My 8 month thoughts on Wealthy Affiliate

An 8 mo. WA Overview by RitaAnn~

Hi and thank you for stopping by my little home on the internet.

I'm RitaAnn~

Those are my children and I, hubby is taking the photo.

In this informal overview of Weatlhy Affiliate and the time I've been on this site, I'd like to help you more cleary decide if WA is something for you to persue. If not you, perhaps someone you know. Either way, if you're on this page, I'd like to invite you to follow along with me on this WA journey. You'll find the button to follow along on my profile.

I've been on and offline since dinosaurs and have made money many different ways online so I know it can be done with some effort and with the right training, you'll cut your learning curve and learn correctly. Wealthy Affiliate offers training via their system to help you earn income and build a profitable online business.

If you don't already have a product or service to earn income through, Wealthy Affiliate can help you out with that

WHAT is Weatlhy Affiliate?

The short version?

A website that teaches you how to earn income online with your computer or smart phone and access to the internet. For Ages 18+

This banner pretty much sums it up

The long version?

Wealthy Affiliate, or WA as some call it, is a step-by-step online certification program. You can see a sneek preview here by clicking here Wealthy Affiliate uses a system on it's website to walk you through the process of building an online presence. The program teaches the beginner or the tech savvy how to use the systems lessons to build a website, find products, traffic and customers and more.

Sounds simple enough, but don't let that fool you.

Yes, it's an easy to use website, but the training you'll recieve is far from "simple minded" as the experts have proven methods for each lesson taught. The lessons are painless and truthfully you don't really even realize you're learning as the process of learning is enjoyable and smoothly guides you along.

With your training, you'll learn the steps in which to build a site, find the products, get traffic to your site, and learn all the mechanics of the process.

WHO is Wealthy Affiliate for?

You might be asking yourself "who is using wealthy affiliate?" and "is wealthy affiliate really something I can use to earn income or build an online business with?"

The simple answer is yes.

Wealthy Affiliate is a step-by-step training system and almost anyone can learn to take advantage of it's training, as well as earn and income.

Whether you're a retired veteran, a senior, construction worker, farmer, bee keeper, lawyer, stay at home parent, or anything in between, WA is at the top of the Earn Income at Home arena for a reason.

My thoughts after 8 mo.

When I first found this website, I was merely checking out some of the features and benefits of the system. My hope was to to help some of the young people in my life, veterans, and those with various handicaps find tools that can be used by non-techy people in order to earn income online. This site seemed to be very user friendly and with so many friendly people in the community I decided to get my feet wet and see what this site was all about.

This is the site I've been looking for.

How did I know?

One of the first things I found interesting was the reviews I found online about the Wealthy Affiliate website. Most of what I found were testimonials on how the Wealthy Affiliate training has produced different results.

What I look for in a website:

When I register on a website, whether it is to earn income, or share my daily thoughts, I look for a clean and easy to navigate site. The site needs to be as easy on my eyes as it is to navigate. If I can't see the words for whatever reason, then it's going to affect my eyesight, if it's hard on my eyes, I'm not going to be able to navigate the site or read what I need to read to get the work done. So, I need a clean layout, with readable print and uncluttered menu's for easily navigating the site.

When I check out the community, my thoughts are "is this business or pleasure?", "is the community friendly by introducing themselves?"," is the community thoughtful in their comments or are the comments riddled with spam links trying to get me to go to other sites?"

Here's a comment I recieved on one of my other free, heavily trafficed social media sites, which is very discouraging as well as frustrating. Time is valuable, and when you're on a free site that teens run rampant on, it might be counter productive to spend your time going through comments on these free sites.

In the time I've been on the WA website, I've seen nothing that remotely appears to be ugly or hateful behaviour. Oh, that doesn't mean it's not there, but it does mean that I haven't found any yet, which is an awesome sign.

This teen felt I was too old to be using technology and apparently also felt I should be dead. How much of this type of behavor is really healty for teens and younger? I don't find this type of nonsense on Weatlhy Affiliate, so my time isn't wasted with this type of foolishness.

This is just one of many reasons I'd rather pay for a clean healthy environment like

Wealthy Affiliate.

Sometimes, you really do get what you pay for

Free isn't always worth your time

The advantage to a site such as wealthy affiliate is that the members on a site that prides itself in teaching others is that the caliber of people on the WA site are higher than you'd find on some free social media sites.

The people on WA have a common goal and work together towards that goal which makes Wealthy Affiliate a friendly and healthier mindset than some of the other websites out there on the world wide web.

Analytics and Stats

Analytics and Easy to read Stats are also something important to me. Without a clear understanding of how your site is behaving, you can't track or utilize what's working for you, and you won't know how to correctly scale your business accordingly.

You can find your stats here

Wealthy affiliate has stats that help the newbie or techy see what's working and what needs improving.

For instance, the traffic from this particular screenshot is from some free advertising I was testing. The graph is quite choppy letting me know that my free advertising is working, but it's not producing steady enough traffic to produce the results I'm looking for.

The spike you can see was from an effort to test a free advertising source which carried over for months, though declining, still produced traffic to the site. There were no sales, however it did produce a couple registrations on the site, and it only cost me some time to try the free source.

This may seem like 'chump change' to some people, but not all sites allow you to earn income, this site rewards you for different

activities.

If it's a website that offers points, credits or income, "does the site allow it's users to share payment proof of the income they earn?"

Here's a screenshot of my first earnings and credits I earned on the site. These earnings were with minimum writing or work on the lessons at all. In fact I was surprised to see I had earned anything at all, yes, pleasantly surprised. I'm looking forward to many more of these little surprises.

This is a screenshot of one of my first earnings years ago on another site.

As long the traffic stays consistant, results will as well. Wealthy Affiliate teaches the correct way to implement different strategies in order to see the results you're looking for. Where was WA when I first started? I could have used their help way back then.

The great thing I've come to realize about Wealthy Affiliate is the learning curve. What took me years to fiure out, this system helps you achieve in less time.

When you apply what you learn in each lesson without skipping anything, you'll find yourself reaching your goals with less headache, and with faster results.

It's funny to look back at this and think about all the hours I worried and stressed. I stressed and worried about everything, and when I recieved my first little $1.12 commission I was so exited! Yes it sounds silly, but back then everytone was trying to figure the process of online money making out, and more people were skepticle about it even working. That $1.12 was a really big deal for me. I can laugh about it now, but all that worry did me no good. I wish I knew then what I know now.

Now I tell people to enjoy the adventure because the opportunity is there as well as the vehicle to get there. Wealthy Affiliate has everything you need to see success.

What I think about Wealthy Affiliate?

I found that WA far exceeded my expectations in more areas than what I've mentioned here and I feel confident inviting anyone to Wealthy Affiliate. Once you and your friends, clients, or family start this journey, you might just become addicted. :-)

Wealthy Affiliate has what you need as a beginner to get your product, service or brand up and running. The best part is? you'll be building a website adding your products, meeting new people and forming relationships that will last. The community is thoughtful and friendly and seemed to welcome me with open arms.

...and while I'm thinking about it,

Thank you Wealthy Affiliate Community for being so awesome

My 6 month thoughts