Over 50,000 & almost 380,000

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I've been a Premium Member now for 37 months & am followed by over 50,000 Frieds here in this amazing community.

Wealthy Affiliate launched way back in 2005 and as far as I am aware there have been over 1.4 Million Members so far.

I, myself am following almost 380,000 of those 1.4 million members so my follow back ratio isn't very high at all.

Does that bother me?

No, it doesn't as I follow and welcome new Friends here at Wealthy Affiliate so that they know that we are indeed a real community and also that we are a friendly community and that they are safe amongst us.

To protect Free Starter Members here at WA we're only allowed to post our website(s) and/or social media site(s) in the bottom right of our Wealthy Affiliate profile page where it says "Follow Me On" and not in the actual body of our bio.

I know what you're thinking, "I've seen many Friends here at WA with their website(s) and/or social media sote(s) listed within the body of their bio!"

Yes and so have I, just because some do, that doesn't mean that it's allowed. I myself was instructed by Kyle some time ago that it was indeed against the rules.

After Kyle told me that, I started thinking about it and now see the reasoning behind the rule. Only Premium Members who follow You are able to see your "Follow Me On" links. That is good to know as there are some rare times when some who come to WA come for reasons not so friendly.


I welcome and follow all members to WA, how about You?

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Hi Tony, I too follow new members to build a community of people who may wish to connect and share knowledge or learn from me. That is what Social Networking is all about, in spite of what Facebook and other platforms are transforming into .. not really social anymore. :( Happy to be here and to make the connection to you and others who may wish to connect!

great achievement

I too welcome newbies, in three months am following 5,400, and am being followed by 1,300, so see you point regarding the percentages.

That's a huge follow Tony, thank you for that note, I think many newbies didn't know that.

Thanks Tony for the clarification. Well done on the numbers by the way. I have been in 1 month and have 447 following me back out of 762.

I was not aware of the fact that non Premium members don't see your websites/links, so that was good to know.

Thanks again and have a great day

Thanks for that info Tony. I was starting to wonder if anyone was actually allowed to put their web page link on there profile at all. I mentioned it a while back in one of the discussion groups and I never really got an answer. I almost felt like the question I'd asked was totally forbidden. I'm glad you finally fixed that issue for me. Jim

Very impressive accomplishment Tony. Congratulations !
I cannot however welcome every new member. Keeping up with all the incoming emails is very time consuming. Then add the times you have to spend on the lessons.

I just talked to one who is thinking about throwing in the towel. She has two jobs plus WA to attend to. I think the best approach is look at one's time and capabilities then set up a good steady schedule to do all there is to do here at WA.

No two individuals are the same. Your continued sharing of great accomplishment and how you got there is very commendable. Thank you for doing so.

Joe

I'm followed by almost 2000 people in 3 years.

This community is awesome ! I like growing the network as much as anything. Get a ton of PMs now and that's pretty fun helping people figure out their issues !
Mike

To be honest Tony it is something I have been a little slack on, and in return have not many following me either lol. I shall set forth to rectify this and make a decent effort to welcome those new to WA into the family.

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