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.

You can count me in on The Open Education Project. I'm for teaching others what I've learned here at WA. I'm glad I found this information.

I was just saying the other day how I wish I had someone to push me, give me so feedback that will help me help my business and all along I had a system that I was not using.

I'm learning a lot here at WA, but I think I'm lacking some social skills. The Open Education Project looks like it may be something that may help me readjust my comfort zone.

Thank you again Kyle

I still don't understand why I had t ok remover my link from my blog here on WA? There is nothing on this list that applies to it. It wasn't selling anything simply sharing work thus far as Course 2-Lesson 10 suggests? Please explain further, My blog is on my profile if you read it, there is nothing in it that pertains to any Spam, I removed the link, but feel that there was no wrong downing? Please explain further. Because sharing my websitr link neither takes away from nor adds too my blog content. So it's not a big deal. Just need some clarification because it appears to be unjust.

I am so glad to read this post by Kyle. I am 4 months new and had no idea what spam consist of. So I am to keep a bookmark on this lesson and watch what I comment about and what I post on my site. Now I have learn a great lesson. So now I must review my sites and see if they are in compliance with WA rules.

It's good to occasionally read this tutorial again!

It can be easy to get sidetracked about certain endeavors that are unrelated to what WA is all about, and it's great to be able to access this reminder when we are not sure if something's ok or not.

Thanks again, Kyle!

I have just joined the PREMIUM member. I got a hint of the benefits. I will encouraged every body to join. I see that there are a lots of items to read and grasp. But I am not discouraged. I want to see how far can I go to get some money. Every thing is done for money. Please, don't accuse me of being greedy. If I get money , I can fund for my future payment. This must be understood by every one. At last I must wish GOOD LUCK to every member of the WA, including myself. Thanks for reading my blog and sending some kind of encouragement and help to me personally..

Thanks Kyle for laying down all the rules and regs to all of us in the WA community. After what I have read, I am confident that this is a true and legit online business that will help you and not hurt you. Spam free is definitely the way to go.

Thanks :)
I'm only a bit confused since I don't have idea for half of those things what are they.
I guess I will learn by the time. I hope not by making mistake.

However what will happen if I do some of those but as a mistake? Until I learn everything, it could happen :(

Good to know these rules. I love to follow rules in my real life too. I need your help to understand rule #7 - No adding affiliate links to any blog, training, discussion or private message. Why? If so how can I introduce WA to my friends or my audiences? Please advise.

Kyle, Thank you so much. I thought many times I was not able to be a trainer but when I read this it dawned on me...People need training on how to be an Encourager! Lots of people just don't know how. I can teach them. For some it seems as hard as it is for me to remember all the points about web building which is why I have to go over and over again the information. BUT...encouraging words flow so easy out of me and touching people is really easy too when you know how. So I think for the first time I - Ruth - the one who is learning how to build sites is going to teach people how to build up people! Yeah - I got it. Like you said -everyone has something to contribute and if I can do it Anyone CAN! Thanks again for developing the best site in the WORLD!

Hi wonderful people her in WA,
I am a Pilipino, My country Philippines is composed of 7,200 islands. And those islands that have a story and beautiful places to see. I want to know the opinion of members here if I am allowed to post a blog, making story on how the inhabitant and culture of my countrymen is this site, WA?

I don't quite understand the part of #3 that says, "This includes copying your own blog content and putting it on your website"

If I write something in my WA blog deemed worthwhile for everyone, both inside and outside of WA, and can't use it on my own website, then you're asking me to choose who to share it with. So, if I choose to use it as content on my website, the WA community will miss out on some of my best essays and vice versa.

I completely get not using affiliate links or links to outside sites. But some content would be helpful without being spammy. And I'd prefer not to be told that my writing is exclusive. Why would you censor the good stuff?