The Ultimate Wealthy Affiliate Review

My overall experience with Wealthy Affiliate is excellent! I was a Starter for free and after 3 months I joined as a Premium member.

After 8 months I upgraded to the Premium Plus tier. The community is wonderful and always available to help.

There is always a member blogging to share tips for everyone’s benefit. Kyle, one of the co-founders, is on the platform daily and is always very helpful in answering any questions you may have.

They update the tools and training regularly to keep up with industry standards. That being said, they do not teach any black hat techniques that go against Google policies.

So if you want to “game the system”, this is not the platform for you. If you’re not happy with the platform, you can easily get a refund. That’s not a problem at all.

I’m very happy with Wealthy Affiliate’s tools, training, and community. They give members all they need to succeed but you have to put in the work.

As far as promoting the platform, it’s not a requirement. If you find value in Wealthy Affiliate, you can promote it and earn commissions.

After becoming a member of Wealthy Affiliate, I transferred an existing website there and then started a new one.

It’s because they offer an all-in-one platform. WordPress, hosting, the amazing community, 24/7 site support, training classes, and feedback on your work.

Wealthy Affiliate has taught me to diversify my content by not relying on just search engines but utilizing social media platforms and email marketing as leverage.

They offer training classes throughout the week and have a ton archived. They update the platform constantly to help keep up with the ever-changing landscape of affiliate marketing.

As far as being successful, time will tell. 2024 was my intro to online marketing and I was busy “learning the ropes.”

I’m still looking to gain traffic to both sites to get more conversions. I did make a few sales and have earned some commissions on referrals so far.

Unfortunately, I picked weight loss as my first niche, not knowing how competitive it was. This was before coming to Wealthy Affiliate.

With my first year’s experience under my belt, I’m looking forward to more growth with my sites. Wealthy Affiliate is there every step of the way to support, guide, and teach me.

In 2018, I signed up with Wealthy Affiliate while looking for legitimate ways to build an online business. I wasn’t looking for get-rich-quick schemes and intended to treat this new venture as an actual business with hard work and dedication. Right away, I was concerned with what seemed to be a too-simplified approach to making money online. Still, as a complete newbie, I thought they knew something I didn’t.

A lot has changed in the online world since then. Believing that creating a website and writing a few high-quality articles with affiliate links will bring traffic and customers is not a reality in 2023. Any online business will tell you that getting traffic is hard, and targeted traffic even harder. A lot is involved in ranking well on Google, even with low-competition or long-tail keywords. For this reason, I feel WA gets people’s hopes up for a successful website without telling them it takes years of hard work to achieve that. And for some, that dream never happens.

The community within WA is not bad at all. There are some genuinely helpful people and kind souls to help you when you feel stuck, discouraged, or need some fresh ideas. For some, the WA’s ‘social community’ aspect could make their subscription worth it. It is true, however, about their internal ranking system. Many people add random unhelpful comments that provide no value whatsoever.

Another positive aspect is the Jaaxy keyword research tool included in the membership. This is the only reason I have kept my WA subscription. I have ranked pretty well for different keywords by using Jaaxy. I like the interface and trust its results. Yes, I could get Jaaxy without WA, but it would be more expensive.

The worst part about Wealthy Affiliate is their included website hosting and customer service. Oh, my goodness! Please don’t use this service if you start a website. I just went through one hellish experience with our local plant nursery website that led me to write this review. WA servers are awfully slow. My websites performed absolutely terribly, so that hurt my rankings.

The problem was transferring my websites to another hosting. WA black-listed plugins such as Jetpack, All-in-One WordPress Migration, etc. We also tried to transfer the site via SFTP but failed because critical files were inaccessible. When I contacted the WA Site Support, they rudely told me none of this was allowed and that they would offer a backup file that my new provider could restore. However, many file permissions were still missing. The new hosting service finally reinstated my site, but only due to their hard work and willingness to help me out of this crappy situation with WA.

Furthermore, if you stop paying for the Wealthy Affiliate Premium service, your website gets disabled. Then it will be deleted if it has been dormant for some time. Incredibly unethical business. Additionally, keep in mind that WA does not offer refunds. If you pay for the yearly subscription, it is a done deal. Are you not satisfied? Too bad.

Many issues with WA should cause you to pause. Other places offer valuable affiliate marketing training, so perhaps consider them instead.

I’m a neophyte and less than computer/tech literate, so that is having an impact on my progress and success. That said, I think there is a problem with information overload and less than clear transitions from one segment to the next. Also, a given function might have more than one name (label), thus compounding my sense of confusion. However, I did learn many new things and made steady progress.

My primary issue is with the community. Although promoted as a major asset in the course’s marketing, it leaves me cold. The community includes one of the Wealthy Affiliate founders, savvy WA affiliate marketers, and anyone in the WA world willing to give free advice. The result for me was confusion, instruction overload, and some astounded moments upon receiving contradictory advice. Additionally, the option to seek help from all three sources was confusing and not clearly explained on the site. I spent too much time responding to all of the advice and messages instead of getting on with the course.

I was a subscriber to the Wealthy Affiliate program and below are my thoughts on it.

The structure was very well thought out for people new to the world of having a website. Each module had a good number of tutorials, and you were walked through everything required to get an affiliate website up and running.

As you went through the modules, some more technical aspects were introduced and everything was included to give you a fighting chance. The technology they used was excellent, so things like website speed were of high quality.

The support was also really good. You could expect a response to a support ticket created within minutes.

I think the pricing is very fair. Each year there is a Black Friday deal where you can lock in a low yearly price.

I used Wealthy Affiliate to create a successful sports betting website that generated a very healthy income over three years. I would recommend WA to any newcomers to the affiliate marketing industry.

If you plan on getting a premium membership of Wealthy Affiliate, then I would advise you to save your money. I think there are many things about this course you don’t realize until you spend a few years inside it.

1. The training is too basic. You can get this training anywhere online for FREE.
2. Hosting your website for $49 a month is expensive since the training is useless.
3. Most of the people helping you in the online chat are beginners themselves.
4. Kyle comes on the chat, but just to ‘chit-chat’ with everyone. He doesn’t really answer many website-related questions. When I asked him website-related questions he was either rude or completely ignored me.
5. Some successful people get triggered if you ask them to check your website or give you feedback. They say that they have no time and that you are being rude by asking them a favor. I mean, you are paying for the membership, but a simple NO will do.

In my opinion, those people got successful by luck so they cannot help anyone, and they mask it with their arrogance. I asked them about other affiliate courses, but they always told me to stick to the training. They explained that I wasn’t getting results because I wasn’t doing the training well.

Then I told my mentor that I didn’t find the training clear. He said that he was able to do it, so he didn’t understand why I was complaining. One can easily tell how this will keep you in a self-blame loop. You might stay there for a very long time, thinking that it’s your fault and that you need to work harder when that is not the case.

Wealthy Affiliate’s training is outdated and was never intended to work in the first place. I believe it is a carefully crafted course for failure, making people think it is their fault. If you are a beginner, I’d suggest you do online research and take free courses rather than waste money with WA.

I’ve been a Wealthy Affiliate member for 8 years. I have published up to 1,000 articles across numerous failed sites by doing Kyle’s ‘Affiliate Bootcamp’ training. However, I still have no full-time income to match the hours and effort I have invested.

The reason(s) why I haven’t succeeded? There are several…

Firstly, I received bad advice at the beginning (i.e. niche selection). I blindly followed other Bootcamp members’ article/review topics, so it became a fierce Google-ranking battle.

Secondly, during tough times (traffic-wise), the WA Bootcamp community said “continue doing more reviews”. My organic traffic never exceeded 40-50 visitors per day with that advice. Currently, my 200+ blog posts on one site generate 20 visits daily (on a good day).

Also, I was recommended to use a bad keyword tool. When I compared Jaaxy to Long Tail Pro, Keyword Finder, and Semrush, I was shocked to discover that Jaaxy’s SEO metrics did not match up. Turns out I’ve been targeting highly competitive articles/reviews for years.

Furthermore, the training is outdated. Kyle has failed to update most of the core training to bring it in line with the strategies of today. Additionally, the WA co-founders fail to do what they preach – building and ranking blogs on Google in 2022.

I couldn’t see it before, but now I’m seeing the cracks in WA.

Yes, there are good tools (except Jaaxy) and the community can be helpful at times. But Kyle and Carson are more focused on “tweaking” WA for user experience when core training should be their #1 priority.

I’m lucky to make $3K/year in commissions promoting Wealthy Affiliate in the affiliate marketing niche. With better alternatives, I’m seriously considering calling it a day as a member and affiliate of WA.

I’ve been a premium member of Wealthy Affiliate since January 2007 (when you could only join as a paying member). I’m still an active member, and I can comment on the good and bad from my experience.

I think Wealthy Affiliate is great for beginners as it will teach them the basic ideas about running an online business and get them going in a hands-on way. The core training is practical, so by the time you’ve finished, you will have a website with content online, and you can build from there.

It does have some very crucial stuff missing, and the training isn’t updated as regularly as it should be. I would advise that as a student to find supplemental free training as I’ve always done myself. I was able to build a couple of successful websites with the help of Wealthy Affiliate.

Just two years after I joined, I was making around $8k a month promoting both Wealthy Affiliate and a ClickBank diet program until about 2012. A Google algorithm change wiped that out.

The new Wealthy Affiliate training came out around that time, and I followed that and built up a nice monthly income again. I’m doing this full-time, by the way. My success has always been because of a combination of Wealthy Affiliate training and supplemental advice from outside of the program.

I’ve been paying monthly for 10 months now. The training seems outdated as the content hasn’t been updated in years. I mean, a keyword Chrome extension is better than the keyword tool they suggest.

They also push heavily on you to promote the course and make commissions. If you decide to cancel your WA monthly payments, they will also cancel your commissions. Even if you don’t find any value in the membership, you can’t cancel it because the affiliate commissions are linked to your account.

Moreover, the domains you buy are locked into the platform, so if you cancel your subscription, you also lose your domains. It seems like everything is set up to lock you into their program. You need to stay a member so as not to lose the SEO rankings into which you have put precious time and effort.

The only positive thing is the forums. Although okay, there are a lot of other affiliates who promote the course and cover up any criticism. The majority of blogs and pages that praise WA are owned by these same members.

Overall, if you are new to affiliate marketing or online business, I suggest you avoid Wealthy Affiliate.

I have built a successful blog following the training from the Wealthy Affiliate (WA) university. I was a premium member of the WA for 3 years. The carefully laid out lessons on building a successful blog were very helpful for a beginner like me who had no idea about blogging, WordPress, or building websites before purchasing this course.

As a beginner, joining WA was a game changer for me. The support, mentorship, weekly live classes, and accessibility to the like-minded community were very helpful in building a successful online business.

This blogging course provides absolute clarity about every single aspect of creating an online business. However, I did not find WA very helpful for intermediate bloggers like me. They have a Premium plus membership where you have access to live classes, but I did not find it to meet my needs as an intermediate blogger stuck at a certain level of growth plateau.

My pure honest thoughts about Wealthy Affiliate is that they offer a steal of a deal when it comes to their hosting capabilities. You are getting access to build 10 websites all for the price of $499! You can also get major discounts on their membership at specific times – they usually always provide a major discount on Black Friday.

In addition to the hosting, you get access to a decent keyword tool that they call Jaaxy. Although Semrush and Ahrefs work much better, Jaaxy will get the job done. Still, it doesn’t allow you to see what other websites rank for unless you manually check all of their keywords which can be tiresome.

The core training is okay. It’s geared to getting beginners to take action, so if you have patience, their live weekly classes give a lot of good information on affiliate marketing. I must admit that I don’t have the patience to sit through an hour-long live class.

To be frank, the community is not my favorite aspect. In some cases, it can have that eerie cult atmosphere. There are some pretty cool people in WA, and then there are some of those people who are just way too nice to believe them. Also, the community ranking is based on the volume of contributions (often spam) that lead to ambassador ranking, hence the nickname “spambassador”.

For example, when someone gets indexed on Google, 30 people congratulate them on getting indexed. Getting indexed on Google doesn’t mean much if you aren’t willing to put in hard work and dedication to grow your online business. That means putting up 300+ posts on your website to get that Domain Rank increased, to get that traffic, and get those sales (or ad revenue).

Some people mention that there is a big emphasis on promoting the Wealthy Affiliate program. I disagree with that statement. They do offer an exceptional commission structure for their affiliate program, but they never ask you to slander competition and promote WA directly.

That is simply a writing style that many WA affiliates have developed since we are all free to choose how we run our promotions.

Wealthy Affiliate is something I knew about via my big brother back in 2016. Based on what he explained, I loved the idea, and I joined the paid plan after finishing my trial.

I later gave up on Wealthy Affiliate. Not because it seemed unhelpful, but because I couldn’t afford the monthly $49 that was being charged.

During the few months I spent using the platform, I learned and gained a lot from them. I am no longer an active member, but I recommend Wealthy Affiliate for those who need to acquire prolonged practical knowledge and not those looking for an easy way to make money online.

I learned a lot about WordPress using Wealthy Affiliate. I have been using these WordPress skills to sustain a leaving even though I am no longer an active WA member.

Based on the quality of content and live webinars they offered, I am willing to join them again soon to gain more knowledge and access to their keyword research tools, such as Jaaxy and other SEO tools.

My experience with Wealthy Affiliate has been generally positive. The value of what is included in a paid membership is excellent, especially for a beginner.

The community is active, supportive, and helpful. One of the highlights for me has been my ability within the course to ask a question and shortly have someone direct me to an answer. At times, members seem to attempt to take advantage of WA’s community system to boost their “community standing”, but there are some real gems of knowledge on there who are willing to tell it like it is.

Overall, in my experience, I can confidently dismiss claims that WA operates like a cult.

With that said, I have diligently and gradually applied the lessons of the main course. But after 7.5 months I have not made any notable amount of money. Only a few bucks from my efforts so far. I have been increasingly going beyond the main lessons of the course in search of additional and supplemental information (both within and outside WA).

I’m gearing up to go back to the drawing board and reevaluate my options for learning how to take my affiliate website to the next level.

Wealthy Affiliate’s course is a great starting point for beginners to get up and running if you take the plunge and purchase a premium membership. Still, as you gradually gain knowledge and experience, you will find yourself searching for more substance.

If you are considering WA, keep in mind that they may end up as your starting point but not your end-all-be-all.

I think when I first started this course, I was pretty excited. The spiel was good, and I think engaging with the other members was advantageous, as I was still finding my feet.

I’m not a newbie to affiliate marketing or having my own .com blog/website, so following along with the lessons was relatively easy.

However, over the couple of years that I was a paying member and doing almost everything that I learned in all of the lessons – even with my niche being a perfect niche to work with and earn some good money – I became stuck, like some stubborn gum under my shoe.

After a while – for me – it became too repetitive in the lessons, and the camaraderie of the members became quite cliquey and somewhat inauthentic. Sure, there were people making bank with their sites, but these were long time affiliate marketers. I felt like a fish swimming upstream after a while.

I looked at what I was spending as my monthly membership subscription fee, and I just cut off my loss. After all, the pandemic had come along, and my household had to tighten its belt.

So I decided to be a member no longer. To be honest, I wasn’t learning what I already knew.

I’m still an affiliate marketer, and I’m now finding lots of great and free content that doesn’t justify my membership anymore.

I still have my blog, and since I have left Wealthy Affiliate, I’ve started making some money. It’s not a lot, but it’s more than I made being a member at WA.

The concept of the course is really good because it is crafted in a way that even the newest affiliate marketers can grasp the ideas easily. The course material is explained perfectly and is easy to understand. However, that is as far as the good of the course goes.

For someone taking the course in 2022, the information is not applicable anywhere. Well, one can use the info to understand basic affiliate marketing but that is it. I say this as someone who has found success with several affiliate programs and have learned a lot from the process.

I have to give it to the community. It has much newer info than the course itself. This should be an indication to the course creators that they need to update the course and give the learners current info. Sorry to say this but the community part is the only value for money provided in the course.

All the same, I believe the course was good enough some years back and, if updated, it will be one of the most informative affiliate marketing courses. It just needs revamping!

I initially started with the free version of WA in 2018 for another business since they offer so many tools built in. I upgraded to premium in 2021 to focus on a new niche project.

Let’s be real: hosting 10 Amazon-level managed WordPress websites (with premium plugins) for 50 bucks a month is unbeatable. The site content, keyword and other tools added in makes this a no-brainer for me.

The core training is pretty basic for affiliate marketing through a blog, but a great place to start and get your site up quickly. Sure it needs updates… WA has been around forever, but they do have new webinars done live weekly with Q&As which are highly relevant for today’s marketing. Beyond that I use other courses to supplement anything more targeted that is needed.

The community is also a valuable feature of the platform. There is no shortage of tips, ideas and resources from other users who have had success with various methods or tools they use. You can search for pretty much any internet marketing topic and find a free training on it that can at least get you started.

This is all packaged conveniently together and very reasonably priced. I can’t imagine what else to expect for $50 a month. And I would never expect a refund since no other web host that I know of would give one either.

In summary: with hosting, tools, training, and community for 50 bucks a month I consider wealthy affiliate an incredible value.

I really loved the community they have and the concept behind Wealthy Affiliates but the design of the platform and teachings were somewhat outdated. With a better user interface along with more automation and current practices integrated, I think they could dominate the affiliate marketing niche and take themselves and their members to the next level.

Honestly, it seems the course and material are outdated and the interface is not up to par.

I tried to follow the lessons for days to set up a site based on one of the template options available… and I couldn’t even get my site name registered on the domain that the video showed it would be on. I followed every single step several times over and nothing. No real answers were given on how to solve the problem. And this was all within the introduction so I could only imagine it getting more inefficient as time went on.

I’ve read reviews and detailed analyses of how WA hasn’t been earning any real money for students via affiliate marketing. Rather, the only students making money are those few who promote Wealthy Affiliate itself. It immediately reminded me of just another Amway/Quixtar deal, where the revenue potential of the business itself has long been outdated and all that’s left is “selling the plan”.

It’s a good thing my instincts are pretty good. Otherwise, I’d be like so many others that tried to make online income through the promises given, just to realize they’ve been working on what appears to be a platform that has been outdated for several years now.

I’m sure WA’s intentions were originally good and they may be nice people. But if the product doesn’t keep up with the times, then it is best to look elsewhere.

I have been a premium member in WA for four months. I am computer savvy and a fan of technology, a serial entrepreneur in the personal and professional development field, international exposure, training, travel… Created 5 websites and 3 limited corporations, traveled to 43 countries, been a digital nomad since 2013.

1. I am turned off by WA’s high-sell, constant pitch dressed in the “caring helper” style. They assign you a tutor and he writes to you to offer help and sometimes answers and sometimes you have to remind him to answer. His username does not correspond with the name he signs with. They all plug the premium membership from the get-go. And then there is another higher level (Premium Plus) which they begin to recommend once you are a premium member. My first question to him was if I should follow or take into account anything special since I had already created multiple WordPress websites. I never really got a clear answer. Since I have a webmaster who set up and is managing the sites for me, I decided to push on with it.

At the beginning of the course, they explain keywords and content set-up for 1000-word posts. You have a lesson to critique others’ posts which I tried and was dismayed by the level. I decided to skip other people’s critiques of my content since I lacked confidence in their opinions.

My tutor told me that, with the premium membership, I could move my domains and house my websites on their platform. Every comment or question is an opportunity to make money for WA. It’s a lesson, and maybe valid, but I don’t happen to think that way. I personally hate high-pressure selling and pitching. I prefer to offer value and help my clients with something they need, that is so obvious they cannot turn it down. Their hook (make 6 figures blah, blah, blah) combined with the pressurized sell, doesn’t balance very well with their guise as educators, guides, helping hands there to cooperate.

2. Now with Covid in its sixth mutation and the revolutionary changes in numbers and competition on the internet, all the out-of-date WA features noted by others must have increased. As an example, the keywords lesson is for people that are total beginners. This is good because I needed it, but I followed the lesson exactly. Twice I watched the video and read the text. Keywords are important because they tell search engines about the content of your webpage. You had better have this lesson clear or nothing of what follows is going to work because no one will see your posts. Initially, I spent 2 hours trying to get 5 keywords unsuccessfully in my niche using their criteria. It takes time to get the hang of it and a lot of practice and failing. So, I was demotivated and took a rest from the course. I got tired and frustrated and wrote my tutor but he answered to disregard that lesson! I feel that with 2 years of Covid, the competition is over-the-moon and maybe tweaking their keyword lesson would be a good idea. I did compare it with YouTube videos explaining keywords and it is more or less the same, which led me to think that keywords are a question of practice.

Furthermore, there is a lot of extra material in the course which complements the program (it’s rather mind-boggling). In keywords, there is an extra blog by the founder explaining another method that can be done with Google for free. WA’s method is based on using their paid software, Jaaxy. So, if you unsubscribe, you had better have another tool in mind for keywords.

3. My last thought is that with the amount of unstructured material, the student, first of all, needs some information about study methods according to their experience. I am extremely organized and used to tackling complex problems, determined and consistent. But a person with no or only basic experience would be overwhelmed. To illustrate my point, just consider the contact and help methods at one’s disposal. They say there is a live chat in the lessons, but I couldn’t get it to work. Then, if you have questions, you are advised to present them to the community at the end of each lesson. I tried that, but no one responded. Also, you have your tutor and big FAQ sections that they link to, which I couldn’t access. I wrote asking how to access it, but no one answered. So there are some growing pains that you expose yourself to when you sign up. It is a vast course with a lot of material. I’m not sure if I will continue but, for the moment, I’m there on the lesson teaching how to insert and prepare photos in your posts for SEO. It hasn’t begun to talk about the actual affiliate marketing part yet.

After my experience with the training at Wealthy Affiliate, I would not recommend the program anymore. So I would like to update my old review now.

The creators are legit but the program is so outdated that trying to implement the ideas was difficult on more current advertising platforms. WA does have an amazing support system and does provide more current training videos outside of the basic one, but finding specifically what you’re looking for can be difficult.

I joined WA after I saw a member of their community discussing it online. The platform initially seemed promising given the extensive community aspect and the variety of different tools and instructional videos offered to get you up and running.

As time went on I realised that not only was much of the information either outdated or readily available via a light browse on YouTube, but also that anything I developed on WA had to remain on their platform.

This I found to be very restrictive. Combine that with the fact they weren’t even giving relevant instruction pertaining to the current state of digital marketing, I was fairly annoyed as my initial impression of WA was quite good.

I then went deeper into the WA reviews written online. I quickly realised that much of the positives written about the program came from members of the community. I saw very little if anyone having much success or actually making any money. The sole focus seemed to be chatting with one another and promoting WA online.

As a whole WA seems to be a program/community that may at one time had validity and provided value. But they have failed through lack of effort to adapt and change with the times. They are instead choosing to double down on building a community which does not foster tangible results, and restricting members from building anything worthwhile independent of the WA platform.

Wealthy Affiliate is one of those courses I would say promises too much, delivers a little at the beginning but the value decreases the deeper you move into it. Here are some reasons why I say this:

1) The authors promise a lot, such as making thousands through affiliate marketing, which I openly say was a lie. If anything, the “testimonials” in the course made money referring others like me to sign up for the course.

2) They put all the good content in the free course and the first month which they offered on a huge discount. The first month cost about $19 and the subsequent ones between $30 and $49. I’m not sure if these are the same rates now. As you will realize, they charged less at the start then increased the rates. Sadly, the good content is only found in the first few lessons; the rest of the course is repetition and lots of promises.

3) Inside the course, they are really pushing the students to invite others to join. I would say this is a double tragedy; they sell you a course then use you to make even more money by inviting others!

4) Believe it or not, I hardly made anything from the website they helped me to create plus the months of learning they put me through. The sites they help build are too sketchy that they look unprofessional. I don’t think any serious consumer would follow through on such websites. The bounce rate you get from the free sites you get in the course is alarming!

I joined WA in 2019 and I have seen results. I do now rank regularly with my website on the first pages of search engines, without paid advertising, or similar strategies. All are white hat SEO tactics taught in this course.

I agree some training needs to be updated, but people spending time in the community would know that if you write about it in the comment area or directly to the creators, it will be updated. Not sure if there are many other affiliate courses offering that option! So in my view, the critics are welcome, but more or less they are just haters who try to blame everyone else instead of taking personal responsibility.

It seems easy to get started. All is good until I had this feeling that most of what is being taught was great several years ago but not enough for today. Yes, you can start a website in a few minutes but it is ugly and far from one that will earn money.

It is easy to get caught up with the community aspect and writing blog posts, reviewing other’s sites, etc. but then you realize all the time you spent hasn’t gotten you further along with your own site.

I think overall it is good if you know nothing about website building but you need much more than they give you. I believe the ones who make the money are the ones promoting WA as an affiliate, not the ones actually using it.

Very early into the course, I realized that they keep asking you to invite premium members to them. This raised my suspicion and I decided to dig into their reviews online. Funny thing is that most of the people who claim to have made significant money from Wealthy Affiliate, earned their commissions by referring others to WA.

Well, the content makes sense especially for new entrants into affiliate marketing but they should have prioritized training over trying to make more money from people that had already paid for the course. In as much as they are coaching us on affiliate marketing, they should not take this as an opportunity to make more money off us. This makes the whole thing look like a typical Multi-Level Marketing scheme.

The other red flag I saw is that they offer no refunds even if you felt the course gave you no value for money. I think a genuine “school” should not worry about refunding its students if they are offering legit coaching. Unfortunately, WA will not refund anything to anyone. I think they low-key know that the course is not worth it in the real world so they had to safeguard their profits.

Wealthy Affiliate was a good course back in the day when I was referred by a friend. The lessons are presented professionally and the steps are clear and easy to follow. The problem, however, is that they promised too much which I never experienced throughout my training (and after) despite adhering to them fully.

For example, they promise to help you create a website that will attract traffic easily and lead to thousands in sales. To be honest, the free websites they offer will hardly get any traffic. They are so bold as to promise that you can create a website in under a minute (sigh!) which will function fully and start generating profits in a short time. The type of website you end up with is a sore sight that no self-respecting customer would trust. You will have to go beyond WA and set up a proper website.

Generally, much of what they promise is not true. I would not blame them because they are in it for the money. You will struggle trying to make any money using their training and this is something that the general subscribers always feel. I would recommend the course to people who want to have a rough idea of how affiliate marketing works but NOT anyone that wants to make money from it. You will be disappointed!

My overall feeling for the Wealthy Affiliate course is that it is not worth a dime of anyone’s time. I was very confused by how they organized it. For example, they will be talking about some concepts in chapter 2 as if the learner knows them only to go and “introduce” them in a later chapter. You need to go through the whole course before you start figuring out which step should come before the other.

I also think the whole thing is too old to make digital marketing sense today. If you use the content to try and make money today, you will end up with frustrations and $0.00 in annual earnings. There are tons of wrong information and misleading claims which I believe are made to spice up the course and lure customers into purchasing it.

It is only when you start applying the lessons in real life that you will realize how misplaced the whole thing is. If you need to study affiliate marketing, try something newer as Wealthy Affiliate will confuse you more than it will inform you!

I think the Wealthy Affiliate course is a fair deal for people with no experience at all in areas like how WordPress and affiliate marketing work. Many courses jump into the actual training on affiliate marketing without considering that the user might not know how to manage and run a website. Wealthy Affiliate trains on some basic WordPress functions which are quite handy throughout the course.

In terms of affiliate marketing, the lessons are simple and very well explained that I grasped the concept after a few hours. Better still, all of these are introduced in the free membership plan. This gave me an idea of what would be expounded in the full course.

Years after I used the course and advanced my knowledge on affiliate marketing, I would say WA is too shallow, though. This includes the premium plan. What I have acquired from experience and more courses is nothing you can find inside WA. You need to sign up for more courses if making money is your idea of affiliate marketing.

If the authors are digital marketing gurus like they claim, they should’ve enhanced the overall content by now to accommodate newer concepts. All in all, the value for money is fair because you will be able to do basic WordPress functions and understand affiliate marketing pretty well. This will make future courses much simpler since WA is a worthy foundation course.

I was introduced to the free membership plan when I was overly new in affiliate marketing and website creation. To be honest, for a free course, the content was informative and I was able to understand this concept quite fast. The free course, however, is pretty skinny and one cannot earn anything from the free website they offer.

The premium training offered more goodies in that even the website based on SiteRubix can make some money. The premium offer is an expanded version on the free membership only that this time, you get a taste of how earning real money through affiliate marketing works. The presentation of the course was fair although it felt rushed. I think for a paid service, the tutors should spread out the material and ensure each step is fully addressed before graduating.

On the other side, I think the course is not useful today. The content is the same as what we had way back in 2017. A lot has changed and some of the things in the course no longer exist or they have been simplified. The marketing approaches, for instance, are too traditional if you compare them with the current ones. They do not mention approaches like using Etsy and similar sites to create your own shop using affiliate links. This is a popular method today but the course focuses on distributing links and waiting for people to purchase through them.

The course was beneficial to me but I would not recommend it to anyone now. There are tons of free materials that can replace WA now and have much better information.

As a former subscriber of premium Wealthy Affiliate training, I can honestly say that the program worked for me. I signed up in 2015, and I was able to start a profitable affiliate business from it. My website, Wigsmaster, is a result of the program. I learned to collect in-demand items and pool them together under my shop.

While the training promised to cover everything one would need to succeed in the business, I found it quite shallow and had to research deeper. I used the program mostly as an outline or summary of what to do, then dig deeper from external sources.

Looking at the training program today, it is the same as it was when I paid for it. No update has been made. I think if anyone was to use it today, it would not add any value to them nor lead to any successful affiliate business. The strategies are outdated and much of the content would not apply on modern websites, let alone guarantee any success. In short, the program was worthy back in the day. Today, it is not!

I can confidently say that it’s a first-rate educational experience for those looking to create a successful career out of affiliate marketing. By following the Wealthy Affiliate training, you’ll learn from those who’ve been successful in the past and those who are currently rolling in the dough as affiliates, as well as from their four university-level courses.

In addition to getting to be trained by the true experts on affiliate marketing, you’ll also get access to proprietary software tailored for this type of business – something that costs about $30 per month or so at other places – but is free with your membership at Wealthy Affiliate.

As a member of Wealthy Affiliate, I have mixed emotions in regards to their premium training. I joined a few years ago and while I did see some positive results, I needed to dig for information from other sources to get my business off the ground. The way things are set up at Wealthy Affiliate is that the premium training will get you to 60% of what you need to know.

There are plenty of members in Wealthy Affiliate, and experienced marketers usually post helpful content. However, if you are new to making money online then you will most likely look past certain things other members post. It is natural for beginners to follow the premium training and not know the importance of tips that are provided by experienced members in the community.

For instance, there is no mention of the importance of building backlinks within the premium training. I had to learn that on my own, and it can take some time to figure out certain things that are not emphasized enough in the core training. It is mentioned the importance of building a social media presence, but there is no training on how to do so. I learned Pinterest and Facebook marketing, PPC advertising, and building a funnel on my own. Unfortunately, this is like the 40% of things you need to know to really be successful.

You can build the foundation and get the knowledge as a beginner, but you need to be motivated and do more than just follow the premium training if you want success after joining Wealthy Affiliate. I can say that your success also depends on who refers you into the program. Now that I am more experienced I can teach things to the people I refer that they will not see in the core training.

I joined Wealthy Affiliate in 2018, and I became a premium member the very next day. The premium training of Wealthy Affiliate is what allows me to blog for a living today. While the paid training is not without its flaws, it’s more than worth it. The community alone is a priceless support system every marketer and blogger needs, especially at the beginning of their working online journey.

There is a common misconception about Wealthy Affiliate, coming mostly from people who have never been members. Considering everything a person gets from the platform, building a business through Wealthy Affiliate is cheaper than doing it without it. Perks such as a free website, web hosting, premium keyword research tool, and so much more are way more expensive if you get it without a package deal.

I’m still a premium member three years after joining Wealthy Affiliate and have no intention of leaving the platform anytime soon.

I joined way back in 2016 when I was in exactly the right place to take action. My first impression was how supportive the other members were. I really appreciated that.

I worked through the course steadily over a few weeks and built out my first affiliate website and kept going. I’m not technical at all but the website builders were easy to use. I contacted Kyle and Carson a few times and they always got back to me directly. That started my affiliate marketing career and it’s all thanks to this course.

I have been a member of Wealthy Affiliate for several months. You might say that several months is not much. But for me, an unemployed person without income, the £35 monthly subscription is something. If you are looking into affiliate marketing and thinking you’ll grow rich in let’s say, 3-4-5 months, FORGET THIS! It will never ever happen.

Even with dyspraxia (a neurological disorder), I’ve pushed myself to write 80 articles or more. WA sends you some here and there emails, showing that your work, your articles are found by Google, Bing, Yahoo. And? So what? Who cares about this? These search engines will never give you a penny! Please do not waste your hard earned money on this!

Wealthy Affiliate is a very basic course. There are plenty of videos and content to consume, but there isn’t a lot of value in them.

They do offer the option of getting started for $10 for the first month. So if you really want to try it out, you can watch all of their videos for just $10, as long as you remember to cancel. I wouldn’t recommend this, as your time is better spent watching free YouTube videos with more current info, but it is an option.

I recommend against creating your website with their software. You don’t need it. It doesn’t make WordPress any easier. WordPress is already easy. The point of their software seems to be to give people a reason to pay them for years and years. Overall, I don’t recommend this product.

I think Wealthy Affiliate is great for someone who’s starting out (i.e. someone who’s new to affiliate marketing). The general teachings are significant in terms of knowing the basics of affiliate marketing. However, from my personal experience, I don’t recommend this course for anyone trying to make money online.

Their teachings work in theory but not in practice. Not to mention the course itself is severely outdated, and they don’t really go into much detail in terms of how to get proper leads and how to use social media for marketing your business, among other things.

As I said, WA is excellent for beginners and learning the basics of affiliate marketing, but it’s not ideal for making money online. If I was to spend money on this course, it would be for the sole purpose of learning about affiliate marketing. It’s a great investment in terms of education and knowledge, but not for business and making money.

The material was outdated and not worth the time. It seemed to be more of a social platform, with many offering their advice/opinions. Customer service was sorely lacking. Once I realized that the cons outweighed the pros, I left before the monthly charges could kick in. Trying to truly learn about affiliate marketing from this course was more like trying to find Waldo.

I was naive enough to get sucked into WA. It’s not a scam by any stretch, but I think the owners are too dishonest and misleading about how easy it is to make money with affiliate marketing.

I guess the biggest problem is that the training is WAY outdated. I went through several modules, and I didn’t see a thing about link building, a fundamental principle of SEO. Website tools like Elementor aren’t mentioned either which is incomprehensible in my opinion.

If you’re new to affiliate marketing then do yourself a favour and ignore any positive reviews of WA you see – and you will see a lot of them; commissions for promoting WA can be huge – and look elsewhere.

I readily admit that I learned a number of helpful things from Wealthy Affiliate about setting up a website, the importance of creating engaging and consistent content, using images, leveraging comments, and creating links for affiliate products. And, initially, I thought the community was a great bonus.

It didn’t take long to realize, however, that there was little substance behind either the training or the community. The training was over six years old, literally obsolete in many instances, as well as filled with worthless “take a break” lessons that seemed to be there for no other purpose than to push one through to the next billing date.

The community “Ambassadors” weren’t experts of any kind, just people who wasted more of their time interacting on the platform to move up the ranks, and they tended to get very touchy if one dared question their advice. When I first joined, there were legitimate affiliate marketers on the platform with definite knowledge to share, but they got pushed out by those who were there to chat/socialize over building an online business.

If one had a serious customer service or billing issue, there was nowhere to turn; there was only Tech Support to handle website concerns. If one dared voice a complaint in the general community, one would, literally, get skewered by the cult of devotees.

When I finally decided I’d learned all I could and wanted to get away from the toxicity of the community, I discovered it was no easy feat to take my websites with me. It took me a few months of careful investigation to extricate my work successfully from the program.

I was lucky enough to have found information telling me that I needed to move my domains and sites BEFORE my membership ended. Wealthy Affiliate makes it appear you’ll have 30 days to move your site, but they deny access once your payment has lapsed. I know personally many people who lost their sites and all their work because of this. For this reason alone, I would not recommend anyone join Wealthy Affiliate.

I signed up for Wealthy Affiliate over a year ago, and I honestly don’t remember all the ins and outs of it. I quickly abandoned the platform because it seemed too spammy and non-technical to me. I found myself constantly receiving messages from random students and instructors, and nothing I got seemed all that valuable. While the course videos are clear and well done, they move at a snail’s pace for anyone with the slightest technical inclination.

The premise of the course seems dubious to me. What are the odds that a beginner with no background in the online marketplace will magically stumble upon a profitable niche, and will also have the discipline and skills to build a successful affiliate marketing site. I suppose it’s possible to generate passive income using this training, but I realized that I could make money by learning skills and offering services that add value to real clients, so I quickly pivoted to that.

I’m now working as a web developer and while it’s certainly not passive income by any stretch, I’m just better suited to this work than whatever is happening in Wealthy Affiliate. For me personally, the best thing I can say about this course is that it was a first step in taking action to invest in myself for generating income online.

Wealthy Affiliate was my first attempt at making money online, a little bit before Covid-19 started to hit hard. I had no knowledge whatsoever about online marketing or affiliate marketing. I’ve read a few good recommendations about Wealthy Affiliate and decided to give them a shot, at least for the free training.

The free training looks legit, and they teach what back then seemed very valuable, like the importance of keywords and SEO, things I barely knew anything about. Since the free material seemed legit for a novice like me, I bought the premium membership, and then I started to realize that this website is very outdated and that it doesn’t give real value.

It’s been a year and a half since I stopped being a premium member (I had been a premium member for only a week), and this is what I wrote about the experience with Wealthy Affiliate back then:

“It always felt that something doesn’t add up. It was like traveling back in time: the more you progress in the course, the earlier the lessons seem to be recorded. All those “welcome” messages from different WA members did feel a bit like a cult of too-friendly people, who don’t really care who you are. My ranking on the site kept going up and down for no apparent reason – I was ranked around 171,000 yesterday, and now I’m ranked 149,025. I thought to myself – there are more than 1.5 million people here, how am I ranked so high so fast without really doing anything besides the training? Where are all the other million people?

There is also a “site feedback”, where you need to leave 2 feedbacks to other people in order to get one yourself. Those websites were so badly designed and written, most of them either promote (very poorly) WA, or promote niches that Kyle suggests in his videos, like losing belly fat or hair loss. It’s like people there have no imagination or passions. It was even a bit creepy.”

Back to our days (August of 2021), I find it hard to believe that they have improved ever since. I wouldn’t recommend them at all.