Am I Allowed to Add My Affiliate Links to WA?

Adding affiliate links to any site can be a big problem.

If you're asking yourself "Am I Allowed to Add My Affiliate Links to WA?"

The quick and simple answer is "no".

Scroll all the way down to see the rules about adding links to the WA site and why you shouldn't make that mistake.

Many times people don't take a look at the site they're working on and mistake every site for a type of social media.

The Wealthy Affiliate system and training are not social media but a community, system and training that helps ordinary people build a future in a variety of ways.

Some people won't 'get it' unless they have someone to let them know in a helpful and generous way.

Many times people come to a site and automatically spam through the comments without thought. The idea has been given to them by the affiliate network that tells them to share everywhere, maybe hasn't trained them properly or not at all.

With every mistake comes a reason behind it.

A thought, possibly distraction, or even children learning to build alongside a parent. Not to mention newbies trying to rush through the process to make that quick buck.

Some people are strong willed and rebellious with a will to butt everything put in their way. I'm a mom who's taken in so many children over years that we've lost count at how many.

With that said I've seen many different reasons for some things most of us find frustrating or even infuriating.

These mistakes should be a learning bridge, with helpful ways for the person creating and trying to succeed in life, to grow on the WA site.

For instance, when we see someone adding their link it may be due to several factors the strongest being the desperate need for finances and jumping in to a new site without thought of anything except that need.

Most everyone has a desire to succeed and some want to just get to a level outside of poverty.

Some are seniors doing what they see on their social time lines.

People only know what they've been taught, seen or heard.

Much of it is fluff and not worth the time; true.

However WA is made for this type of frustion and fluff.

That's exactly what WA community is for.

Helping others.

New Students to the site are registering to learn to make money.

They only know what they've seen on other sites they're familiar with.

To help keep the spammy and link frustration to a minimum:

Write an article about the rules or other frustrations you see broken regularly on WA and other sites, and send new students the link to your article.

Send a reminder or your article when they first get on the site as it happens or when you see students 'copying and pasting the same things over again' I'm one of those culprits generally rushing to keep up - don't be mad!

Don't be judgemental, try to be understanding and guide the way.

We can also use the spammy post link in ways including adding something like:

"hey there, nice to meet you I see you've added a link. It's great that you're jumping right in and we encourage new students to start writing and adding some content right away. However, I'd like to add that you may want to get the best training possible for your success for this site and your long term future. At WA, we want you to succeed so here's a link to some rules you'll want to know about ___link to Kyles Rules______ You'll also want to remove the link you added on this particular page so it doesn't get you shut down. Remember, we at WA want to see you succeed so don't be offended, just grow."

Something helpful, not hateful is the key.

A website that helps people learn, grow and succeed

is a site that will prosper for many years to come.

How We Can Help Guide People to Success:

It's important for everyone that registers to know they are welcome to the site and the system which includes us as community.

It's important for everyone to feel somewhat accepted. *yes there are limits*

It's important for a site to help as many people with simple tasks that will help grow their business and in turn grow WA.

Simply directing them to your helpful WA article, or to the menu and "Core Training" is one of the best ways to help someone succeed.

When you help instead of scream "Citizens Alert! Citizens Alert!" for simple infractions, and someone is blocked, banned or removed for a simple link, they don't always learn what they did wrong or how to fix the mistakes and will continue to go from site to site making the same mistakes.

Nothing has been accomplished other than not having to deal with that problem. Unfortunetly the bad reviews at times outweigh the good reviews for this very reason.

Because people feel pushed out of a website, some will retaliate.

"This site is a scam." "I didn't make money so I wasted my time, don't bother" etc.

We've all seen those type of reviews, and honestly are affected in some way by them. Which is why it's so important to help everyone we're able to help, even if it's just for adding spam links.

Don't hesitate to gently ask someone to remove a link.

Explain why it's important for them not to add the links to a site so they know there's a particular reason, not just for the sake of fussing at them.

If you understand the algorithm share the do's, don'ts and why not's.

If you don't understand why it's important not to share spammy links, just let them know it's okay, many people who start do it too, but if you truly want to succeed online, don't do it.

You can also explain that it's hurtful to the site overall, confuses new students trying to learn, and is bad for their success online both now and in the future.

Ideally, it's possible that a system that's supposed to help everyone learn to build an online business is actually helping people build an online business. This includes lots of mistakes, helping someone through a hard time, depression or even suicide.

Building healthy minded, and a helpful community helps everyone at WA.

One person really can make a difference.

If you'd like to know more about the rules and guidelines to share or write your own articles on, see Wealthy Affiliate Rules for sharing links on the WA site:

RitaAnn~