I got my 1 Year badge :-)

I was pleasantly surprised when I logged into Wealthy Affiliate today after a 2 week absense. I received my loyalty badge for being a member of this wonderful platform for 1 year! I can't believe that the time has passed so quickly, and I feel really proud of myself for sticking it out for so long!On top of that I also finally received my PIN verification from Google adsense in order to release any payments due to me that was accrued from ads running on my site. What a wonderful day!So, what ha

It finally happened :-D

The amount of excitement I'm feeling right now is undescribable.After reading so many success stories here on this platform I knew it was only a matter of time before it would happen for me. I MADE MY FIRST SALE and got $10 for it! I know it's small, but who cares? A sale is a sale, right? I'm beside myself from happiness.THANK YOU Wealthy Affiliate for the awesome training and thank you PhilipC for your mentorship and patience.

How does one accept credit card payments on a website?

I need to be able to accept international payments via credit/debit/cheque cards. I am living in South Africa and all of the plugins I've seen so far for WooCommerce are only helpful if you live in the USA, UK, Australia, etc.I read online somewhere that you have to have a merchant bank account.I'm not quite sure what that is and was wondering if it is absolutely neccessary to have one? It's just one ebook that will be sold, that's why I'm hoping there is perhaps an easy and straight forward wa

My Google Adsense Mistake - Don't let it happen to you!

Newbies: PLEASE listen to the veterans, and don't jump ahead in the training OR do your own thing? I have, and now it has cost me dearly. Not the training, but me doing my own thing without thinking.I got this idea in my head that the sooner I applied for adsense the better, because at least it will be ready when I needed it. So I did just that.When it came to choosing a Location on Adsense, I chose the USA because I was under the impression that the ads that will be displaying the website will

Face-Palm Moment - When Your Banner Ads Doesn't Display On Your Website

Oh my word, I have been wanting to add those amazon native shopping ads grid thingies to my posts and couldn't understand why it didn't want to display on my website. I made sure to paste the code into the 'text' bar, I made sure to update and I made sure to refresh, but still - nothing. I eventually thought perhaps it was a restriction of my theme and left it for later investigation, which happened to be today... It was while searching through other's queries, here at wealthy affiliate, on si

Has your Google Analytics Data Disappeared? Here's what helped me

I'm sure most of you probably know about this already, but it took me a long time to figure out and I am hoping that this posts might help others in the same boat as myself.So, yesterday I logged into my Google Analytics account and was shocked to find that all my data have just mysteriously disappeared. As in , there was no data AT ALL, like it was a brand new account. I hoped that it was perhaps a server issue and decided that I would wait until today and try again. Low and behold, this morn

Feeling Low

I am feeling a bit low today, wondering if I'll be able to get the knack of this whole writing business. I come across thousands of so many other articles that are so well written and the content is excellent and the site looks amazing and professional. Today, it feels like a very huge mountain that I'll have to climb in order to get there and I am wondering if by the time I get there, if it will be too late and that things would have changed so drastically that there is no way for me to catch

I took the plunge!

I just went ahead and threw caution to the wind and purchased my first domain! :D I feel happy about it, for some reason. It's amazing how much of my comfort zone is stretched and I am able to handle it. The Wealthy Affiliate program is really awesome. I hope I will be able to reap the fruits of the training and effort soon!

Ahahaha xD I got indexed in Google - My About Me page, LOL

I almost fell off my seat when I saw an email from Weatlhy Affiliate informing me that my content has been indexed in google! I opened the mail with lots of excitement and then couldn't stop laughing when I saw it was my "About Me" page xD Haha, I didn't even target any keywords there. Still, it's a good feeling and it motivates me to do better and get Google to notice me!

How long does it take you to research and write your content?

I'm wondering how long it takes other people to doe their research and write their posts...I'm on day 2 now of writing and researching for just 1 post, and it still doesn't look like much..