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:
- 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)
- 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.
- If you GIVE good feedback, you'll GET good feedback.
- Feedback is to help improve a website, it is NOT a comment section.
- 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.
- 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.)
- If you are directed to a specific POST on the website, provide feedback for that POST, not the website or another post. THAT post.
- 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.
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!
Wish you much success!
Bob