Hello! Welcome to my tutorial on the Site Feedback platform here on Wealthy Affiliate.

Whether you are a new here or have been here for a decade, you are a website user expert.

Wait, what?

Do you have experience banking online? Have you gone to Amazon to purchase a new TV or kitty cat pajamas? Do you have a favorite blog you read? Do you play around on Facebook? Read news articles? Google recipes?

Then you are an expert!

Unless you have never before gone online, which is pretty close to impossible in this day and age, then you have all the knowledge and knowhow to write GREAT, and more importantly, USEFUL Site Feedback.

Where Do We Give Site Feedback?

First of all, if you go to the Website menu to your left and click on it, you'll see this:


When you click on Site Feedback, you'll see this:

Now, when you click on Offer Feedback, this is what you'll get:

(This is not my site, obviously).

There's a box for offering your feedback for the website. But take a look at the box in green. It says "Feedback on my site design". There are five different types of feedback you can ask for and I'll get into that in a bit.

Instructions on Site Feedback

Now, if you click on the View More Instructions, you will get Kyle's instructions on how to give feedback here:

Pay particular attention to the part, "View the website from the perspective of a visitor."

From the perspective of a visitor.

You visit websites all the time right? Play games online? Look at recipes, videos, read blogs, book reviews, look for quilting patterns, check your bank balance, right?

So you are already an expert website visitor and that's exactly how you should be looking at these sites.

Don't think because you're new to affiliate marketing you don't know how to give feedback. You do! You're already a visitor to many websites every day! You know what types of websites bother you, which ones are annoying, which ones are awesome, and how and why they're great, right?

You are an expert website visitor from day one!

Keep these simple rules in mind:

  1. If you can't find anything useful to say about the website, SKIP IT! You're wasting their credits for a comment that says, "Oh hey, I'm not a cat lover, but it looks pretty okay. If I were interested in cats, I'd probably like it." (Yes, I actually got one that said something like that)
  2. You don't have to be interested in the niche to give feedback! Feedback isn't about the niche. Unless they want feedback about their content and you can't think of anything to say because you don't know anything about that subject, then you SKIP IT! Of course, if they want feedback on their content and their grammar is horrible, THEN you can give helpful tips, all without knowing anything about the niche.
  3. If you GIVE good feedback, you'll GET good feedback.
  4. Feedback is to help improve a website, it is NOT a comment section.
  5. DO NOT MAKE SUGGESTIONS ABOUT MONETIZING THE WEBSITE! Obviously, as the person is ON Wealthy Affiliate, they're going to monetize the website. Maybe they haven't gotten to the training yet, maybe their site is too new for affiliate programs or adsense. Just... DON'T. It's just as bad as having nothing to say because you are literally telling people what they already were planning on doing.
  6. Do not make suggestions about privacy policies, affiliate disclaimers, review posts, etc. that is covered in the training. UNLESS they are doing something wrong, like posting prices for Amazon products when Amazon Associates forbids that with their rules. Or if they have affiliate links without a disclaimer. But don't tell new sites to add this stuff when they'll get to it IN THE TRAINING. (If I had a dollar for every piece of feedback I have recieved that suggested these things... I'd be rich. I was on my SECOND site, I already went through the training, it was a brand new site, and your feedback is WORTHLESS in that case.)
  7. If you are directed to a specific POST on the website, provide feedback for that POST, not the website or another post. THAT post.
  8. Be polite

If you receive feedback, don't get offended if you RECEIVE feedback and it isn't a pat on the back saying, "Good Job." That IS the point of feedback.

Next page, we'll go over the five types of Site Feedback members can ask for and what exactly they mean.



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Feochadan Premium Plus
Woops! When you hit next page after Lesson 2, there is no more and it just drops you into the listing of all of the training modules. This is really good training and I would love to see the rest!
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Selenityjade Premium
Hmmm, I'm trying to fix it. Maybe lesson 3 is too long! LOL! It's not giving me a warning. I'll break it up.
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Feochadan Premium Plus
You should repost it if you can when you are done because its really good and I think the information is VERY useful. I have never felt qualified to give site feedback so this is GREAT!
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Selenityjade Premium
Okay, I just reposted the page, then deleted the old one. Should be fixed. Thanks for the compliment! (Lemme know if the page about examples of unhelpful feedback seems to mean or something? I was trying to explain why they weren't helpful not pick on people)
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Feochadan Premium Plus
Oh, no! It was bang on. I've had to reject Site Comments that were like that. Its like the person didn't even bother to TRY or give any kind of time or attention. LAZY!!!!!
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Feochadan Premium Plus
PERFECTION!!! I LOVED the examples of what not to write. You totally nailed the entire topic!
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Selenityjade Premium
Thank you so much!

I didn't want to be mean, tried to make sure any of them I picked to show weren't identifiable and covered all the different types of unhelpful ones I've gotten, without listing them ALL of course.

I find using examples helps some people figure it out instead of just explaining what to do.

I did look through the other trainings on Site Feedback, but most were suggesting to look for stuff as WA members who know what is involved in websites and affiliate marketing. Since that isn't what I look for in feedback, and the instructions say 'visitor', I felt like making my own that covers it.

Hopefully, it's useful to people. :)
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doug48 Premium
Your training has helped me a lot. I am struggling to offer feedback. This is going to help me to move forward in my training. I could skip this task, but feel its important not to.. Thankyou
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Selenityjade Premium
You're very welcome!
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ManojV1 Premium
This is easily the most detailed training on site feedback anywhere on the web, not just on Wealthy Affiliate. It covers everything possible and even gives examples.

Now all that one has to do is to use this as a checklist while giving feedback on any site anywhere.

Excellent work, thank you!
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Selenityjade Premium
Awww, thanks so much for your kind words. I was trying to use examples to have examples, not be mean. I was a little hesitant about this one because of that. But glad to see it's so helpful!
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ManojV1 Premium
That's not what I meant. The examples complement the content very well. In fact they are a must in this case, and makes the training truly complete.

You've also taken adequate care to add anonymity to the images, and that is considerate enough.

I have hardly covered a fraction of the vast training resources here, but this is one of the best.
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Selenityjade Premium
Thanks again! That's possibly the best compliment ever!

(BTW, I knew you didn't think it was mean. That was me worrying because sometimes there are people who get defensive about things that aren't even about them, let alone when I'm putting real examples up. So I was a little stressed at first about this training. ^_^)
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BorisRoman Premium Plus
Thanks a lot for sharing all this useful information!

Wish you much success!

Bob
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Selenityjade Premium
Thank you! You too!
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ghimes Premium
Hi you touch on a subject that is very important to the reader but also the author. Feedback allows the reader to apply knowledge and experience to help the author improve and embellish future blogs for existing and new readers. Great blog.
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Selenityjade Premium
Thank you!
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