Au Revoir My Dear WA Friends . I'll be back!

It is not without a sense of sadness that I write this today, but for me it has come to the crunch.

Hear me out … it gets more positive. Promise!

With the cost of living now biting hard and my yearly renewal looming I simply don’t have the funds available.

So we have to try and cut back even more than we currently are and as such I have decided not to renew my WA premium … well, the decision was kind of made for me.

Our rent has gone up again and disposable income is in negative territory, if I’m being realistic.

I’ve been here before and even though I said to myself I will not hit the credit cards again, that is what is happening. How else do you pay for the unforeseens?

I have learned a great deal in my two and a half years here at WA and it’s been a really enjoyable ride. I want to say thank you to Kyle and Carson for creating this resource. WA is not without its issues but overall this is a great platform, especially for beginners.

The training is decent, if a little outdated. I mean, you can probably learn everything you need to know for free by searching Google but then you need to know what to search for!

For those new to this affiliate marketing game, WA is a gold mine … when you dig in the right seams ;-)

But what makes this place so special is the community. Genuine helpers like Diane Scorpio, Tim McKinlay, Eric Cantu, VitaliyG, CassiOfTroy and many others offer a wealth of experience and the value in being able to ask these people questions is unquantifiable.

But I want to express my profound appreciation for ParthaB …

Partha has been the one person on here who has really taken the time to genuinely help me (and many others) on my journey. He has this knack of laser focussing in on the problem at hand and I have easily learned the most from him … by far!

In fact I’d go so far as to say without Partha’s input during my time here I’m 100% sure I’d not have been a paying member for more than, maybe, a year.

I have a pretty good knowledge of SEO having been dabbling for over two decades now (yes I’m the guy who will be, in my later years, claiming to be the one for whom it took the longest to finally make it big - that’s the USP!) …

… although around a decade of that was spent distancing myself completely from the ‘make money online’ and the affiliate marketing world. I became convinced it was all a scam and my family simply despaired of me.

… and this was after having already proven to myself that generating a life changing income online is totally possible. Because I did it.

Yes, it was as black as black-hat gets short of actually hacking websites to gain backlinks but as I’ve mentioned a few times here at WA, Google burned us all and they burned us big.

I flailed around for a while, sinking a ton of money into every shiny object out there. Maxed out the credit cards. Let my family down big time.

I unsubscribed from a thousand mailing lists and spent the next ten years pretty much only reading Gauher Chaudhry’s newsletter. Just keeping up with the headlines really. He was the only ‘guru’ I ended up trusting.

But there was always this little splinter in the back of my mind and if WA did one thing for me it was to reignite that flame inside me. That desire to break out from the shackles of a regular job and truly be free … financially and spiritually!

When I discovered WA (no idea why it took me so long) I knew this would work. Because I know about SEO. I just never had the impetus to run with it again after the big Google slap.

… it was Panda or Penguin. One or the other. Or both. The old hands here will know what I’m talking about.

Fast forward to today and once again the big G has slapped many 10’s of thousands of bloggers, me being one of them. So naturally it brings all those emotions back … and it’s tough.

Especially because now I cannot warrant investing any more in WA at this time (sorry Jay, you’ll have to replace that commission) so I’m fighting back those feelings of failure that I know so well.

But here I’ve tasted success again and this time I refuse to give up. Even though I have to say au revoir (not goodbye) to WA I have learned enough about doing SEO in 2023 and hopefully 2024 at least. What with AI taking hold, who knows after that!

I will recover my site one way or the other and when I do, I’ll be straight back to WA helping others every day to achieve the same success which awaits me.

I know it’s out there … just have to keep plugging away. But the next stage for me is one of serious cost cutting. I have to put my family first and keep the roof over our heads!

No maxing out all the credit cards this time.

So to wrap this up … thank you WA and all the amazing members who go out of their way to help others. This is a community like no other.

But most of all … thank you times 10 to ParthaB :-) I’ve saved all your posts for reference! Maybe our paths will cross again and who knows, maybe one day we will work together …I’ll tempt you with the ultimate black-hat strategy and you won’t be able to resist 🙂

Have a good one everyone … I’ll be back!

Rohan ...