Introduction to Wealthy Affiliate Training
If you are on this page, you have likely been searching for ways to make money online, or how to start on online business, or even how to start your own website! You have come across a company called Wealthy Affiliate, but are probably wondering, “What is the Wealthy Affiliate training program?”
Well, WA is a platform that provides education, website building, hosting and community. It started out as a keyword list in 2005, and has grown over the years to a fully comprehensive platform, and a one-stop-shop for those looking to learn more about online business or affiliate marketing, or like me, just a place to learn how to build a website!
The owners, Kyle and Carson, are very involved in the day to day of WA, and provide much of the core training. Kyle is often answering questions in the community forum, and anyone signing up to Wealthy Affiliate will receive an email directly from Kyle, welcoming them to the platform and answering any questions they might have.
Wealthy Affiliates goal and mission is to take complete “newbies”, and turn them into successful affiliate marketers. They are industry leaders because they are constantly focused on evolving their online business platform, while staying an honest, transparent, and ethical company.
We are going to go over HOW the Wealthy Affiliate Program helps you become successful.
Demystifying the Wealthy Affiliate Program
The first thing you are going to do when you sign up for Wealthy Affiliate is go through the step-by-step training. For someone who has some familiarity with websites and online business, some of this may seem redundant, but I strongly encourage you to take the time to go through it all anyways. If you are here, you are still looking for ways to succeed and may have missed something in the past!
Alongside the step-by-step training, you will begin to build a website. Again, you will never be alone or not know what to do, because the videos (or posts, if you prefer to read) will literally show you how to do the first thing, then how to do the second thing….and so on. It has become so streamlined and fast that you will have a website up and running right away!
You will first decide whether your website will be a niche website, or whether you will be an affiliate for WA, and that will decide whether you go into Online Entrepreneur Certification or Affiliate Bootcamp classes.
Each of these will have a series of classes we will look at now.
The Core Training Modules Explained
First up is the Online Entrepreneur Certification. This is the training you will go through if you have a niche you want to get into or already have a business you want to promote. Your first series of 8 classes will be:
- First Steps with my new Business
- Crafting your first website page
- Launching your own unique brand
- Creating a Professional Logo
- Keyword Research with Jaaxy
- Creating Helpful Content that Ranks
- Creating images with AI
- Optimize Your Design and User Experience
After that you will have a series on “Building Rankings and Momentum in Your Business”, “Make Money, Social Media, and Getting Ready to Scale”, and more series on WordPress and SEO.
Affiliate Bootcamp is the direction you will want to take if you are interested in promoting Wealthy Affiliate as a business opportunity. You’re first 8 classes will be similar to that of the Online Entrepreneur Certification, just with a different focus:
- First Steps with My New Bootcamp Business
- Crafting Your Foundational Website Page
- Launching Your Own Brand
- WA Affiliate Program Walk-Through
- Creating and Adding a Professional Logo
- Using Jaaxy for Keyword Research
- Creating a High Quality WA Review
- Understanding the Core Website Design Elements
So as you can see, they basically follow the same steps, just with a different focus. This was very helpful to me, because after having a niche website for years, and then adding a WA focused site, it was hard for me to switch gears. So I started the training from the beginning again to make sure I didn’t miss anything.
You could do a niche website and a Wealthy Affiliate website at the same time, as with a Premium Membership you get 3 websites (Premium Plus you get 10 websites). I recommend focusing on one website first, and when that one is well established and earning money, then start another website.
Weekly Live Classes are every Friday, but they are recorded if you miss them live. They are about 1 hour, go over strategies for content, social media, and almost everything else you can think of! You will get an email ahead of time with the topic, and at the end of the live class, there is time for people to ask questions that may have come up during the live. Very interactive and very informative!
Tools and Resources Provided by Wealthy Affiliate
First, Wealthy Affiliate provides a website builder – if you new to the online world, a website builder provides individuals and businesses without coding experience, to quickly get a website up and running without investing a lot of money.
There are many different themes or designs to choose from, so you are able to pick one that works for you. Don’t stress too much about picking the perfect theme in the beginning. You can always change it later on! Each them offers different layouts and menu options, so you can just add a theme for your website, and if you don’t like it, try another one.
So you will be able to pick the theme that works for you, add and store pictures, have your website hosted right in WA, SEO analytics and so much more, all right in Wealthy Affiliate.
You will also be able to utilize Jaaxy, the keyword and research tool also right in the WA platform! One of your training classes will go through step by step how to find the best keywords with the lowest competition, so that your content on your website will get ranked faster by search engines, which will bring more traffic to your site, which will increase your earning potential. An awesome tool that I use all the time.
The last tool or resource I will mention is the Wealthy Affiliate Community. There is so much support from other members, and also networking! You can write blogs within WA and put your website in them, can ask people to check out your website in the live chat, but there is also a credit system where you can get comments directly on your website.
You earn credits by commenting on other members blog posts on their websites. You can enter the topics you are interested in and then you will see members who are writing articles about those topics ask for comments. When your comment is verified, you will earn credits.
You can then use these credits to ask for comments on your blog posts on your website. Search Engines like to see interaction on your website, so when WA members help each other out in this area, we are helping each other succeed!
Will You be a Wealthy Affiliate Success Story?
What does success mean to you? Do you want to have a blog and get your story out? Do you want to promote products you love and get paid for it? Make $10,000/month?
To one person, success is getting their story out for others to read. Another person success is getting revenue from Google Ads so they can take that vacation they have wanted to take. Maybe you want to make $10,000/month or more promoting Wealthy Affiliate or another brand.
Whatever it is, go for it. Stop thinking and start doing. We tend to think about what we want for our entire lives.
What is stopping us from taking the leap and going for it? I for one, am all in and going for big pay days. I am mid forties and looking at retirement and travel in the next 10-20 years. Lets go!!