I am happy to use the premium Succurri - I have not done WordFence except the scanner is server-side and can pick up malware.

You have awesome responses, here. Kindly let us know if you need further assistance.

I use wordfence pro on my main website. It is a very reliable plugin both free and pro.

You will get these reports because blogs are one of the most attacked sites online. Hell, I get reports every day from some putz that tried to access my site.

You'll be fine if you have a very strong password and have changed your site's login from "admin"

My site password is 32 characters long and of course my login is not "admin"

Great advice and feedback from Kyle, I have all benefited from your question here, thank you.

It really depends on your audience. If you are selling items that people are trying to get shipped before Christmas, than the closer you get to Christmas the less likely someone is to purchase.

Also, a consideration is that people are busy around the holiday season with functions, activities, watching sports...and there will tend to be less traffic volume.

We have seen over the years that traffic and revenue tends to pick up drastically as you move into the new year, but now is a good time to get prepped for this and get your campaigns in place. ;)

You do not need them, these are over priced and unneeded pieces of software. Anything that can be done within that click software, can be done for free with Analytics.

And there is much lower cost, and more establish autoresponder and lead software, when you are ready...but you first want traffic and an audience before you worry about that...and perhaps you never need that.

So save your money, and resources and as Partha said a domain, hosting, and research tools...along with education and support are the only things that you need and these are included here within WA.

Advice if you're "New", as you've mentioned.

Anyone who tells you that you DO need something (apart from a domain name & hosting) is simply after your money and a sale... and I mean ANYONE.

I can honestly say that in 14 years of the business I have NEVER used ANY of those products EVER.

You'll often hear, "the money is in the list" or "you must do email marketing", and although I somewhat agree, I have still produced 6-fgure annual earning websites WITHOUT collecting email addrsses.

I'm sure many people will tell me that I'm losing out, and that those websites would be 7-figure earners if I "built a list", etc.

But, guess what?

You can completely change your life with JUST a domain name and hosting, great keyword research, and writing articles.

There's 2 ways you can go about this business when you're new.

1) Learn the absolute basics and then repeat them over-and-over-and-over again.

OR

2) Complicate everything, spend loads of money, and still be none the wiser.

Believe it or not, the vast majority of newcomers choose the SECOND option.

Easy business plan.

Choose an "evergreen" niche (something that won't go out of fashion)

Learn everything possible about that niche, don't rely on previous knowlege, experience, or guesswork, actually make the effort to learn.

Learn everything about keyword research, not just here at WA, there's a massive world out there with lots of education and knowledge, USE IT ALL.

Write... Then write some more... Then write even more... Guess what, keep writing.

If you really WANT to spend money when starting out, ONLY ONCE you've spent some time learning these new skills, pay someone else to do this work for you.

Whoever had told you that you DEFINITELY DO need GetResponse is currently just waiting for their $100 commission, they ARE NOT trying to help you.

Partha

You do not no.

You can use Aweber which is free for the first 500 subscribers and affiliate marketing friendly.

It depends what niche your website is in. If it's not MMO, then yes, I'd build another website (on a real domain, not a Site Rubix sub-domain) in the MMO niche and create an email address based on that domain. It's a minimum cost and much more professional.

I'm assuming you're using an autoresponder. Just use your WA email from one of your sites.

You can use Aweber auto responders which is free for the first 500 subscribers.

Or I guess - I setup a free blog > but in that case which email ID do I use. I definitely want to look professional and am not comfortable using ..... .gmail / yahoo etc

We are going to teach you how to properly build a business, and provide you with everything you need to accomplish this.

Those services are NOT required to do this, the only one that you might need down the road is an autoresponder like GetResponse or Aweber.com if you decide to get into affiliate marketing.

I have spent some time breaking down the process in the most simplistic way possible. Success online is at the core a 4 step process and I have broken them down within this class: The 4 Steps to Creating a Successful Business Online Broken, down, the process looks like this:

Step 1: Choose your niche
Step 2: Build your website/content
Step 3: Get rankings in search engines (leads to traffic)
Step 4: Monetize your traffic (the make money part, through affiliate programs, etc!)

This applies in absolutely every niche and as you work through the training here at WA, you are going to be walked through this exact process. This is fundamental for ANY success online.

If you have any further questions let me know Vineet. :)

You can also go to the subscriptions page to check your plan

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/account/subscription

None of the above.

To learn more
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/premiumplus

Comparison Chart
https://wealthyaffiliate.com/join

No, they are all addressing specific needs. There is no overlap.

WA's primary purpose is to teach you HOW to build a profitable affiliate business. The others are tools for specific aspects.

WA also hosts your website(s). That's a bonus.