Wealthy Affiliate Scam Review
I’m glad you found this page, you are going to learn about a unique Internet Marketing platform that has all the bells and whistles without taking you for every penny you have. “Yeah right”, I hear you cry at the screen, “been there done that”, well so have I.
I too have signed up to schemes promising me that I would make a thousand dollars a day or I would have a new Ferrari outside my door in six months’ time.
Have you seen this type of thing showing you an image of a bogus Paypal account or Clickbank account with revenue into the hundreds or thousands per day?
You read on and think its all too good to be true or is it, so you sign up. Then you find the signup fee of $20-30 was only to get you in the door there is another fee to take you to the next level and on it goes till you are broke and annoyed for signing up.
Oh, yea they offered a sixty days money back no questions asked. However, when you tried to get your money back you found that you sent email after another trying to get someone to answer or help you out. If you are lucky you got something back but rest assured it doesn’t happen often.
A lot of these schemes disappear as quickly as they arrived and then you have no one to question so you are left fuming with yourself for being so stupid. Grrrr! I know the feeling!
OK, enough of the wide road but let me tell you about the narrow road less traveled.
The place is Wealthy Affiliate and its a website where individuals like you and I can learn all there is to know about making money online.
Let me tell you more about the platform so keep reading.
Product Overview 0f Wealthy Affiliate
Wealthy Affiliate is the conception of two guys Kyle and Carson who in 2005 were fed up with the state of online scamming and decided to build the website to help people make an honest living from internet marketing.
In their own words, “It’s not a get rich quick scheme and they do not guarantee a Ferrari in six months”, as it takes hard work and consistency but a business can be built if you follow their training.
The really great thing about Wealthy Affiliate is you find Kyle and Carson every day answering questions and putting up new training tasks or discussions.
Where else would you find the owners rolling up their sleeves and getting advice out to their members in such a personal way?
I have had them comment on my websites, share posts on Facebook, Twitter and Googleplus all without asking and their network is large so I see spikes in traffic when they do, very cool benefit.
Positives and negatives
Positives
- Very supportive community over 300,000+ members
- Your own individual blog
- Free state of the art website hosting
- Free keyword research tool
- Up-to-date training which is always relevant
- No upsells everything you need is included
- Step by step training programs walk you through setting up a campaign
- Access to hundreds of very successful marketers to gain further knowledge
- Live chat feed where you can usually get a quick answer to a problem
Negatives
- There is so much information added on a daily basis its hard to stay focused
That is it I can’t think of anything else to grumble about. I haven’t come up against a problem that I didn’t get help with right away or guided to a solution. In fact, there are so many helpful members its very hard to get lost for any time.
Who will benefit from Wealthy Affiliate?
If you have access to an internet connection, a computer and have the ability to type then you can learn from this authority site. If you are already a marketer looking to gain some new techniques or a complete newbie then its for you, in fact, its for EVERYONE.
Have you already got a blog or website up and running but want to learn how to make money from it (monetize) then this place has the answers in bucket loads.
Are you getting to the end of your working life and worried the pension will not keep you afloat then you too can learn how to make extra income to keep you in your retirement years.
The really cool thing about working for yourself in a website is you don’t really count it as work, my wife calls it my hobby because I love what I’m doing. You too can be like me and make yourself a living from the comfort of your own home.
Another really cool addition to being a member on Wealthy Affiliate is the fact as a FREE member you get TWO websites hosted and backed up on their servers and as a premium member, you get 25 websites (you do need to buy your own domains though ) if moving them out or taking them off the FREE subdomain but that’s only a few dollars a year.
You can, of course, leave them on the siterubix server totally FREE if you want. So you can make money while you learn…cool right?
What kind of training do you get?
Wealthy Affiliate has training in all shapes and sizes. You can be taken on a one to one training program if you can get one of the senior members to take you under a wing.
There are loads of training classrooms where other members are learning the same techniques and you can help each other along. There are discussion rooms where you can ask any question you like about the process you are going through.
If you get stuck there are several ways to ask for help. There is a live chat feed where there are usually a few members about who can help with a question or direct you to a training session or tutorial.
There is the personal message button to leave higher ranking members questions, there are discussion rooms and your own blog. If you post to any of these most members will get a message showing them the question and usually several will come back with help.
On top of that, there is a weekly webinar training sessions with Jay who is full of information and help. These are recorded and stored in the libraries for future viewing if you are in a different time zone or unavailable.
Loads of tutorials posted by members who have worked through a particular problem and been kind enough to show the results. In fact, the website is so vast it will take you a long time to learn everything that it has to offer.
Is it all work and no play?
Wealthy affiliate has a full working community and you will find over a period of time you get to know a few of them. At present, there are over five hundred thousand members (Jan 2020) so knowing them all is absurd but there is a number who patrol the boards frequently and you will get to know them.
There is also the ability to follow certain users and they can follow back. You can leave messages on their profile and build up friendships. Over the past year I have made quite a few connections and have access to some really clever marketers who can hand out a bit of advice quickly if I need it.
There is the fun of the live feed, you can jump in and ask a question but at times there is a lot of gentle fun taking and humor. Some of the guys are hilarious and I can usually get a laugh or two before logging off to finish my day.
At first, I was shy and didn’t use the live feed but after a while, I jumped in and now a number know me. It’s a great way to get a quick answer if stuck and you don’t want to wait for a discussion question to be answered.
So what will you be doing?
Basically, when you sign up you will be shown how to start a niche marketing website to promote a hobby or product you are passionate about. You can, of course, choose something you are not informed about but that only leads to extra work in research.
I would opt for the passionate route as answering questions and writing content comes so much easier. It takes less time and you can post more work on a regular basis so your site gets noticed sooner and ranked better.
This all leads to the revenue coming in quicker and so the easier route.
There are also the wealthy affiliate boot camps that show you from start to finish how to build an authority site promoting WA or any other affiliate program you are interested in. It’s a complete step by step guide with no experience required and when you follow it to completion you will have a website that generates revenue without any doubt.
If you are not a newbie and want to learn about other skills then there are classrooms, tutorials and webinars in 100’s of other ways to make money online that should keep anyone busy for quite a while.
How much is it then?
You can join Wealthy Affiliate today for FREE this gives you access to two websites and all the training.
However after seven days you will no longer have access to the community feeds so at that point you can either continue to learn on your own or upgrade to premium membership for $19 initially for the first month before it goes up to $47 per month.
TIP: If you can afford it take out the yearly membership for $359 = $29.9 per month saving $205. It will take a few months to get going and start to make money back anyway.
Once you have seen the power of the training and the community you will know that the price is right. Do yourself a favor and have a look inside today!
Summary
Website: http://www.wealthyaffiliate.com
Price: FREE for starter package or $47 p/m for Premium ($19 first month)
Ease of use : 95 out of 100
Training : 98 out of 100
Community : 98 out of 100
Resources : 98 out of 100
Overall Score :97 out of 100
My Final Thought: WA is the real deal with a FREE starter package you can learn without having to give out any payment, they don’t even take a credit card on registering. What more do you want? Summary: For me, Wealthy Affiliate is the best online training platform for Internet Marketing. Not only can you host your websites but you can train on all aspects online like, affiliating, social, PPC, eBay, e-commerce and many more. This is why I have put this review together to let you know all about the platform so you too can get an online revenue stream.
Check me out when you get inside I will guide you as best I can on your path to becoming your own boss.
Like you mention right at the start, the majority of luring adverts seem to promise earning outrageous fortunes for doing very little yet this is never the case, most of us have been unfortunate enough to found these scams out.
Wealthy Affiliate however is a different kettle of fish altogether. I joined through their free membership to find out how legitimate they are. This gave me the opportunity to ask the founders and the community questions to which I received honest answers.
This training program is all about building a website around your passion and attracting visitors with regular written posts to enable accomplishing conversions. No success stories happen overnight, everyone makes this clear however overtime your rankings start to increase through the training techniques. It’s a case of implementing what’s shown into your business.
Although I’m in my early days I have made quite a few conversions as my website rankings are increasing, my ambition is to make regular income through a highly ranked website.
How long have you been affiliate marketing?
Simon.
Its the real deal alright, all you could ask for under one platform and they keep adding to it. Now you can write your articles and post straight to your website. Along with SSL security built in for no extra cost and extra streamlining to make everything run quickly. It gets better and better every year.
I really could do with a supportive community of over 100,000+ members behind me – I feel that I’ve been paddling alone at sea with my blog over the last four months!
I need help with it – it’s in the fishing niche but it struggles for visitors on a daily basis. Does the WA handle traffic and how do they go about content creation?
Wealthy Affiliate will show you all the tools on how to gain traffic, things like proper keyword research to write posts with keywords that you can gain traffic from without having to spend loads of money.
They will also show you how to write better content to engage your readers, to get them to interact with your blog and click on the links that will gain commissions.
Hey Mark,
This is a very awesome review of Wealthy Affiliate, were I not a member already I would totally join from you. I love reading your review, it made me fall in love with WA all over again – the amazing community, the immersing lessons, the awesome website builder and hosting and even that keyword tool all for a very affordable price.
I’ve joined several Online Business programs before but I kept on jumping from one after another until I found WA. This time I’m not going anywhere. Highly recommended!
Hey Riaz glad you have made it to Wealthy Affiliate already. As you will know the community there is second to none for their help and advice. Anyone wanting to start an online business should go there they will not be dissappointed.
Hey Mark,
Great article on Wealthy Affiliate as it is very detailed and incorporated all important information. Mark, there is so many online platform that guides affiliate marketing but how would you stand tall Wealthy Affiliate among all.
Thanks again Mark for providing useful information and keep doing hard work.
Hey Khan there is really no better platform for starting your online business. You get all the up to date training, access to seasoned marketers, hosting for 50 websites, and live chat all for less than the price of a coffee a day. In fact as I signed up for a year under the Black Friday deal I get it for less than a dollar a day. That is a bargain for all that is included in this package. Wealthy Affilaite is the REAL DEAL!
Hi Mark! Excellent review about Wealthy Affiliate! The almost 5 stars rating you gave for it really shows that it has everything in it. Good training, Ease of Usage and even intensive support. I am just starting my journey in online marketing, and your post really inspired me. More Power to you!
Hi John its the best platform I have come across so far for the price. Kyle and Carson are always striving to move it forward and the improvements to the Wealthy Affiliate platform that have happened since I joined have been second to none.
I know there are more improvements on the way also as the guys never stop thinking up ways to improve the user experience and training guides.
Hi Tommo,
As a member at WA, I can prove that all the contents of your article are true. Especially the $0 starting membership. I remember the time that I upgraded my free membership to premium, it did not take me a long time to decide to learn online marketing. Because upon reading every tutorial video I saw that there is an excellent system at WA. Beside I felt very welcome in this community because of very supportive co-members here. WA is very much needed today to those people who want to be a successful online businessmen.
Thanks for sharing this informative and excellent review.
marcy
Hey Marcy, thanks for stopping by, I agree the online community at Wealthy Affiliate are exceptional, I have used them time and time again to work out solutions to many problems I had when starting out.
Now that I am more experienced I lend a helping hand to new users when they get stuck, passing on the support is all part of the community ethos at Wealthy Affiliate.
Its GREAT for brain storming too, if you are undecided about a certain way to go just pop up a question and let the users give you their thoughts. You will be surprised on the advice and possible ways to go you didn’t even think about. As the old adage goes,”two heads are better than one”, and many heads is really AWESOME.
Hi, this is a fair review of Wealthy Affiliate, all mentioned what is necessary to mention, visitors will be informed about WA.
So everything is in place except of the title. I simply cannot understand the logic of using such a title for the given text. If I am an ordinary visitor (which I am not, I am the member of WA), I would see the title and leave. Why should I bother to read about yet another scam? This is just my thinking, obviously you will not agree.
Hey Jovo, the reason to use this TITLE is to gain natural traffic from users looking to find out if Wealthy Affiliate is a SCAM or not. I am showing that it is not so they get their answer plus my personal experiences with the platform.
You would be surprised how many people who put in scam as part of their search term to find out about a product, I know I do.
Hey man,
Great in-depth review of Wealthy Affiliate. Really appreciate all the extra knowledge in there I never knew about.
Thanks,
Peter
Thanks Peter. There is loads I don’t know yet either the place is huge. 🙂
Sweet review – thanks!
Affiliate marketing can work if you have enough traffic or highly targeted traffic, but in our niche there are so many affiliate programs it can be an easy way to waste time.
Thanks for sharing and good luck.
Yes Robert there is that danger, you can get bogged down trying out new products and new promotions. There is always someone lurking around the corner trying to scam folks out of their hard earned cash. I go with the saying if it sounds to good to be true it usually is and that works for me. After buying into a few of these get rich schemes early on myself and getting nowhere I decided to educate myself into the world of online marketing and build something I can earn from with a little bit of effort and commitment.
Very GOOD review of Wealthy Affiliate, I am a member of the said program and everything written here is on point. I am finally glad to find a place where they will honestly show me how to make money online. Keep up the good work.
Cheers- Ante
Thanks Ante, wealthy Affiliate is not full of fluffy, bloated, wishy washy content. Its hard hitting real truth. If you are thinking you can join and put up a few posts and start making money then its not for you.
It takes lots of elbow grease and persistent work to get to a point were you can make a passive income.
Those who are a) lucky enough and b) have the required work ethos can make it real big in time.
Hey great review of the Wealthy Affiliate. I am member there also. It is a great place to learn all about starting your own online business and I would recommend it to everyone 😀
Hey Tejas another members view, it really is the top place to learn all about online business and the fact you can join wealthy affiliate for FREE is the icing on the cake. That way you can try before you buy. The training is brilliant and so easy to follow its hard to go wrong. If you are still unsure there are loads of members able to assist and answer question and advise how to progress with your plan. I am yet to ask a question someone could not answer or point me to the answer.
This a great review Mark. As a happy customer of Wealthy Affiliate I can only corroborate what you say here. WA is the real deal and a haven in the online world for people getting started in online business.
Yes Colm the WA online business community is worth checking out (I have made so many friends), never mind the great training and tutorials. There is something for everyone, it doesn’t matter what your niche is someone will be able to help, advise or critique your work and guide you into a making money direction.
Great review here Mark. I appreciate your honesty immensely.
Thanks Tony there is no point in pulling the wool over the readers eyes. People are no longer easily duped into buying bogus products so tell it like is it and you will go further.
Enjoyable review, Mark. I like the straight-forward, no-hype approach. People appreciate honesty, and the smart ones will more than likely run with you instead of the ‘shiny object’ guys.
Thanks for the compliment Bill, I do not like giving people a lot of false hope, I like to tell them how it is and how you can make a living from the internet or at least some extra income.
I wish my clickbank account looked like that! Although thanks to help I got at Wealthy Affiliate, my clickbank account does get sales, which is more than any other thing I’ve seen ever did for me.
That is good to hear Dominic, keep moving forward and write more content you will find your clickbank account looks fuller as time moves on.
Very good review and you really help people by understanding how they might be feeling right now. Definitely WA is the first best step to do. Congrats!
Thanks Lorena that is basically what Internet Marketing is all about, helping people. If you can get into the mind set that people are searching the internet for answers and you then provide a website with those answers they are more likely to buy products from you than somewhere else.
Well said. Many of these sales snapshots are just total scam. I usually wonder how people fall for them. I have in some cases been tempted to pay for some but just resisted. If it sounded that easy, I actually wondered why some affiliate bloggers never also published such on their blogs. It actually proved to me that they were just sales pitch. Well, with that said and moving to the part of WA, I’ve been a member there for some while but haven’t utilized its benefits. With all these points explained, I guess I’d have to give some good use to that platform. Thanks for this review.
Thanks for stopping by Ivan, wealthy affiliate is so big its hard to try everything out. I still have to make use of many areas so your not on your own there. Kyle suggested I studied two classrooms until I was happy with my progress before moving on. He is so correct I saved a lot of time and have built up my productivity and starting to see better results.