Please can I have a couple of questions answered.
3. Do not copy content from WA and post it somewhere else on the Internet. (This i understand) This includes copying your own blog content and putting it on your website.- what does this mean?

6. Does this mean no posting of your affiliate links or any mlm 's I'm involved with. If that is what it means, I get that. Kind of like biting the hand that feeds you.

The rest I understand and feel delighted about. I was looking into affiliate marketing, using lots of other things, and sneaky stuff was going on. When I found some training it was really expensive.

When writing content, is there anywhere I can send it for feedback? I can get lost in my head and what makes sense to me can seriously baffle others.

I actually can't get over the fact that questions are answered without promoting another something to buy. This place is awesome.

Thank you.

Thanks Kyle and Carson for the open book of WA rules that we have to follow, very transparent.
I have a problem and I am in the process of writing my first blog about my competing my 10 Lessons in Level 1 of WA Entrepreneurial Certification Course and I am stuck on the part where I have to add tag. How do I resolve the add tag issue?

WOW I'm so glad that I read this. This will make anyone quiver and quake in their boots and think carefully about what they post. Thanks for the detailed outline of what SPAM really is. I really appreciate that WA conducts their affairs in such an orderly manner. The respect that this exemplifies towards members of the community is top notch.

Thanks, Kyle and Carson for always looking out for us!

Brian

If you were having a conversation with someone in the real world and another person was continually interrupting "listen to me" over and over. Would that be annoying?
Well it would be equally annoying on WA community.
And in my opinion it makes community forum look cheap.
I am glad it is not spammed like elsewhere on the Internet.
Cheers'
Dave

I find this fascinating. I understand the "no promotion in WA" rule. It keeps the space clean and a safe haven, as you say.

But this whole course is about promoting affiliate links on the internet and some argue that we should treat the internet in the same way - no promotions, no spam, no solicitation.

Curious on your thoughts of this. Why is it ok "out there" and not "in here"? It's something I struggle with in this business. And I would love your perspective.

Thanks!

Ryan

I'm really glad you put this up because I somehow missed reading these in my one week of being here. I 've focused so much on getting on with the training and meeting folks in the time I have to spend here that I seem not to have caught up on some important stuff (like these rules). Sad to say I have probably made some comments that are on the verge of breaking a few rules on here but now I know better.

I'm not sure where these rules come up (during signing on to WA or training?) but I don't remember seeing them so far though. It might help if they stand out a bit more so folks like me don't run the risk of breaking them inadvertently. (apologies if it's just that I didn't notice them)

Thanks for the heads up.

Hey, Kyle!

In my messages here in WA, usually, I ask people to know my website, I got with WordPress since I had my enrolment with WA has done, almost two years ago. The www.lifeandhealths.com is a website created for helping people to make their lives better, without any profit goal. Last week, I got a user's message saying that such note features a type of Spam. I enlighten you that during all the time I'm in WA, people are always commenting on this healthy work and according to the replying messages, the website has been helping many people, and it has been welcome so far for the WA community.
I would like to ask you to make an appraisal of my website content, and if indeed it is regarded as spam or inadequate for you, I'm thinking to be out from WA, because I don't want to cause any inconvenient for you all. So, I prefer to move forward with my website, without any link with WA from now on.

Madek

I am on page 3 now and I just read the following:

"This course is always kept current so if you ever need a brush up at any time going forward or you don't understand something within Wealthy Affiliate University, make sure you check back to this tutorial."

This course is definitely not current.

I am commenting as I read through this, so you can understand why I as a reader am feeling frustrated.

I still cannot find a Forum or Training

I found Classrooms link in the Left Menu. Perhaps that is the Training you are mentioning should be in the Activity Dashboard.

My Profile is not in the Activity Dashboard, but at least I know where to get it, in the top right link to logout.

I still cannot find My Blog.

I cannot find My Network in the Activity Dashboard, but at least I know to find it in the light blue button on the top right menu.

I cannot find Rapid Writer, but I assume it is now called Site Content in the light blue Site Rubix link on the left side menu.

I cannot find Share Wealthy Affiliate, but I assume it is now called Affiliate Bootcamp.

Overall I give this article the lowest rating as newbys to WA like myself are unable to follow anything in it.

PLEASE UPDATE IT.

Cheers Dave

I wish I had not read this article because it has just frustrated me, and I do not usually get frustrated. I click on Activity Dashboard and do not see links to Training - Forum - My Blog or many of the links you mention. My only conclusion is that you must have changed the WA website layout after this article was written. Please update this article with screenshots that are the same as the platform, so people reading it can follow it. Cheers Dave

I think I have worked out the problem here. Your article mentions a Forum. I clicked on Activity Dashboard, and could not find Training or Forum. I think the WA website is difficult to locate or understand where things are. As I write this, I still do not know where to find a Forum. Dave

It would not be wise to train others until I train myself first. Perhaps when I have completed all the tasks in the course, then I would have enough experience and knowledge to train. I think giving back is an awesome idea, however I would not like to be guilty of steering others off course.

A butcher cannot teach people to bake. Likewise, a newby at WA does not have the experience and skills to train. I look forward to taking up the challenge of training others when I get my head around all that I am learning.

Remember the saying, "If the blind lead the blind, they all end up in the ditch." My question is this. Why is the training in the WA Course not sufficient?

Your article said: "You are now going to have the ability to interact within other people's training,"

If people do offer training, then how do others find it? I am only aware of the course with the green button on the left. There is no process on WA to locate this training you mention. Perhaps if you added another button on the left menu titled Member Training, that other members could access, it might work better.

Well that's my feedback. Dave

so far so good I'm so eager to learn and share what I have learn I'm a team player I've been in sports all life and you as a coach see me and my abilities to take a lead I'm In. all I need is to see and read the moves and plays and game on. lol

Hello, here I am today ,reading The benefits of the Open Education Project,. I have a question though, I have started my website creation, did my niche selection but, did not completed the website,yet, do you think I should be done with that, or it doesn't matter , and continue to educate myself?

I am new and need some direction I can't upgrade until maybe tommorow when I invest what we live off of when I get scammed we are scared and nervous but I'll try to see what I can come up with a miracle nice to meet everyone I want to ask where do I start im stuck on deciding weather to sell and advertise big company items or my ideas not sure what to do everybody makes it seem like it is hard to start a business but if u sell for big companies then you are giving your earned sucesss to the big companies . I also wanted a page to start trying to express myself about something that would be a good movement but I have faith in what I know will be a voice but not sure who to get to help me with my idea and who to trust it's a wonderful topic to bring forth I believe traffic will be amazing

Spam is a No No! Rule #16 and Rule #21 clarification needed:

In my last blog post (only my 3rd) I ended with ---- "Kind regards all" and my first name. No signature graphic or URL just my name --- Is this okay?

Also I started with a title completely opposite of my intent of the post but explaining my attitude when I first joined WA. So is this okay too? It could be perceived as click bait I suppose.

Anyone have thoughts on these?

Hi! Kyle, I love and respect all the listed rules for WA and its community. I will certainly abide them.

Here I need you to look into my writing in networking or answering question so to see if there is any sense of spam at all, since I have asked our members to critique my site, www.ebettercare.com being built inside WA for monetizing the contents inside www.formefirst.com and www.sick-ask.com.

Well, scary! After reviewing the above rules, I will certainly exercise my best precaution to avoid falling into the unwanted trap of spam, which I would have never intended to. So, please look into all my writing inside WA if anything may contain a sense of spam (unknowingly) and help me correct and do better and more for WA community. Of course, I welcome your advice on how I can do better to build and monetize www.ebettercare.com, which is at its 2+-week infancy.

So, thank you for posting the concerns about spam.

StefanC Hi Stefan, many thanks for your answer and for your kind offer to help me. But also about creating the niche, I want help on how to create, in which place or point of the platform I have to enter or click to open it or to create it

I got this notice from Kyle because I asked in general for people to join my Fashion Facebook page, as in one lesson we were instructed to ask people to join G+ I did not know that was forbidden. Kyle and Carson did also ask once to join their FB I did. Anyway, I suppose things change.

After reading about the most recent rules for blogs and posting,
I have a question about promoting things. Sometimes I am interested in what other products members are using, what they recommend and don't recommend.

For example, I recently did a search here within the WA community, to see what a good video capture software might be. I found three fairly solid recommendations and after doing my own research based on their suggestions in the various posts and comments I found, I was able to find one I thought would work for me. I found this to be of value to me.

They weren't directly trying to sell me anything. It was just helpful recommendations.

So my question is: Will these types of blogs also be removed? I would be disappointed if that is the case, because, like I said, I found this to be valuable information. I trust some of the people here more than outside WA, and their opinions are more relevant since we are all doing the same types of websites.

These are all common sense guidelines and I,for one, am glad that Kyle has taken the time and thought to give them to us.

Several months ago, I had a thought of something I wanted to ask the WA community about but, it was in a gray area and could be spam. But, I was not sure.

I contacted Kyle and asked for his guidance and thoughts on my proposed post. He responded quickly with the help I needed!

Contacting Kyle in advance worked so well that I plan to follow the same path if I have any future doubts about my posts!

I encourage everyone here at WA to follow the same advice. If you find yourself in a gray area and are unsure about anything you want to discuss on this platform, just contact either Kyle, Jay, or Carson for advice on how to proceed. It will keep you out of trouble and preserve the pure nature of the WA community as it was intended to be.

And, good luck to all our members in their quest for financial freedom through WA!

Jim

It would be good if you guys would put this in the beginner training. I just almost got in trouble in live chat breaking one of these rules. I would hate to have lost my account because I did not know that these rules even existed. Luckily for me the members in the chat quickly checked me and led me to this post.

I guess the one that confuses me is this one: Blogs - Discussing different topics on your blog. This could include pretty much anything that you want, the same way you as you would externally of WA. Blogs are an awesome way to get your message out.

Does that mean we DON'T have to post just business posts in WA, as long as we don't add an affiliate link?

I finally got to go through all of this explaining the rules of WA. Stil a little confused on what is considered ok to include in your emails, website, posts, in the way of if they are WA links, affiliate links, and outside links....??? I have no idea what a backlink is yet. Some of this confuses me, but this information was great and taught me quite a bit. Lots of info, and specifics. I feel I know how to navigate around the WA system, and I now know where everything is located, and where to find what I need.

Thanks so much!!
Tracy

Wow, I have been here a year and have never seen this. I'm confused with number 9. Do not post content where your readers are required to go to an external website to "read more". All of the content must be self-contained within the post itself.
I see posts every day here with links to others sites. They are not referral links to join another program but they are links to other sites. Most of the post will write something like "for further information" with a link next to it or to learn more about Amazons rules click here. Is this considered spam?

yeah, this is way out of date, 2013 ish

not many ambassadors create training [and some of the trainings happening now are very questionable in terms of content] or fulfill the other criteria, many of them say they ended up there accidentally [no way, it's hyperactivity and one wannabe at the moment has launched a very visible campaign that has got right up people's noses] also the number is limited to 25

Nathaniell recently wrote that ambassadors are the welcoming committee, then maybe call them 'welcome committee' instead of ambassador and see who still wants the job ;)

looks like you set out to have solid ambassadors, but that didn't pan out...

Kyle, I just saw this and find it is very confusing as this post suggests blogs can be absolutely any whim whereas the spam rules say don't waste your niche content on here, and even superaffiliates talk about it like it isn't for every whim - whims definitely need filtered off because some of us didn't come here for that, whereas some did

- that said, some of the personal stuff appearing is embarassing....someone's blog on friendship get 92 immediate comments and sits top of the leaderboard whereas someone's 'first $100 day' gets 11 likes in 24 hours and is lost among the hugs and emotional meltdowns

the spam is a no no and this post imo conflict

What an awesome opportunity! I have followed Pot Pie Girl for years. She is one of the main reasons I am here. I hopped around so much on the web before I signed up looking at peoples reviews, I just hope she gets the commission. Speaking of, does anyone about how long the affiliate cookie lasts? I guess I could look that up. Thanks!

Sounds fair enough, in short, this is a forum for talking WA, nothing else. More like our closed doors think tank about WA. Besides, the external websites have unlimited coverage. I am working on my blog about my experiences, I hope to start a discussion and learn from my high ranking seniors.

Very hard to understand what I can not to do. Looks like everything is wrong. I am a true person and I hope to do right things. About religious post I am Christian and my talk is Christian talk it is who I am. I will not ask sorry for being who I am.
The tutorial is great and I hope to understand it more because right now I don't understand much.
Thank you.

I had a situation yesterday in chat where someone asked for info on GIM so I googled it and sent a reply that it stands for Generating Income Machine and added from what I was reading it was a scam--provided an excerpt and I think, a link to the information--Was that an error? If so I apologize I initially thought it was for research

Do I get this right, if I post a link to google maps on my niche website to see more detailed, I do something wrong? Or I send visitors to Wikipedia to read more info about something I write about in my niche is not allowed?
And I understand my private messages are not really private? You read them?

Hi ! I tried so hard yesterday to understand my 2ND lesson and even watched it over and over. Today I am going to watch it again, I am determined to learn now that I have finally found a teaching , step by step boot camp. Not a run around scam. Thank you guys!

Damn, I knew it and still knew it! Knew that a Great Leader as humbled and success as Kyle, still existed!

I made the right decision on taking the promotional offer on becoming yearly paid Premium Members! How the last few hours of holding my nerve for resources and made it at the 11th hours still one of the best moment and decision I've ever made!

The prospect to be selected and on the plane to Vegas meeting all top brass relaxing ur way and to be involved in business overview could only one of the best life turnaround so far in my whole 36 years of existence! Terrific and terrific and terrific!

But if it is not me one of the huge parties there, at least we did some effort that better than nothing. I will still feel the blessed of those Members that could make the trip. At the end of the day, being just here on W.A platform is already something blessing.

All the best folks!

I am excited to be included in such a group of willing participants to help teach people the steps of website affiliates. I have been through a lot of run around of learning nothing and paying for getting help I didn't get. So I am feeling hopeful for the first time in a long time.

Wow! This is my first time coming across this spam stuff. I seriously never knew of this rules even though I know there are rules in every serious like WA in other to bring sanity to their platforms.
I hope this will be available to the new members for the to know before hand before they flout the rules unknowingly.

This was very helpful Kyle. It caused me to consider and revise a recent Press Release related post in which I included external links to one of my websites. It may not have violated any of the above rules, exactly, but I think we need to be mindful of the spirit and valuable purpose for which the spam rules exist.

To your success Wealthy Affiliates!

I'd like some clarification on a few points in this list:

7) No adding affiliate links to any blog, training, discussion or private message

I may be misunderstanding this, but if I make a blog about things that people should avoid doing and I link to this page, am I breaking this rule? It sounds that way. Further, some of the training here specifically mentions linking to pages here at WA in order to make use of the thousands of posts and the training that is available here, but this list seems to say we shouldn't do that.


16) No signatures at the end of your posts (posting your website URL, image, etc)

This one confuses me, as I see a number of members with signatures, including some ambassadors...

This is my first time involving in an online business and I know its not an easy to become an Internet Marketer,specially when you dont have any background in it.But i believe through the training session that I need to watch and learn my desires to become a sucessful Intrepreneurwill become a reality with the the help of every one here in our community ...more power and God bless us all.......

Every one that said that this is a good thing, is telling the whole truth. I'm trying my best to get started by taking all the lessons I can through Affiliate Boot camp. I want to get my Web site up and running so badly that I don't know what to do!!! I'm not very Computer Savvy as one will say, so guys I think I'm going to need some assistance along the way, However this is to let you know that all that can be of assistance will be welcome to give it to me.

I am certainly not a "Post Police" but I would like clarification on the following rules.

#3. I thought that was the whole purpose. Get our posts and blogs "out there".

#9. This seems to be a fairly common practice. I thought that was how I get around plagiarism, giving credit of authorship to the original creator.



#3. Do not copy content from WA and post it somewhere else on the Internet. This includes copying your own blog content and putting it on your website.

#9. Do not post content where your readers are required to go to an external website to "read more". All of the content must be self contained within the post itself.

Thanks
DennisD

I had the mistakes you are talking about, but my honourable community is friendly and I was being resuscitated. I am like waking from sleep step by step. So I tell you wealthy affiliate is an honest site where you have to work before you eat. Just like our manager Kyle adviced us. Though we are here to make money but we have to go about it step by step. Following the lessons, ask questions and join charts with the community. As it is said that knowledge is power. So be well informed you will be successful. If you are stuck do ask questions to the community or even to me I will answer to this the best of My knowledge. Good luck

Good morning Kyle, or at least it is here in Montreal Eastern Standard Time. I'm not stirring up any trouble here but I am simply asking for further clarification. I joined WA because as you can see I'm totally lost with the online world and it will soon be a year that I've joined. Having said that I have not done much and no excuses its due to my very busy life work schedule ( which I understand I don't need to explain to anyone, but I like to elaborate some times) My concern is this. I'm slowly diving in taking the courses and picking up on many external subjects also and I find that if someone honest and smart working like myself is trying things out and possibly makes a mistake I'm basically dead. What I mean is ( and I'm not acting dumb, I'm very serious) if I blog or write something here in our community then I cannot even put that on my own website if I'm understanding correctly. Now take a newbie like myself for example and I'm very serious if I honestly make a mistake or cross some guideline I'm penalized and deleted, is that correct? I know you must get some smart manipulators in here at times, but if someone seriously like myself makes a mistake or has some oversight were punished. Isn't that the whole purpose of why I joined? Please I'm only asking, I'm not complaining or creating drama, I'm truly and genuinely concerned because I do care. I'll give you an example and I don't want to get anyone into trouble here, but over the holidays I was invited to take a look at an opportunity because this person saw I had experience in the financial services sector, now I declined but truly what is wrong with someone letting us know whats out there? I guess what I'm getting at is we obviously need rules just like we need them in life but can it not be so confusing. Take someone like myself who is no where near your caliber ( I mean I barely understand spamming, Seriously) I would like to know that once I'm up and running I can I use all my knowledge and transfer it to my blogs, websites etc etc etc. I thank you for reading this and your response would be deeply appreciated. Again for the last time I'll say this, I have no malicious intent I'm just truly overwhelmed and scared about what and what not to do. I really intend to build a nice business out of this and my niche is something I struggle with because I have several talents so I want to focus and target in on one not several. Have yourself a great day and I'll wait for your response. Have a great day and a fantastic year ahead. Cheers!!!

'Ok", great Kyle...trained by Professionals to
be Professionals...nothing wrong with that
my friend !!
I was hired by a company one time who told me that
what ever experience I had from working with other businesses,
they didn`t want to hear about it !!
They said that they were going to teach me in their own way,
that I would be trained by professionals, to be a professional !!
And that they did, with all my focus on their business. Just taught
I would drop that by you.
Let us not bring any outside luggage into WA.
You are all doing such a great job !!
Bravo !!

Hi, in the first lesson, Page 1 of "Wealthy Affiliate -- The Open Education Project," Kyle talks about
The Dashboard - Global, Personal Feed, Notification
However, I find this perplexing because his images don't show those; ergo, I am not sure what he's talking about. Help, please?

Page 2, my Dashboard looks nothing like portrayed. Mine looks like this

Is this the reason when I was having so much trouble with my website, no one would help me was because it would be promoting WordPress? That's just crazy, most of us start out here knowing nothing and if no one can help with problems on our themes, I can see a lot of people walking away.
I have extensive knowledge of web design, but these weren't my designs, so I felt helpless because I didn't know how to make the darn thing work, but because of my background I kept with it, but it came close to where I didn't.

So a couple of questions, and I'm not trying to be nit picky, but I spend a ridiculous amount of time around lawyers and dealing with legal documents. I've kind of developed a need for precise language, and those rules seem to be more representing a spirit of the intent than a literal intent.

Rule 18, what's considered a product? Taken literally with the emphasis on "ANY", I would consider this a really broad term, but in the maybe three hours I've been here I've seen posts about YouTube, specific video software, and a whole classroom dedicated to Wordpress. To me these are all products. So is the key in the word "promoting"? But when combined with rules 5 and 6, it seems like saying anything good about any product is promotion of that product.

So for example Wordpress seems to be the CMS of choice. Any training on a plugin is out? I do web design for a living. All my clients use WP, and one of them got hacked. It was a mess to clean up, and I think WP security is one of the most important things that people ignore with WP and I would be happy to do training on it. I use one specific plugin though. I'm not saying you can't use others, this is just the one I use, and there are certain things you either need a plugin to do or you need to know how to code. So is the line a general blog post saying here's what you need to do, but you'll have to figure it out for yourself? Because than we come to my next question and it seems like I can't even say, "and here's where yo go to figure it out."

Rules 2 and 9 seem to be contradictory. You can't copy anything in and you can't reference anything outside. 9 says "required to go to an external website" though. So the spirit seems to be don't gratuitously be linking to outside resources, but assuming you give a thorough answer is it OK to add a reference to an outside resource for more information if desired? I tend not to expect people to accept my word for things and prefer to send them to the source so they can decide for themselves, so I want to know if I should really not be doing that.

I guess my problem is I have 20 years of programming and marketing experience, and I came here because I was looking for a community to share some of that with. I was kind of skeptical about coming here for my own reasons, but I got pulled in by the Black Friday Deal and decided to give it try. At first I thought it was going to be way better than I hoped. But after reading this I feel like I'm going to be walking on egg shells not to say the wrong thing anywhere.