CONCLUSION
Remember! ALL of your content that you write here within WA can be seen by everyone on the internet. If you write it like you would your website content, it will get ranked in Google, giving you an entrance point for possible affiliate referrals.
Remember! If you do not want your WA blog content or the comments it gets to be seen on the internet, then DO NOT write it! Just because WA is a members only community does not mean only WA members can view what you are writing here.
Remember! Seeing how everyone online can read your WA content, then create some of it in such a way that would get non-members to want to join WA. This could possibly lead you to earn an affiliate referral credit. It only takes 3 premium monthly referrals to pay your WA monthly membership.
Remember! You can link to your WA blogs as many times as you want within your website content and not violate Google’s affiliate link guidelines. This is because of how the WA referral system is set up, to give you referral credit to all who join Wealthy Affiliate through your WA blogs and content.
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I've heard how difficult it can be to rank in Google+ with affiliate links, so I would recommend you limit your affiliate links to 3 per page and/or post ... and use Pretty Link to make those links less obvious to your website visitors. Pretty Links This seems to work best for me.
Hope this helps you.
Sometimes I seem to expect people to read my mind. It makes me a tad upset with myself when I realize what I've done. This time I may have confused Karen by not offering the COMPLETE story the first time around.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention Rob!
You also must have made a small fortune from this training this year... 222 Likes and 156 comments. Wow.
I especially liked your tip about including links to WA posts in your website posts. Thanks.
Many of the WA blogs and even training tutorials that I create here at WA, I will link to from inside my website content. I do this as another way to get my website visitors to WA.
Seeing how I am the creator/author of these WA blogs and tutorials, I do not need to use the affiliate link to those posts in order to get the affiliate commission should my website visitor join WA.
This way I could include as many links to my WA blogs and tutorials in my website content, and Google will not see them as affiliate links...because they are not, though they act as though they are.
So, If I copy n paste my affiliate links of any of my WA blogs
(that are also hopefully ranking in Google in their own rights)
apply a pretty link of it - do I then put it in my website?
All content YOU create here at WA can be shared without using the affiliate link for it.
The only times you would use an affiliate link is when you are sharing content that another WA member created or when sharing the affiliate link to the WA home page.
You can place non affiliate links to any of your WA blog posts or training on your website and Google will not consider them as affiliate links because they will not contain an affiliate ID in the url.
AGAIN, all content you create here at WA can be shared without using the affiliate link for it. You will still get all affiliate referral credits that come from people joining WA through your WA blogs because you are the creator of said blog.
How do I link that to my website?
What else is considered a non-affiliate link?
How do I share a non-affiliate link Say one of my WA blogs to Twitter or Facebook?
I have noticed that the WA blogs we do there is a Google + button at the top to share that but did wonder if it was O.K to do that. As when I did a few weeks ago Google suspended me.
I have no idea why I can't get my head around this Boomer.
Sorry for bugging you. And being a bit dense.
Andi.
Anything you create here within WA (blog, discussion, training) can be shared without using its affiliate link because you are the author of said content.
But you must use the affiliate link for all other blogs, discussions and trainings you wish to share when you are not the author of said content.
The process for linking to your WA blogs from your website is the same as linking to some other content. And as far as linking to your WA blog from Twitter or Facebook, just post the link of the blog.
UNLESS you are a network marketer looking to build a loyal following who will join your team call me stupid but I don't see the benefit. Yep I know that posts on WA (blog posts etc) rank higher and faster due to WA's online horsepower BUT ...
IF you would have written all the quality content you posted on WA and instead posted it on your own site have you ever wondered how much better your site may rank now?
Hey, maybe I'm wrong but I'm not a prolific writer. It takes me HOURS even DAYS to write a top quality piece of content so to waste that content on a site that allows me to only sell or promote WA (according to TOS I can't even link to my squeeze page or blog), which means I can't build my list (which is where the big money is really at) just doesn't make sense to me. So ...
Am I missing something?
I can place links to these pieces of WA content all over my website and they will NOT be seen as affiliate links by Google, even though they will act just like affiliate links within the WA referral system and give me referral credit for anyone who joins WA from reading my WA content. Got to use all of the referral arsenal that I can. :)
As for training tutorials like these, WA pays members credits for each tutorial created, provided it is a quality piece of content.
AHA! Good point!
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