Wealthy Affiliate is a popular affiliate marketing training platform.
(in-depth Wealthy Affiliate review)
Something you may have noticed about many long-term WA members: they passionately defend the Wealthy Affiliate program despite never making much money from it.
On this page we document examples of such.
Let’s dive in…
Ten years in WA, struggling to get traffic
Last I checked, cld111 was ranked #12 on the Wealthy Affiliate “Ambassadors” leaderboard…
She’s been a member of WA since 2009.
In case you missed that:
- This lady joined Wealthy Affiliate more than a decade ago
- She’s ranked as high as #12 on the WA leaderboard
- And she was only getting 30 visits a day to a site she’d worked on for 11 months
Just wow.
cld111 found my video review of WA
In that discussion she seems to emphasize that the community aspect of Wealthy Affiliate is what keeps her there…
I’m very happy with being a member of Wealthy Affiliate. (I just renewed my membership for another year.) It’s not just about the training. I learn a lot from the members there and I enjoy interacting with the community. There is no other community like the one at Wealthy Affiliate, and I’ve made a lot of great connections there.
Unfortunately, community does not equal income.
It seems many WA members sign up hoping to earn significant income, continuously fail to earn significant income, then justify their continued membership by saying they enjoy being part of the WA community.
4 years in WA, still no website
In October 2021, Barbara Richnow posted a glowing 900+ word five-star review of Wealthy Affiliate on Trustpilot…
Just a few days later, Barbara posted within Wealthy Affiliate that she was celebrating 4 years in the program, but had yet to create her website…
In other words, Barbara had spent 4 years and more than $1000 on the Wealthy Affiliate training, never created a website – and therefore presumably never earned much income as an affiliate – and yet still gave WA a positive review and a 5-star rating.
🤯
Passionate about WA, website offline
I feel bad for this lady and hesitate to highlight her story, but it’s a prime example of yet another person singing the praises of WA despite achieving very little success with the program.
This member posted the following comment on my original Wealthy Affiliate review…
Hello Nial my name is Lori and it is 1:10 am Sunday December 1st of 2019. I am here to notify you that I have officially DEBUNKED your video review of Wealthy Affiliate. With all of the half-truths and lies on the video that I have debunked I ask you now to take down your video review and remove all content from your written review that pertains to the video. Of course you can always leave them where they are and know that my website has debunked you. Here is the link to the article https://whywealthyaffiliats.com/4jgc
Do be aware that this is the internet and my review is already beginning to circulate. Thank You.
Unfortunately, Lori’s website went offline several months later.
I’ve kept an eye on her WA profile since then.
As of November 2021 – more than 2 years after she joined – Lori was still a premium member, but it didn’t look like she’d had any significant success with the program 😔
(Have you seen other examples of long-term WA members giving high praise to the program while earning very little? Drop a comment below or contact us here. We will add new examples to this post as we find them.)
Wealthy Affiliate success stories?
Most of the success stories you hear from WA students and affiliates are from 2016 or earlier, back when the WA training was still effective. It’s difficult to find students of Wealthy Affiliate who are earning a good living from affiliate marketing after 2018.
There’s a public blog post on the WA website, written by a well-known affiliate of WA…
As the title would suggest, it purports to list proof and examples of successful affiliate marketers within WA, particularly those who are not making money from promoting Wealthy Affiliate itself.
Which sounds great, but let’s take a closer look at the first 50+ examples listed and color code them according to their actual level of success.
GREEN = great results
ORANGE = decent results / not enough info provided
RED = poor results
Excluding the 10 duplicates, we’re left with:
9 GREEN = great results
24 ORANGE = decent results / not enough info provided
8 RED = poor results
Keep in mind:
- Those are the BEST results a big-time WA affiliate was able to find in the community
- Wealthy Affiliate is the most popular affiliate marketing course in the world
- 636 people join the Premium training every single week (source)
- All combined, members paid WA approximately $10 million in 2019 (source)
Perhaps it’s just me, but if the Wealthy Affiliate training is truly still effective these days, I would expect to see a lot more GREEN in the above table.
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