Wealthy Affiliate Guide

If you are like me, you may want to do a bit more research before you hand over an email address. That is the purpose of this guide. To answer your questions and for you to get a feel for what Wealthy Affiliate is and how to use it.
What is Wealthy Affiliate?
Buzz Boxer’s Top 5 Favorite Features.
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No credit card required for a FREE seven-day trial. Keep 2 free websites as an extra bonus for as long as you like. Again this is ZERO cost!
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Free hosting for your websites! Get up to 25 websites hosted for free with a premium membership. This would in most scenarios cost 4 dollars to host a single site per month.
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Top of the line training in Affiliate Marketing. Learn to promote an interest of your choice or promote Wealthy Affiliate. The choice is yours. I like the residual monthly payments I get from WA!
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Live video classes and replays for premium members. I always feel that I learn more when I can see and hear the person teaching.
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Free keyword tool for the premium members. This tool can help you rank high in the search engines when used correctly.
Creating Activity
Creating activity in Wealthy Affiliate is easily accomplished in a few ways. The pen icon on the top right menu will unveil several options.
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Create new training – This lets you make training that may be useful to others in the community. You can make videos, tutorials or even an entire course!
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Write a new blog – A great way to create content within the community. Use this tool for sharing your thoughts but do not promote links here. There is a success button that will put your post in a special section of Wealthy Affiliate. Any success story is great to share with the community!
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Build a new website – This will take you through the website creation process. It only takes a few minutes to get a website online. The longest part is thinking of a name for the site!
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Ask a Question – Give your question a title and in the next box ask the question using a question mark. Choose the best classroom that you think pertains to your question.
The Activity Dashboard
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Activity – you will see a bar of buttons under the activity button. These will change how you look at the activity. There are two grid buttons on the far left that shows more or less of what each person is saying.
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Classrooms – Listed vertically in the center pane of the screen. Upon entering the classroom’s screen. Each classroom listed will have four sections and links that may interest you.

Top contributors – Meet and talk to the classroom contributors. Often times these folks have been doing this for a long time and can help you.
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Top Ten – The activity dashboard also has a link next to the classroom link called the top ten. When you go in here you will find a list with two columns. The left side is for the top ten most popular comments and the right is the most popular training in WA.
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My Notifications – To the far right on the activity dash you will see a link that lists your notifications. Here you can select all the comments. View what you have or have not read or change what you want to see with the change options button. On the end of this menu, there is an action button. You can choose “mark as read” or remove me from this discussion. That second one comes in handy when you are part of a huge thread.
Get Started Here
For most, this is the starting point for new people here at Wealthy Affiliate. This link is going to get you to some very rich training materials right off the bat. If you are looking to promote offers other than Wealthy Affiliate start this first. This training is everything from getting your website up to mastering content creation.

Live Chat
The live chat room link button is the blue link under the green get started here button. This is a simple chat room but very effective for getting your questions answered!

SiteRubix – Wealthy Affiliate Guide
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Site Manager – This is your website management system. This manager will list all the sites you have and allow you to login to the WordPress admin panel. Along with some useful tools and information about your site.

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Site Builder – The builder starts off by giving you three options for getting your domain rolling. You can choose the free domain which will have an extension of .siterubix.com. You may also choose to buy a domain from a third party such as Godaddy. You may also register one with SiteRubix with the last option. Once you complete one of those options you will be able to get started creating web content.
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Site Domains – This screen is like the Site Builder’s starting point. On this screen, you will have the option to search for an available domain name. The .com domain names start at 14.00 per year.
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Site Content – This is a rather new and exceptional set of tools for your disposal. There are three main screens for site content.
Writing Stats – If you are one who likes to set goals for yourself then this is a very handy tool for you. On this tab, you can set two different types of goals one by the word count and the other by article count. You may also set this for a daily, weekly, monthly or custom basis.

Other than that you get a simple core of tools that most bloggers use frequently. Headings and paragraph buttons are in the first section. Bold, underline, and italics in the next section. You will also find an alignment, link, and list creation tools as well.

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Site Comments – This is a platform designed for giving and receiving website comments. I will get my biased opinion out of the way first on this and then explain the platform. Comments should come from interested readers. My opinion is that this part of Wealthy Affiliate is unnecessary. It’s okay to use it for starting up comments on an article but that is about it. That’s my two cents and now I will give you the rundown.


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Site Feedback – This section of the site is like the Site Comments section. Only you will give feedback and receive feedback on your site from folks here at WA. You will have to gain credits in the same manner as the comments platform. Both systems use the same bank of credits for both comments and site feedback. You will also get one credit for every site feedback you offer. Every feedback you request will cost two credits as well.
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Site Support – This section of the menu is for any technical problems you may encounter with your site.It is pretty straightforward but all you need to do is fill in the fields. Give them some site information and a ticket will get submitted. I usually hear from them within a few hours.
Site Support Screen
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Site Email – This isn’t a main menu option in the Site Rubix sidebar. Yet, it is in the top navigation bars of all the other Site Rubix pages. You have two options when it comes to website email. You may choose to set up a new email box. That you will have to check through the this WA link every time. Or my suggestion is to do an email forward. You can set this up so that all your websites emails go to your Gmail or preferred email provider. Then once set up you can also reply from that email as well. If you were to receive an email from me it would say it is from david@buzzboxer.com for example.

Affiliate Bootcamp
Sidebar Links
Training
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My history – Lists all your recent training activity
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Classrooms – Quick link to all the classrooms at Wealthy Affiliate. These are generally text-based with some video.
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Live Video Classes – Quick link to all the video webinars. Upcoming and replay training is available.
Tools
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Websites and Hosting – This is another link to the website manager like the one in the Site Rubix section.
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Keyword Tool – Very handy keyword research tool. You have unlimited use when you are a premium member.
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Rapid Writer – Quick link to a very simple article editor. This is great for those that like to do everything on one website.
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Link Tracking – With this link tracking tool you can track all your links. Also, get real-time information on how each link is performing.
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Keyword Lists – These are some older keyword lists that you can download and browse upon. These are a bit older and created using the Jaaxy keyword tool.
Affiliate Program
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WA Affiliate Program – This is a quick link to the program details. This is for those interested in promoting Wealthy Affiliate. This is optional but can be very rewarding. Every premium membership earns you 23.50 Recurring monthly revenue.
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Affiliate Classroom – This is a quick link to the classrooms area at WA. At the top, you will see Q&A, Tutorials, Video, and Courses. This is great for finding material that you want to learn and how you want to learn it.
Miscellaneous links
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Jaaxy – This is a quick link to Wealthy Affiliate’s main keyword tool. As a premium member, you get a free keyword tool with your membership. Jaaxy is much faster and gives you a lot of bells and whistles. Jaaxy is a great tool but is not required for success at Wealthy Affiliate. It is certainly not an upsell by any means.
Jaaxy Keyword Tool
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Ambassadorship – This will take you to the top 200 contributors of Wealthy Affiliate. These folks are the most active and contributing members. Please don’t confuse this with how much money they are earning with the program. There are many folks making a tremendous amount of money with what they have learned on the website. But, not all contribute to Wealthy Affiliate’s content creation. If you are looking to become an Ambassador in Wealthy Affiliate, click the learn more button. You will find an in-depth explanation. In short, to gain a better ranking you need to help others when a question comes up. Also, produce helpful content on the Wealthy Affiliate website. Being active on the website in general also helps your rankings.
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Account Settings – The final sidebar link on the website is an important one. The link enables you to set email, password and your subscription settings. After some time at Wealthy Affiliate, you may start to get a bunch of notification emails from WA. To tone those down a bit you can find the notification settings at the bottom of this page.
Top Of The Website

Moving to the right there is an airplane logo that acts as a sales to go counter. Get to zero and win a trip to meet the Wealthy Affiliate owners. This is also a drop down box with a list of the following helpful links for the Wealthy Affiliate promotion. If you plan to promote Wealthy Affiliate then this section is for you.

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Program details – This gives you a comprehensive look into promoting Wealthy Affiliate. The earning potential is vast here at WA. As a premium member, you will earn $23.50 each month on a new subscription that you refer. The “how much you can earn section” at the bottom of this page is very fun to look at.
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My Stats – This page will show you all your stats as an affiliate marketer for Wealthy Affiliate. You can add and remove metrics to your liking if you click the + icon on the right side of the metrics. Payment settings, revenue details, and how referrals joined WA are on this screen.
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Tasks – New referrals that make a profile and post some goals will earn you a small amount of money. You will also get some tasks that you need to complete. Comment on goals they set for themselves. Then comment on what they are expecting out of Wealthy Affiliate as a program.
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My Referrals – This link will give you a full look at everyone that has joined Wealthy Affiliate using your link.
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Links & Tracking – Your Wealthy Affiliate links get tracked on this page. You can view all these in my stats page as well but here you can create a custom link. As an example, right now if you were to use my link to join WA it would take you to my personal welcome screen on the Wealthy Affiliate website. That screen has my photo that you have seen on my personal website. It gives it more of a personal effect to new members. Here is a video tutorial on how to integrate this into your account.
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Messages – This is your autoresponder for new members that join. There are five of them you can set up and they are life savers. You might think, oh that’s just lazy. Well if you have 50 or so referrals coming in a day. Welcoming them will get a little too repetitive and time-consuming. So this set of tools makes things easier.
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Banners – This a link full of your personal banners that have your affiliate links already for use. All you need to do is copy and paste right them into your website. This is a great little pack of tools.
Next to the airplane icon is the blue icon that will take you to your personal network. It shows you everyone in WA that you are following and those who are following you. As this list grows you will get more
email notifications from Wealthy Affiliate. You may need to go to account settings and change what notifications you receive.
To the right is another life-saving icon. The world icon is your quick link to your notifications. Here you can view all your notifications and change what you see. Now, this is only your notifications you get while you are online. This icon does not include options for what emails you get.
Those options are in the sidebar menu in account settings as described before.
Moving to the right is the mail icon. This screen will show you all your private messages from other members. Support tickets will also come here. Click the plus icon to create a new private message.
Last, the settings button will allow you to turn on and off the autoresponder.


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My Profile – This is your bio page for Wealthy Affiliate. This is what the other members will see when they visit your profile. You can add images, blog posts, questions, training and see new folks in the community here. You will also notice your accomplishment badges and they will light up as you earn them.
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Account Settings – This is another link to your account settings in a more convenient spot. It has the same information as the other link.
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Credit Dashboard – When you refer folks to WA you earn cash credits. You can pay them out at a certain threshold but you can also buy comments and feedback if you wish to do so. You can buy 20 community credits for 10 US dollars. You can also see and transfer credits to another account on this screen as well.
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Take a System Tour – This is a very quick 5 screen dime tour of WA. Their idea is that they don’t want to overwhelm you with how big the website is. They want you to take it in chunks so that you don’t get confused and quit.
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See What’s in Premium – This link will take you to some content created by Kyle. He shows you the inside of the premium package.
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Logout – Your quick log out of WA button.
How to use Wealthy Affiliate
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Tom joined Wealthy Affiliate and has a passion for rollerblading. He has no interest in promoting WA because he feels that it may sound a little gimmicky. He likes what Wealthy Affiliate is doing but doesn’t want it to promote it. This is completely fine. Tom can enjoy all the tools and resources here on WA with no worries about promoting WA. Tom would start his training in the Get Started Here section of the website. Tom’s best bet is to join affiliate networks like Amazon Associates to find products to promote that are related to rollerblading.
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Jackie is not too sure what kind of website she would like to create. She joined Wealthy Affiliate to make money and isn’t afraid of sharing or promoting WA on her website. Jackie wants to immerse herself in WA in every way possible. Jackie would start her training in the Affiliate Bootcamp section of the website.
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Alex has gone through quite a bit of the regular training. He has a niche website in marketing web hosting services. Alex has started browsing through the training material for the Affiliate Boot camp. Alex decided that he wants to promote Wealthy Affiliate. He only wants a WA sidebar image link on his website about web hosting. Alex may also try to tie in an article about Wealthy Affiliate’s web hosting to make it relevant to his website.