Your First Website Is Not About Perfection -It's About Direction
Your First Website Is Not About Perfection -It's About Direction
When you join Wealthy Affiliate and create your very first website, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. You see other members with polished designs, long articles, and traffic graphs—and suddenly your own site feels “not good enough.”
Let me reassure you: your first website is not meant to be perfect.
It is meant to give you direction.
When I built my first affiliate website, I spent far too much time worrying about fonts, colors, and layouts. I delayed publishing because I wanted everything to look “professional.” Looking back, that delay cost me more than any imperfect design ever could.
Affiliate marketing rewards action and consistency, not perfection. Your first website is your training ground. Every article you publish teaches you something new—about writing, SEO, and your audience.
At Wealthy Affiliate, you’re learning by doing. That’s the real value.
If your website is live, you’re already ahead of thousands who never start.
Keep building, keep learning, and keep believing
— Paul
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Thank you Paul. As a Beginner my first published website must be a challenge to me.
How will my website attract traffic…?
How can I upgrade my website….?
Does my website looks more professional…?
Those are some of the upcoming questions I must have in mind to judge my progress.
You are welcome, Raymond.
Very true in deed.
Those are some of the very basic and important questions needs to ask when started building your first websites.
"At Wealthy Affiliate, you’re learning by doing. That’s the real value."
This is the truth. I learned a great deal from building my first site - more than if I had read about it in a book.
Well stated, Dave. We've all been experiencing the same, especially as complete beginners. We all have learned through hands on learning experiences.
Thanks for sharing your experiences.
Paul.
Good to see you are posting on WA again Paul
I for one have missed learning from you, and I am positive that I am not alone.
Great to have you back
Jeff
Thank you, Jeff.
Commitment to family obligations took most of my time this first month. Hope to pickup on my blog posts here next month onwards.
Thanks for making me feel welcome and needed here.
Paul.
Right! We spend so much time at first on how it looks, fonts etc… too much effort indeed!
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I agree Paul!
This was my exact experience too! When I look back at my first website now, I cringe and say to myself, that was a learning experience on what NOT to do.
Though I haven't worked on that website since 2014, the only good thing that has come out of that website was the value of the domain name.
Ky;e used to say, maybe he still does, that a website domain name is like internet real estate. My domain name is estimated to be worth $1,600 if I should sell it.
This is something I will be doing shortly. In addition to learning what not to do when building a website, this website is going to finally pay me back as well.
Robert