becomes a lot of links and a long list this way, in a popup window.

But I miss an option to easily link my favourite stuff, an extra menu item on the left that lets me get to a page full of my own links by category so that I can quickly get stuff done on WA.

6) Open suggestions
A) I miss a suggestions forum/classroom, where this type of posts can be placed and easily reviewed by both community and the developers. There is a good chance that my 'comment' will disappear below, while when I create separate posts such as in a forum, they will not easily disappear.
B) Would WA build their own version of a theme perhaps for WordPress that is simplistic, yet powerful for SEO and powerful in the form of being able to modify about everything. "Make" is such a theme I am currently using, but am not that much happy with it either. Would be cool if WA had their own theme that many can use.
C) Would perhaps WA build their own localisation plugin for Amazon? Currently there are only a few plugins and they all require some type of monthly subscription. I'm in the border of writing a plugin myself.
D) Keyword Lists is horribly outdated. Perhaps give the community the option to add more stuff here for new members. Replace the entire system from pdf's to something more dynamic as well.
E) So far I haven't used the Link Tracking option yet. It is neither described in the main course material. Perhaps I should find some tutorials on it, but I was surprised to see that it was an external system and not something integrated on WA platform.
F) I think we could have more options within automatic messages for Affiliates.
G) Perhaps add a little bit of formatting to comments on posts like this one, but perhaps that's not a good idea either because then you can get a lot of problems with formatting, but anyway, some simple options such as bold would be nice. Would have made this long comment more readable. :-)

Other than that I'd like to say that the courses need updating. Stuff has changed a lot lately and so we end up answering a lot of the same questions over and over again simply because there is either missing info or things that have been replaced by different tools nowadays. To name an example: Sometimes there is talk about Yoast or Allin1SEO functionality, google webmaster tools functionality etc that is not existing any longer or not installed by default. Some plugins have changed as default install on siterubix too since the new hardware, so things need updating and reviewing. I gladly proofread, as long as I can report it somewhere, like I did now.

Sorry, became a bit long ;-)

Steven

It has been quite a journey for me also. I was moving quite slowly at first, but then I began trying to help others as well. Then I started moving faster through the courses. I moved more quickly until I finished C3.
I then began to have back problems and got away from working WA. My rank level began to drop and I didn't have the motivation I had before.
Now I my back is getting better. I am trying to get more motivated by helping others again. I am now in C4L6. and hope to finish C4 near the end of the month.
My major problem now is I am not getting any real response on my website. Only family and friends have commented other than from the comments section.
If I do everything that the course tells me to do, when should I begin to see some real results. (comments and buying books, experiments, science equipment, etc.)
I enjoyed the summary . There is so much to learn.
My website is science-books.org

Well, so far it's been a journey. I am not particularly tech savvy, and the process of learning something new can be very frustrating, especially if the information you are given in the lessons is not current. However, the one thing I am is persistent. I've made it to level 7 and though my head frequently feels overloaded, I will continue to press onward. I do appreciate WA for making the process easier. Had I tried to learn all of this by myself, it would have been much more frustrating and long. I will mention many of the videos require a bit of creative thinking since the information is not as current as it could be and not only WA, but also all the social media have changed. I hope these are some of the issues you are already addressing. Thank goodness for the WA community who have saved me great amounts of frustration! That unique feature of WA is priceless!

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Well i have a suggestion. Better late than never. I don't know if it can be done though or if it's practical.

Anyway, my idea is:

Site Social

The same way we have site comments and feedback, if we could have a similar place but for social shares.
The same principal would be applied. You have to share 2 posts through your social media accounts to request 1 social share. Members will have to add their social media URLS let's say the 3 big ones (Facebook, Twitter, Google+) from the beginning and they will only be able to share through those accounts. That way we prevent fake accounts that some may try to create.

The negative aspect could be that it might look like you are encouraging members to spam. Some members may do that, or don't realize they are doing it. For that a limit might be introduced. Like you can't share more than 4 posts in 24 hours.

The only reason i make that suggestion is that social media shares are being a factor on how Google ranks websites. Not sure if that's true but i read somewhere.

Maybe the whole idea is a bit unethical for some and it can't be done just for that. But i don't see it like that. Just a recommendation.

I'd like to see the premium access period for Starter members to be extended from 7 to 10 days, and a selection of Jay's 'older but still relevant' webinars be added as a bonus. So 7 days premium access + 3 days with bonus webinar training.

It could even be added with a tick box option that says at the end of 7 days: "Not ready to upgrade yet? Tick box if you would like additional free training.

If the free member opts in for the additional training, it is an indicator of their interest.

Such access could give starter members a stronger and more immediate sense of connection to WA.

It would be interesting to see if it affects the percentage of upgrades.

~Jude

I just thought of another suggestion:

When someone reaches ambassador status have them take a short multiple choice test on the acceptable posting guidelines as outlined here: Spam is a NO NO! Don't make them an Ambassador until they have passed the test. Give them unlimited attempts and make it open notes/open book, but don't give them ambassadorship without passing the test with 100% score.

This way all Ambassadors are aware of the guidelines/rules.

I'm loving the new update's that are coming. I'm really interested in the Mobile features coming. Is one of the features on the mobile side going to be a app? Something that I can share with prospects on the go. And I can run my business from on my phone. Using the internet on my phone is challenging and not very comfortable.

A app where I can show a prospect WA, the prospect can down load the app and we can communicate with each other and they can sign up from there. (And that prospect would be affiliated through me)

A app, once they down loaded it I could walk them though certain topics. (Thing there interested in, Hot topics that peak there interest, ) Instead of me showing them my phone, they can experience it on there own phone and we can go though it together. To me this would give them ownership, and feeling like there already apart of the WA community.

I don't know if this is possible but it would be a great tool to share for new possible affiliate's.

Respectfully,
Darin

Hi Kyle,

I haven't been around lately, but learning about the Facebook Ads training is a pleasant surprise. I'm glad to see WA continuing to provide training in the PPC space.

Things I would like to see:

-Currently there are toggle buttons in the Activity Feed for "Everyone", "Friends", and "Referrals". It would be nice if there was an "Excluded" option. This would essentially be all of the activity from people who you don't want to see their content in your "Everyone" feed, but still allows you to check in periodically and see if they have problems/questions you can help them out with.

-Be able to opt out of receiving notifications of blog posts, questions from certain people. This ties into my recommendation above. Currently, you either have to look at "Everyone" and filter through content that you may consider to be junk and spam or you can just look at "Friends" and "Referrals". If you have a person that clogs the activity feed with a bunch of junk, the only thing you can do is to follow everyone on WA except for the people that you don't want to see their content, then you would be able to use the "Friends" tab effectively. Obviously, it's impossible to follow everyone on WA.

-More fine tuning of the Ambassdor system. I realize there is a social aspect to WA, but people shouldn't become Ambassadors by having a group of 20-30 people that "like" their frequent posts that have absolutely nothing to do with internet marketing/online business.

Kyle, I sent the following (long) message to you as a PM & did not get a reply, so I am posting it here:

WA - Evolution

Kyle’s Blog Post about WA… now & in the future
In response to your Blog-Post: “ Wealthy Affiliate Review in 2017, An Open Discussion "

In the Animal-Kingdom, what causes a new & superior Species to Evolve?
It happens when a Mutation occurs, that gives rise to an improvement within a present Species. This results
is a Superior-Species… it's Evolution.

This same Evolution can happen within WA, as it has several times in the past.
The first step would be adding another Feature/Benefit to the platform.
This falls in line with the ideologies and motives that drive the Wealthy Affiliate platform forward.

In addition to WA’s current Features/Benefits: (state of the art hosting, websites, expert help, training resources, live video classes, and access to the founders), this new addition would be something that is not readily available on the Internet, elsewhere.

This would be an expansion of the most helpful and altruistic community. It would be an extension of the current "Community-Support". It would be another addition to the “Smart-Training-Menu” and a way to bring clarity-of-process to the forefront.

ebm47 made an interesting statement [Quote]: My only downside of WA is the community at times tends to be more FB then online marketing. I bet I get 50 emails a day and only 50% are about business. The people are all great, and making business friends is great but this is a business. I am probably way off base on this.
This new addition would solve this Problem.

Everlight also had an interesting comment [Quote]: What i would love to have is a guestposting platform. A platform that make us easier to match with other members that have similar niche…
Having a place to chat with other people with similar interest would augment the Community experience.

“WA-Wiki-Chat-Rooms” could be a Gathering-Place/Community of a Population of Residents chatting about various, common, relevant topics.

Such a “Chat-Destination” could be a “Meet-Up” & “Chat-Up” location with “Chat-Threads” & “Chat-Profiles” for Collaboration & Archiving of relevant information.

Such a “Chat-Location” could be a "Source/Resource-Location" for a populace to congregate.

It could embellish our Community-Environment & provide a location the find & meet friends with similar interests.

There could be an ever expanding Sidebar of Room-Topics.

It could be superior to a Forum or FB Group.

I would love to have a place to connect, communicate, build Relationships, exchange information & help others.

Thanks,
Wally

Mostly very happy with what is available at WA. Some of my concerns have already been covered in other comments(updated training etc.) One thing I am constantly coming across when I run scans or speed checks is being told-" Reduce server response time". I receive this warning from several different testers. Is this something that is in the future plans at WA or ?? as this is not something we can deal with ourselves.

Thanks so much for the update and your thoughts. I'm fairly new but that is the one thing I respect about WA. The owners are engaged in the site, keep it relevant, and look for our feedback. There is still so much training for me to take advantage of, I don't even know what I don't know yet so I'm just trusting that all the enhancements will benefit me.

I have experienced that some of the videos in the training do not match what I see on my screens. But I realize updates occur all the time and you can't redo the training at every turn.

I'm still able to get the facts of the training and move forward. This has been an eye opening experience so far. Thank you. Debbie

I've been very pleased with Wealthy Affiliate. I'm not sure how this can happen because it's different with everyone and niches are all over the place, but is there a gauge or barometer of 'success' or when we should abandon ship for another niche? I guess what I'm saying is, most of us don't want to spend more time on mistakes. How do we know if we're moving forward? Say if we've been posting 3 times a week for a year, and we still have zip going on, time to give it up? Anyway, something like that might be helpful. :-)

It definitely is interesting, seeing all the great progress being made here at WA, and how much more efficient this site has become since its humble beginnings.

Honestly, I have only one suggestion, and I think it is one that needs to be taken very seriously.

Many members start here for free because they are unsure whether this is a scam or not. They have a free trial where they are given nearly all of the premium member benefits for seven days, and that is a good idea.

The only issue I have is that free members have a massive paywall on almost every resource after their trial ends. I understand the need to limit content so that they will buy your product; that's simply good business.

However, some of these restrictions seem a bit harsh. Coming from someone who has always struggled with money and who originally had a hard time paying for this site, I can safely say that the lack of outreach towards free users is baffling at best and overly harsh at worst.

What is the first thing people want to do before they purchase anything?

Ask questions.

It's been stated both in your official lessons AND in the resources you've linked in those lessons that the very first step in the customer purchase lifecycle is RESEARCH.

Free members, after their first week, do not get to research.

Instead, they have their ability to ask questions restricted/limited, cannot use the live chat, and cannot use many of the resources and features of this site that would normally help them make an informed decision on whether they should invest in this site.

One week is a very short time to decide whether a very large series of lessons is a good investment, as the typical working man would only have a couple of hours a day to put into working through the lessons. That means by the time the week is up, most people would just barely be getting close to the end of the first lesson, and wouldn't see really any success other than the small satisfaction they get from completing them. They would be receiving zero dollars and zero cents, have zero promotion, and the basic skeleton of a website.

Now, the argument could be made that a week's time is plenty of time to ask questions, but the first lesson in the course is very basic, and most people who are computer literate can easily complete it with very little trouble, meaning that the first week where people are given time to ask questions is essentially WASTED.

On top of this, most people who end up contacting entirely new members are people who have already had success with the site, and who may have a bit of a bias towards Wealthy Affiliate and away from the newer user. After all, they worked hard and got where they were, right? They've already run the race.

As a result, members who don't pay anything end up being given little to nothing to go on before they are forced to decide on making a purchase.

When I first started, I took a chance, and I don't regret it one bit. But most users aren't that trusting or naive. They want solid answers, and this can be hard to provide with only one trial week.

That being said, I have a solution I think will make all parties happy:

Two weeks.

A month I believe is too much for free. An entire month of essentially free membership? No, that isn't fair for you or Carson. They get to use all those tools for an entire month for free, and potentially begin making money without spending a cent. Not OK.

But with two weeks, they get to see how their website has the potential for growth, and the potential to make money. They have an extra week to begin promotion and finish setting up the foundation, and possibly start writing content for their site. They have the chance to get excited about things, and they actually get a true taste of what this site is all about.

They also have an extra week to ask all the questions they need, which is one of the best things about this idea.

Please feel free to tell me what you think of this by replying. I'm always open for civil debate and suggestions!

Kyle:
WA is my online marketing tool box. If I forget something, I have a place I can go back to and look it up. If I have a question on how to do something I have a place to go to and get the answer. I have my websites, and domain names all in one place. I also have a place where I can make money (someday) with a product I believe in, besides the products I promote on my websites and landing pages.

The biggest hurdle is getting people from the free subscriptions to the premium. Maybe lifetime free is too generous? Or 30 day trial with a credit card for auto charge after the 30 days unless canceled.

My only downside of WA is the community at times tends to be more FB then online marketing. I bet I get 50 emails a day and only 50% are about business. The people are all great, and making business friends is great but this is my business. I am probably way off base on this.

You have done a great job with WA. Keep improving it.... It is a great service and a worth while investment for me/my business.

Ed

Hi Kyle
What do I love about Wealthy Affiliates? Where do I start? I think the knowledge that there is a "hot line" (PM feature) to "the brass" of Wealthy Affiliates (yourself and Carson, and other members who have distinguished themselves as movers and shakers and goal oriented,obviously the Ambassadors, should you feel the need to contact them.
Then there are the awesome resources and support every step of the way.
That I haven't made it to Vegas yet is not a reflection on WA, just my own circumstances and priorities for the time being - but it's wonderful being here.

Wow some great and exciting updates here. thanks Kyle.

What i would love to have is a guestposting platform. A platform that make us easier to match with other member that have similar niche with us and then we can trade guestposting or pay with WA credit (if you don't want to trade).

Cheers,
Ferdinand

Hi
I'm just a beginner and staring out but very much enjoying what I'm learning. I realise that if I want to get to where I want to go I must be willing to be mentored and guided along the way and most probably this will never end but a time will come when I'm off my training wheels and able to move forward and realise my goals.
I'm a sponge at the moment and I know I need to be and WA is providing what I need to move forward and reach my goals.
Thank you.
Pringle

I would love to see training on using Google Webmaster Tools & Analytics. I know there is already training, but the interface has changed and I don't know what to look for anymore! Also, in the Bootcamp training the PPC videos on Bing are outdated because that interface has also changed :(

Also, could you guys please look at enhancing our atmail webmailers or replacing them with a better alternative? lol. I've had a couple of issues with mine...

Today and on a few occasions, my browser has had a problem with loading my webmailer login page, and I can't even bulk delete any of my emails for some reason. Over a 1,000 have built up, but I'm having to manually delete each one. It's been like that for the last few months.

Sounds amazing, I love the diversity of training that WA offers, have always received good support over the 3 yrs I have been here , When I was searching my choice was WA and Chris Farrell after carefully weighing it up I felt WA had the edge as you were transparent about costs and that is important when setting out to do something you have zero experience with , I feel this has been the best use of my money for sometime now and I so look forward to the year ahead

Awesome stuff Kyle what you guys are doing here st WA is more than enough to help anyone to get a business started and get it making money. No I haven't made any money yet because I am so focused on getting leads for my business that I find myself on the social panels just posting away. I have gained 35 leads in the past 2 and half months here, not that great, yes I know but I attend on improving and if it takes e a whole year to figure this out then so be it but I will be successful. There is no other programs out there that offer what you offer here at WA I have tried alot of them their training can't stand up to your training here at WA. I can't thank you enough for this opportunity to be apart of a growing and successful network here with you and this amazing community thanks so much you guys.

Wealthy Affiliate Changed and i am now equipped with lot of skills on making money online. I LOVE THIS PLACE!

My wish list is this:
1. I am from Africa and it is not all of us that are scammers. I have been here for almost a year now on premium. Some countries are still restricted from joining WA Please do something about that.

2. Can You please incorporate other payment methods aside PayPal. Something like direct payment to account of members (let the members pay the charges); Payoneer MasterCard etc.

WA is like home for me and i am liberated with a lot i have learn here and i am still learning.

Thanks You

All the wealth of experience about online marketing is what I want from Wealthy Affiliate[lol]. On a more serious note, Update 2, this has helped me know where I am at, what has been done and what has been undone. Very great Carson, Kyle and your crew members, KUDOS to you all.

Eagerly awaiting all the other up dates.

Kyle great update. I’m really looking forward to their implementation especially the updated training.
Many thanks to you, Carson & the whole team.

I love so many things about WA, here are some of my highlights:
- The fact that you interact, update & listen. Just like this fabulous open discussion, so many great ideas from members.
- The fact that the WA platforms are continuously evolving to make it an even better user experience.
- The fact that we have an awesome, helpful - community; siterubix support team & behind the scenes team.
- The fact that WA is a University for building an online business, with a mastermind group, Website Host with ssl, Domain seller all under one roof. Great foundation to becoming the “all inclusive”.

Fabulous open discussion. So many great ideas from members. A few that they’ve mentioned that would be part of my wishlist too…
- Autoresponder as suggested by several members, glad to hear it’s not off the table.
- Improved email platform as suggested by several members.
- Members own dashboard, a blend of what thriftymom & Pernilla suggest below.
- Service Exchange area for members, sort of what DaveSw & Dustinb talk about below.

As you’re not giving too much away of what’s in the pipeline here’s my wishlist & thoughts:

Time Saving Features
For the majority of us time is of the essence. As much as we may want to we just can’t read, absorb & evaluate the authenticity of the solution given in absolutely every post / question & comment. Many times there is conflicting or inaccurate or out of date advice. Help us save time & sift through the noise. Making it a much more efficient & useful knowledge base.

So here are some thoughts on improving this.

- Search for help here…
~Great to have, I use it a lot.
However I feel it’s also a very time consuming exercise going through every result to find the ones that will actually help with the issue at hand. What defines what order the search results appear in?

It would be really useful to have the date created & its usefulness to members displayed in the results. Liking a post doesn’t necessarily mean it was useful, there are many different reasons for liking a post or training, including I like the sound of this but I haven’t tried it out or I too am looking for the answer. Someone implementing the training or whatever the post discusses then able to grade how it worked for them would be useful to others searching. So a “useful” button or star system would be advantageous.

- Ask a Question
~Could we have a button say “Solution Found” that only the person asking the question can activate when they’ve received the solution?
& maybe encourage the person asking the question to edit their question by adding a Solution Found section with the answer to the question.

This together with a symbol/icon representing “Solution Found” in the search results & in the activity post roll would help in 2 ways:

1) It would improve members asking the question in getting their answer. Often a question that is still waiting for an answer or solution is missed. Just because it has comments doesn’t mean it has been answered or the issue has been resolved.

2) When other members search the same thing they’re sure to get the solution quicker, without having to open all search results.


- Activity Dashboard post roll
~Last few months I’ve noticed many posts/questions being at the top as if they were recent. On opening them I notice that they were last updated maybe months even years beforehand. Even scrolling down through the comments nothing jumps out that it’s a current discussion. Why is that?

~It would really be cool if we could see which posts we’ve read & which ones have an update since we read it whether it was edited or comments were made. Somewhat like our email inboxes do.


Transparency of how WA works
WA information is so spread out & not that easy or quick to find. Many a time they’re hidden in posts &/or comments. Many times questions are raised and answered by well-meaning members with their interpretation of something they have read which is not necessarily correct. This leads to misinformation being spread through the grapevine. This can also be seen in numerous WA reviews.

I do feel that anything that is WA should come from WA authority, and made easily noticeable & accessible to its members. Possibly in the form of an FAQ section which can easily be found in the side menu & under our profile picture. In other words one central point, with a very obvious name, with its own search facility, explaining how things work, what they mean in WA. Broken up by category & kept up to date by the powers that be. The request update button for each section could be employed to help with keeping it up to date.

I understand that WA questions will still be raised by members as they may have forgotten about the FAQ section but then those helping can direct them to the applicable section in the FAQ & thus give the official information.

I also realise that this could be a fairly big project to put together but I’m pretty sure many members would be willing to help in its compilation. Which you could then review / edit / amend and then publish.

I believe this would help reduce unnecessary posts, suspense & ambiguity.


Some of the FAQ’s off the top of my head:

WA membership, levels & prices
- What exactly does a starter member have access to if they don’t go premium after the first seven days
- Can’t downgrade
- Can we go from yearly to monthly?
- How to cancel membership
- What happens if one cancels membership

Billing
- what to do / where to go if need to change card details

Siterubix

Purchasing Domains through WA
- who can purchase? Can non-members purchase?
- Can members promote Purchasing Domains through WA? Are there any benefits for doing so?
- Not sure how to word this one: I was surprised & disappointed to find that my sister who is not a member couldn’t buy her domain through WA & for me to host her site. Yet if the domain is elsewhere I can host it. I could buy it in my own name through WA but then it’s not her asset.

Hosting on WA
- Is it 30gb per website or a total for all websites?

Spam / conduct


I could go on with examples, but I think you get the idea.

Thanks again Kyle for this great open discussion & to all the WA team. What an exciting future we have! :)

First of all, thank you Kyle, Carson, and team for keeping WA updated and always improving!

Favorite parts of WA:
the website features, i.e. wordpress builder, anti-spam protection, secure wordpress hosting, daily backups, etc. Also, Tech Support is awesome.

What I would like to see:
Members Services - I believe EVERYONE has skills and (unique) resources/connections they can offer other members as a service. Instead of buying (mundane) tasks on Fiverr like platforms, we could give business to our members. It's one way new members could earn some money online.

Thanks again WA team!

I love the new upgrades and all the work you are putting into the site to make it even better. I love Jay's training but as I never watch it live I would like to know if you can edit it so that we just get the training and not all the spaces and banter :)

Thanks to you, Kyle, and to Carson and to the entire team - the changes I've seen so far make it a snap to see exactly where I am in the training system. I'm looking forward to seeing what Site Builder will have - I'm sure you only skimmed the surface on all of this.

Kudos!
Mike

Hi Kyle.
My favourite aspect would be the value for money that your training reflects. I've looked at other platforms prior to joining, and see WA as the best, most organised, and up-to-date affiliate training program there is.

What I would like to see improved, is the follow-up on specific problems not covered in the basic training. I have emailed yourself and Carson on occasions asking for help on specific issues and received no replies. I know you can't respond personally to every query, but you do state in your welcome email that you will be there anytime we need help. I need help right now, and don't like having to rely on other members who may, or may not, have the expertise to solve my issues.

Cheers, Thomas.

What do I love about the Platform?
God, don't get me started!! Just brilliant - everything you have here and being here 3 months I have barely scratched the surface on the trainings!!!

To Improve?
You are improving all the time. Like I said 3 months here and just blown away. So not sure at this time, just keep doing what you guys do so well.

Thanks heaps to all the hard work your team puts in. Its an awesome community to be a part of and I am truly grateful !!!

I love the platform of WA. I like the willingness of someone to help. But I would like information on the rules. Some of us newbies are stepping in areas that we are not suppose to. Most of us come in and we start the training. I think the training should start out with the house rules. Other than that, I do what you said keep asking until I understand what I need to do. Also, use language that those of us who have no training in this field will understand. Love you all

It's a really great post, thanks, Kyle. In my opinion, one of the many strengths of WA is that the training keeps getting revamped and added to. Many competitors set up their training and then move on, leaving their websites to become outdated and eventually a money raising venture that is a waste of time for the customer. But not here at WA.

In terms of suggestions I would like to see multiple TAGS on training because some of it relates to 2 or even 3 topics e.g. SEO and social media marketing (SMM). I am big into TAGS on my MAC and now I have a structure there that is easily searchable and does not need many folders.

Lastly encouragement to keep up the good work Kyle and Carson! But, also thanks to the many others like Jay and the top 200 who post really worth while training and then the great posts from thousands of others too. WA is a really amazing community.

Kyle, thank you for taking the time to share your perspective on what WA is and for giving us a look at what's ahead with some many projects. I like a lot of the features hear at WA, but my top picks are the outstanding training, the site comment process of giving and receiving comments, and the excellent support from Site Support and the WA Community. I look forward to my continued personal development here at WA and greater involvement with this community.

What I think would be a great idea is if the point system/algorithm for rank was incorporated in the "site comments" and "site feedback" features as well. Those are both important parts of being a part of the community, and while we do earn points to receive comments/feedback back, I think that it would be awesome if the community activity went towards our rank as well.

It's easy to move up in rank by posting short blogs, commenting on blogs and adding friends, but the real reason we are all here is to grow a business. I think that if people knew that they could move up in rank by using SC/SF as well, it might encourage more people to use those features more, which in turn, helps out each other on our sites! :)

Hi Kyle,
Thank you reaching out to us! This is in incredible run down of all that WA can do for someone. It will be a great link for those who are promoting Wealthy Affiliate.

A few things that may be helpful ~
Social Media - Give an example of how to hang out on those social media platforms for a specific niche. For example, I'm hanging out on Twitter, FB and Google + but everyone else is as well. How do we stand out? Are we hanging out in the right spots?

Niches -- More on niches and sub-niches. What is a perfect balance between being not too broad and not too narrow? I know there is already some training on this but it would be nice to see a training on an actual website being built and how to format that website (menus, categories, etc.)

Ecommerce -- Would like to know how to promote ecommerce sites as another avenue for people who would like to make money online by offering own products as well as affiliating with companies.

Sorry this is so long! Thank you for everything Kyle! You and the whole crew are to be commended for the thoughtful processes that have been implemented to make Wealthy Affiliate such a valuable place for learning and interaction.

Blessings,

Cindy

When I first came to WA I knew that I had found something unique and complete. Everything is here for us to use to make money. And for a mere $49 a month.
Kyle & Carson, your dedication not only to Wealthy Affiliate but to this community is phenomenal. There have been many times when I have wanted to just walk away from my computer and not look back...but I can't. Sometimes I feel as if I am spinning in circles when it comes to learning all new things here at WA and there are even times when an answer to a question seems impossible. But as I make use of the 'search for help bar' members of the community and Kyle personally, I generally find the answers.
Yes I am sure there are some things that could be tweaked here and there but that comes with time. Although I do agree that the limited flexibility of the WordPress site can be more than a little frustrating, I know that changes there will come in time also.
When I look at WA as a whole, yes I see a University, but I also see the hard work and dedication that Kyle and Carson have put into building this awesome platform. And I think what if they had quit? What an opportunity you have given to me, to us. If I am as dedicated to my own success as you are to my success then I cannot fail.

Thank You.

Hi Kyle
This post and the thread comments below are awesome. For someone on a part time basis like me it's fantastic to have all you need right here in one place and it gives me the support, training and confidence in taking on a project without any prior experience.

I see drop shipping and e com training mentioned also - that would be absolutely amazing to get, how soon do you think that will happen???

Suggestions: (just 2)
1. Themes- give some training on themes and their capabilities. (Headers / page builder plugin / toolbars / widgets)
2. PPC- incorporate into the cert course also .

Looking forward to all your new developments for the year ahead and keep up the good work!
Regards
Paul

Kyle, you have summed everything in this Review. All the things I love about WA are the updates and continuous progress to keep us evolving within the Online Business World.

I want to personally thank You, Carson and all the others behind the scene working diligently to help improve and make life much easier for the WA Community.

I am Grateful to have been involved for 6 years now and I look forward to the next 6.

Thank You for all you do,

Thomas

Fabulous, all those enhancements! It might be a good idea to start a glossary of terms based on common questions people have, especially beginners who don't know where to look for answers.

Just about everybody who joins wants to make money online and may be impatient about seeing results. Would it be possible to have a fast track route to making some income? Something to do with getting new people joining WA? Perhaps teach newcomers to create posts for one or more websites that promote WA and with an approved post reward them when someone signs up. I could see something like that boosting the morale even further and discourage them from dropping out and encourage them to greater effort. You might kick this around. The idea of shortening the runway to creating income, but without sacrificing the quality of the training.

Bootcamp 2.0 sounds really interesting! I love the new graphics and homepage designs, really modern and represents the brand well.

I'm also really loving the whole referral tasks system, really makes work manageable.

Personally, I'd love it if you could make the hosting and domains available for non-members also, similiar to how Jaaxy is also available to non-members. But I understand the 'exclusive' aspect so you probably won't go for that : )

I'd love to see more training on how to launch a successful YouTube channel and produce visual content - the way we consume information is beginning to shift more and more into the video space vs. the text space.

I'm super proud to recommend WA!

Wealthy Affiliate has open up many doors for people of all walks of life. To be more specific, I am one of those people. I must say, that when I joined Wealthy Affiliate about nine months ago I didn't have no ideal about terms like SEO, niche, copy/paste, keyword search, and this list goes on.

I am truly grateful to be a part of a wonderful and growing community.

I am intrigued by the wonderful learning tools that Kyle and Carson Allows everyone who wants to learn and grow can do it and pay little to nothing for a year worth of University first class education.

At this point and time, at WA I. want to continue to excel and go forward at my own pace.

I highly promote WA and will continue to do so. I think that said it all for now!

Kyle and Carson, you guys are awesome.
Keep up the good works!

Louisa,

Everything . so far about WA is impressive and your motivations are Inspirational.

What I like is it seems to be Current; not an Old outdated method that is behind the current Opportunity. This is certainly a Cutting Edge opportunity; E-Commerce and I would prefer being ready for the Wave Of Opportunity instead of always having missed it.

Inspired by what you've done and your willingness to help others and the "Think Tank" you have created with other members within the Community.

THEN, its like have my own LIBRARY, full of Resources for my success.

My background is as a Business Consultant, going into a Company and figuring out how to make things better . . . BUT, here I'm on the Outside . . . . not knowing the full content of what you do have available.

Therefore my thoughts on "HOW to Improve" from a "Newbies" point of view . . . .

Design a several Courses Of Study that align's with Launching your business from different vantage points:

a Website,
a Blog,
a Opt-In Page,
a Landing Page . . . Etc.

That way you could be off and running faster . . . . especially as an Affiliate Marketer, you could be on your way sooner making an Income so you could go "Full Time" . . .

I'll know better a year from now when I'm there and can look back and tell you how I would have done it differently.

THX guys ! ! your Awesome . . . .

-MEL

I have been only been on WA for a little while, so I am hesitant on any improvement suggestions. But I certainly like the 1-stop-shop-mentality all around websites and keywords and the training and community. What you mentioned, the progress bar in our certification, but also the ranking (who isn't even the slightest little bit competitive?! :)) are great visual tools.

One thing, and I asked/blogged about it, that I am missing is that I am not able to use my iPad for offline blogging through the Blogpad Pro app due to restrictions with the XMLRPC.php file.

With more and more people going online and actually blogging on their mobile devices, maybe you could look into that again?

Cheers,
Claudia

Thanks Kyle for giving this opportunity.
I have few thoughts, sharing with you.
a) Distraction free reading & browsing mode would help. Out of 3 column structure, 2 are taken and I have only middle column to read, browse and message.
b) Lots of trainings can be completed in single page (of a website) but here they are spread across pages. If possible, please have an option to allow reader to view the training on a single page (print view or something similar).
c) How about allowing basic formatting in all messages (Bold, Italicized, quote, etc).
d) In videos, some control over speed (like Udemy & Youtube) will be helpful as my reading speed does not always match that of the Video presenter.
e) Some way of tagging people (like in FB or LinkedIn). e.g. if I ask community a question, I am able to tag some specific people or if I see something interesting, I tag somebody.
f) A FAQs or similar section would be helpful because I believe (it's just my feeling and have no support of data) there are lots of trainings, blogs and questions on same topic. FAQ should be kept updated.
g) Whenever I get to a tool, it's good to have "help" section built into it e.g. I go to Rapid Writer or Keyword Tool, and I am left clueless on what are they. Then I go to search area and start searching.
In built help button/section should give me information on what/how/why related to that tool.
h) Do we have any "support" person or id for all the queries (other than Website) ? If not, please have one because people like me are not comfortable shooting messages to you for every small things.
i) Allow us more control over the Wordpress site.
e.g. I cannot change/set my password, I cannot install theme the normal way (I am told theme file is big) & have to upload it through FTP, cannot import theme specific files (using Divi & cannot import Json files which bring in new layouts), cannot use Amazon SES for sending mails (some settings are not allowed yet).

I am definitely eager to see a mobile app which allows me to access WA from my mobile. Please do consider feature of watching videos, even in "offline" mode using the app.

Thanks for patiently reading till here :)

I believe, all the features which are requested by a good number of people, will see the implementation.

Good wishes !

my favorite things are #1 information, you can access when ever you want to learn something at your time, step by step, and stop the video class or stop reading, and implement the info in your business, I love that, the second 2# is you can find all the services here for only 49 usd, it is awesome... even if you have been here for few years, you cannot stop learning, is like college for real entrepreneurs to take action...

For me the training is awesome. I would have never dreamed of building my own website.. Even though I don't have a lot of time because of my day job, i'm still getting things done. Without the help support and community of wealthy affiliate I would've given up by now, due to lack of sleep and frustration.
I'm too new at this too really distinguish what should be improved on. But I have showed this to people at my work who know something about building a website, and they are very impressed. And of course I'm trying to encourage them to get involved.
Thank you Kyle, and Carlson, for doing such a fantastic job, and building such a wonderful opportunity!

I do really love WA, and enjoy being part of such an active and supportive community.

There is one thing I think may be worthwhile at look at in terms of refreshing, and that is the original Certification courses. a couple of the modules refer to things like Akismet Plugin, and is therefore a little out of date.

Overall though, I like the improvements already made in 2017, and I am looking forward to continuing my journey here.

Kyle and Carson,
It is great that you have managed to bring in such a wide range of training within one forum. I am enjoying the lessons but because I am doing them part time, I am slightly behind target for the 7 day premium membership. If one signs up for the Premium membership, does that have to be for the year or can one stop whenever they feel they no longer require the 1:1 support?

I am very thankful and grateful for all the careful thought and planning that you've made to make Wealthy Affiliate what it is today: an online educational powerhouse which supplies an affiliate marketing school & community.

One small thing I want from the Wealthy Affiliate training courses, which I believe would be helpful not only to me but to everyone else: could you please make a training video which carefully examines the characteristic and fundamental blueprint/DNA/structure of a financially successful page, post or article? I'm refering to aspects such as text, layout, design, language and psychology of financially successful articles and pages.

Some articles/posts/pages do make it to the first page on Google, yet they aren't attracting any customers or buyers, so the psychology of making an article/post/page a "money magnet" would be a desirable educational feature here at WA.

So much going on behind the scenes at WA to make it even better! Credit goes to Kyle and Carson for never allowing this great organization to get stale, or stand pat.

Looking forward to seeing some of the new projects implemented - like the bootcamp 2 and revised version of Jaaxy!

I'm new to WA. I'm still a starter member but so far I can say that I really love the fact that there are no upsells. Besides the Premium membership which I plan become a part of soon anyway.

I love the idea of being involved in a community of like-minded people, from ones that are just starting out, like me, to professional.

I like the fact that all the tools you need are all in one place, and the lessons are very clear and manageable.

Like I said, I'm new to WA. Can someone please tell me what the cost of the yearly Premium membership is? And where can I find that offer?

Wow, awesome to hear all this :).

The events bit... that looks interesting!

New Jaaxy - great and.. bootcamp 3:0, I will be very interested in the changes there and will go over it from the first lesson again.

As an affiliate, I do feel it's a shame that we can't offer a free membership initially to some parts of the world. But I understand there have been past issues with spam, (I think I read?).

In any case, all really good stuff coming up. Really looking forward to it!

Thanks Kyle! Nat

An aspect of WA that I like is that it gives me a home base. A place of reference. It's a big plus to belong to a group of people that are like minded.

Not only like minded but WA gives me the ability to tap years and years of experience. That is priceless. You ever try to contact an expert outside of WA. Good luck with that.

No matter where I go online when I come back to WA I feel like I have come home.

It's like having been on an extended trip far from home then returning and finally walking into your own house.

There's no place like home.

The internet can be a big, anonymous, risky place to try and do business. It's nice to have a home.

I'll leave the future to you guys.

I am very thankful I found you when I was googling for feedback on a different mentoring program based in Vegas....Which after paying $99 I was contacted by affiliates to upsell me to their $10k elite program. Your building block module system lets me advance at my own speed, and convinced me your affiliate program is based in building skills and income that is worth way more than the annual cost.

OMG! This is awesome! I'm so excited about the future of WA and I'm definitely going to leverage this article to promote WA on social media too! You've outlined everything and after reading this article, I don't know why somebody wouldn't want to join WA to build a successful online business!

Amazing, Kyle, just simply amazing! What you and the team have done with Wealthy Affiliate in my opinion has made it the best place online to learn how to create a viable online business.

The fruits of my labor are finally showing as I now have my first 2 affiliate commission sales and it proves that the training you have here works and the fact that it is going to be updated, makes the training even better.

I'm very curious to see the improvements you're going to be implementing with Jaaxy.

Hey Kyle,
Great questions.. Let's see.
What do I like about Wealthy Affiliates? I love the easy step by step instruction.. I have learned so much in the short time I have been here (less than a month) .. The training here is not offered anywhere else. I love being able to communicate with other members on a day to day basis. And the quick answers to any questions I might have.
You do a great job with this site and look forward to anything new that you do here.

I just love everything about WA. As a newcomer to the internet marketing business, this kind of learning platform is unique to me. Learning and building up my own website step by step, it's perfect. If I get stuck, there is so many possibilities to find the answer - asking the community in general, ask someone directly, search for a training or ask for support from you Kyle or Carson.

The community is awesome! It's great to be able to communicate at any time with your WA-friends. It's such a friendly and helpful attitude amongst the people, just incredible!

The feedback system is a great opportunity to get to know what people think about my website. This opens my eyes up for details, which I was not aware of. This helps to increase the quality of the content and the design and above all it is an indication of being on the right track or not, so to say.

This programme represents excellent value for the money and the guidance is brilliant.

Well there are surely many more positive aspects, which I do not yet know, as this is still rather new to me.

Here some things I would like to see added:

:-) It would be great if there were a possibility to be able to store the posts you think are the most important for yourself on the respective profile page, and be able to save these posts in different folders (like Trainings, Motivation, Tips & Tricks....)

:-) It would also be very helpful if I could somehow sort my friends (don't know how to express this better - please don't feel offended) with help of folders as to whom have great knowledges in different fields (like SEO, Design, Affiliate Programs, Word Press, Technical Problems). Then I would have a better overview in order to find answers of my questions among my friends.

:-) Another thing that I would appreciate is if you could search the WA-websites within the community. Everyone who wants, then can publish their websites there.
1. Then we could easier find websites and get inspiration from eachother.
2. In this way we people in the community could search for articles/services and buy these through our WA-friends and so support eachother.

I am grateful to know, that you are striving to keep up the helpful and altruistic community the way it is now. It is also great to know that you are continuously working on improvements.

Thank you so much Kyle.
Please , send my greetings to Carson
and your other colleagues in the team.

I'm happy to be part of WA and are looking forward to this exciting future.

Pernilla

Kyle, I wish to extend my profound thanks to you for the knowledge, service, support and training you have given to me through Wealthy Affiliate. WA is a university for beginners, like me, who prayed earnestly, for an opportunity to become a affiliate online marketer. I praise God for creating WA through you. I thank God for what you have already given me. I am so proud of you and the blessings you are to me. Thank you.
Dr. Marilyn M. Carr

Thank you so much for this wonderful opportunity to learn how to create an online business. I have tried several other options before only to get frustrated and quit. Here, so far to date, I am happy and I love the quick replys from everyone.

I cannot tell you what else I'd like to see yet, but I'm sure as I progress i ideas will come to mind. Again Thanks for the wonderful support you give.

This sounds amazing and really exciting. I am sooo glad and grateful to be part of such an inspirational community and am eagerly looking forward to all the awesome learning opportunities ahead.

Many thanks to the whole team for your continuing vigilance in keeping this not just the most technically advanced platform in the industry, but one of the most caring and supportive work environments anywhere!

Onwards and upwards everyone! Sue :)

Thank you for the update, sounds great and I'm so excited to be here and be part of it all!
As I think others might have mentioned before I would like to see the blogs become divided into IM/Business relevant posts versus Personal/Motivational type posts.
Also if there was any chance WA members could get a discount to join Jaaxy that would be great too!

First of all, there is not a better training platform than WA. I have been marketing online for 20 years and have tried Affiliorama, WorldProfit, SiteBuildIt, and others as well as the School of Hard Knocks.

I joined WA May 2016. By doing the certification and affiliate bootcamp courses, I learned that there were many gaps in my knowledge of building websites and promoting them. That's what happens when you go to the School of Hard Knocks. You just don't know what you don't know.

Secondly, it is great to see forward thinking with action. Thanks Kyle, Carson and everyone else behind the scenes. The forward thinking part is essential to being the best. There are other programs with tons of training. But they are outdated and over-priced.

Thirdly, Kyle was spot on saying the community is the most helpful and altruistic community. This is by far the most supportive group I have seen in all my years online.

As Rebecca says, "WA rockssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!"

Hi Kyle,
Firstly many thanks to you and Carson for this wonderful opportunity by making it possible to be successful in the online marketing world. I don't think there is anything else like it in the world.
As a member of the older generation and with a lifetime of sales and marketing behind me (All offline of course) I find it to be a great challenge finding my way around in this wonder world of digitalisation (suffer from a distinct lack of internet skills...although it is improving).
Now, this might sound like I am just looking for excuses, nothing could further away from the truth. It is a fear and drawback that can spook the living daylights out of many of us.
At the same time, there is help via the internet for people with likewise problems - I have joined an internet group GCF to sort out this very real and frustrating problem.
My question: Is it at all possible to design especially in the initial stages of the training a " very easy user-friendly" training platform?.........step for step........the old saying we use in the sales world - KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid comes to mind.
Who knows, maybe I could well come up with a special training module in the not so distant future on this subject.
Other than that Wealth Affiliate is the best that has happened in my life and I hope to see you all on the other side

Sorry about being so long winded about the above, but I just had to get it off my chest.

Take care.............................Johan.

Hi Kyle

I had to read this twice with 3 cups of coffee. My feedback on WA is one of admiration, wonder! and amazement. It's almost two years since I have been with WA and boy! what a roller coaster ride I have had. My competence and confidence has given me a real boost to my self-esteem since I joined WA

I love the challenges of life and designing my own website was one of them. My website is a working progress like my rose bush which took me two years to grow, and now I have the most beautiful roses giving me absolute joy.

I treat my business exactly the same way with tender loving care and it will grow and continue to give me and others joy. I stayed with you guys because you are ethical and will always have our backs.

You make no false promises and You want us to succeed and help and support from this community is encouraging. So yes Kyle and Carson pat yourself on the back for a job well done. I hope to follow in your footsteps

Whoever has gone through the Wealthy Affiliate training has had successful stories. I will have the next story to tell.

Your wealthy affiliate motto should be

"A well-trained affiliate marketer is a successful one" - these are your own words.

Here is my beautiful rose

Hi Kyle, thanks for your generous post and concerned.

(1)Honestly I don't really can exactly point which aspects of Wealthy Affiliates is my favourites as I have not explored it thoroughly, but presently I can say the Activity Dashboard, Certification Courses, writing blog, ask questions, give and get feedback of websites, give comments/feedback to name a few, an other words, WA already awesome!
(2)I would like to suggest in the appreciation of Wealthy Affiliate Community, having a yearly lucky draw - i.e. $5000, ideally min $10,000.

These are the requirements :

(1)The draw is held on every end of the year, December i.e before Christmas or end of December.
(2)Only for Premium members with at least have joined 6 months in WA. Could begin end of this year.
(3)Each member regardless of their rank have 1 ticket = 1 chance(name).
(4)The picking of a winner name is held live(via webinar), where every member can see it live or later.
(5)20% of winning amount is mandatory to 3 Legitimate Charity Organisation of the World namely :

30% of it to : http://bit.ly/2nFCGeY
30% of it to : http://bit.ly/2mTs7Ao
*40% of it to : http://bit.ly/2nLI7Jx

*The 40% can be the named charity or the choice of the winner. If the winner don't have his/her own choice then it will to the named charity organisation above.

Each Premium member have to inform WA of their own Charity Organisation should they win to get 40% of the winning prize prior the Draw day.

All these done simultaneously after the winning ticket announce via live webinar. The contribution to these 3 parties(either online, check delivery etc) done on real time. So that it's really genuine and transparent for Wealthy Affiliates Community and the World.

Benefit of having year end Draw.

(1)Encouraging Premium members to stay at least 6 months.
(2)Wealthy Affiliates not only to create wealth, but to contribute it too.
(3)A Testimony for Wealthy Affiliates and their Community that we have 'Big Heart'.
(4)Indirectly will increase WA community.
(5)Blessed by our God for blessing others.

I love EVERYTHING about WA! lol. But what I really like the most is the SiteComments feature because I've found that 50+ word comments really do help towards rankings.

In addition, it would be awesome if we had an actual WA plugin for Bootcampers to add to their sites. I know we already have access to comparison tables and custom WA pages (which are great tools), but I think a simple WA plugin similar to the SiteRubix and Jaaxy ones could have a good impact.

And as for Jaaxy, could us affiliates also have access to some cool banners in the affiliate backoffice? Pretty pleeeeeaaaaaasssssseeeeee? :)

Oh yeah, as for events...

How about an incentive every 6 months? Say, Vegas every Jan, and New York (or Beverly Hills) every July?

Great to hear about the future plans Kyle.

What I love:
- The step by step training that builds a great foundation.

- The integrity of the oficial trainings - focus on quality and not on quick fixes.

- Hosting, ssl, comment platform, feedback etc. is all included - I know what the cost will be as there is no upselling.

- Jay's live classes every week.

- Your attitude to keep developing WA and helping people build a business.

Suggestions for improvement:

- Ambassador program:
I apprecaite that the ambassador program is part of making people motivated and very willing to help. Unfortunately, it also seems to motivate people to feel like they have to do trainings and posts all the time - that can of course be great, but seems like to many blogs and trainigns are created to get ambassador and ranking points.
It would be great with some kind of quality control and that the ambassadors where people who have actually had success online, and not online based on who is most active.

- Language for KW tool:
I would be amazing if language and location selection would be included in the WA KW tool or Jaaxy. That would make it possible to use for some of use that does not only work with websites in English. And also make it better to easy for local marketing.

- Language for comments:
Maybe it at some point would be able to also make language selection available in the comment tool. So I can say that I can offer comments in English, Danish and German. And when people then need a comment in another language they select which language and the ones that can offer comments in that language will see them.

- Enforcement of the spam rules:
See a lot of people spamming with links to their own websites, and then of course the more obvious spam. This is even done by ambassadors. Don't know how, but great if the rules could be enforced more, or at least make sure long term members are helping to keep spam out in stead of commenting on spam post and doing it them selves sometimes as well.

But overall I am very happy with WA and very glad I found it and joined around 4 months ago. Have learned so much already and excited about the future:-)

And thanks for updating us all on the future plans and taking the time to hear our feedback.

Mikael

It really is amazing how this place has changed over the years, all for the better, I think. As some of the older members here know, I've been around for a bit (Longer than my account says, made this account years ago but had a different one before, don't remember why) and was brought in by Big E. I've gotten the privilege of watching this place GROW and advance (I was most excited when the forums were ditched and live chat became a thing). When I think about suggestions to WA, I have a hard time thinking about new things to add, as it really is the most fully fleshed out program of its kind, so I just decided to rate a few things here on a scale of 1 to 10 and throw out my ideas.

Training - 8
Obviously the flesh and blood here, and it has really really improved over the last few years. My only reason for not throwing a 10 out, is, even after the big revamp and, I'll call it a purge, a few years ago, there seems to still be a lot of old articles by members. One simple way I thought of to, at the very least help members sort through it, would be to add the date the training was added/updated in the search bar search results. That way I can see, "Oh this training was from years ago but this one was just posted two months ago" I think this would be a huge member time saver.

Website Building - 8
I give it an 8 because you guys are great, wordpress is decent, but there is something I have always wanted to see. I would absolutely LOVE to see some WA branded plugins. Ones we know we can trust, ones built by the company we trust, ones tailored to WA hosting. I'm not saying there's not some great plugins out there, but you guys have always had a way of designing programs, UI's etc etc with the new user all the way to the advanced user in mind. Example, a lot of people use SItebuilder (I think, it's 3:30 am here and my brain is fried lol) how absolutely great would it be to have a WA branded plugin, with the new user in mind, complete with in house training and support. I know, personally (Maybe because you guys have built your trust level so high) that I would use a WA branded plugin without even looking at others.

Hosting and support 9/10
Support is a 12, hands down. I had to contact support a while ago due to problems uploading images. I said that I wasn't keen on using ftp (just because I was lazy) and wondering what was up. You want to know what I was told? "We are aware of the issue and we're trying to track down the problem, in the meantime, if you would like to upload your images to a dropbox, we can manually upload them for you" or something on those lines. I ended up just stopping being lazy and used ftp but he point is, where can you find that kind of support at the drop of a hat without paying premium pricing? Another hosting company once told me, about a similar problem "You'll just have to wait till we get it fixed". I've also had other great experiences with support. Hosting gets a 9 because it does seem to slow down/get laggy every now and then, even the wordpress backend. I notice it mostly early to mid morning. Not enough for me to gripe, but I think it could be improved on (Noticed down below that things are already in the works for this because that's just how you guys roll)

Member engagement - 10
I think you guys do a great job, heck you even pop into chat and say hi, which is pretty unheard of for founders to do. I do have an idea though. I think it would be kind of cool for you guys to randomly run some contests of some sort, and generate some excitement and motivation. Prizes could be, a free month of WA or Jaaxy, credits, an hour personal Q&A with Kyle, Carson, Jay looking over the winners website etc etc.

Email Platform - 1
This could have went with a couple above but I didn't want it to drop the score of the above items. I may be alone in this, but I really hate the Email platform. I know I can tie it in with gmail and mobile or whatnot but I personally would like to see the in house platform changed. That being said, I'm sure you guys have more important things on your plates :)

Live Chat - 8
It's great but could use improvement. I see you guys already have some awesome plans for it so I won't go into it further :D

Member Profiles and blogs - 8
I think they work fine but like what was brought up below, I think it would be nice to have different spaces for different types of content. Other than that, I think it would be pretty nice to be able to see if someone was still an active premium member. Also, I've noticed that whenever one comes back to premium even if they've been here for years, the pop up as a new premium member to everyone else. Every time I come back I get tons of welcome to premium messages, I think it would be nice if it only popped for actual new premium members, they're the ones that really need the warm welcome :D

New stuff - 10

I absolutely love the random new stuff you guys come up with, keeps it exciting. Like I said down below, I would love to see the job board implemented again if it could be figured out how to do it without all the problems it caused.

3 of my favorite additions to WA
Live training with Jay - Awesomesauce
Bye Bye forum Hello Live chat - Awesomesauce
Domain purchasing - YAAAAAAAS!!! (I was actually gone when that got put in, I was so crazy excited when I came back and noticed it I got a weird look from my wife I was whooping and all giddy like)
Also, although not quite high enough on my list to make 3 favorite, I was really excited to see the credit system added. I really missed the WA gold and was happy to see it make a comeback in a different form :)

I can't really thing of anything else and I'm sorry it's so long but, you guys put tons of thought into WA, I figured I owed it to you guys to do the same with my post.

I love WA so much but if you ask me what I dont like here are a couple of things.

1) The globe icon where you get notifications is a bit funny and confusing.

2) The mobile version of WA is tedious.

3) More clarity in Bootcamp as some members really call everything a scam.

Hi Kyle, as you know, I love it here :)

And as you asked this direct question, what I would like to see to complete Wealthy Affiliate, is an email responder on the house.

Besides that, it would be awesome to have our own inside place/thread where we can share any affiliate link with each other and present interesting ads to our community friends.

This place is really awesome Kyle, you and Carson have created a unique, safe and very knowledgeable piece of art!

I could not ask for more of what Wealthy Affiliate has to offer at the moment. It is overwhelming in a great way to say the least! I am learning everyday and I am usually in the background observing and digesting information.

My website is in a very slow progress but I love it! One of these days, when I have enough content I will show and tell.

Keep the progress going! Thank you to Kyle & Carson for their vision in creating such a magnificent platform!

Kyle,

I have no doubt WA is going to be better and better. I've been here for only a year and so much has changed! I went from knowing nothing to actually getting money on my account from something I did all on the internet. It's crazy!

What I love the most about WA is you guys' to the point courses, most of all, your will to always update the lessons and platforms at all times. Other than that, it's the community, you've helped created yes, the most altruistic community I've seen. The best thing about your elevator pitch is that it was true, everyone can say the same thing, but you guy made it. ;)

If there is one update, I want, it's definitively a mobile version for WA, especially for the Comment feature, so when I am not on the computer, I can chuck it out on the go. (And I definitively won't complain about a Bootcamp 2.0, I'll surely go over it again.)

All the best,
Anh

Greetings Kyle,

There are two things I love about WA: the training and the sense of community. The training received from your lessons as well as from the community is beyond excellent! The genuineness of the members is really something that cannot be taught.

In terms of improvements:

First, I would have to agree with MKearns. To have posts removed without explanation is a bit diconcerting; if there was a direct violation to any of the rules, why not just completely remove the post, why be able to still see the title. This is especially close to my home since it happened to me; although I appreciated your response to my PM, Ivwas a bit unnerved that I had not received any notice - prior to my PM - to indicate that the post would be removed and why.

Second, there have been blatant disregard to the slam rules, so much so that I often read the rules over again thinking I had overlooked something. I have seen this even by Ambassadors. If the rules are not going to be enforced, why have them.

Third, I think it would be great to have a section in our profile that shows the country of each member. In addition, perhaps have a link within the dashboard where someone could type in a country, then everyone from that particular country would appear.

I appreciate you and Carson opening up this dialog, Kyle. Thank you!

WA is awesome, and dare I say a MUST for beginners who want to learn about affiliate marketing online. However, it lacks on the "advanced" stuff and having so many subscribers makes it very hard for the support team to help those who get stuck.
Jay is doing a tremendous job with the live webinars and really there are huge information there alone, but you guys need to focus more on teaching how users can actually improve their websites and the user experience, rather than just saying "you need to improve user experience". It should be a training or something.
Also would love to see more help and support for those who get stuck without sales, like myself and a lot of others around, what are the reasons, how to improve, etc.
Thanks.

Thanks for the update Kyle. One thing I would like to see in as far as making WA the one stop shop is an autoresponder. I know there are great options out there to choose from but just as WA now offers domain name hosting, an auto responder service would be really cool.

Still holding out hope for a WA based, affiliate-friendly autoresponder. I know that would be a pretty enormous project, so I won't hold my breathe. Nevertheless, I may still suggest it every now and then, because it's something that would fit in well with all of the other tools and training provided here.

In the meantime, I would just say, keep up the great work that you're already doing. And...

Thank you!!!
Hal

Great improvements Kyle, and will love the mobile app in the future. I'm using my mobile most of the time than my desktop. Hope the mobile app will also be accessible to ipads as well.

Just an idea, if a member can have a more improved profile page, something like a dashboard on its own where it can become our working area for everything, though its available on the top menu and sidebar, but a page that looks something better and more accessible. Inside it also are our saved trainings or tutorials that we might like to get back into where we left off, though its available on bookmark but its easier to access if it is already on our own profile dashboard. Something like our own library of our saved trainings and tutorials, a customized one that we can organize.

I'll try to find time to design the layout of the profile dashboard of what I'm trying to talk about, just an idea for your consideration.

One thing that you might take into consideration is if the whole website hosting thing might become a "control panel" for advanced users and to have access to the mySQL account for easier transfer/replicate of website from other website hosting account rather than just uploading files to filezilla.

Thanks Kyle for an open discussion thread to let our minds speak out.

Ces

I agree with you Kyle and look forward to the great changes coming here. I'm certain you don't miss anything in the forum and I applaud your invitation to discuss issues here.

I respect the posting rules and do my best to conform to them.
You certainly know that I was a bit upset over your new spinning algorithm change on posting previous content not being formally announced.

That's OK though but It's a bit disconcerting to find out without explanation that posts can be taken down with no visibility to the community while still showing in your profile. This has a tendency to discourage contributions.

I honestly feel the community deserves a full explanation on this.
There are many great things that can be posted that have business implications that can enlighten our community in our major business direction... Affiliate Marketing. Please do not restrict this. Would anyone restrict new book ideas which use a foundation often of repurposed content. I respectfully submit this idea for your review and consideration!

Wealthy affiliate rocks. Let's make it even better by taking out the bumps that remain sir!