One Month on Wealthy Affiliates - What I have learned and What I Still Need to Learn
One Month On!
For several years now I have been interested in starting an online business. I watched all these ads related to making money on-line.
One month ago after years of wondering just HOW does everyone do this, I took the plunge and joined Wealth Affiliates.
In the past month I have set up my website and published several pages and posts. I am still walking my way through all of this, but an actual website with content is huge step in that instead of just talking I am doing.
I am a small businessman in the three-dimensional world. And with any enterprise you have to have a plan.
So what is my plan.
First and foremost this is in fact WORK.
Secondly, I have to have a budget.
Third, I have to have a timeline.
The Work
I have completed several of the lessons and yet I still do not have any affiliate links. Why?
I have two issues.
First issue is a technical issue in that I have yet to find a good template to create a page giving legal notice that the website contains affiliate marketing links. In the United States this notice is a requirement. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
Second, I have noticed that several of the affiliate plans require a certain amount of content to be created before approval. Not only is approval not guaranteed, but if sales are not made in a set period the website will be dropped. Yikes!
Content
Given these two hurdles that I have, I have decided to concentrate purely on content and trying to drive traffic to my website.
In order to drive traffic, I decided that I needed to be on several platforms including Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest and Twitter. Now I already have some of these on a personal basis but none for my new website.
Any help on how to set these up would be great. I never had a Facebook account and when I signed up immediately my account was disabled. Apparently Facebook wants a copy of my drivers license. I am not to sure about this and again any feedback would be helpful.
Page versus Post
I treat a post as for immediate notices, with my niche there is an opportunity to write multiple posts every week, a kind of events calendar. A page I utilize as a more permanent article within my niche.
Budget
I have divided my budget in two, time and money.
The money is easy, I willing to spend roughly $1500.00 in this endeavor prior to any sales. If all I do is maintain the website through Wealthy Affiliates that is equivalent to two years costs based upon the current costs.
The time, given my two year horizon that is also the amount of time I am willing to spend. On a more routine basis, I am willing to spend roughly twenty hours per week developing content. One of the greatest short cuts here at Wealthy Affiliates is to utilize templates to create the events calender. I am spending much of my time over the next two weeks creating these templates for my posts.
Well that is the plan any feedback would be helpful. Especially with the following issues:
1) How to set up cross platform accounts unrelated to my personal accounts.
2) An affiliate marketing notice template for my website.
3) Create content first versus just diving in with affiliate links.
4) Facebook and uploading a personal identification.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Recent Comments
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There is an affiliate disclosure on the site content templates I use it and so does lots of other people at WA
When I pull up sitecontent templates there is no template for disclosure.
Hi - the template was removed about a month ago, presumably for updating.
Thanks for the information hopefully it will be back up again. I have been reading the FTC regulations and they presume no one has ever used a link in their lives.
It is still there for me when I go to templates in my site content
When you click on the templates tab at the top of the page? I only have 4 in there, no affiliate disclosure. I assumed it had been removed because the Amazon paragraph no longer meets their requirements.