Hey Robert,

You only need to ask a question once and I have already responded with a resolve here: Why do I have an email about new user registration? When you ask the same question more than once you are taking time away from other members receiving help with their questions. We all have to remember, answers don't always happen instantly. Sometimes we have to wait a few hours as WA members located all around the world in different time zones.

Thank you for understanding.

Hi - go to General Settings. There is a membership field, this should not be ticked, as it allows anyone to register.

go into your dashboard and click on settings =>general and uncheck the membership box - save the settings.
and delete the new user.
there appears to still be a loophole from either plugins or wordpress which allows access when this is checked.
goodl uck
phil

Hey Robert,

First, check to see if that message is spam: How to Determine if an Email is Spam If you are still uncertain, then contact Carson: https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/message/carson in a private message and provide full details. Providing a screen print of the email would be a good idea.

For this issue, be sure to click on "Report Content" so that you will receive a blank textbox that will be clearly labeled with "Contact Kyle or Carson" so that your message will go to Carson in his inbox and not back out into a classroom where members can come in to answer the questions they know how to answer.

Hope you find this helpful.

Robert,

You should be able to log in your Site Manager and then after you login to your specific website click on the Users tab under the Dashboard located on the left side of your page,

Choose All Users from the drop down menu and then view the list of Users for that website. Mark and delete any unauthorized users and make sure to go back and verify that the change(s) was/were made.

You can also reset the password at the starting page on the Site Manager to eliminate any hacked login credentials.

I hope that this helps.

Blessings!

Potential hacker at a guess as in the past I have experienced this

The most important thing to Google is that the links make sense. It's okay if they are plain links or affiliate links. I'd put in affiliate links now. Remember if you are writing about your niche, it's not necessary to have a huge volume of traffic to be successful, it's more important to have targeted traffic. Some niche's won't ever be huge, but they can be quite successful.

Don't even add links until you yave traffic and traction

I have the same opinion with others. If you have not an affiliate with Amazon, there's no benefits for you to have link to their site. You might as well sign up straight away and placing your affiliate links on your post.

My opinion.

:)
Joe

I think you maybe on shaking ground I but I'm not qualified to give out legal advice, What I did was buy an Amazon book called the book.
Amazon Associates: Complete Guide: Make Money Online with Amazon Associates: The Amazon Associates Bible: A Step-By-Step Guide on Amazon Associates Affiliate Program

this book only cost 2.99 I thought for the price it was worth it.
Sandy

Rob, if it helps I signed up to Amazon straight away, I figured if I waited until I got traffic, I could miss out on some commissions, so just did it anyway as I had reviews to write on products I had brought

I think the only penalty would be they could cancel your account if you don't have any sales? You can't get any sales unless you sign up with them.

have a look into a tracking pixel plugin - this way you can find out which products are being clicked on - even before you are an amazon affiliate.
put your links there to amazon and find out which type of products your niche wants.
goodl uck
phil

If you’re not signed up as an amazon affiliate it doesn’t benefit you at all to link to products on Amazon. People could go through your link and make purchases you’d make no commission. Amazon can’t penalize you in any way when you have no affiliation with them.

The time dimension is the only unknown!

Google Analytic, it takes a bit of thought to use it, I'm trying again later today!
Colin

1) As mentioned by Mike, use the Google Analytic to see the activities in your site.

2) On this question, need to understand that traffic is something we build over time. And it's dynamic, it has high and low depends how Uncle G looks at your site. We can't rely 100% with G. Leverage social engagement via socail accounts you have might add boost to traffic to your site.

Agree with Trish, content is king. For long term existence, we need to create content for the site.

:)
Joe

As Trish says GA is your go-to source for this necessary analysis

Hey Robert,

Some highly profitable websites may have less traffic than you would imagine as being great, and they profit very well.

Yes, traffic helps... but content truly is king. You need to pick a hot niche and supply information that other sites are not offering in order to gain attention to your website quicker.

As for measuring your traffic... that is what Google Analytics can do for you. Check out the screen print below to see how you can access some really great tutorials that can guide you on using Google Analytics.

Hope this helps you.

I suppose my problem was that I need to copy and paste directly from the search bar.

The parameters are probably the numbers/letters/sybols at the end of the link.
Best cloak the link using Pretty Links/Google/Bit.ly/Tinyurl etc etc.

Where are you attempting to share this?

Are you referring to your google+ URL