Thanks for your response. I did see that YES on the site manager box. I was thinking that I'd get some kind of info about ranking, or something like that. This is totally foreign to me at this point so I don't really know how it works.
What does it mean to be indexed?

I think that's pretty obvious, unless, that is, you're trying to be philosophical about it here.

Thanks for sharing them. Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't quite get why members wouldn't share their sites. They are public, which is the point....to get people there. Are they/you concerned that people will copy what you're doing? If so, that's discouraging for a platform that encourages helping one another.

There are numerous reasons, members get fed up with their ideas and content being "stolen", another other issue is that if you have a successful site and publicise it here, thousands of Bootcampers will link to it as an example of a business built at WA. Those MMO backlinks are wrong for my travel niche and I may get penalised by search engines, all the Bootcamp traffic that arrives wrecks my bounce rate, it also skews my stats, etc. etc.

I have such a looong learning curve. Not familiar with Bootleggers but I get the general idea. Too bad there's so little integrity but that's how it is. I have my own niche and just wanted to get an idea of the nature of the final product I'm working toward Thanks.

LOL, not Bootleggers but Bootcampers, those following WA's Affiliate Bootcamp program to promote WA. :)

Since I'm not involved in Bootcamp (that "bootleggers" ref. must've been an autocorrect) I'm only interested in seeing other members' successful, revenue producing sites. I'm completely new to this arena and was just looking for examples of the way food sites look and operate., to get some sense of where the training is leading me. Seems I'm asking a bit too much from this helpful, supportive community.

Thanks. That'll be helpful.