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Can You Share Cons of Wealthy Affiliate?

Toonblogger

Published on February 2, 2016

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I'm in the 4th week of my stay as a Premium Member of WA. Unlike many others, I started out without enjoying the free 7 days and the $19 first month privilege. Nevertheless, I didn't mind it. So far I'm enjoying what I'm seeing despite my limited time here.

..."Limited" means I could only get my hands into WA for about a couple of hours a day in average (there were days to have none at all, but there were some greater days as I could hang out for about 6 accumulated hours in weekends or dawn).

As I build my site to promote WA, one thing that would hinder me is to spell out the WA Cons. No problem with the PROs as there are thousands of great things about WA to talk about.

Thus, I'm wondering if we can list the Cons here for 2 reasons.

1. To have an additional source of Wealthy Affiliate CONs that would make you sound as open as possible, but not to the extent of damaging WA.

2. To fix some issues within WA that members would wish to be rectified soon

3. To immediately correct perceived Cons (that are actually not).

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Aside from "information overload" and/or "too many quality contents..." that many of us normally write, I have a few things that I think should be in the list of WA cons.

When I searched "WA Cons", I saw only dj-drea's blog to have WA cons.

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/dj-drea/blog/wealt...

Thus, I'd like to add a few of my own experiences in my first month. I hope beginners and skilled members alike would somehow find value here.

1. Some countries (Philippines, India, Vietnam, etc.) couldn't enjoy the 7-day Free Access and $19 first-month payment. I'm not sure why but I hope this can improve. It's quite hard really to invite my fellow Filipinos and neighboring countries as my articles that say they can try it for free for 7 days will never be applicable to them. That's what I felt then.

2. As mentioned by Andrea, the 2 free websites are subdomains of siterubix. Though I didn't find it very irritating as I had no intention to create subdomain sites, it could be for some who may be expecting websites that they can brand to be theirs.

3. Keyword Lists are not updated. It could have been more refreshing to see 2015 or 2016 PDF files. Even though there are only 100 in each, the beginners may directly or indirectly benefit from them.

4. Not all Top Achievers would respond to PMs. I've had 2 or 3 queries directed to 2 different Top 200 guys, but didn't get replies. Probably they're too busy, but still hoping one day they will.

5. Trainings are forbidden for new members unless they've celebrated their 3rd month. Some members may have unique skills that are beneficial for the WA community but the latter just have to wait for 3 months before they can hear what the new members have to say. I fully respect this though. In fact, I haven't watched all the trainings yet (I do have a limited time, remember?).

If you'll ever use any of these CONs (and probably below's inputs) in your site or elsewhere, you just have to be as creative as possible. And if you think these are not supposedly Cons, pls. help me understand why.

Meanwhile, can you also share your CONs of Wealthy Affiliate?

Thank you.

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