It is that time again… Review time specifically this is the wealthy affiliate review for 2018. Wealthy Affiliate is one of the smart passive income strategy guides out there and I fully support the use of this platform.
A Brief Overview and Rating
Name: Wealthy Affiliate
Website: WealthyAffiliate.com
Product: Online Marketing Training & Website Hosting Service
Ratings:
Online Marketing Training: 93 out of 100
Website Hosting Service: 99 out of 100
Customer Care: 91 out of 100
Quality Community: 99 out of 100
Payment Plans: Free Starter Package, Premium Service $49 Monthly, or $349 Anually
Overall Ranking: 97 out of 100
Online Marketing Training
The wealthy affiliate training program is one of the most comprehensive online training programs I have encountered. The training program starts off by splitting itself into two main programs: The Online Entrepreneur Certification Program and The Affiliate Boootcamp Program.
The Online Entrepreneur Certification (OEC) training is a 5 phase (50 lesson) series of courses walking you through the process of creating and growing a business within absolutely ANY niche that you want. This program is great for anyone with a preexisting business they are trying to bring online or anyone with a specific online business idea already in mind. The amount of flexibility to customize you online business to any need or niche is truly amazing and these 5 training phases take you step by step through a process that, I can personally verify, works.
The Affiliate Bootcamp training is a 7 Phase (70 lesson) series of courses walking you through the process of creating and establishing a business in a niche related to the promotion of Wealthy Affiliate. This program is a bit more specific to becoming a Wealthy Affiliate affiliate. This is again a super simple step by step program that leads you to a path of nearly guaranteed success. I say nearly guaranteed because as with any educational or training program it takes a large amount of consistency, persistence, and drive to complete and continue with motivating yourself.
Website Hosting Service
The Wealthy Affiliate web hosting service is a pretty all in one. The service includes access to a wordpress based managing system that lets you easily access, add content, and manage up to 50 websites. The hosting service includes over 3000 pre built website designs for a variety of possibly businesses and over 50,000 included add-ons to assist in the regular maintenance of your online businesses. This service also provides access to their website management tools including SiteSpeed, SiteProtect, SiteSSL, and a SiteHealth monitor.
SiteSpeed – A fast website is a higher ranked website. A fast website is also one that offers a much better visitor experiencing, leading to more “time on page”, more people reading your content and more conversions. The SiteSpeed feature will lead to the fastest website load times in the industry.
SiteProtect – Website security is becoming more and more important to the overall success of a website. The SiteProtect feature at Wealthy Affiliate adds a three-point protection layer on your websites. Comment Spam, Back Office Hacking (passwords), and Website Load Speeds (Botnet Attacks). These are the three ways hackers look to wreak havoc on your business and we protect you from all of these with the SiteProtect platform.
SiteHealth – There are many ways that you can determine the overall health of a website and WE track those for you within the SiteHealth platform. These include publishing frequency, content quality, visitor engagement/your engagement, plugins, website feedback, Google rankings and overall trust. Anything that can be tracked, can be improved upon and SiteHealth will help you do this with great efficiency.
SIteSSL – Websites with SSL installed on them are starting to rank much better than non-SSL websites in search engines! With SiteSSL at Wealthy Affiliate, you can set up SSL certificates for completely FREE on any domain that you own. It is instant and we have broken the convention because these are typically “paid” services elsewhere (typically $50 per year, per domain), but completely included in the Premium membership for any domain that you host.
These aren’t even the only tools they offer there just the ones that are at the forefront of what you get when you get the web hosting services associated with the Wealthy Affiliate Program.
Customer Care
Customer care is at the forefront of the mission plan for the wealthy affiliate program. The entire service is education and training based and as such there is a high degree of questions and issues that arise. Due to the fluctuating nature of online business there is 24/7 automated monitoring, managed monitoring, and SIteSupport.
The automated monitoring is a sophisticated layer of monitoring set-up on your websites to scan and find 100’s of potentially critical “issues”. The technology will then automatically deal with these issues to maximize your site performance, up time, and overall website security. The managed monitoring then takes this a step further when the need for human critical thinking and problem solving arises.
There is also a SiteSupport section for 24/7 help. Members simply need to describe a problem or issue and a trained profesional will come back with a soultion or idea to help. The support team is very active with a response time that is less than 5 minutes on average.
While there is a specific SiteSupport area, one on the most innovative and comprehensive customer care options is actually just posting your questions to the community for immediate experienced answers.
Quality Community
The community within WA is one of the best tools/resourses that I have come accross within any training platform. There is an open chat that is ongoing at all times within the WA platfrom. This running dialogue can be used for any issue that I have come accross. The community is actually so strong and responsive that it is extreamly rare that anyone would even have to use the SiteSupport option.
The Live Chat is one of the greatest tools that a WA member has at their use. The help, technical assistance, and even creative guidance you can recieve from other members is nothing short of amazing. The ambasador and senior affiliates throughout the Wealthy Affiliate community are always avaialable and super willing to help.
Payment Plans
There are three different Phases of membership: The Starter Membership, The Monthly Premium Membership, and The Yearly Premium Membership.
The starter membership gives you a free trial of some of the tools and services that WealthyAffliate has to offer. It is through this trial period that people can get a feel of what it will be like to create and manage an online business. The free starter membership allows users to create two fully functional free siterubix websites. The starter membership also includes access to Phase 1 of the training program which I suggest everyone takes advantage of while in the free area(it saves you a day or two of membership fees while you go through the first phase).
The premium membership unlocks all of the tools and services within the Wealthy Affiliate community. This includes the increase from hosting 2 websites to 50 websites (25 of which can be free). This unlocks the remaining training phases which let me tell you are the real meat and potatoes of the program. Going premium also permanently unlocks access to the community and all the help and advise you could ever want or need.
Within the premium membership there are two payment methods: Monthly and Yearly. If you decide to pay the $49 monthly membership you are not locked into a long term(1Year) contract and can therefore cancel your membership at any point. The monthly membership rate is just another checkpoint in my mind now. I truly believe that you should only go monthly for the first 1 to 3 months to help you decide if online business is the right fit for your own needs. After this initial trial it is way more financially savy to switch to the yearly plan. The monthly ($49) rate for 12 months is $588 vs the annual rate of $349 can be interpreted as a savings of $239 per year.
My suggestion would be to rock the starter program and complete phase 1 as a free member. If you complete this training quickly enough(7days) you may still be eligible for the reduced first month price which I would then take. During your first month you should really try to experience this platform as much as possible to make sure it’s a right fit. Then as the month nears it’s end and you realize just how powerful this training and community can be you should switch to annual immediately saving you the most money while reaping the maximum benefits.
Overall
If your as skeptical as I am your probably thinking where is the catch or when is this whole scheme going to become clear. Well it is what you see it as an amazing educational resource and a great web hosting service all wrapped up into one.
At this point I can see no reason why everyone should not take advantage of the 2 free websites and beginner training just to see if this is a viable income source for yourself. As I see it you have nothing to lose besides a small amount of time testing out this program. On the other hand, you have so much to gain through the creation of multiple income streams.
I can vouch for all that you said here, Atlas. I’ve found W.A. to be a very giving community.
I also think it’s important for everyone to know that there are a lot of tools that W.A. gives you for FREE that are used almost every DAY to get and keep a money-making website up and running. I wouldn’t be able to be effective at online blogging without Jaxxy, for example, which they provide at no extra charge.
I have definitely earned more ‘life’ and money through using this platform, and I’m so glad I did. I tried others before and they ended up being quite deceitful and unhelpful.
W.A. is quite the opposite. l-)
Hey TJ,
Yea your absolutely right. The tools that come along with the membership are rediculous ly helpful. Jax’s is crazy useful when beginning a new article or post and then the diagnostics that check up on your websites “health” are soo nice too .
It sounds like your also a member on this service so maybe i’ll Run into you on the live chat.
All the best,
-Atlas