Wealthy Affiliate Outline of Main Course Curriculum

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11 years ago

Wealthy Affiliate Outline of Main Course Curriculum
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Since I thought doing this would be a great way for me to get a better insight and "feel" for the WA Course, both chronologically and as a whole, I figure it could do the same for others so I thought I'd post it on a blog so members can copy and paste it into a text editor for their own use.
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C1 L1 - Get rolling!

• Watch the Walk-through Video of Wealthy Affiliate
• Watch the Account Set-up Video of Wealthy Affiliate
• Complete the Account Set-up Process (description, image)
• Understand the Membership Levels at Wealthy Affiliate

C1 L2 - Understanding how to make money online

• Understand the "The Process of Earning Money Online" Infographic
• Join in on this discussion and add your personal "money" goals
• Comment on at least TWO people
• Write down your 4 NON Financial Goals
• Read Tutorial: 6 Ways to Earn Money With Your WordPress Blog

C1 L3 - Choose a niche

• Watch the "Choosing a Direction" video
• Read Blog Post "A Niche is a Group of People Looking for Stuff"
• Choose YOUR Niche!

C1 L4 - Building your own website

• Watch the "Building Your Website Video"
• Build your first website in your respective niche from last lesson

C1 L5 -

• Watch the Setting Up Your Website Video
• Log into your website WordPress ADMIN area
• Activate your All in One SEO & Exclude Pages plugins
• Delete the default Post, Page and Comment

C1 L6 - Getting your site ready for SEO

• Watch the Getting Your Website SEO Ready video walk-through
• Set-up your All in One SEO Settings

C1 L7 - Finding content ideas from keywords

• Watch the Keyword Mastery Video Walk-Through
• Sign-up to Jaaxy.com for Free
• Perform 10 searches using Jaaxy
• Find 3 Keywords that meet the keyword criteria

C1 L8 - Understanding website pages & creating your...[first web page]

• Watch "Creating Your Initial Website Framework" Walk-through Video
• Come up with at least 3 website category "ideas"
• Create your first 3 draft pages (website related, about me, etc.)

C1 L9 - Creating quality website content

• Watch the "Quality Content is Your Business" Walk-through Video
• Create your About Me Page (and Publish)
• Create your Privacy Policy Page (and Publish)

C1 L10 - Congratulations and your next step

• Upgrade to a Premium Member
• Continue on to Level 2 Training

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C2 L1 - Your own domain, your brand...traffic

• Buy a Domain
• Join in the Discussion on Choosing Domains
• Transfer Your SiteRubiWebsite to Your Own Domain

C2 L2 - Building out your website theme-based content

• Watch the Setting Up Theme-Based Categories Video Walk-through
• Create Your 3 Additional Themed Pages
• Organize Your Menu
• Build Out Content for 3 Initial Pages

C2 L3 - Setting up a domain specific email account

• Watch the "Creating Email Accounts" Video Walk-through
• Set Up an Email Account OR an Email Forward
• Incorporate Email Into Website
• Post Your Website for Feedback Within the "Feeback" Discussion
• Offer Feedback on at LEAST TWO Other Websites

C2 L4 - The traffic breakdown

• Create a New Keyword Rich Post & Publish
• Read The Customer Purchase Lifecycle Training

C2 L5 - Making use of visuals

• Watch the "How to Find & Add Images to Your Website" Video
• Add Relevant Imagery to Your Post
• Add Relevant images to all of your other pages

C2 L6 - Getting crafty with the WordPress editor

• Watch the "Using the WordPress Editor" Video Walk-through
• Create a new blog post using your new knowledge of editor
• Share Post Within "Share Your Beautiful Content" Discussion
• Comment on 3 Other Posts Within the Same Discussion

C2 L7 - Understanding the low-hanging fruit

• Watch "How to get Keyword Ranked W/ Low Hanging Fruit" Video
• Come up with 5 keywords with under 100 QSR (Competition)
• Create on Page/Post Targeting Low Hanging Fruit Keyword
• Share Content on the "Give & Take" Discussion

C2 L8 - Making "face" as a real person

• Watch the "How to Create a New User in WordPress" Video
• Create a New User
• Update All of Your Pages & Posts to Reflect New User

C2 L9 - Amplifying your your google love with authorship

• Watch the "How to Properly Set-up Authorship" Video
• Set-up a Google Plus Account
• Add at Least 5 People on G+ to Your Circles
• Add Google + Account to the "Share Your G+ Account" Blog
• Set up Google Authorship on Your Website

C2 L10 - Boosting your WA ranks

• Watch the "Benefits of Being an Ambassador" Walk-through Video
• Create one blog post within Wealthy Affiliate
• Check Your Ambassadorship Rankings.
• Comment on at Least 2 Goal Posts
• Help One Person Through the "Unanswered" tab on Dashboard

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C3 L1 - Understanding the money in online business

• Read the Customer Purchase Lifecycle training
• Write ONE page/post targeting a new keyword and publish it

C3 L2 - Understanding affiliate programs and networks

• Join at least ONE affiliate network
• Search for affiliate programs related to your niche
• Join at least TWO niche related affiliate programs
• Add ONE page or post to your website (targeting a new keyword)

C3 L3 - Adding affiliate links to your pages

• Add at least 3 affiliate links to your content
• Create at least one NEW post on your website

C3 L4 - Benefiting from affiliate banners

• Find and Add a Banner to at Least ONE page or post on your site
• Update your page so your changes are live

C3 L5 - Instant access to a million products

• Add ONE Relevant Amazon Product to Your Site
• Create ONE page or post and publish it on your website (targeting a new keyword)

C3 L6 - Leveraging product reviews

• Set up at least TWO Google alerts
• Write a review on a product
• Find a product-related affiliate program & add links to your site

C3 L7 - Getting paid for ads on your site

• Sign up to Google Adsense
• Join at least ONE other ad publishing network
• Create one new post targeting a low hanging fruit keyword
• Publish the post on your website

C3 L8 - Earning pennies or dollars?

• Ad both ad and affiliate promotions to one of your posts
• Add only affiliate programs to one of your pages or posts
• Add only advertising programs to one of your pages or posts
• Write a SINGULAR product review and add it as a post on your website

C3 L9 - A crafty way to earn ad revenue

• Create an Advertising page on your site (optional)
• Write ONE post targeting a new keyword
• Publish the post on your website

C3 L10 - With help comes financial success

• Add ONE page or post to your website (targeting a new keyword)
• Make the page "money" ready (links, banners, adsense, etc)

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C4 L1 - What does social engagement mean to your [business]

• Create a Facebook Account
• Create a Twitter Account
• Create a Google Plus Account
• Create a Pinterest Account

C4 L2 - Making your website a place to engage

• Install Akismet (WordPress Plugin)
• Clean Out SPAM Comments
• Create a New Page of Content with Engage Factor
• Share Your Content on Your Social Networks

C4 L3 - Using Facebook the right way
Create a FB Status Update that meets one of the 6 engagement aspects
Create a page/post on your website targeting a new topic or keyword
Share this page or post your website on Facebook and aim to engage

C4 L4 - Pinterest & the visual social hemisphere

• Create a Pinterest Account
• Pin at Least ONE of your Blog Posts
• Follow at least 10 people
• Write ONE article and submit to StreetArticles.com
• Install a Pinterest Plugin (OPTIONAL)

C4 L5 - Incorporating a sound tweeting campaign

• Set-up a Twitter Account (if you don’t have one already)
• Tweet a Page/Post on Your Site
• Tweet at Least ONE of your Articles
• Tweet about a Trending Topic (from TrendsMap.com)

C4 L6 - Google plus or minus?

• Create a Google Plus Account
• Create at Least One Google Plus Post
• Add your Google Plus Link to the Shared Page @ WA
• Follow at Least 10 Fellow Members (via the share page)
• Follow Kyle & Carson on Google +

C4 L7 - The power of Google authorship

• Add Google Authorship to Your Website
• Add Google Authorship to WA
• Make ONE Wealthy Affiliate Post and add to Google Authorship

C4 L8 - Make your campaigns social branding animals

• Create a new page/post on your website
• Share your post to Facebook, Twitter, & Google Plus
• Pin your post to Pinterest

C4 L9 - Using the Wealthy Affiliate Social Community

• Watch Video on Sharing Content at WA
• Share at least one post to your Facebook
• Share at least one post to Pinterest
• Share at least one training resource to twitter
• Share at least one training resource to Google +

C4 L10 - You cannot be a master of everything

• Create a How/Why/When List of your social networks
• Decide which social networks you want to put into Share Only mode
• Write 1 article and submit it to an article directory of your choice
• Share on the 4 big social networks (FB, Twitter, G+, Pinterest)

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