Frequently Asked Questions – Wealthy Affiliate (FAQ’s)

What Is Wealthy Affiliate?

Wealthy Affiliate is a site that teaches you how to make money online with affiliate marketing. They provide training, website hosting space, coaching, community help, and much more.

With five courses in their Online Entrepreneur Certification (OEC) training, you’ll slowly go from a newbie at affiliate marketing to a money-making guru who has a large knowledge base to work from.

Online Entrepreneur Certification Training

Course 1 – Getting Started

In this course (which is given to you for free!), you’ll learn the fundamentals of affiliate marketing, and how to successfully make money with and through it.

You’ll gain an understanding of what a Niche website is, and how to choose an appropriate niche for yourself. You’ll learn why it’s better to choose a more narrow niche than a broad niche.

Wealthy Affiliate will also teach you how to rank well within search engine results (like Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo). This is vitally important, since with this method you don’t need to waste any money on trying to get traffic to your site (like through guest posting or placing ads).

And when you have a good foundation of what you’re going to be doing, then Wealthy Affiliate will help you set up a website. Don’t worry about how hard it may or may not be – Wealthy Affiliate makes setting up your website super easy, with setup time usually less then one minute.

Course 2 – Building Your Own Traffic Producing Website

As the title suggests, this course goes much deeper into how exactly you’ll be able to get traffic to your site (at no cost from you!).

You’ll learn how to purchase your own domain (a dot com website URL), as well as how to choose a domain name that relates to the niche you have chosen.

Because you are hosting your website with Wealthy Affiliate, you’ll have the ability to set up email accounts with your website. And yes, Wealthy Affiliate goes step-by-step on instructing you how to do it.

Throughout it all, you’ll learn more about something called ‘Keyword Research”, and be given tools and information on how to properly find a keyword that will help your site rank well in search engines.

And above all, Wealthy Affiliate constantly makes sure to help you write quality articles for you website. You’ll be given access to free photos to use, templates they’ve made, and an online editor that automatically saves anything you write (so you don’t lose it if you’re computer crashes accidentally).

Course 3 – Making Money!

In this course you get the chance to dive deeper into how exactly you’ll make money with affiliate marketing.

You’ll learn how to find affiliate programs that are specific to your niche and what you’re trying to promote. On top of that, you’ll see how to apply to those programs, and certain things you may want to say (or not say) when applying.

Upon successful approval of the affiliate program that you’ve chosen, Wealthy Affiliate will then teach you how to add affiliate links within the articles that you’ve written and posted to your website.

Since this course is about making money, Wealthy Affiliate also goes in depth on running ads on your site, and the pros and cons to doing it. The training also goes on to show how to set up a Google Adsense account and use Adsense to run ads on your website.

Speaking of Google, Wealthy Affiliate will also help teach you this course how to set up a Google Analytics account. With Google Analytics, you can track how many users are on your site, how long they’re on certain pages, and which pages are doing better at converting traffic into money.

Course 4 – Mastering Social Engagement

Now-a-days, it’s hard to run any sort of website or business without some sort of social media accounts. And in this course, Wealthy Affiliate shows you how to easily use social media to your advantage.

Before you actually set up any social media accounts, Wealthy Affiliate makes sure that you have you site ready to be a social engagement – through the use of comments.

You’ll see why having comments on your site is such a good thing, which comments you’ll want to keep, and how to make sure you get people to leave comments.

After this, you’ll get training on several different social site, and how to use them to leverage traffic back to your site. You’ll learn how to use Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and other social sites.

Last, but not least, you’ll also see how it’s beneficial to use the social part of Wealthy Affiliate’s website and how that can be used to make some additional money.

Course 5 – Achieving Maximum Success Through Content Creation

In this final course, you’ll learn just how to maximize your efforts to get the best return for your time.

Wealthy Affiliate will take you through setting up your site with Google Search Console, and show you how to use it to effectively speed up your rankings within the Google search engine.

Following this, you’ll then learn how to properly write an engaging and thought-provoking title. Not one that is exclusively made to be clickbait, but one that makes people want to click to read your article (and not someone else’s).

And let’s not forget about making a proper plan for your site. You’ll be given several key ingredients on what you want for your site (in the future), how to get there, and what you need to do to achieve it.

There are also several lessons on how to make sure you ranking on all the ‘smaller’ search engines (like Bing and Yahoo), and not rely exclusively on the Google search engine. You’ll additionally learn how you can get quality comments for your articles through the Wealthy Affiliate platform.

Is Wealthy Affiliate a pyramid scheme?

To understand whether Wealthy Affiliate is a pyramid scheme, we must define what exactly a pyramid scheme is. To do this, I’ve listed three definitions to help better understand a pyramid scheme:

What Is A Pyramid Scheme?

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

noun A fraudulent moneymaking scheme in which early participants are paid out of money received from later recruits, with the final recruits putting money in and getting nothing back.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

noun An illicit money-making investment scheme whereby early investors are paid primarily or wholly by later investors. Eventually all such schemes fail to the detriment of recent (later) investors.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

noun a fraudulent scheme in which people are recruited to make payments to the person who recruited them while expecting to receive payments from the persons they recruit; when the number of new recruits fails to sustain the hierarchical payment structure the scheme collapses with most of the participants losing the money they put in[.]

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As you can see from the above definitions, a pyramid scheme is where those who bought early into the scheme make all the money, and those who join later usually don’t make much, if any, money in the end.

Additionally, pyramid schemes don’t last very long – once they’re found out people stop paying into them, and in the end, the pyramid falls a part and no longer is in existence.

Wealthy Affiliate and Pyramid Schemes

Wealthy Affiliate is definitely not a pyramid scheme, especially if we take the definitions above into account.

• Wealthy Affiliate has been around for over 13 years (the average pyramid schemes run for at most 5 years).
• Wealthy Affiliate is free to join (pyramid schemes aren’t).
• Pyramid schemes have multiple layers of people paying you. Wealthy Affiliate doesn’t have that.
• There have been many ‘new’ Wealthy Affiliate members who have made just as much as the ‘old’ members (with pyramid schemes this isn’t the case).
• While Wealthy Affiliate teaches you how to promote itself, this isn’t the only thing they teach (nor the first thing they teach) – pyramid schemes rely on you making other people purchase they pyramid scheme you’re in.

No Pyramid’s With Wealthy Affiliate!

I’ve read of many members who joined Wealthy Affiliate when they just started, and many of those ‘early investors’ (if you could call them such) didn’t make anything.

Additionally, I’ve met many members who within 6 months of joining made a rather sizable monthly income from their sites.

Additionally, the training that Wealthy Affiliate provides teaches you how to make money promoting nearly anything (and not just specifically Wealthy Affiliate).

All the above points to the fact that Wealthy Affiliate is no pyramid scheme. It’s rather impossible for them to be one with the way they run their business, and how things are set up.

Is Wealthy Affiliate outdated?

Wealthy Affiliate started back in 2005, so it’s little wonder people would ask whether it’s outdated or not.

Here’s the thing with Wealthy Affiliate and their training: it’s hasn’t really changed much.

Before we go jumping to any conclusions, let me explain what I mean by that.

Wealthy Affiliate hasn’t changed much of it training simply because it hasn’t needed to be changed. Yeah, they had to add some explanations here and there, and change something when other products were no longer around.

But the main things that Wealthy Affiliate has been preaching has remained the same.

What they’ve been saying since the beginning still works now-a-days – create a seo-friendly website, write quality articles, add the affiliate links, and you’re in business.

I know, everyone wants proof about whether Wealthy Affiliate is outdated or not. So here’s my personal proof:

As you can see in the screenshot above, I currently have a ‘paycheck’ waiting to be released to me on the first of the next month. That is money that I earned by following what Wealthy Affiliate teaches.

Wealthy Affiliate is definitely not outdated. Their website, training, and methods are as up-to-date as ever, and still work great.

Need more proof?

Earlier this year, I used the training from Wealthy Affiliate to rank well on Google. So well in fact that 4 minutes after publishing my article, Google ranked it #1 on the search engine:

Additionally, using the training that Wealthy Affiliate give out, I was able to get over 4000 page-views to my site in just one day:

I can’t speak for everyone. But I can speak for myself, and say that Wealthy Affiliate’s training still works. It might be ‘outdated’ in the sense that it’s the same thing they’ve been saying since 2005. But it definitely still works for 2020.

I’ve been able to make money, rank extremely well, and receive a high amount of traffic to my site, all through the training Wealthy Affiliate has to offer. So, over all, Wealthy Affiliate isn’t outdated at all.

Is Wealthy Affiliate Free?

Wealthy Affiliate offers a free membership to their site, so that anyone can see what they have to offer before paying for Wealthy Affiliate’s premium membership.

Upon joining the free membership, you’re account will automatically get some of the premium membership perks (live chat, communicating, etc) for 7 days.

You’ll be given two free websites to start building on and experimenting with as you learn more about affiliate marketing.

You’ll additionally be given the first phases in Wealthy Affiliate’s prized training courses. In those lessons, you’ll learn the fundamentals of affiliate marketing and just how you can make money online.

You’ll have the chance to earn from Wealthy Affiliate, and anything you promote on your site, without even having to pay for the premium membership (so you can see if it really is for you).

Want some 1-on-1 coaching? For the first 7 days, you’ll have the ability to get it – even coaching from the founders of Wealthy Affiliate themselves!

How do I cancel my wealthy affiliate membership?

1. Go to your account setting
2. Scroll down, and click on the membership page
3. click the button “Stop Billing & Cancel Membership

1. Go To Your Account Settings

If you click on your profile image in the left hand corner, you’ll be given a choice of pages to choose from. The button you looking to press is the one that says ‘Account Settings’.

If you are having trouble finding it, feel free to click the following link, and you’ll be taken there immediately:

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/home/my_profile

2. Finding The Membership Page

As you can see in the above image, you’re looking for the button that says ‘Membership’ on it. It is right below the header that reads ‘Subscription Settings’.

Scroll about half way down the page, and locate the Membership button. After you click it, you’re almost there to closing your account!

3. Closing Your Account

Locate the “Stop Billing & Cancel Membership” Button, and click it. You’ll be taken to a page (or several pages) of details, and upon following those instructions, you’ll be able to stop the billing process of your membership!