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!
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