Wealthy Affiliate Offers A Real Lesson in Encouraging Motivation

You have to admit it, the ranking system at WA is often a talking point amongst members, in fact sometimes a heated debate and nearly always passionate.The truth is people really care about their rank and many become very competitive about achieving a higher position.It's a clever system for motivating and retaining member's interest, and so there is a lot to learn from it as a marketing tool in itself.Motivation ToolIt encourages participation and engagement, which keeps the site active. New m

What's The Purpose Of Your Blog Post?

Every blog post has a purpose ... or at least it should have. Whether it is to share some information with readers, lead people to a product, encourage people to read other posts on your site etc. I have been struggling a bit with this lately because my blog posts (probably like yours) were written originally to focus on ranking and SEO and not much else. Yes products were included but I wasn't really thinking about what the customer or reader was looking for beyond that. And perhaps more impor

Working On Multiple Websites Versus Focusing On Just One.

I have been developing websites now on Wealthy Affiliate for nearly 16 months and like many of you I have a number of projects at different stage of development. But over the last 3 weeks I have been faced with other outside projects and also a need to focus my work a bit more.The PPC campaigns that I was working on were across numerous sites, and I decided that if I am to really master this and use it to my best advantage I needed to focus on just one site and really concentrate on working tha

PPC Campaigns When In Doubt Keep Going

There are probably many situations where the best solution is to keep moving forward rather than standing still.This it seems also applies to PPC, because I know many people do give up or see campaigns not working.I spent (a bit of) the morning admiring Google AdWords, who I recently set the challenge of having to get clicks and searches to one of my posts, one that I'm finding hard to get traffic to even with a PPC campaign.After a few days of me manually trying different options and following

Building A Website Business- It Does Get Easier, Honestly

This blog is to all those who are feeling slightly overwhelmed or frustrated with their progress, or lack of it. We have all been there :)It might not seem it at the moment but all those skills that you are struggling to understand right now, they will become second nature to you very soon. - They will be replaced with new skills to learn but the difference is that you now have more experience.I was reminded of this last night as I was trying to finish a blog post and manage family errands, so

Site Comments vs Site Feedback - The Battle Continues

I know there are thousands of posts on this topic, but there are also lots of newbies joining every week - and so the battle continues.What is the difference between Site Comments and Site Feedback and which goes where?Site Comments OR Site FeedbackFor me the easiest way to remember the difference is this;Site Comments - these are public comments going on someone's business website. You need to PRETEND to be a real customer and respond to their content ONLY.You can talk about;your experience of

Explaining Keywords In Animated Form

I was recently introduced through a WA member to an animation website, called biteable.com, and I couldn't resist playing around and creating a quick video for my website.I thought I'd share the link to the video here, because I made a 1 min animated explanation of keywords and thought it might be useful for anyone who is explaining keywords on their own site (or who just wants to see the video).I think sometimes explanations of SEO topics can be rather dry and are often in written form and I k

Site Feedback - how long does it go on for?

Maybe this should be under questions, but during the last few months I have received a couple of feedback comments on one of my sites through the WA site feedback section.And that's great I totally appreciate the effort people went to, There's only one problem - I never asked for it.Well I did..... but 9 months ago.So how can I stop it??Feedback is important especially in the beginning, but to be honest the site I have in the system is one that I'm not looking to make any changes to at the mom

100 Posts Finally Written - That's A Novel!

So today I (finally) published my 100th post on one of my sites. I do have 10 pages as well but there is still something special about seeing it there.Most of these posts are over 1,000 words, so that's 100,000 words - And for the writers out there that is the old fashioned number for a novel.The question now is what to do with all that content?Yes it is on my website, but having invested so much time and research into creating content it makes sense to have multiple uses for it.I have written

How Internet Marketing Businesses Can Rise Above Brexit

After all the recent changes with Brexit and the financial fall out, it has left us with one very clear understanding - In this day and age having an international customer base is so important.Internet marketing provides an amazing opportunity to reach out beyond a national customer base and step above any local political turmoil, no matter what country you are from.This is one of the reasons why I believe internet marketing will continue to grow and develop over the next few years. It's also