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How Wealthy Affiliate Works

Rachel Moore — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:42:13 +0000

I recently got a comment on one of my posts that made me realize that I had been leaving something very basic out of my description of WA. And that is that I never actually explained just how Wealthy Affiliate works.

Angie left a comment on the post where I share my Wealthy Affiliate success story, in which she described her situation and said that while she was interested in the program, something was holding her back. I replied to her comment and addressed her concerns, but I also sent that reply to her by email, so this way she would get my answer even if she didn’t return to the site.

This is what she wrote back to me:

Thank you for your quick reply. Can you explain to me in short what Wealthy Affiliate did for you and how you used it to help your situation. I just don’t think I’m understanding the whole concept of how it works, and that’s truly what is keeping me from signing up.

You say you have other websites, do you promote them or sell products from them? Did you use the Site Rubix for anything?

I think I’m lost.

Angie

When I read that, I suddenly realized that I had never explained exactly what Wealthy Affiliate teaches you to do. In fact, I couldn’t recall a single Wealthy Affiliate review that I had come across that answered this question. This is what I wrote back to her:

Hi Angie,

Basically Wealthy Affiliate teaches you how to make money using affiliate marketing. This is when you promote a product online, and get paid a commission whenever someone buys through your link. There are tons of companies online who have affiliate programs, and basically what I do is that I find a quality product that also pays out a good commission, and then build either a website, or a free webpage to promote it on.

I’ll write up a review of the product, or give information about how to use it, and then when people buy it after clicking through my site, I get paid. This is definitely the short version of affiliate marketing, and there are lots of variations and different ways to do it, but this is it at it’s most basic level

Let me give you an example: Say you want to promote a weight loss program. You’ll either create a website or make a free one, say on blogger, and you’ll write up a review about how it works and why it’s a good program. In that review, you’ll have a special link and when someone clicks on that link and makes a purchase, you get paid.

Wealthy Affiliate teaches a lot of different methods to do this with, but the one that I use the most is SEO/Article Marketing. If this is what you choose to do then you’ll be writing up articles and posting them online in various places where you’ll get people to read them and click through.

Some of the things that you’ll learn at Wealthy Affiliate will be about how to find a good product, how to write up a good review, and how to find keywords that will be profitable (I know I haven’t mentioned keywords yet, but basically those are the words that people type in when they are doing a Google search online, and that is how people will be finding your reviews).

The way that this helped me was that once you create a website or a free webpage and have a review on it, and it starts to get visitors through your articles, or the other traffic generation methods you’re using, you can keep making money from it for years to come.

For example, I have a website that I built about a year ago. I wrote articles and set it up and then I left it alone. Every month I make around $150-$400 from that one website alone, and I haven’t touched it or written an article for it in close to a year. And after you set up one of these “campaigns”, you can set up another and another and just keep going. That’s why Wealthy Affiliate is so great for me, because I keep getting paid for the work that I do, even after I’m not working on it anymore.

So yes, I do have a lot of websites, and I promote all kinds of products on them, from digital products to patio furniture. At this point I’m a pretty advanced internet marketer, and I’ve started using more complicated website software, so I don’t really use Site Rubix anymore. But I started off with Site Rubix, and it’s really great because it’s so simple and you can make the kinds of websites you need to get started in affiliate marketing very quickly and easily. Here are some examples of some websites that are built with Site Rubix:
http://acnemend.com/
http://www.savingyourmarriagetoday.info/
http://www.pelvic-floor-toners.info/
http://trainyourdogfast.info/

I hopes this helps. I really feel so strongly about how great this is. I know what it’s like to be where you are, and this can really change your situation so much. At this point you just have to jump in and start learning, and then start working,and start earning!

Here’s my link again for the bonus- Angie’s Wealthy Affiliate Link – you can sign up through that and I’ll get the commission, or you can sign up through someone else’s link, but whatever you do, just make sure you sign up and get started!

Be in touch,
Rachel

Now I only explained one aspect of how Wealthy Affiliate works here– the SEO/Article Marketing bit, but just in case you’re wondering, Wealthy Affiliate also teaches PPC in depth, as well as other methods of traffic generation.

I chose to explain SEO/Article Marketing because that is my preferred method, and also because Angie had told me that she was going through some financial difficulties at the time, which was what had led her to find Wealthy Affiliate in the first place.

But I’ll also explain how PPC works here, so that if that’s something you’re interested in but don’t know much about, you can also get an answer.

PPC is short for pay-per-click advertising. You know when you do a Google search there are the main results on the left of the page, and there are also “Sponsored Links” on the right and sometimes at the top of the page? Well, that’s where your ads show up when you’re doing PPC.

Doing PPC right is definitely something that you need to learn. Instead of paying every time your ad is shown, you pay every time someone clicks on your ad, and if you don’t know what you’re doing you can rack up a huge bill in no time at all. Wealthy Affiliate teaches you how to make a website to send this kind of traffic to, chose the right keywords to bid on, and how to write an ad that will get buyers to click and not just lookers.

Needing to know how Wealthy Affiliate works before signing up is pretty reasonable. And so it’s sort of funny that most people forget to mention it (including me, until now).

Hopefully this gave you a basic understanding of the kind of thongs you’ll be learning and the kind of work you’ll be doing at Wealthy Affiliate. It definitely helped Angie. This is what she wrote back to me:

Wow, Rachel. That was great! I wish the Wealthy Affiliate website would simplify it in those terms. Great writing by the way. And again, thanks so much for such a quick reply. You do not know how much this has helped me to decide what to do. I guess I do need to just jump in and get my feet wet.

By going through the websites you sent, I can see now how it works. Looks like you write a great review, people click on that product, and it takes them to the product itself. Hope that’s right.

I’m so happy that you had the guts to make the move that you did and provide a better life for you, your husband, and your children. Congrats!

P.S. I’m not sure if the relationship site is yours, but the word ‘marital’ in the red writing, is spelled ‘martial’. Now I think that’s suppose to be marital. Excuse me if I’m wrong and it isn’t your website.

Thank you so much. I will definitely join and I will do it through your site. You’ve been so nice and helpful, how could I not give you the credit for it.

By the way, did it take practice in writing your articles, or did you have help?

Thanks again, Angie

And my response:

Hi Angie,

I’m so glad I was able to clear things up for you. It’s funny, but I realized that you’re right, none of the Wealthy Affiliate reviews out there really explain what affiliate marketing is– they just assume you know what it is to begin with, which it really pretty silly. I’m going to pot up what I wrote to you on my site, because I’m sure that there are plenty of other people who have the same questions as you.

That’s a pretty funny typo on the relationship site. It’s not mine, but if it was I’d be pretty glad that you pointed that out to me. I wanted to show you what different people did with Site Rubix, so I just did a Google search for “site generated by siterubix” to give you some examples of other people’s sites.

In terms of writing, it definitely takes practice. One of the best things you can do for yourself when you get started is to write as much as possible. Set goals for yourself to try and get faster and better at it. If you see that it takes you an hour to write an article, aim for 45 minutes on the next one. If it takes you half an hour, try to get it down to 25 minutes. You’ll also learn in Wealthy Affiliate how to write better articles.

All the best,
Rachel

So if you got to this page because you were scratching your head and asking yourself “Just how does Wealthy Affiliate work?”, then I hope you can stop scratching.

Wealthy Affiliate gives you the most comprehensive training in affiliate marketing that you’ll find anywhere, and by now you know what that is, so I’ll let you go get started!

Why WealthyAffiliate Rocks My World

Rachel Moore — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:27:41 +0000

What can I say? When I started looking for a way to make money online and found WealthyAffiliate, there were an awful lot of reasons that I was looking for something.

The main reason was desperation. As I wrote in my WealthyAffiliate review, I was out of a job, had a growing family, and was about to fall into the kind of debt that I knew I would never be able to dig myself out of.

WealthyAffiliate University was the answer to my problems. I was able to not just learn how to be a successful affiliate marketer, but I also had an incredible community behind me, rooting me on and helping me to keep earning more.

But there was so much more that made me grateful for the day that I decided to purchase WealthyAffiliate. Some of that has to to with the program, but a lot of it has to do with me.

You see, I’m the kind of person who hates working for other people. I mean, I honestly loathe it. Maybe you’d call me a bit of a control freak, but I like to do things my way, and I don’t want to have to answer to anyone else.

That’s why WealthyAffiliate was so good for me. I was able to build up a business that’s built on me and me alone. I never have anyone hanging over my shoulder to see what I’m doing (except my husband, but he’s nice ), and the only person who decides what I’m going to work on is my.

I always have a ton of campaigns going, and I swing back and forth between them, working on whatever I’m interested in that day, or whatever is making the most money (and that’s always interesting).

I’m not saying I don’t work hard– I definitely do. But I love what I do, and most other WealthyAffiliate members I speak to say the same thing. Maybe it’s because there’s a certain kind of person who joins WealthyAffiliate, or maybe it’s because most people like being their own boss and building their own success.

If you’re at the point where you’re deciding whether or not you should buy WealthyAffiliate, I know what that’s like. All I can tell you how great a decision it was for me.

Is WealthyAffiliate the right thing for you? Only you can answer that question, but if you’re looking for a program that will give you everything you need to build a successful affiliate marketing business so that you never have to work for another boss again, WealthyAffiliate is the best that there is.

Wealthy Affiliate University- What You Can Expect To Find

Rachel Moore — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:42:35 +0000

If you’re thinking about joining the Wealthy Affiliate University, I’m sure you want to know exactly what you’re going to be getting with your membership. I know that when I was decided whether to join or not, I spent a lot of time not just reading Wealthy Affiliate University reviews, but also on the WA website itself, looking at all the aspects of the program.

Here are some of the many tools and resources that the Wealthy Affiliates University has to offer:

1. One-on-One Coaching With Kyle And Carson

This is absolutely one of the best things about WA. Normally personal coaching with a top internet marketer will cost you around $1,000, but at WA, it’s just one of the many benefits of your membership.

The way it works is simple; you send Kyle or Carson a pm and they’ll get back to you within two days, if not sooner. Their advice is incredibly helpful, whether it’s about tweaking a campaign to convert better, getting into the mind of your market, or just a general direction to take.

I have always found that they think of angles that I never would have without their input, and being able to get this coaching privately without posting on the forums helps you not just get personal attention but keeps your campaigns confidential.

2. The Wealthy Affiliate University Forums

The forums at WA are unlike any other internet marketing forums I have ever seen. There is a HUGE amount of pure gold information flowing through these threads, and it is a place where you can get your questions answered without feeling like an idiot, especially if you’re new and just know that you’re asking a pretty basic question.

The forums are also great if you’re having trouble with a campaign and want the benefits of a lot of minds to help you succeed. I’ve seen tons of threads where people have basically said: This is my landing page, help me convert. And the advice that you get is incredible.

One of my favorite part of the forums is the Success Forum. This is great not just for inspiration, but you also have a lot of people who post not just how much they’ve made, but also how they’ve made it. Having people share the exact steps they’ve taken to make major amounts of money is just truly awesome.

3. The 8 Week Action Plan

This is Wealthy Affiliate’s trademark start-up plan. Every week you can access a new, in depth lesson, which will take you every step of the way so that you can start making money fast.

If you follow the steps in the 8 week action plan, you will be making money, and this is one of the reasons that you are constantly seeing people posting “Made My First Sale!!!” in the Success Forum.

4. The Learning Center

This is where the core tutorials, lessons, and videos at Wealthy Affiliate are located. You have an entire Internet Marketing education here, complete with sections for beginners, intermediate, and advanced members.

All the information is presented in an easy to digest, and thorough manner. In fact, I often find it useful to re-read them down the road. I always find that I get more out of them the second or third time around.

5. The Share Zone

This is another truly awesome resource that the Wealthy Affiliate University offers. Here, members can create their own tutorials, upload pdfs, and share videos that they’ve created with the rest of the members.

One really cool thing is that a lot of the members at WA are major internet marketers who often have products or membership sites of their own, and the ShareZone tutorials that they create are incredible.

Two of my favorite Share Zone tutorials are “The Oprah Method” and “One Simple Trick To 50% Opt-In Rates”. Those are both top-rated by a lot of other people as well, and will really help you get a lot more traffic and make the most out of it.

6. Site Rubix and Free Hosting

Building a website is a step that every marketer needs to take at some point in time. Sure, you can get started without it, but any serious internet marketer knows that having your own website is a must for major income.

But the idea of building a website can be pretty intimidating for a lot of people, myself included (when I got started, at least). Site Rubix is a very powerful website creator that’s also really easy. It’s all drag and drop, and comes with a variety of templates that you can play around with, so you can literally have your website designed in less than 10 minutes.

You also get free hosting with Wealthy Affiliate, which is great, because if you’re going to have a website, you need it, and a good hosting plan costs around 10 bucks a month.

7. Rapid Writer

This is a marketer’s dream. I don’t care if you do article marketing, SEO, or PPC, or whatever, but no matter what you do, you have to write.

Rapid Writer is a tool that organizes all of your articles and campaigns, helps you do keywords research, check competition on both the major search engines and the major article directories, keeps track of your keyword density, and has a built-in article spinner that’s optimized to churn out original articles that actually read like a person wrote them.

Talk about a dream tool! RapidWriter is something that I use just about everyday, and at this point, I could not imagine working without it.

Rachel’s Wealthy Affiliate Review- Why Wealthy Affiliate Works

Rachel Moore — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:20:02 +0000

OK, one question I get from a lot of people is “Why does Wealthy Affiliate work? How is it different from all those other ‘make money online’ programs out there?” So in answer to this question, I decided to throw up a quick Wealthy Affiliate review of why this program works when so many others don’t.

The first thing is that Wealthy Affiliate is a program that gives you a step-by-step plan. This is very important because if all you have is a bunch of information– and there is a boat load of information online– it’s easy to get lost because you won’t know exactly what to do each step of the way.

There are a lot of great ideas for making money, but if you’re going to be able to take one and succeed with it you need to know exactly what you’re doing from start to finish. Wealthy Affiliate gives you exactly that so you can know from the start where you’re going, and what you need to do to reach your goals.

The second reason that Wealthy Affiliate works is that there are options. Not everything works for everyone, and there is more than one “right” way to do something. When you’re in Wealthy Affiliate, review the methods presented in the Learning Center. Whether you have a budget or are dead broke, whether you like writing or can’t stand it, there are step-by-step instructions on how you can make money in a way that works for you.

The third reason that this program is so successful is because of the forum. That’s right, I’m sure you’ve heard the forum mentioned in just about every Wealthy Affiliate review you’ve read, but there’s a reason everyone talks about it. Obviously, the Wealthy Affiliate forum is a place where you can get your questions answered. But it’s a lot more than that. It’s also a wonderful tool to help keep you on track. There is a huge group of thousands of individuals who are going through the same program as you– or have already mastered it– and they are all there to work with you and keep you moving towards your goals.

Besides the tremendous help you’ll get on your campaigns, there’s one part of the Wealthy Affiliate forum that I love to go to whenever I need a little boost towards productivity, and that’s the Success Forum. Reading the posts there and seeing people’s successes, both large and small is a major motivator, and always helps me to get more accomplished.

There’s so much more to Wealthy Affiliate–from the tools, the resources, the one-on-one coaching with Kyle and Carson– that I couldn’t possibly go through it all now. But I will say one more thing. And that is that another one of the main reasons that they fail at internet marketing is that they don’t have all the pieces of the puzzle. Wealthy Affiliate gives you not only all the information you need to start making money, but all the tools you need as well. From hosting and a website builder (Site Rubix) to niche research (NicheQ) and article marketing (Rapid Writer) and PPC tools, there is absolutely no need for anyone to have to buy a single other internet marketing product.

So what’s the bottom line of Rachel’s Wealthy Affiliate review? The reason people are so successful with the Wealthy Affiliate program is that it gives them all the tools, information, and motivation that they need for success. And that’s why it will work for you as well.